If you think throwing away a three goal lead is a bad day at the office, it got worst for Chelsea
Sunday morning. Chelsea spelled their own website URL wrong, on their advertising boards during
their game against Manchester United, according to 101 Great Goals. Now that is a bad day at the
office and it only happened with a billion people watching.
In September, I wrote how Fox Sports choice to show Barclay's Premier League games on tape delay
was a brilliant idea. Two weekends ago, Fox took it the next level by showing Manchester United vs.
Arsenal live as a lead into the NFL Conference Championship Games. Sure the rating where not great.
According to ESPN, the match was seen by 1.
Nothing beats knocking a Premier League side out of the FA Cup when you are a lower league side.
Brighton did that by knocking out Newcastle 1-0 over the weekend. The fun of the Cup was shown by
Brighton's Adam El-Abd as he dances with an FA Cup mascot after the win. This is my favorite moment
of the weekend.
Fox Soccer has been promoting this Sunday Premier League games as "Epic Sunday,'' for once this is
not over hype. The doubleheader of Manchester City vs. Spurs and Manchester United vs. Arsenal will
go a long way toward telling us who will be lifting the trophy in May.
A City win in the early game and a Arsenal win in the late game could all but end the title race.
Wow this could be epic. Eric Cantona wants to be French president. Could you imagine him meeting
with Obama, we need this to happen.
A list put together by BBC Sport on the top 50 players from around the world that could be on the
move during the month ahead.
Everyone is doing it, so I thought we would too. Here is the OTWT starting 11 for 2011
- Goalkeeper: Joe Hart, Manchester City
- Left Back: Ashley Cole, Chelsea
- Center back: Vincent Kompany, Manchester City
- Center back: Nemanja Vidic, Manchester United
- Right Back: Gregory van der Wiel, Ajax
- Left side: Eden Hazard, Lille
- Central Midfielder: Javier Mascherano, Barcelona
- Central Midfielder: Xavi, Barcelona
- Right side:Mario Goetze, Borussia Dortmund
- Striker: Ronaldo, Real Madrid
- Striker: Lionel Messi, Barcelona
I know everyone does not agree with my starting 11, so let the trashing begin.
Its been a long year for the OTWT Tailgating crew. There have been trips to Buffalo to see the
Eagles, to Harrisburg for a minor league baseball game and to Washington DC to see Manchester
United. Here are some of my favorite videos from our 25 events that we attended.
Nats super prospect Bryce Harper comes to Lakewood
Manchester United take the field in Washington DC vs Barcelona
Rutgers Eric LeGrand leads his team out before the West Virginia game
Philly fans turn on Andy Reid during the Eagles Patriots game
Merry Christmas to all from our family at Only Time Will Tell.
Last January Liverpool paid 35 million pounds to Newcastle for striker Andy Carroll and 13 starts
later that its not looking like the greatest purchase ever. Despite his struggles Carroll is set
pocket £150k bonus from Liverpool, according to the Daily Mail. Not bad for a guy who has only
scored four times for the reds.
If life at Chelsea can not get any worst for Fernando Torres at Chelsea, now the blues are looking
a signing a replacement him, Justin Bieber. Bieber trained at Chelsea with Frank Lampard and
Fernando Torres and some people said he does not miss sitters like Torres does.
For years West Ham United was considered to have the best academy in England but that appears to be
changing. Southampton is looking to change that. After Walcott, Bale and Oxlade-Chamberlain,
Southampton are aiming to create a new golden generation for Enlgand:
Don Balon has released its list of the top 101 youngsters in world football. There are a lot of
interesting names of the list including Ajax midfielder Christian Eriksen, who is featured above.
You know you have been a club a long time when you can make a starting 11 with players that weren't
born when you took over. Sir Alex can do that and his team would probably end up finishing in the
top half of the Premier League, simply amazing.
