goodfootballerornot

It was not a great game but it wasn’t the worst final I’ve seen either. The conditions (the rain) were appalling, why does the game not mandate covered stadiums, especially for finals?! Chelsea showed their total lack of class by harassing the referee at every opportunity, pathetic. Half the team should have been booked and probably sent off for the constant abuse the referee was under. Drogbas sending off for the girliest of slaps was justified, but I would have liked to have seen a Chelsea player sent off much, much earlier. Man U played the better football overall and had the most chances. Chelseas players attitude was really, really pathetic and a piss poor advert for “English” football in this final.

Platini should stop making ignorant comments about the state of clubs finances and start criticizing the things that need it.

Lets just say that it aint what it used to be eh and leave it at that. Oh Portsmouth won. Luckily.

Well Rangers were a bit rubbish and played with what seemed like a 7-2-1 formation. I don’t like the whole Champions League rejects get to play in the UEFA cup thing anyhow so I wasn’t exactly keen for them to win, especially after their overly defensive run to the final. Zenit St Petersburg deserved the win based on their performance in the game, the best possession and chances all round. After their total tonking of Bayern in the Semi you could say they deserved to win, if such a thing can reasonably be said.

So Man U win the title thanks to a Ronaldo Penalty and a Giggs (possibly offside) goal. For Chelsea they managed to draw with Bolton. Chelsea also looked like a bunch of blokes not a team, a collection of individuals who don’t seem to get on. Leadership on and off the field was lacking. Next season with a decent manager and a clear out of some of the less team minded players should give them some decent improvement.

At the bottom end Birmingham and Reading go down and frankly they should have sent Fulham down as well. Reading scoring 4 on the final day, but I don’t suppose Coppel knows what irony is. Other interesting result was Borough 8 Man City 1. Not a great end to what seems likely to be Svens brief stay.

In fairness it was a fair result at the top which summed up both teams seasons, Man U just a little too good and Chelsea just not good enough. At the bottom it was touch and go and made for an dramatic day, but there is still too much disparity between the top and bottom of the table.

To make it really interesting and the best league in the world there needs to be a much, much smaller point difference between the winners and the bottom – excluding the pathetic Derby. 50 points is way too much and something needs to be done.

So it comes to the last game of the reason. A rare occurance to say the least. Still its Man U’s to loose and if Ronaldo doesn’t score at least once against Wigan then he should be stripped of his title of “best player of the year” and re-named “big time bottler”and made to wear that on his shirt instead of his name.

Well this was certainly a surprise and a much more entertaining game by the look of it, not to mention the reports. Pity about the total lack of coverage….

Pretty dull stuff all round really. So much football for so few goals is somewhat depressing for a neutral watcher. Oh there were chances, just not very many and certainly not many convincing ones.

Hope the final is better.