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Monday, October 29, 2007
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Remember that the ball is round and Liverpool has the reputation of against all odds spirit. That is when they face the huge hurdle they become stronger. And that is the real LIVERPOOL.
But don't know what is the coach doing recently. huh?
This Sunday's big match between Liverpool FC and Arsenal FC
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HOME GROUND: ANFIELD
Sunday, 28 October
Kick-off: 1600 BST
Fernando Torres is set to return for Liverpool and Xabi Alonso could start, but Alvaro Arbeloa (thigh) is doubtful.
Striker Torres is fit again following a thigh injury, while midfielder Alonso was in the squad to face Besiktas after a foot problem but did not come on.
Arsenal will be without Philippe Senderos and Robin van Persie.
Senderos has a back injury and Van Persie will be out for at least a month with a knee problem. Manuel Almunia is expected to keep his place in goal. LIVERPOOL
Peter CROUCH has scored four Premier League goals against Arsenal; his hat-trick for Liverpool last season, and one when wearing Southampton colours. He has not scored a higher total against any other club.
Fernando TORRES is Liverpool's top scorer with seven goals, and top Premier League marksman, with four.
Goalkeeper Jose REINA is the only remaining player to have been on the field for every minute of every one of Liverpool's Premier League matches this season.
ARSENAL
Cesc FABREGAS is Arsenal's top scorer with nine goals.
Emmanuel ADEBAYOR is the clubs top Premier League marksmen with six.
Arsenal have never lost when ADEBAYOR has scored; winning 16 and drawing two of the 18 matches in which he's netted.
Only Gael CLICHY and Kolo TOURE have been on the field for every minute of every one of Arsenal's Premier League matches this season.
Head to head
On each of the last seven occasions when Liverpool and Arsenal have met in the Premier League either at Anfield or in north London, the club playing at home has won.
Liverpool, who were beaten by the Gunners at the Emirates in the league and knocked out of the FA and Carling Cups by them last season, are chasing a fourth successive Premier League maximum over Wenger's men on home soil.
A total of 21 goals were scored in last season's four league and cup meetings between these clubs; Liverpool scored eight, Arsenal 13.
Home and away
League (inc PL): Liverpool 68 wins, Arsenal 58, Draws 40
Prem: Liverpool 14 wins, Arsenal 9, Draws 7
at Liverpool only
League (inc PL): Liverpool 48 wins, Arsenal 21, Draws 14
Prem: Liverpool 9 wins, Arsenal 3, Draws 3
Liverpool 4-1 Arsenal
31 March 2007 - Ref: Steve Bennett
Liverpool scorers: Crouch 4, 35, Agger 60, Crouch 81
Arsenal scorer: Gallas 73
My prediction for this match : Liverpool 1 - 1 Arsenal
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Soccer The War Game! -Looking Back To Its Origin
Believe it or not, but the modern day soccer owes its origin to the barbarous war mongering nature of human beings.
There is no proper documentation that can state the date and place of origination of the most popular modern day sport—Soccer. However, depending on the socio-historical facts and data we can assume that some type of a ball game was played somewhere in this planet for at least over 3000years now.
The earliest evidence of soccer was found in Kyoto, Japan where a field marked to play a ball-kicking game was found.
There is also proper documentation that supports the fact that the Chinese military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC (Han Dynasty) played a game that involved kicking a ball into a small net. This was then an essential skill building exercise for the armed forces.
Historical evidence also shows that some form of Soccer was played also by the Greeks and the Romans, however, the primitive form involved a larger team on each side. At times the team strength would go up even to around 27 people on each side. The Greeks were playing four different forms of the ball game, namely "Episkyros", "Ourania", "Pheninda" and "Keritizein". Episkyros was the closest to football. In this 2 equally numbered teams, would try to throw the ball over the heads of the other team. There was a white line between the teams and another white line behind each team. Teams would change the ball often until one of the team is forced behind the line at their end.
