Man Utd 3-0 Liverpool

Javier Mascherano saw red but... (image from BBC Sport
"...United had dominated even when Liverpool had 11 men on the pitch." - from BBC Sport

I didn't watch the game, but I was feeling utterly lucky I didn't after the game. Checking on the progress of the game via live text on BBC Sport, I was like...


Halftime


Final score
Hell, I'll never hear the end of it today -_-|||

* Pictures of funny cats are collected from different forums.

Jose Mourinho has left the building too

While Chelsea's boss, Jose Mourinho has almost nothing in common with the resigned Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, his exit from the Premiership giant is equally hard to swallow in such short notice as well.


"Mourinho quited, England shocked" filled up the header of today's sport column in Sin Chiew Jit Poh
To be honest, I never liked Mourinho a bit, and I did show my displeasure towards him once or twice on my blog. However, that doesn't mean that I shun his coaching at Chelsea. As a matter of fact, I think he is a manager every Premiership team with big bucks would like to have. His records of two Premiership titles, one runners-up (last season behind Manchester United), one FA Cup and two Carling Cup, all completed within the short three years of his reign at the club is unbeatable. Plus:

"Of the 185 games he was in charge of Chelsea, they won 124, drew 40 and lost 21, a record that includes a 60-match unbeaten run in Premier League matches at Stamford Bridge." (from BBC Sport)

Hell, that's like 67 percent wins, or 88.6 percent undefeated records out of all the matches he managed. Wow!

Of course the big bucks poured into the club almost immediately when it was being bought over must be counted for the silverwares, but the guy must have some brilliant game plans that cannot be disputed, like psychological warfare.

Like I said before, what I hated about him is his foul mouth. Regardless of whether his team was indeed not doing well in a match, and ended either losing or drawing, he would still refuse to give credit to the opponent and blamed the result on either the referee, bad luck, or worked out some brilliant Math formula to stun everyone.

Anyway, those are probably just my own feelings as a Liverpool fan. A fan always supports his team and help to defend it; and I'm sure a coach will do the same for his team as well.

Mourinho didn't just help Chelsea at the club level. I personally felt that without him, John Terry, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, and Frank Lampard would never be as big as they are today, and England might yet be suffering a few major holes in both their defense and offense. Not to mention promoting underrated African players like Didier Drogba and Michael Essien, who both helped their national teams, Ivory Coast and Ghanaian respectively to reach World Cup 2006.

In a way, I feel very pitiful for Morinho. Obviously he was very confident about himself, and he had the skills to be so, but the bureaucratic pressure from his tauke (that means 'boss' in Chinese dialect) was too much to bear. Can you imagine a rich Russian billionaire sacking the winning formula because he "wants the stadium to be full and he wants to see people enjoying the football his team provides." (from BBC Sport). He also wants "his team to win trophies but also play with style" (from BBC Sport)


Make those wishes to a lamp genie, Mr. Abramovich, and you will get the latest FIFA 2008. Image from (from BBC Sport)
How to play like that? Spent money like no tomorrow on Andriy Shevchenko (31 million pound), who only scored 15 goals in 53 total matches with Chelsea; while good team players like William Gallas, and Robert Huth were sold. All against the will of the manager. Just who's driving here?

I don't think Mr. Abramovich knows the frustration of side-seat driving since he can afford paying big money hiring a driver.

Well, as you wish, Mr. Russian billionaire, let's see what your team can do against Manchester United in Old Trafford this Sunday, without Mourinho.

Wish you all the best ^^ but more likely, all your wishes will be realized... ... the other way round against your team!

Great Match, Lousy Referee

Last Sunday was the clash of two Premiership giants, Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield.

I'm sure everyone at the match was hoping to see Fernando Torres, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Dirk Kuyt and other big names in the Premiership all playing in one of the most exciting matches at the beginning of the season. Fernando Torres scored the 6,999th league goal for Liverpool, while John Riise and Didier Drogba both created some brilliant attempts on goal. The match was supposedly full of excitement and fun. (Image from BBC Sport)

But the referee, Rob Styles had to get in the way.

The ref flashed his yellow cards eight times during the match, but failed to sent off Michael Essien after giving him his second yellow card. But the worst refereeing decision came when he decided to award Chelsea a penalty when he ruled Liverpool defender Steve Finnan fouled Florent Malouda.

