Welcome to the first, albeit abridged (speak to my lecturers about that), version of Monday Morning Lowdown.
What you missed…
Just in case you’re living in a jungle somewhere and you missed it, then Chelsea are champions for another year. Any hopes of final day madness were quickly dispelled by a ruthless Chelsea side intent to be labelled as winners. (and look how sneaky Ancelloti looks in the pic) If you didn’t catch it, then you missed Drogba throw an absolute tantrum and kick his toys all over Stamford Bridge as Franky Lampard steadfastly maintained his role as penalty taker to deny the Drog his golden boot chances. His demeanour was quickly lifted though, as he proceeded to find the back of the hapless Wigan’s (in case you forgot they were playing) net three times, including a penalty later on. United also won 4 – zip over Stoke, but it would be difficult to find a more dejected home crowd at such a drubbing. Watching Ferguson parade around Old Trafford with such a broad grin was quite surreal. Spurs were thumped back to Earth by conceding a 2 goal lead to get done 4-2 at Turf Moor of all places. Arsenal looked ruthless with Van Persie. Liverpool looked as hapless as ever. Can’t remember much of the rest – couldn’t be bothered.
Game of the Week
Motherwell v Hibernian – 6 – 6
Who would have thought it! Hibs had to win to get into Europe so there was a bit riding on the fixture. This will be one of the best games you ever see, and certainly the most remarkable comeback. I don’t wanna ruin it for you, but… whatever, 6 – 2 Motherwell come back to 6 – 5 before they miss a chance to equalise through a penalty and then an absolute screamer gets them level in the 93rd minute. Brilliant!
Goal of the Week
There were some absolute crackers all over Europe. A mention goes to Bojan who scored this clinical finish in midweek:
Watch the equaliser for Motherwell in the above video as well. That is a tremendous strike.
But this week’s gong goes to Mr Luka Modric, who displayed a neat stepover and blasted a left foot thunderbolt into the roof of Brian Jensen’s net. Watch it here. (I wish those idiots on youtube would stop with all the fake videos…)
Moment of the Week
Simply remarkable, remarkable!
Video of the Week
It’s an old one, but it’s great! Every kids wet dream – video games and soccer.
Quotes of the Week
Carlo Ancelloti before facing a jovial press conference with typically broken English, “Just easy questions please because my level of wine is high,” That just about sums it all up doesn’t it.
“When you think of your new USMNT jersey you don’t think, sweet, I’m going to go masturbate now. Well, ok, maybe you do. But I would contend that this is perhaps not the sort of brand association [Nike’s use of a scantily clad model to sell the new jersey] that the USSF would want to promote…Oh well, at least they didn’t paint the jersey on. We’ll give them a few days on that one.” In reference to the new NIKE jerseys, the Sun in England gives a bit of an inappropriate rant.
FOOTBALL FOR THE DAY 