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Winston Zhang
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
03:31:00
Ok, just came off watching the last 20 minutes of the Bolton - Arsenal match as well as the full Man Utd - Aston Villa match.
I'd have to say, Bolton really threw it away. When you're 2-0 up against 10 men the very last thing you'd expect is to lose 2-3 in the end. Arsenal were thoroughly brilliant for the last 3rd of the match and fully deserve their win, but without the brilliance and utter abjectness of Wenger and Megson's respective tactical abilities the result would have gone Bolton's way. It certainly felt like Bolton went 2-0 up by pure chance and Megson had no idea what to do with it. No surprise where they are in the table, with such a manager in charge.
United match now. First full match I've personally seen since the 4-0 win over Kiev way back in the Champions League group stages. Didn't disappoint, we out-passed, out-played, out-ran, out-everything Villa. The match began promisingly for neutrals and Villa, but as soon as we got our first goal it felt like Villa were just going through the motions. For much of the match it felt like playing the match was just a formality on the way to a United win. That's not taking anything away from the United team though; we were fantastic in attack and solid in defence. Ronaldo got a goal and 3 assists, Rooney got 2 goals and should have had a hat-trick with the chances he had. We blew them away, there really isn't much else to be said about the match.
A few points to be made about Football Channel's coverage:
1. Rob Lee is a pretty good pundit. Viable views, well articulated commentary.
2. Joe Morrison's presenting skills are EXTREMELY poor.
3. John Burridge is a complete fucking idiot.
Extension on point 3: He thinks he's done fuck all in football, talking like he's some retired superstar. Hello, fucktard, you were nothing more than a regular keeper. Stop behaving like you're Johan Cryuff. The way he's going on, it's like a postman criticising the way a top-rank general leads his troops. Utter bullshit.
Anyway, good scores all round. Would have preferred if Bolton could have hung on, but meh, whatever. 4-0 and we're going strong. Roma's up next, they'll be tough that's for sure.