Now, how many of you would believe that the modern day soccer actually originated as a war game?
Unbelievable, but true! The first Football (as Soccer is called in Britain) game was played by the locals of east of England, where they started a game, kicking around the severed head of a Danish prince whom they have defeated in a war. That marked the origination of Football as a war game.
After this, for a long time, football was played by rival towns and villages where the objective was to move the ball to a predetermined spot. Hundreds of people would take part in these games and a single game could last a whole day. Punching, kicking, biting , everything was allowed.
The savage nature of this form of football was not much appreciated by the rulers and the Royalty took all possible steps to stop these games. King Edward III of England, passed laws in 1331 to stop the game, he was followed by King James I of Scotland in 1424. The Queens were not far behind, rather, had a more strict approach. Queen Elizabeth I of England, enacted laws that could sentence a football player to jail for a week followed by penancing in a church.
However, in spite of all their best efforts and intentions they could not stop the game. It was too popular among the masses and they loved the game.
The first approach to regularize and give a civilized form to this game was taken by the famous Eton College of England in 1815 when they established a set of rules for the games. These rules were accepted by the other schools, colleges and universities. Later, in 1848, these rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities. This new set of rules was known as the Cambridge Rules.
At this stage, there were actually two set of rules that were being followed in this game. Some organizations preferred to follow the rules of the Rugby School, that allowed tripping, kicking and carrying the ball, whereas the Cambridge rules prohibited all this methods.
In October, 1863, The Football Association was formed, when eleven London schools and clubs came together to establish a single set of rules to administer any football match that were to be played among them. On 8 December 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split onto two different organizations.
In 1869, these rules were further amended to exclude any handling of the ball beyond the scope of acceptability and that created the foundation for the modern day sports mania—SOCCER !
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Prediction for Premier League
West Ham 2 - 0 Sunderland
22 November
New Castle 1 - 1 Tottenham HotSpurs
Sunday, October 7, 2007
8-Oct -07 S-League Match between Gombak United FC vs Sengkang Punggol FC
Any sort of slump in form would create a big dent on Gombak's hope to of finishing fourth position at the end of the season.
Sengkang Punggol FC on the other hand played 5 times in September and lost 4 times with margin of 3 goals and above. This type of performance has shown that their defence is really inconsistent.
With the current form that Sengkang Punggol FC is in and there is no sign of improvement, it is hard to believe that Sengkang will get any point away from Gombak tomorrow night.
Expect a high score from this match since Gombak has an attacking nature and Sengkang defence is still in deep dismay form. A score of 3-1 is possibly on the card.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
EPL Prediction This Weekend, 6 Oct 07
Man Utd v Wigan
Man u are yet to be beaten at home and with Louis Saha, Carlos Trevez present, I don't see Wigan can upset Man U.
Man U win by 2 goals
Aston Villa v West Ham
West Ham has won 2 of 3 matches. Villa draw with Spurs 4 -4 last week.
This match is a draw
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Arsenal v Sunderland
The Gunners form has be good and keep scoring every match. Furthermore, their defence is quite good and effective and solid. I can't see how Black Cat can win this.
Arsenal win by 2 goals
Reading v Derby
Rams has lost 4 of their away matches, so is hard to see they can get something for this match.
Reading win by 1 goal
Blackburn v Birmingham
Morale has dipped for Blackburn since their early exist in Uefa Cup but their home record was good.
This match is a draw
Bolton v Chelsea
The Blues are back after winning Valencia in Champions League. I don't see Bolton can stop them. But the Blues quite often win by one goal only.
Chelsea win by a goal or 0 - 1.
Liverpool v Tottenham
Liverpool performance is really up and down, i think their rotation policy wasn't good for them. Spurs look good to take a least one point or win.
This match is a draw
Man City v Middlesbrough
I love Man City as I bet on them quite often and win too. City recorded 4 straight wins and Boro with 3 away lose and I don't think they can upset Man city.