Despite protest from the players and the manager, the decision remained unchanged, and Frank Lampard leveled for Chelsea with that penalty, which resulted in the match ended 1-1.

Premiership matches are usually full of these bad-refereeing cases. While some are just frustration of losing teams and managers, the incident between Rob Styles and Liverpool is not one of them. Referees' chief of the Premiership, Keith Hackett announced that Rob Styles will not officiate in the Premiership next weekend because of his mistake. Ha!

However, that penalty might not be as damaging to the referee since he will probably return to the pitch after next week; a two-point lost for Liverpool might hamper the team's hope in getting their first Premiership title.

Nonetheless...


Rob Styles, you FAILED! Image from TheFA.com

Superior Balls than Malaysian

Football actually.

For your information, Malaysia is the co-host of Asian Cup 2007, alongside Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Here's the situation: in a group against China, Uzbekistan and Iran, we lost 1-5 against the first opponent, and 0-5 against the second one. We are the only team without a single point, not just in Group C, but the ENTIRE tournament. We are also the team which conceded most goals (10) and the confirmed host nation among the four to be eliminated. Plus, we haven't face Iran yet.

Even the football bookies in Hong Kong had given up on us: 1 - 1.06 for a win by Iran; 1 - 7.50 for a draw and 1 - 22 for a win by Malaysia. Walau~

Here's the conclusion: we are in deep, deep shit now.

Especially for Iran who wants to bypass China to become the group leader. Currently, the two teams are tied at four points each but China has the upper hand with a three goal margin against Iran. So, here's the math: if China wins 1-0 against Uzbekistan tonight, or at least in the mind of the Iranians, Iran will need to present five goals against none to Malaysia in order to top China, i.e. we will suffer another goal fiesta tonight and end our miserable little Asian Cup daydream.

Of course that's the most optimistic(!) guess, since we can't be sure how the Chinese will fair against Uzbekistan. Surely the Iranians feel the same way as well. So they will definitely opt for more goals to make sure that they will definitely meet their mark, i.e. we might be seeing seven or eight goals behind Malaysian net tonight.

Even our own coach "has no illusions about beating Iran". As a matter of fact, his formation tonight will be focusing on defense to try to minimize conceding more humility. Iran on the other hand, has vow to "start attacking right from the start to score" (same report), with "all their powerful players" (same report) some more.

Yeah man, we are in deep deep shit now.

Although I'm not particularly fond of Malaysian football, I didn't hope of such bad result from the our team either. I think the bad performance is one huge nightmare for all Malaysian, not because we are one of the co-hosts, but because we should be able to do much better as compared to other teams. We have massive funding for player trainings, including trainings on foreign soils, and world class facilities for the players. For other participating nations like Iraq, with facilities ravaged by war and continues to face terrorists' insurgence almost everyday, they manage to top their group featuring Australia, Thailand and Oman, plus they travel hundreds of miles away from home fans to participate in this tournament while we are playing right here in our own country.


Yeah, that's right. Image from NST Online
So, what's wrong anyway? Just before the opening match against China, "we are ready!" After the match, "Malaysia Got The Tactics All Wrong". After the 0-5 lost to Uzberkistan, "We tried but we failed". Oh shit~

The deputy president of our football association (FAM), Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad has quited after the match against Uzbekistan. His departure started a snowball effect and many top people in Malaysian football start seeing the green exit signs as well. But will that be enough? I don't think so. After the glorious 80s, which saw Malaysia as the strongest football nation in South East Asia, and among the top three teams in all of Asia, our football standard started to slip into oblivion. We have political figureheads who know nothing of their balls managing our balls not only on national level, but in each of our states as well. We have different standards and regulations for our national league every year. These political influences had poisoned the game so much I reckon quitting of the entire FAM board of directors will not make any difference in improving our football standard.

I'm sure many of you will still remember the incident of Malaysian government and AFC (that's the tai-kor-tai in Asian football) in the planned friendly match against Manchester United. The match was supposedly two days before the Asian Cup. For a bloody hell friendly match only to make our National Day celebration more colorful, the whole Malaysian government is willing to put the membership of our country in AFC at stake. Even our Tourism Minister minded the ball, even though clearly, he can't handle the ball. Then, our whole Youth and Sport Ministry tried to handle the ball as well, but clearly, they should really learn how to play with their own balls first.

