The Rants & Ravings' of a Man.United Dad...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

United's "Little Pea" from Mexico

Manchester United has announced the agreement to sign Mexico's 21 year old striker Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez.

Nicknamed Chicharito or Little Pea, in reference to his green eyes, Javier is the son of Mexico legend Javier "Chicharo" Hernandez who was a top striker who played in the 1986 World Cup.

United's little amigo has a record of scoring 21 goals in 28 appearances for Chivas de Guadalajara in Mexico's Primera Division this term. Standing at only 5'9", Javier is not the biggest striker, but he compensates the lack of height with his quickness & eye for goal.

If a work permit is granted, Javier will become a Manchester United player on 1 July 2010. As part of the deal, United will play a match to open the new 45,000 capacity Chivas Stadium in Guadalajara as part of its 2010/11 season preparations.

Here's hoping this Little Pea is a better deal than a certain 30 million pounds over-rated striker.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Back in our court again...

Just when you thought Stoke was gonna do an upset, they got thrashed BIG time!

7-0 is a real thrashing, when I saw the score was already 2-0, I told myself..."that's it, game over. Chelsea are going back on top.."

The pressure is now back on United to win their next game & give the West Londoners the tightest finish ever to the season.

Damn!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

We're back on top!

When I was tuning in to this match I had no doubt that United were gonna bag the 3 points. It's just a question of when do they score.

Credit to Spurs for denying full points off Chelsea & Arsenal. I must say this is the best Spurs side I've seen in many years.

The sprint for the BPL title is well & truly on as United cranked up the pressure on Chelsea with this win.

Giggs put United in the driving seat from the penalty spot in the 58th minute, before Ledley King rose unchalleged over Michael Carrick's shoulders to head home Spurs equaliser in the 70th minute.

However, a neat one-two between Nani & Kiko Macheda put the young Portuguese winger through towards goal & he finished with a cool audocious chip over the onrushing Gomes.

2-1 ! United were on fire!

Spurs misery were further aggravated when Wilson Palacios fouled Nani in the box & a second penalty was awarded. Up stepped Giggsy to convert United's third & his personal second.

Game set match! Over to you Chelsea.

Friday, April 23, 2010

I heard that AC Milan is planning a bid of 20 mil pounds for Berbatov. Thank God for that!

Please quickly come & get United's "I-wanna-be-like-Cantona" wannabe.

I'm not saying he's a bad footballer, just that he's not suited for United. With a price tag of 30 mil initially when bought, he should be hitting the back of the net regularly, contributing at least 20+ goals per season.

Instead he turned into a flop. Never buy an overrated player.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Well Done Hendri Mulyadi...!

An Indonesian football fan was so frustrated with his national team's lacklustre performance that he invaded the pitch & tried to score a goal.

Hendri Mulyadi, 25, took matters into his own hands as his team were heading for a 1-2 defeat
against Oman.

He sprinted onto the pitch, got control of the ball and ran down the wing, but his attempt to score ended in failure after Oman's keeper blocked the shot.

Police eventually overpowered him and he later apologised on a website.

"I was very disappointed with the Indonesian national team. They never win. It's either lose or draw," said Mr Mulyadi.

Defeat in the match in front of a 40,000-strong Jakarta crowd means Indonesia failed to reach the finals of the Asian Cup for the first time since 1992.

Several online postings next to footage of the incident on YouTube praised Mr Mulyadi's antics.
One said: "He could be a future striker for Indonesia."

Indonesia used to be one of Asia's leading lights in soccer, but its fortunes have been on the slide recently, according to the BBC correspondent in Jakarta, Karishma Vaswani.

News source: news.bbc.co.uk

I saw this piece of news on ESPN Sportscentre report & it was hilarious!

Bravo to Hendri for having the guts to show pro-footballers how the game is really played.

Wonder if any of our fellow Malaysians would dare to attempt this? LOL...!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Going Dutch

This just in! Can't believe it....Liverpool are on the verge of signing Dutch duo-former Red Devil goal-poacher Ruud Van Nistelrooy & former Real Madrid midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart.

Maybe these two players are just the tonic that Rafa Be-neath-Us (Benitez) need to turn Scouser's season around.

Sorry to say this....wait a minute.....no I'm not sorry to say this....Liverpool are just not that good enough to challenge for the Premier League title.

When you look at Liverpool's team sheet, only two names can be classified as world class players-Stevie Gerrand & Fernando Torres.

The rest are just making up the numbers. Jamie Carragher is a good defender, but why hasn't he been as highly rated as Rio Ferdinand or John Terry? Because he's not as consistent as these two guys are.

Scouser's can't always be relying on El Nino Torres for goals. That's too much weight on his shoulders. Kop flop Andriy Voronin is heading back to Hertha Berlin. Same goes for Andrea Dossena who looks very likely to go to Napoli despite interest from Atletico Madrid.

Now, should the deal is done. It will be an interesting senario to see Ruud scoring at the Stretford End of Old Trafford. I am sure he is still bitter about how he was shoved out of Man.United with reasons being -"unsettling the team-spirit".

I have always said that letting Van Nistelrooy go was a big mistake. Here is a prolific, natural goal-poacher never seen before since Denis Law. Give him half a chance & Ruud will stick the ball into the net.

I'm sure Ruud would want to score a few against United to rub it into Fergie.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

World Cup 2010

I found this posting on the net and decided to reproduced it here coz I felt it is worth reading, hilarious & very creative by the writer (hope the writer doesn't mind)

Group A

South Africa - powered by Charlize Theron's smile

Mexico - powered by burritos

Uruguay - powered coz they won the first one

France - powered by Thierry Henry's handball