Tottenham Hotspur great game vs. Charlton Athletic

Spur had a great game in a great year beating Charlton 3-0 with 3 nice goals, and a special performance from Defoe


Tottenham Hotspur v Charlton Athletic
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Arsenal Aston VIlla goals 4-2

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Gareth Bale and highway to fame

Just one month ago, Gareth Bale was a very good Tottenham Hotspur player. Today, he is the talk of the football. He scored a hatrick against Inter Milan to change the 0-4 humilating defeat into 3-4 acceptable result.

In the second leg, he did magic and making two assists in the 3-1 victory over Inter. Just watch the 21 years old boy, amazing performance

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I also realized he is the player who scored this wonderful volley few months ago



Remembering John Barnes

John was one of best players ever played for Liverpool, and he explains a lot why people who lived in the 1980s loved the red club a lot. He never made big impact with the national team.

He was mostly remembered for this famous goal vs. Brazil in 1983 in a friendly in Maracana when England won 2-0. I didn't like the goal a lot as I think Brazil had lousy defence.

But, he had great wonderful moments and influence with Liverpool. I found this youtube that shows the real quality of Barnes, especiall his passes, and the way he combines great skills with great thinking. It was a joy to watch him playing.

Reasons behind England exit of World Cup

Sometimes ago, this blog indicated that this year won't be any better than the previous world cups for the English side. It is not about the technical performance as much as the discipline of players from one side and long English exhausting season from the other side.

Dailymail wrote a story about:
"Wayne Rooney smoking and urinating in the street: it's no wonder United hero is out of puff "
on how Rooney is getting discipline problems, and this might risk his future. Not only him, but many players of the English team.


If we talked about their typical rival, Germany, and the 4-1 defeat, one thing that was very clear and different with the German side is discipline, winning attitude and commitment.
 
Somehow, that was lacking between the fame and flashes of English side.

Worst two coaches in 2010 WC

Confidentaly we can say that Fabio Capello and Raymond Domenech are the worst two coaches in this mondial. Here is something funny I found about those two coaches,

First, Fabio Capello, was part of 1974 great Italian team. They managed to beat Haiti 3-1, tie with Argentina 1-1 and lose to Poland 1-2, and went out at group stages. Here is Capello as a player, in two different situations,


loool i liked the innocent look at Capello face, kinda reminds us of his same look as a coach. What's more interesting, that the referee kinda believed him

but, this does not mean he was not a good player. Here he is scoring a nice goal in the same Mondial


Now to my favourite character, Raymond Domenech. This is how they arrived to Paris


it is interesting that the Domenech was popular since about two years. It is something to raise many questions mark, not on Domenech, but on the French soccer federation.

But, this is not what I found interesting. Here is the interesting part,

Raymond Domenech was a good defender at the club level, not so much for the national team. He only played 8 games for France. But, he played for Lyon, Strasbourg, PSG, and Bordeaux.

So, how did he play?

I bought a book few months back called Bad Boys of Football, talking about worst behaviors in history of the game. Some were famous for good players in general, like Maradona hand or Zidane headbutt. But majory were really bad stories.

The book talked about Raymond and how he was such a very tough defender, who didn't play for the joy of the game, but as a defender he had a tough task to perform, in any possible way. That is the professional football, quoting him "when I was a player, if we'd been 3-0 down with two minutes left, and someone needed to be chopped in half, I would have done it"

English keepers mistakes

England keeper Robert Green must be the saddest player in this World Cup after his fatal mistake vs. USA.
However, this type of mistakes are becoming a culture in the English national team.

England always had great keepers, which made 5 keepers to guard the English goal for about 5 decades
from Gorden Banks (since 1963) to Ray Clemence and Peter Shilton (starting 1972) and David Seaman (starting 1988).

Despite the golden ages of keepers, their mistakes in the past contributed good deal to England key moments.
It costed them to miss 1974 World Cup when they lost 0-1 to Poland after a very silly goal with a mistake by Peter Shilton. (England vs. Poland 0-1 -at 1:57)

Shilton had great career, and was really legendary keeper, one of my favoritess, but at his last international game at age of 40, he did another mistake that cost England to lose the third place in 1990 World Cup



Of course, we must mention Ronaldinho goal vs. David Seaman in 2002 World Cup



which was a replica of 1995 UEFA Cup Final at the 120th minute goal for Zaragoza vs. Arsenal from a similar mistake by David Seaman. Arsenal lost the final 0-1

But, then, it got just worse, with not a single impressive keeper that his name would ring a bell. Watch this goal by Austria in 2006 WCQ with a wonderful mistake by David James



Then, two years later, England could not qualify to Euro2008 as it lost to Croatia twice. First 0-2 with a silly goal vs. Paul Robinson



Then, in the second leg, England put another keeper, Scott Carson, who got a worse goal in my opinion. The first we might say it was luck and uneven ground, but there is no excuse for this goal



As I said, it looks like it is becoming a culture among English keepers

Goals: Skillful shots

My pick for you from last week from England, two beautiful shots, where power wasn't the secret, but the skills in the shot

The first is by Chris Cohen for Nottingham Forest vs. Blackpool


The second is a beautiful Everton goal vs. Portsmouth by Diniyar Bilyaletdinov. It was the last game for Everton in the season in the last second in a 1-0 victory. Beautiful End for a season.

Turbulence in English team

Capello decided to dismiss John Terry as an England team captain and give the leaderiship into Rio Ferdinand after Terry scandal in getting a teammate girlfriend pregnant.

However, I am a bit surprised of the decision, as Rio Ferdinand himself had a bigger scandal few years ago together with Frank Lampard. They had a wild trip to Cyprus and were caught in capturing their sexual exepriences in video tapes with (or without) girls permission.

However, Ashley Cole, one of key elements of the English team also caught in another smaller scandal, sending his nude photo to a model. What is worse, that Ashley miself got a bad injury that will take him out of the world cup. His ankle is broken.

Sounds familiar? Every world cup, England comes as a top favorite, but for a reason or another, something goes wrong and they are knocked out from the mondial, somehow.

Do you still keep England as a WC favorites?