For one freaking damn friendly match, so much political influences was being mingled in the already troubled Malaysian football. Where's the attention to the training scheme of our players? Players who are in the squad were still playing matches in the league when they are supposedly training for the bigger tournament. Where's the attention to the Asian Cup preparation? Is seeing Ryan Giggs, Ronaldo and Rooney more important than the whole Asian Cup? Is the money earned from this proposed MU extravaganza enough to cover for our humility in the Asian Cup? Priority, man, priority!

If the Asian Cup is not as important as the MU match, then please don't hope for anything out of it. The comment of "we don't have the quality to compete in Asian Cup Finals" (same report) should have being uttered way before we join in the parade of organizing this year's Asian Cup, just to bring out all our shit and show it to the whole Asia.

Regardless of how the match tonight is going to be, I'm sure of one thing: the problem with our ball is way out of control and can hardly be solved by a mere "full report" or even an "overhaul" (same report) of FAM. The problem is our mentality, or rather the top management's mentality. The day when they stop girl, wine and dance party when it comes to improving football in Malaysia is the day when the tiger will start growing claws and fangs again. Can't do that? follow the example of Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad then.

If you can't keep up, don't step up then.

Fernando Torres is Liverpool's New No. 9

From BBC Sport, Liverpool just sealed their biggest deal in the Premiership transfer market through Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid at a club record of 20 million Pound. However, the transfer fee may be much higher, 26.5 million pound according to another report. Nonetheless, Fernando Torres is a very promising player who has great reputation for both his previous club and on international level for Spain. Current Spain manger, Luis Aragones once commented him as a player who "never scores two goals the same". Wuhhuh, how stylish can that be. His appearance will surely improve the club's chance of winning their first Premiership title next season.


Torres is called 'El Nino', or The Kid in Spain because of his baby-face. Image from BBC Sport.
Torres will be wearing jersey No. 9 in Liverpool now, a number previously worn by the best strikers of Liverpool, including Robbie Fowler and Ian Rush. The history of the number alone can tell just how much expectation is being put on Torres's shoulders, or maybe I should say his legs and head.

While Torres joined Liverpool from Spain, another Spanish Liverpool player goes home. Luis Garcia is now off to Atletico Madrid at a transfer fee of 4 million pound. This transfer is said to be part of the deal for Torres to join Liverpool. Garcia in my perception, is a very small frame player, but very versatile and skillful on the pitch. He is perhaps one of the best wingers after Steve McManaman. Among the honors on his report card in Liverpool include the Champions League champions in 2005. Liverpool fans will surely miss him.


A highly unusual Garcia-goal-celebration style, usually he would suck his thumb after scoring XD. Image from Liverpoolfc.tv

The End of an Era

This posting is a tribute to one of my football heroes: Robbie Fowler.


Fans’ reaction after the Charlton match. One has to be a legend to receive so much respect from the fans.
To begin with, Robbie Fowler is the reason I started watching Liverpool and later become their supporter. The first match I watched was the one where he scored a hat trick against Arsenal in less than five minutes back in 1995. I was spellbound by his performance, and paid a lot of attention to him and the club after the match.


Robbie Fowler’s days when he was still a lad in the team


One of Robbie Fowler’s trademarks was a piece of plaster across his nose when he was playing. I can’t recall when he stopped using it :-)
During my secondary school days, there were many friends around me who were very fond of football, particularly the Premiership. In my class, there were different club supporters, and you know back in those days, boys were very hardheaded about their supported team. Different people has different ways of expressing their affiliation, like keychain, school bag with the club’s crest, even the brand of the jacket worn to school must be die-hard loyal to the team. For me, I have some nicely laminated posters of Robbie Fowler as my desktop wallpaper (literally), and surprisingly, my teachers did not prohibit such ‘modification’ done to the school property. Those posters seem priceless now that Robbie Fowler is leaving.


