Sunday, September 20, 2009

This is unfair , Manchester derby should have been a draw..

I'm very angry so I'm going to keep it short,The 4-3 result in favour of Man Utd. is unfair and harsh , the referee should have blown the whistle much earlier than the time at which he ended up blowing it.This is disgusting , i guess this home team favouring syndrome does have some truth to it after all , If it were not so then how was it possible that even after 6 minutes of added time there was no hint of a whistle. I'm now at a paucity of words, Now what more can you expect a team (read Man City) to do in order to win a game , what with a world class performance from Shay Given that was bordering on the unreal and for some of the saves that he managed it appeared that it was he and not Buffon who's the best goalkeeper in the world , Bellamy appeared to be the best striker in Europe with 2 exquisite goals to his name , and this was the performance against(let's not forget) Man Utd, a team which many believe to be among the European powerhouses of football.

This goal by Owen appeared almost like a golden goal , where you score and game is over , and , mind you, this is almost what happened.

I say it again and will continue to say it "THIS IS UNFAIR".
I'm hysterical and fuming.
This should have been a "DRAW" , that would have been the only fair result.
Not a win for Utd.
NOT A WIN.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Best Football Ads

Well football ads have always flirted with a football fans fantasies, sometimes making the fan see his favourite footballers in medival attire or some times bordering on the insane and portraying the footballers as playing a football match with devils , or even football playing sumo wrestlers who love a good football match just to have their favourite Drink - "Pepsi".
Now since these ads are so enticing i thought why not come up with the best football ads that i have come across.So i'd write 10 posts with 10 of the football ads that i've seen and you tell me what you think of them.I won't rate them as of now , leaving that for later posts, so that you guys can have a free say as to which ad you think is the best according to you.

So here is the 1st football Ad.
This is a Pepsi ad , in which a group of Sumo wrestlers goes up against the elite of the footballing world for a crate full of Pepsi.The ad features the creme de la creme of the footballing world namely, Roberto Carlos, Rui Costa(so i believe), Juan sebastian Veron, David Becham, Raul, Gigi Buffon, Edgar Davids and some more (Now that's a galaxy of stars if there ever was one).
The ad begins with the footballers at a training camp practising when a group of sumo wrestlers comes over and confronts them , then David Becham and some extras go over to them and them Becham asks " So what are we playing for " to which one of the sumo wrestlers replies "PEPSI"
and so the match begins for the first few seconds the actual footballers have the upper hand but when Raul finds out that a goal with a sumo wrestler infront of it is unbreachable , it is then that the sumo wrestlers come into their own and so they move the ball upfield towards the footballers' goal - showing some neat tricks along the way - and when a sumo wrestler hits a bicycle kick the earth shakes and Gigi Buffon looses his footing and the Sumo wrestlers win by scoring the goal.
A very good ad and a funny one too - what with the sight of huge butts moving up and down the field virtually naked.
Watch it it's funny.




Tuesday, September 1, 2009

For my favourite player--Forza Sheva

As he moves back to his old hunting ground , there is no doubt that there would be few expectations from this now beleaguered former superstar of european football who has now become somewhat a spare-part of a striker he used to be.If you still haven't understood whom i'm talking about then let me make myself clear - the player i'm talking about is Andriy Shevchenko,
Ballon 'd'or winner in 2004,the fourth-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 61 goals,and my favourite player.

There was a time when he was counted among the best strikers in the world,and that was not too long ago,he was right up there with the likes of ronaldo(the brazilian one),thierry henry ; and his mere inclusion in the starting eleven gave the oppositions' defenders sleepless nights.He was the serie a top scorer twice over,voted as UEFA's best forward at one time,he also made his way into FIFA 100 by Pele,and i can go on like this on and on but the fact is now,he isn't even a mere shadow of what he used to be.Many Sheva fans believe that his move to Chelsea was where it all started to go wrong for sheva.It was definitely Jose mourinho's ego that hindered Sheva's settling into the chelsea team,Sheva was made to feel alienated and a foreigner even among his own team-mates.This clubbed with the dearth of playing time that he was afforded was what eventually got to him,in fact can get to any player no matter how gifted and talented he might be.I couldn't understand why he was not playing even though he was definitely far more superior than Drogba and Pizarro and co.Now if anyone saw the goal that he scored in the FA cup against Tottenham he would realise that this was a player of a sheer quality,and to whose quality justice was not being done,and very wrongly so.Oh how i wonder how different everything could have played out if Jose kept his Ego aside and had gone by true talent and quality,he did his best to alienate players like Sheva and Ballack,and partly succeeded in that.He left Chelsea in a very bad state when he and chelsea mutually parted ways, had it not been for the ingeniousness of Avram grant chelsea would have had a torrid season.But damage had been done and Sheva was no longer the player he used to be.
Next season he returned to MIlan so that he may regain his form and his deft touch,i had high hopes from him and felt that at Milan he would definitely be afforded some decent amount ofplaying time but this was also not to be,and another season went down the drain and now i was sure that Sheva is no longer even half the player he used to be.Then he returned to chelsea this season with doubts and speculations already debilitating him even before he kicked a ball.

I thought he oughtta retire from football so has to save himself some grace that could still be his due to his past performances.But i'm quite happy that he did'nt do that and the fighter that he is,he has moved to his old hunting ground at Dynamo Kyiv.
To be honest i don't expect too much from him because i've already been proven wrong twice over(first his transfer to chelsea and then his loan move to Milan both ended in a disaster fotr his career).But i'd want him to score and score some more especially in the Champions League even though their group is tough one,i want Sheva to take his team once again to the semi finals just like he did some 10-11 years ago.I'm praying this time and i'm writing these last lines with tears in my eyes because i want him to succeed and i want it so much that i can't describe it.I want him to be counted once again with the elite in world football and i want him to etch his name in the history books of football forever.Oh i want it so sooooo much.

Now he begins his new tryst with destiny and i hope he proves his detractors wrong , and especially score against Jose mourinho's Inter.

FROZA SHEVA FOREVER.