ManU two Behind Table Leaders
I was gloating for the first 83 minutes of Fulham at Arsenal, as the Gunners had trailed 1-0 since the first minute. Unfortunately, Arsenal tied the game in the 84th minute, and won it in injury time. Oh well.
The worst news of the off season (other than ManU finally getting Tevez) was that Fulham picked up LG Telecom as their sponsor, and are acquiring a Korean player. Why is this bad news? Because this will lead to the Korean stations deciding to show Fulham's games, instead of other teams they could show. Now I read somewhere that Fulham have picked up some players and may be vastly improved, and they did hold onto the lead for nearly the entire Arsenal game, so I guess we'll see.
Incidentally, if the Korean stations are going to show Fulham, why not show the Arsenal game? (They did, but the next day.) At least that was against one of the big teams...especially if Spurs are going to lose to newly promoted teams like Sunderland. I know they got off to a slow start last year, but came on strong at the end, but a slow start isn't going to get Spurs into the top four like all the talk is hoping for. Incidentally, my pick is that the top four stay as they are, though Chelsea are racked with injuries, and Wayne Rooney looks to be out for two months with a hairline fracture. If Liverpool or Arsenal are to step up and jump ahead of the Blues and Red Devils, now, while injuries are slowing them down, would be the time to do it. On the other hand, the danger for Chelsea may be that their healthy players may be overworked, and that this could lead to more injuries. In the case of ManU, Rooney's injuries come just as United finished the process of signing Carlos Tevez, who could actually be an upgrade at striker, at least according to that top 50 players list that came out recently.
Meanwhile, before ManU got down to it and took on Reading in the late game (it's late here in Korea, at least) I got $20 on the over, at like 1:1.45 or so. In other words, if more than 2.5 goals were scored by both teams, I would win $13 and some change.
The way Man U was routinely running up 3-1, 4-1, even 6-1 scores in the preseason, I figured United would have little trouble hitting the over themselves, and if Reading got a goal, so much the better. To make a long story short, I took the over.
Naturally they played to a scoreless tie.
Early on I was rooting for any scoring at all, but by 50 or 55 miutes or so, I realized that any scoring would likely lead to a 1-0 United win, so I stopped rooting for scores, and just pulled for Reading. Since they only attempted 3 shots on goal the entire game, the 0-0 result was about as much as I could hope for. I was out some cash, but at least I got to gloat, and at ManU's expense, no less.
There will be plenty of time to gloat at Arsenal's expense later. And Liverpool's.
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The worst news of the off season (other than ManU finally getting Tevez) was that Fulham picked up LG Telecom as their sponsor, and are acquiring a Korean player. Why is this bad news? Because this will lead to the Korean stations deciding to show Fulham's games, instead of other teams they could show. Now I read somewhere that Fulham have picked up some players and may be vastly improved, and they did hold onto the lead for nearly the entire Arsenal game, so I guess we'll see.
Incidentally, if the Korean stations are going to show Fulham, why not show the Arsenal game? (They did, but the next day.) At least that was against one of the big teams...especially if Spurs are going to lose to newly promoted teams like Sunderland. I know they got off to a slow start last year, but came on strong at the end, but a slow start isn't going to get Spurs into the top four like all the talk is hoping for. Incidentally, my pick is that the top four stay as they are, though Chelsea are racked with injuries, and Wayne Rooney looks to be out for two months with a hairline fracture. If Liverpool or Arsenal are to step up and jump ahead of the Blues and Red Devils, now, while injuries are slowing them down, would be the time to do it. On the other hand, the danger for Chelsea may be that their healthy players may be overworked, and that this could lead to more injuries. In the case of ManU, Rooney's injuries come just as United finished the process of signing Carlos Tevez, who could actually be an upgrade at striker, at least according to that top 50 players list that came out recently.
Meanwhile, before ManU got down to it and took on Reading in the late game (it's late here in Korea, at least) I got $20 on the over, at like 1:1.45 or so. In other words, if more than 2.5 goals were scored by both teams, I would win $13 and some change.
The way Man U was routinely running up 3-1, 4-1, even 6-1 scores in the preseason, I figured United would have little trouble hitting the over themselves, and if Reading got a goal, so much the better. To make a long story short, I took the over.
Naturally they played to a scoreless tie.
Early on I was rooting for any scoring at all, but by 50 or 55 miutes or so, I realized that any scoring would likely lead to a 1-0 United win, so I stopped rooting for scores, and just pulled for Reading. Since they only attempted 3 shots on goal the entire game, the 0-0 result was about as much as I could hope for. I was out some cash, but at least I got to gloat, and at ManU's expense, no less.
There will be plenty of time to gloat at Arsenal's expense later. And Liverpool's.
You heard it here
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