Some of the posters of Robbie Fowler from the good old days. The double-page sized cut-out is from Mike when we were classmates in Secondary Four (2000)


Cool facts about Robbie Fowler from Match Annual 2000. Back then, he was the youngest among the first five Premiership players to have scored over 100 goals in the league. The others are Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, Les Ferdinand, and Andy Cole.
Back to football, Liverpool back in those days, which were more than 10 years ago, has almost nothing in common with the squad at the moment. Back then, the club’s performance was quite inconsistent. As the second runners-up of the Premiership this season, finishing five or six back then was nothing; with losses more than 10 matches per season was also quite common. But when they were in good form, they could really trash their opponents with four or five goals or even more, which was a hell lot of fun to watch. Robbie Fowler, as the leading striker of the team played a huge role in the success of the club back then. His performance pretty much decided the result of Liverpool’s matches. When he did not score, the drought may last a few matches; when he was back, he would give the fans two or more goals in a single match, and continue the spree until another drought hit.


Three of Liverpool’s players many seasons back: Titi Camara, Fowler and Rigobert Song. Now, all of them are history for the club.
Robbie Fowler has great speed, and a lethal touch in the penalty box. Just give him the ball, and he will eventually score most of the time. He is also quite aggressive in terms of tackling for a small player. Not surprisingly, he is one of highest goal scorers for both Liverpool and the entire Premiership. However, Robbie Fowler did not gain many caps as a national squad player for England. He was originally featured in England’s first-eleven for World Cup 98, but was dropped due to last minute injury. Many said that his absence gave way to the rise of Michael Owen, his teammate in Liverpool, who was his substitute to the World Cup.

Robbie Fowler is also quite a man of surprise. He once rejected a penalty against Arsenal, when David Seaman, the goalkeeper, was seemingly fouling him. I remember he won a Fair Play Award by FIFA after that. Some of his other behaviors on the pitch however, were both controversial and incomprehensible. He once sniffed the white line of the penalty box as a mean of celebrating his goal score, and was involved in a fight with Graeme Le Saux, a Chelsea defender and his England teammate after he waved his backside to him. Anyway, he made the headlines in all these incidents.

A few years after Gerard Houllier came to the club, it was quite clear to me that Robbie Fowler was not the first choice for the French coach, as he favored pairing Michael Owen and Emile Heskey upfront. The height of the coach-player conflict lead to his departure from the club to Leed United for 11 million Pound, and subsequently Manchester City for 3 million Pound. Personally, I think that his performances in both these clubs were never as good as his days in Liverpool, even though he scored some goals for them. He was also in and out of the injury list most of the time, which deterred him from gaining a consistent form in the Premiership.

It was such a delight for me, when the new gaffer, Rafael Benitez brought him back to Liverpool from Manchester City early last year. Even though his role has long been taken over by other younger and more promising players like Kuyt, Crouch, Agger, and so on, and that Fowler is more to a substitute than a regular first-eleven, it is always pleasant to see him back wearing the all red jersey on the pitch. Somehow, I think that Anfield is the only place for Robbie Fowler as a footballer.

The last match I watched him played was when he was substituted during the second leg of the Champions League semis against Chelsea. Too bad for him, Chelsea lost the penalty shoot-out even before Fowler could have a piece of the thrill.

At the age of 32, Robbie Fowler played his last Premiership match against Charlton. It was a disappointment that he did not score in that match, but the fans love him anyway. Before and after the match, he was given a long standing ovation by the audience at Anfield. Making him the captain of the team was just a bonus, but fans will forever remember him for bringing so much joy and inspiration to the club throughout the decade.


Fowler’s last match helped to seal second runners-up in the Premiership for Liverpool this season. Too bad he did not score.
All the best to you, God of Anfield!

Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea (Aggregate 1-1, penalty 4-1)

Normally I don't talk about football much on my blog, even though I have a section on that. English Premiership matches are mostly in the wee hours in my country, so watching them means you have to sacrifice sleep and risk having baggy eyes the next day in school or work. Also, I don't have satellite TV, so I don't get to watch as many matches as some of my friends do, as I guess that affects the level of interest I have in the game as well.


Reina was the man of the match in my opinion
Watching football matches always feel like gambling to me. No no, I'm not talking about real money gambling, but whether it's worthwhile not to go to sleep for watching the match. Since it's live, you will have no idea just how the match is going to turn out, even professional match predictors can be wrong at some point. I remember watching some matches during World Cup Germary last year, and boy, one of the matches I watched was really boring (can't remember which team played, can't be bothered either), with short passes around the midfield, plenty of throw-ins, and very few good shots and saves. Nil-nil was the result, which made me thinking back then, a good few hours of sleep was better than such waste of time.


