Postby Otis Westinghouse » Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:45 pm
You can have the fucker! Must say I was well pissed off to hear he'd got the first goal. Fair dues, hope he does better at Chelquebookski. Hope you all saw Christiano 'the real' Ronaldo. Looks superb. I too was sceptical, but he is the dog's bollocks. The 'David who?' cliches were running thick and hilariously fast. I mean, who's complaining when Giggsy does the business from the free kick (and another goal, earning me 18 points in fantasy football, on the official Premiership site, lethally addictive and compelling, I already realise), and the new heir of the mighty number 7 shirt (how much history does that shirt hold at MUFC?) is a total genius. Only 18, but fully formed. I reckon we can expect great things. Djemba Djemba looks as good as his name, Kleberson ('he won the World Cup for Brazil - Fergie) has yet to show, Bellion is good, and Howard (yes another US goalie, how do you do it, first Friedel and then this, well cool) is class too.
So I was dead happy, with the slight exception of the unbelievable prospect of Ruud (my captain, of course, cos points are doubled), missing penalties two games running, when he'd never done this before. At least he got one though.
God it's a long summer without the league, no? Where are you all. On holiday? (I know the Doof is, I've got Zamora on my team too, have high hopes.) Too hot? Poor Bunny will be crying into her pint at the Pogue Mahone, the Pool started OK, but then it all went wrong. And as for Owen missing his penalty, unbelievable. I think the script was meant to be 'Roman spends £65m or whatever the hell it was to then watch Kewell and Owen get a hat trick each and get egg all over his face', so something went wrong. And the Chelsea fan next to me at work was actually there - thank God he's out all week. Too much gloating would be awful.
Man City did well. Leeds v Newcastle, which I had on my 'game a week' deal was a cracker.