Leo Messi Is a God. Arsenal Will Win The League After Chelsea Failure

Last week in Valencia was "Las Fallas" a huge festival where lots of the people from the City build a shit load of huge wooden and paper maché sculpture to put in various street intersections around the city. Then they get drunk for five days. Then on Friday at around midnight they burn these huge comical looking statues and watch the 75 foot flames fizzle out into dash. Then they go home and sleep.

That´s what I did this weekend. I rested. Because I was fooked from seven days in a row partying and then going into work early in the morning. (I really hope my boss doesn´t read this blog.)

As a result, I didn´t get to see any football this weekend, and that was very sad, because some very good things happened to us.

Despite being down to 10 men with most of the match to go, we beat West Ham 2 - 0, which is very good because they haven´t given us easy games this season. Fair play to Almunia for saving a peno. He´s still shit though.

Then we all hoped that Liverpool could beat Man United and Blackburn get something off Chelsea.

Fair play Sam Allardyce (I can´t believe I just said that) but Blackburn brought Chelsea down a peg and have given them something serious to think about.

Rafa Benitez. Pathetic. Liverpool are so poor. They are just terrible.

They managed to take the lead and then played with 10 men behind the ball and kicked hopeless long balls into the channels for Torres to chase. When he won them they attacked with three players if that. Gerrard, Kuyt, and Maxi. While Masch sat back, the back four remained flat, and Lucas Leiva continued to show he is perhaps the most underwhelming Premiership player of all time.

I laugh in the faces, with my mouth in their eyes, of the Liverpool fans who have been telling me that Rafa Benitez is one of the best managers in the world.

Their lack of insight and moronic patience with a man who is about as ambitious and savvy as a dartboard has cost them the Champions League this season, a Champions League spot for next season, and probably any hope of winning the league for another 10 years when Gerrard and Torres, two of the best players the club has ever had, get too old or leave. Both of which are probably already foregone conclusions.

Anyway, back to us, we are now closer to the team who was at the top of the league and I am absolutely delighted. We remain two points off United, and two points ahead of Chelsea who have a game in hand. It is a good but not great position to be in with seven games remaining. Up next is Birmingham away, which could prove to be the most difficult of all of our remaining games. We need the three points and we need Sol and Silvestre to find the fountain of youth in the next couple of days.

 

Finally, if you get a chance watch the individual highlights of Lionel Messi against Zaragoza. I watched the match with my mate in a Spanish bar last night. Holy Fuck.

He is absolutely spectacular. I am so scared that we have to play against him. He scored a hat-trick, two league games in a row, and won a brilliant penalty, which he then let Ibrahamovic tack because the big Swede had missed about 30 goal scoring opportunities in the match. Guess who was on the bench a little displeased. LINK

The thought of the Argentine against Sol Campbell makes me poop my pants.

Later, UptheArse