Monday 9 August 2010

Sporting News of the Week

Man Utd beat Chelsea 3-1 in the season's curtain raiser, the Community Shield with goals from; Valencia, Hernandez, and a beautiful lob from Berbatov, with Chelsea's Kalou scoring in return.

Martin O'Neill has stunned English football by resigning from his post at Aston Villa with immediate effect, leaving, fans, pundits and football followers alike wondering whether his power was taken from him with the issue of James Milner's apparently impending move to Man City. This leaves Villa vulnerable and worried about a mass exodus of players who may have lost faith in the club's apparent lack of ambition to finance new signings.

England annilihate Pakistan by 9 wickets on the 4th Day, with 118 to win, Trott and Strauss both finnished on not out half-centuries.

England manager Fabio Capello's grip on his England squad seems to be slackening, with only 16 of the 23 players called-up turning up to training. Wes Brown and Paul Robinson having retired, with 5 others apparently unfit. Arsenal youngsters Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wiltshere have been called up in a new look team alongside, Gary Cahill (Bolton), Phil Jagielka (Everton) and Fulham's Bobby Zamora.

Cesc Fabregas pledges his allegiance to Arsenal in what looked like somewhat of a forced move. It has left fans interested and anxious to see how he performs come the season.

An in-form Tyson Gay stormed to victory in the Diamond League meet in Stockholm ahead of a lethargic, yet still under 10 seconds Usain Bolt, in a time of 9.84secs.

The long awaited return of the Premier League will arrive on Saturday noon, with an epic battle, with plenty of unfinnished business in it's backstory between Manchester City and Tottenham, followed (for ESPN viewers) with Chelsea's opener against West Brom. Then to Super Sunday which sees the mouth-watering fixture of Liverpool vs Arsenal, hopefully with, Torres, Gerrard, Reina, Cole, Van Persie, Nasri, Fabregas and Arshavin all on show. Then to round of Week 1 of the League, a match with plenty of history, Manchester United vs Newcastle Utd in the return of Monday Night Football on SkySports.

2 comments:

  1. mate u should be on sky sports already, felt like I was reading that on the site or in a paper...you would never guess that this is someone who only just finished school n haven't even studied the subject yet.. future looks good

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  2. haha cheers buddy ;). Just doing what I love doing, glad you like it :). x

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