Friendlies

Although Fulham are doing well in the Europa league the rest are still playing friendlies against some unlikely opposition.
The best one I saw yesterday was a Tottenham XI losing to 5 pop stars :)
Liverpool beat the Malaysian All Stars! have they got any stars?
Arsenal scraped a draw with a Chinese team, Chelsea went to the far south and managed a win, my favourite name here is the North Sound Sea Wolves who sound like a bunch of pirates? turns out they are American.
West ham finally managed a win against Bishops Stortford after losing to a bunch of kids and getting robbed by FC Basil.

Big Sam's The Man

I'm warming to Sam Allardyce :)

Men Or Women? Same Old Story

No meaningful matches around to watch yet so to feed the addiction I've been watching some of the Women's World cup.
Just sat through the last hour of today's World cup quarter final clash between England and France and just like last years men's version I ended up with that empty disappointment you get from watching England in major championships.
Leading though an excellent Jill Scott goal with 3 minutes to go France snatched an equaliser to force extra time, by the end of the 30 minutes England were full of walking wounded but somehow managed to survive against the much better French making me think that it could just be one of those games where the better team usually loses on penalties?
It started well with England goalie Bardsley making a good save to stop the first French penalty, then England's star player Kelly Smith despite hobbling around for most of extra time with an injury banged in England's first.
The next 5 were scored leaving Chelsea player Rafferty to try and put England 4-3 up with one each left, sadly she missed the target completly :(
France scored and then England captain Faye White did a Waddle and hit the crossbar leaving the usual story of England out of a major cup on penalties :(

Spuds In The Dock

Seems that West Ham are taking The Sunday Times and Tottenham to court after the Spuds latest attempt to steal the Olympic stadium -
West Ham Statement

Season 2011/2

Thank god footie is back, it seems such a long while since last season :)

Fulham got the new season underway with a 3-0 win in the Europa league against some team from from the Faroe islands with a long name.
Looking at the rest of the results there was a whole pile of teams I'd never heard of with the exception of a couple of former big names and the Irish and Welsh sides, I have actually seen one of them play before Dinamo Tbilisi who played the Hammers in 1980 and went on to win the Cup winners cup that year, Ferencvaros from Hungary are another big name from the past who have obviously fallen on hard times if they have to play in this Mickey Mouse competition, although the winning teams manager could get a big money transfer into the Premier league so maybe it's worth playing :)
FC Honka and FC Banga are the stand out names in this round although both will be lucky to get through to the next round.