Two England Internationals in the same match, but Lampard seemed to be invisible on the field most of the time
But the European Champions League Semis Second Leg between Liverpool and Chelsea was special for me, not just because I'm Liverpool fan, but it was actually the first football match I watched in many months. Yesterday and the day before were both public holidays, so there was no worry of waking up late after the match, and so I watched it. Actually I missed the first half as I couldn't wake up in time :-P, so I missed Daniel Agger's goal.


Drogba was upfront alone for Chelsea
I'm not going to be technical about the game, since you can read all about the details of the game on BBC Sports.


After Reina saved Geremi's penalty...


... Kuyt scored the winning penalty, and Liverpool is off to Athens~
The bottom line is, Liverpool is going to Athens to meet AC Milan for the final, which will be a 're-match' of 2005 Final. AC Milan sent Manchester United packing with with a stylish 3-0 in San Siro this morning. Groovy~

By the way, now I realize it, the last post made under 'Football' was Liverpool beating Chelsea for the Community Shield last year, and this new match is about Liverpool beating Chelsea again. Muahahaha~

All photos are from BBC Sports.

Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool

What a great way to kick start the new season

The title of this posting is the same with the report on BBC Sport. Since all the tit-bits are in that report, I'll focus on the impact of the match.

Everyone was concerned about how Chelsea's all star team will have an impact on the Premiership. People were thinking that they will dominate the Premiership with all the big names money can buy. Liverpool on the other hand, didn't impress in the much in terms of their pre-season spending. Most of their signings are young talents with few results to show. But the result shows what football is all about: money can't buy success, and how well players perform on the field is not being determined by their monetary value.

So much for the great German midfielder


Lampard's World Cup misery continues, and Terry was Terry-ble in that match


Momo Sissoko was the Man of the Match

So, this is how we kick start Premiership 06/07. The Community Shield match represents a huge lesson to be learnt by many teams. Chelsea is still the top favorite to win the trophy, but other teams can still beat them, just like how Liverpool beat them. It's also time for Chelsea to realize that money isn't everything. They can keep on signing superstars, but they are still not invincible.

All images are from BBC Sport.

What can Mr. Mourinho say now?

A EURO-turned World Cup

World Cup 2006 finished its Quarters this morning, as two favorite teams, England and Brazil bid farewell to their World Cup campaign.

Although the teams that are going to the Semis, Germany, Italy, Portugal and France are indeed strong teams, I sort of feel that this World Cup has started to show the imbalance of the worlds football standard. All the teams which made it to the Semis are from Europe, West Europe to be exact. Gone were the shock elements from the Scandinavian reps like Sweden, and Balkan teams like Croatia or Ukraine. Technically speaking, these teams are still from Europe, but their technique and strategy are so different from the conventional teams, it would be interesting to see them again in the last few matches of the tournament.

But the biggest surprise is that we don’t get to see any South American reps this time. Argentina lost to Germany in the penalty shootout and Brazil failed to avenge their humiliation in France 98 with a one-nil defeat to France. So this will be the first World Cup with the definite absence of a South American team since 1982. Quite a disappointment to the continent’s fans. Brazil being the all-time favorite, fail to make it past the Quarters since 1990, their defeat could well be the biggest upset in the whole tournament.

Two Quarters were decided on penalty shoot-out, and like what Pele said, “Penalty shoot-out is a coward’s way to win.” But the two teams which went down in the penalty shoot-out should ask themselves about how they ended up in such dreadful situation in the first place. I think the most important lesson is: defensive play is NOT the way to go. Argentina tried to defend their one nil lead against Germany and sunk in the last minute. Offensive players like Saviola and Messi were sitting on the bench and playmaker Riquelme was substituted after Ayala scored. I wondered what Pekerman was thinking back then. Holding off the German tanks with stronger defense? Probably, but defensive play is never Argentina’s strength. The victory was pretty much handed to the German actually, with all due respect to the German players and fans.

