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Tottenham’s last game

May20
2011 Leave a Comment

Date & Kick-Off: Sunday, 22 May 2011 – 16:00 (GMT)
Stadium: White Hart Lane

Even after they won the Curling Cup, Birmingham’s victory against Tottenham looks like a far far away possibility. This fact takes them closer to relegation than ever and if we look closer at the last five games, there is not much to say.

Last five games:
Tottenham –Tottenham 2-2 West Brom, Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham, Tottenham 1-1 Blackpool, Man City 1-0 Tottenham, Liverpool 0-2 Tottenham

Birmingham – Chelsea 3-1 Birmingham, Liverpool 5-0 Birmingham, Birmingham 1-1 Wolves, Newcastle 2-1 Birmingham, Birmingham 0-2 Fulham

In the opposite camp, for Tottenham, Alan Hutton (knee), Benoit Assou-Ekotto (hamstring) and Jermaine Jenas (thigh) are all fit but star winger Gareth Bale remains sidelined with an ankle injury.

Head-to-Head
Tottenham wins: 6
Draws: 4
Birmingham wins: 3

Last 5 Seasons
2010/2011: Birmingham 1-1 Tottenham
2009/2010: Birmingham 1-1 Tottenham
2009/2010: Tottenham 2-1 Birmingham
2007/2008: Birmingham 4-1 Tottenham
2007/2008: Tottenham 2-3 Birmingham

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Liverpool humiliated

May17
2011 Leave a Comment

This Sunday, shock in Premier League. After a good game with occasions on both sides, Tottenham Hotspur managed to obtain a precious victory against Liverpool. With the 2 goals advantage, Tottenham Hotspur seized the advantage in the race for the final Europa League spot as Liverpool’s first match since the appointment of Kenny Dalglish as permanent manager ended in defeat.

Kenny Dalglish: “They started better than we did and scored a goal and we didn’t start to play for 25 minutes. We started to look a bit better and then at the start of the second half they got the second goal and that gave them a real foothold and we didn’t have enough to break them down. I don’t think Pepe Reina was over-busy either but we never played as well as we can play. We feel we have short-changed the fans by not getting the result.”

Harry Redknapp: “We played well. We kept the ball and played some good football. There were some good performances. The back four were excellent. To come here and win is a rarity for Tottenham. But we have done it today and I thought we deserved it.
It was a good performance. We’re trying to get in that fifth spot like Liverpool. We’ve both got big games next week and we will see what happens then. You still want to finish as high as you can. You want to be in the Europa League.”

Teams lineup:
Liverpool: Reina, Flanagan, Carragher, Skrtel, Johnson, Kuyt, Lucas, Spearing, Maxi, Suarez, Carroll
Substitutes: Robinson, Kyrgiakos, Ngog, Poulsen, Gulacsi, Shelvey, Cole

Tottenham: Cudicini, Kaboul, Dawson, King, Rose, Lennon, Modric, Sandro, Pienaar, Van der Vaart, Crouch
Substitutes: Kranjcar, Livermore, Defoe, Bostock, Pletikosa, Pavlyuchenko, Bassong

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Premier League has a new champion

May16
2011 Leave a Comment

As the end of the season approaches, with a stage left, Barclays Premier League has a new champion. The race was between two teams, Manchester United and Chelsea but, after the draw with Blackburn Rovers, The Red Devils got one point, just enough for the title.

Everything came in the 73’rd minute with Wayne Rooney’s penalty which proved enough to earn United a 1-1 draw with Blackburn Rovers and obtained a record 19th championship.

“The treble season was something special. I don’t think anyone will ever do it again. We made a go at it, as a manager of the club, you have to try that.
But I didn’t think it would happen. I thought we would get knocked out somewhere along the line. Fortunately it was the one you would want to win least of all because the Premier League and the Champions League are paramount.” Sir Alex Ferguson said.

Manchester United will hold a victory parade in the centre of the city on 30th May to celebrate winning the Barclays Premier League title. The event will take place at lunchtime and the open-top bus parade to give fans the chance to join in the celebrations of a record-breaking 19th league title and also a potential Champions League success.

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Antonio Valencia, a player story

May16
2011 Leave a Comment

He was born in Lago Agrio (Ecuador) Amazon Jungle, and on the road to Old Trafford he had a lot of “walking barefoot.”

Antonio Valencia had a very difficult childhood, a landscape in black, outlined by poor, and the main occupation of the locals. Lago Agrio is where the famous Texaco company is extracting petrol.
To survive and to cope with costs that will allow him to play football, Valencia was forced to do all sorts of activities. A search for empty bottles and sold them to raise money to buy boots. Several years later, the situation would change radically.

At the age of 20 arrived in England at Wigan, on a loan from Villarreal and midfielder relatives said that he was very hard to communicate with someone: “He knew no English, and have serious problems even to read Spanish.”

In 2008, Wigan definitely buy it, and a later season, Alex Ferguson brought him in exchange for 16 million pounds.

On September 15, 2010, Valencia was seriously injured in a Champions League match and the doctors thought the whole season he is doomed.

But the midfielder has returned with a goal on April 9, in the game against Fulham, and Ferguson is convinced that this recovery equation mattered enormously in winning the title.

“This boy is all you need in a player – balance, strength, speed. In addition he is the player with the greatest capacity to think the game” Alex Ferguson said.

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Chelsea playing for pride with Newcastle

May14
2011 Leave a Comment

With the known parcour in the Premier League, Chelsea know they are playing for pride only after their title hopes got to an end after the defeat at Manchester United. Till here, Newcastle United have managed just one point from a possible 12 on the road.

After this game, a Chelsea win would leave third-placed Arsenal needing a lot of luck, since the Blues’ goal difference is already seven better than that of the Gunners. It would also confirm the Blues have finished in the top three and qualified for the group stage of the Champions League yet again this year.

“We’ll go to Chelsea full of confidence because we’ve got nothing to lose now. The only thing we’re playing for now is league position and we can go there in a relaxed mood.” Ryan Taylor (Newcastle) said.

Chelsea: Cech, Ferreira, Terry, Luiz, Alex, Ivanovic, Zhirkov, Cole, Zhirkov, Mikel, Essien, Ramires, Lampard, Benayoun, Kalou, Malouda, Anelka, Torres, Drogba, Turnbull.

Newcastle United: Krul, Soderberg, Simpson, Ferguson, Enrique, Coloccini, S. Taylor, R. Taylor, Barton, Gutierrez, Vuckic, Tavernier, Richardson, Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi, Ranger, Kuqi, LuaLua, McDermott, Donaldson, Sammy Ameobi.

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