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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
20:57:00
Ok, back for the weekly update.
Well, the new Premier League season's starting soon. Honestly, I can't wait. The past few months have been quite intolerable, what with an extreme dearth of quality football. The Asian Cup was just a small distraction. While I wouldn't say it was a horrible tournament, it certainly says something of the tactics of the teams involved when there were 4 penalty shootouts in the latter half of the competition. South Korea was certainly impotent; 3 goals in 6 matches, that's some serious striking problems they have.
I got so used to such low-scoring games that when I saw that Saudi Arabia had beaten Japan 3-2 in the semi-finals I was actually quite surprised. Also, Australia was a massive disappointment, stumbling their way through the group stages and finally falling in a (what else?) penalty shootout to Japan.
Anyway, all that has made me real pumped up for the new season. I watched the Community Shield match, and while it may just be a glorified friendly, it was nice to get one over Chelsea. As a spectacle the match was good, both sides had their chances, it was a pretty open match, no one team really dominating the other... Good game, good game. And what an end to the match. 3-0 on penalties, that's mad. I thought that at least Frank Lampa might've scored, but Van der Sar was brilliant. It has to be said though, while Chelsea's penalties were firmly struck, only Pizarro's really gave VDS any trouble. The other 2 were so close to the keeper, pretty easy to save, really.
Well anyway, the season proper's starting this weekend. Reading, quite an opener. Reserving judgement till the match's over, haha. Reverting back to my pragmatic self. Superstitious little bugger I am. That said, I'm excited to see the new signings. Nani wasn't really good in the Community Shield, but I'm putting that down to nervousness. Imagine you're 19 and you're making your debut for one of the world's biggest clubs (if not THE biggest, lol) against a top side like Chelsea, in one of the best stadiums in the world, Wembley. Who the hell wouldn't be nervous? Of course, if he plays like this over the next few weeks it'll be quite worrying =/
Well, prelims coming soon. Will be making good use of this long-as-hell weekend to do some work, especially maths. Keep going, keep going, that's all there is at the moment.
A new season beckons. Come on United!
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