It was an entertaining weekend of giants killed; Manchester United stumbled to defeat in Portsmouth, Arsenal lost, for the first time at the Emirates - to West Ham United (!) and Chelsea managed to beat the mighty Spurs... ok, slightly facetious with the last one and that was less spectacularly entertaining anyway, but the "curse" of not finding the goal which you, dear readers, have pointed out, certainly seems to have spread. Arsenal have a very bad case of the misfiring curse; they may have outplayed West Ham and had an amazing number of efforts on target but West Ham got their only one in. And that counts. It has to be said though: Robert Green was heroic on an epic scale. (And apart from the microsecond of hesitation at Carvalho's shot, our own Paul was quite heroic as well.)
Portsmouth did Chelsea (well, yes, and themselves) a great favour by beating Manchester United in an amusing fashion, a Man U which also seemed unable to find the back of the net. Well, the back of the opposition net, anyway. After Paul has somewhat redeemed himself and his part in the "Croatia incident" by scoring a "freak" goal of his own and coming back in form, we now have a new pair of own goal culprits to taunt. Gary Neville's club and country partner Rio Ferdinand's miscontrolled ball went back towards an uncomprehending Edwin van der Sar who, not expecting the pass, just calmly watched it roll back into his own goal as if, by some magic, a ball kicked by his own defender could never go that way... Injury time injury expert John O'Shea tapped in a loose ball, but the own goal still meant that no points for Manchester United were to be had from this encounter and IF, just IF, Chelsea grab the title because of this loss the own goal will be historical. It is already hysterical.
Oh, and in Spain even the great Barca were unable to score. Teams that I wouldn't mind inflicting some misfiring curse on, say Everton and Bolton, of course did nothing but score all weekend. Let's hope that this is all part of some freakish Easter bunny voodoo and that, come Thursday, at least Spurs have been cured...
Happy Easter all - I'll be back with more serious stuff actually relevant to Spurs as soon as my internet server has been cured of its curse... a more paranoid person would see a pattern.
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Yeah, Lisa, a Easter bunny just told me that, if the Gods agree with it, the curse has been lifted.We'll see their final decision next Thursday.
Oh, the things we do for love...even when those we love don't deserve it!
By the way, in a parallel line, I'm quite sure now Berbatov is staying with Spurs, because finally his agent declared there will be NO TRANSFER in 2007.This decison taken, together with the curse lifted, I guess he'll score a hat trick next Thursday. there's no harm in asking him:
Please Di, score a goal for me, (and another one after and one other after that one) cause I deserve three!
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