Man City win by 2 goal or 2 - 0
Newcastle v Everton
The Mappies are unbeaten at home, but Everton will be buoyed by their Uefa Cup victory. Will be a closed match.
This match is a draw, 1 -1
Fulham v Portsmouth
The Pompey went goal crazy with recording a 7 - 4 win over Reading. But Fulham home record was good.
Portsmouth win by a goal, 1 -2
Story of a Legend - Diego Maradona
Life offers us some truly close choices at times when it comes to figuring out what’s best; Pepsi or Cola? Puppies or kittens? Pele or Maradona? All of these pairs have several common factors that make them great, but they’re also unique in their own way and that’s exactly the case with the Pele and Maradona comparison, a comparison that sparked enormous and passionate debates throughout modern history.
In the 1970s, Pele had already established himself as a huge name in soccer and was already being considered the greatest player to have ever lived. No one even came close to his glory, until a short, stuffed Argentinean player called Maradona walked on the soccer field for the first time.
Maradona was born in a poor family, but as with all Argentinean families of that time, soccer was a central part of their lives. Maradona and his two younger brothers started up playing soccer from an early age and he was spotted as a great talent around age 11, when he was taken to the youth squad of Buenos Aires’ Argentinos Juniors, where he would amuse spectators with his juggling tricks during halftimes in the senior squad’s games.
Soon enough, Maradona established himself in the senior squad at age 16, being called for the national team around the same time. He played his first World Cup in 1982, scoring twice in 5 matches but also receiving a red card for a vicious foul. With Argentina beaten by Italy in the second round, Maradona had to wait another 4 years to get a chance at the shiny trophy and when he got that chance, he grabbed it with both hands.
The 1986 World Cup is deemed by many as the most spectacular one in the history of soccer and Maradona has a lot to do with that. He scored 5 goals throughout the Cup and also made 5 assists, but it would be the quarter-final against England that will remain in history. Maradona scored two goals that would cement his legend as both an outstanding and a tricky player.
His first goal of the match was scored with the hand, but the referee allowed it. Highly controversial, this goal later became known as the “Maradona hand of God goal”. The second goal of the match, scored just 4 minutes after the Hand of God, is still widely known as the “Goal of the Century”. Maradona picked up the ball close to his own penalty box and started a sprint that would end up in the English goal, 15 seconds, 70 meters, 5 defenders and a goalkeeper later.
Although his career was garnished with controversy, ranging from pitch-brawling to cocaine abuse, Maradona remains one of the most important figures in modern sports and together with Pele and Johan Crujff, forms the golden trio of all time soccer.
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Friday night S-League match - Balestier vs Tampines
This match is telecast live at Channel 5 from Jalan Besar Stadium, neutral ground. So, there is no home advantage for either side.
However, Tampines has four players on national duties playing at Bahrain for the World Cup qualifying group. They will also be without suspended Thai midfielder Santi Chaiyaphuk, and the fitness of Brazilian Peres de Oliveira, according to Tampines assistant coach as he described, "only 50-50".
“Now, the players who have not played must step up and show what they’ve got. But I have every confidence in my players. They’ve done the job before, so I think they can do it again.” Tampines Team Manager said.
On the other side, Balestier Khalsa was the last team to defeat Tampines Rovers in the league – and at the Stags’ home ground, no less – and coach Abdul Karim Razzak was upbeat about his side’s chances against the decimated Stags.
The Tigers go into the match against the 2005 champions looking for their first win in five outings. As their team manager puts it, "For us, we will not have any excuses since they are quite weakened. So no excuses, we must go there and perform well, and we will be looking at the game positively. We have taken points from them before, and at this late stage in the season, we’re desperate for points and will take the game seriously."
The Tigers recent poor form, five games without a win, makes it more compelling for them to take the advantage out of Tampines weakened force thomorrow.
So, my pick is Balesrier win by 2-1.