Pekerman went for defensive play after Ayala's goal, and down went Argentina


Eriksson went for defensive play right from the start, and down went England as well

England ironically shared the same mistake as their archrival Argentina. Eriksson’s formation of 4-5-1 tells everyone that he is just looking for the same kind of victory against Ecuador in the last 16. Although Owen is out because of injury, Crouch and Walcott are still available, even Gerrard can play upfront, but Eriksson decided that Rooney can do it all on his own. When Rooney was sent off in the second half, luck is clearly not on their side anymore.

Similar scene with World Cup 98?


At least he will be relief that the culprit is not him this time

The score lines are becoming alarming thin as we moved closer to the end of the tournament. While the opening game between Germany and Costa Rica gave us so much anticipation, seems like we are getting more disappointment now. A total of 6 goals in all the four Quarters, an average of 1.50 per match is unforgivable. If you take out Italy-Ukraine crash, the score lines of the rest of the matches are just combination of binary numbers. What happens to Soga Bonita? As teams get more and more defensive, there will be more and more miserable moments like what happened to Argentina and England. I most sincerely hope that the trend of over-emphasizing defense will end soon, or we will be can sleep through the first 80 minutes of a match, and start watching after that (which of course is the worst case scenario of a World Cup)

ITA 1:0 AUS Man of the match: Luis Medina Cantalejo

Italy sent the Australians packing with a controversial one nil victory in the World Cup second stage match 2 days ago. The match was not of my particular interest, since I support neither team. After watching the match, I felt that the conspiracy theory is at play again, and there seems to be a tie with Italy’s World Cup experience in 2002.

Italy's games for me were always boring. Their defense was the strongest among in the world, most of the times, their opponents’ ball only circles around the midfield. Having said that, it would seem impossible for the Sorceroos to even reach Gianluigi Buffon.

The Australian did a great job in their offense, utilizing many chances to score. The goal possession at one point was Italy 41% and Australia 59%, quite impressive. I kind of feel sorry for them at one point, as their attempts kept bouncing off the Italian wall, especially Fabio Cannavaro, who kept his yard clean of any Socceroos.

Walau, like this also red card, sure or not?

Materazzi’s dismissal in the second half gave some light for the Australian side as Italy was down to ten men. Lippi immediately substituted his striker with a defender, which made the game even harder for Australians and much more boring for the viewers.

It's a huge man on the ground lah, brother. You still miss him and tumble? No wonder you can't score in 90 minutes.

Perhaps it was time for the Azzuri to avenge their humiliation of World Cup 2002, as we saw the referee played a huge part in the final score line of the match. At the very last minute of stoppage time, Grosso earned Italy a penalty from a seemingly Australian tackle, although he looked like diving to me. Francesco Totti scored the penalty, and Australia is out. A controversial penalty scored by an Italian played who was sent off controversially in World Cup 2002. The referee, Luis Medina Cantalejo of Spain became the avenger for Italy.

Schwarzer saw the penalty well, just can't reach it. Well, maybe yellow and green is not the lucky color this time?

I don’t know, maybe he was in rush of going to the loo?

Images are from FIFA World Cup Germany 2006.

What a Big Mouth

Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 last Saturday in the English FA Cup Semis. However, it is not surprisng that not many people talk about the goals or the misses, but about the fact that the managers of both teams did not shake hands after the match, as well as Chelsea's manager, Mourinho stubborn comments on how his team lost because of the referee and how well his team perform in the Premiership as compared to the Reds. Mr. Morinho also demonstrated his incredible Math skill in calculating the point difference between his team and Liverpool over x season in the Premiership. Unbelievable.

Even if you're not interested in football, take his comments as some references and guidance for you to be a public enemy among your friends. If you want to be one badly, that is.

(Extracted from bbc.co.uk)
"In the Premiership they have no chance. Over 40 matches, no chance. Maybe they will surprise me and they can do it.

"But in 10 matches against us they have won twice. In the Premiership the distance between the teams is 45 points over two seasons."

"We beat them in a final, they beat us in two semi-finals. A psychological advantage? I don't think so. In four matches in the Premiership we beat them four times."

"Did the best team win? I don't think so. In the last 30 minutes we deserved extra time."

Well, at least the two parties did not end up fighting like what happened in the Arsenal-Tottenham derby. What was Wenger thinking anyway? Vince McMahon, the bad a** chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment must be one of his idols.

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