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My Mum always taught me not to revel in the misfortune of others, that it could be me getting the bad end of the stick. Then my French-Canadian father taught me the age-old tradition of dancing gleefully on your enemies’ missteps. Vive le Schadenfreude!!
1) Manchester United’s Unconvincing season of Invincibility has come to an end, after the Mancs lost 2-1 at Molineux to the league’s last-place team. United has had this annoying habit of grasping points from the jaws of defeat…. instead they were left grasping their ankles on the weekend. The loss meant the title race would have been broken wide open except…
2) Arsenal blew a 4-0 lead at Newcastle United. The Magpies were supposed to be distraught over the loss of Prince Andrew, and probably were after conceding three goals in the first 10 minutes. But then they remembered that Arsenal’s defence is pants, and let Joey Barton chew at the Gooners’ ankles. But Arsenal were not alone in their misery because…
3) Chelsea thought they were making a massive move of football irony, playing newly-acquired Fernando Torres against his former club. But the aging — and fading — champions were bereft of ideas against Liverpool’s back five, losing 1-0. Three centrebacks! Two wingbacks! One of them is Glen Johnson! And he’s cut his hair AND he’s playing on the left! It must have been confusing for the old buggers.
It hurts right heeeeeerrreeee...
4) Torres looked like a high school freshman who couldn’t find his first class. This particular John Hughes movie saw Jamie Carragher starring as the school bully, taking the ball — and lunch money — away from the Spaniard, who thought he was joining the gifted programme, but instead accidentally showed up at remedial gym class.
5) Speaking of audacious debuts, El-Hadji Diouf appeared in his first Old Firm game, less than a week after joining Rangers on loan. Never a favourite with the green side of Glasgow, The Human Camel was the subject of constant taunting by the Bhoys. Celtic captain Scott Brown received a yellow card for his efforts, calling it “the best booking I’ve had in my life.”
6) Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley says he will freeze ticket prices for the next 10 years. A club spokesperson says, “We know these are tough times for everyone so we’re trying to do all we can for the fans. Mike is fully on board with this… it is a good way of showing commitment back to the fans… ”
In the words of Homer Simpson, “It takes two to lie: one to lie and one to listen…”
Um, doctor, it's my, er...
7) Schteve McClaren has lost his job at VfL Wolfsburg, after the Bundesliga team only won one match in the last 12. But rumours abounded that McClaren was really turfed by a faux pas. Ever the cunning linguist, McClaren was keen to show off what he learned from his German Made Easy cassettes, but then answered a question auf Deutsch about squad formation by mistakenly threatening the “annexation” of the owner’s wife…
8 ) Fabio Capello’s policy follows his predecessors: pick a player for their badge rather than their form. A hugely slumping Wayne Rooney is getting a game against Denmark, as is Carlton Cole. Of course, players like Blackpool’s DJ Campbell and Bolton’s Kevin Davies have more goals than them this season, but England managers have never been ones to let success get in the way…
9) West Brom fired manager Roberto Di Matteo after a run of bad results. No doubt the newly-promoted team will replace him with a gaffer comparable to their other talismanic figures, like Bryan Robson and Gary Megson. Hey, Roy Hodgson’s available!
10) Cristiano Ronaldo is still a horse’s arse… and I’m not the only one who thinks so…
