Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Saturday, 11 August 2007
The return of football...and Izzy
The return of football (did it ever really go away though?!) and Izzy!Hello guys and happy holidays! Having just watched Hollyoaks, and having lost the dog that we were supposed to be looking after (we went upstairs all excited about walking Lulu in the park only to find there was no dog there – hopefully she’ll turn up, maybe she’s run off with Mourinho’s dog and they’ll have loads of little Drogs together!) I was sitting on my bed thinking that I wanted to do some writing. What to write about?…then it struck me, football obviously! How I have missed those Ronaldo stopovers, those plentiful Drogba goals and Ferguson’s old man dance, not to mention all the lovely and amusing comments left to me on this blog by my loyal following of footballers, Craigy G England squad player, how are things? I’ve been trying to watch football ever since the last season ended, even venturing to my local pub one lonely Sunday evening to watch the Copa America final, only for the pub to close at 10.30 before the match was over. What a goal from Baptista, I wonder if Wenger is kicking himself now? I was going for Argentina, what with the wonderful Messi, the dashing Gabrielle and the almighty Tevez, but it was actually the underdogs Brazil (how often do you hear that “the underdogs Brazil” eh?) who took the trophy. And then there was the brilliant and scintillating Emirates cup, and that is no lie, there is no sarcasm here I assure you! It was absolutely great, I had a brilliant time, as I’m sure the man a couple of rows in front of us who shouted “Red Army” by himself throughout the entire match did too, it was as if he had tourettes and couldn’t help himself! Not sure the people next to him had as much fun! 2 matches for the price of one too! First up was Valencia V PSG. I saw David Villa in the flesh! IN THE FLESH and I can affirm that he is just as handsome as he is on TV! But this is about the football not their looks, and unfortunately David did not produce much football wise. He was wearing cool red trainers, but in the first half when he was meant to be shooting into the goal that we were sitting behind, I didn’t see much of David or those red trainers. They lost 3-0 to a convincing and impressive PSG. I was excited to see the Valencia goal keeper Timo, as we’d seen him on TV at the Germany World Cup when Germany were celebrating their 3rd place. I should probably write a full match report of the Arsenal V Inter Milan match, and I will maybe. We saw the pantomime villain Materazzi, who was booed with much enthusiasm by a capacity crowd! Cesc was running about, yes that’s right, young Fabregas, Wenger played a first team so we saw all the lads for the full match, I couldn’t believe it! I suddenly saw Jens walking towards me and was like “Wow, that’s Jens Lehman!” then I saw Cesc, Van Persie, Hleb etc. Top stuff! We won 2-1, but for ages I was terrifed we were actually going to lose. At 1-0 down I had the feeling where I feel physically sick but Hleb pulled us back and VP won it for us with a brilliant goal. I was chanting his name when suddenly I saw the ball smashing into the back of the net towards me and I jumped up screaming! It was cathartic I tell you! And then there was the Community Shield match last Sunday, so really football hasn’t been gone for too long, and what with us meant to all be playing together – which never seems to happen as it has proved rather difficult to round the troops – and all the transfer stuff, there’s a lot that has kept me going. We were listening to the Community Shield match on the radio on my phone in the sunshine in Brockwell park, it was so chilled and relaxed and United were 1-0 up for a bit until Malouda “Crazy Frog” scored for Chelsea. As you probably know, it went to penalties, Van der Saar saved 2, Lampard’s and Pizzarro while United’s had put their’s away like the men they are – Rio and Carrick. Then a Chelsea player was about to step up for their 3rd attempt, we waited with baited breath then the battery went dead. Watched the highlights back at home on Match of the Day.
So how have you all been? Cesc was bored on his holiday in Spain so came back early (was missing me too much I suspect). I’ve been having a great time in between reading about all these transfers: The tension between Gabrielle and Sir Alex as the former tries to leave for arch rivals Liverpool, the arrival of Fernando Torres to Liverpool, the doubt over Shevchenko, will he go back to Milan? The return of a certain bespectacled Swede, the ever lasting fight over Tevez etc. This holiday, thus far I have:Read the final Harry PotterAm reading Crime and Punishment and am half way throughHolidayed in NQ with Shaz, surfingThe cult classic Lambeth Country ShowArsenal football matchWalked from the Arsenal stadium to homeWatched lots of DVDs and have been to the cinema lotsSkateboardingSwam at Brockwell Lido and caught a slight coldAlienated a friend by squirting him with my water pistolAnd lots lots more! And now the sun is finally shining and it actually feels like summer after all the rain! Rock and roll! See you all soon and check back for weekly football updates on the one and only, izzyfootyblog.blogspot.com
So how have you all been? Cesc was bored on his holiday in Spain so came back early (was missing me too much I suspect). I’ve been having a great time in between reading about all these transfers: The tension between Gabrielle and Sir Alex as the former tries to leave for arch rivals Liverpool, the arrival of Fernando Torres to Liverpool, the doubt over Shevchenko, will he go back to Milan? The return of a certain bespectacled Swede, the ever lasting fight over Tevez etc. This holiday, thus far I have:Read the final Harry PotterAm reading Crime and Punishment and am half way throughHolidayed in NQ with Shaz, surfingThe cult classic Lambeth Country ShowArsenal football matchWalked from the Arsenal stadium to homeWatched lots of DVDs and have been to the cinema lotsSkateboardingSwam at Brockwell Lido and caught a slight coldAlienated a friend by squirting him with my water pistolAnd lots lots more! And now the sun is finally shining and it actually feels like summer after all the rain! Rock and roll! See you all soon and check back for weekly football updates on the one and only, izzyfootyblog.blogspot.com
Monday, 4 June 2007
Keep it ++++++++ve
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaa! Oh My god! I never thought I’d be so excited about an England game, which as I write this at half time is 0-0, but after being deprived of football for a fair while, and still being relatively new to this whole malarkey, it has been thrilling in my opinion! Leonardo agrees with me. It’s good to see the pundit Leonardo again, it’s been too long, he’s so sweet, I love his anAlySiS (hehe! But enough of that). Goal of the season is on!!! Love it, classics
Agger Liverpool. His first goal
Robin van Persie V Charlton
Barry Villa V Tottenham
Anleka Bolton V Arsenal smacked it
Paul Scholes Villa V United
Rooney United V Portsmouth rainbow floater
Landzaat Wigan V Arsenal
Rooney Bolton rooney + ronaldo
Mcfadden Everton
Gardener Villa V Bolton
Second half has started, better start watching! Although I wanted to do my write up of the first half! All in good time I guess!
After the match
I’d been planning on revising war poetry as I watched the match, “That there’s some corner of a foreign field, that is forever England”, the fact that I completely forgot about this shows how captivating the match was! It was a very bright start from England in the first half. After all my moaning and complaining about them, they actually played really well today and I’m willing to admit that. Leonardo even thought they deserved to win. Although there weren’t that many attempts on goal during the whole match it was still entertaining, just watching Brazil was great, especially Ronaldinho. I love all the little flicks and tricks and all that. After all the dismal England performances of the past, this almost looked a different team. Here are the notes I was taking as I watched the match, it would have been better if I’d written the minutes they’d occurred, creating a minute by minute analysis but I forgot. Just before the match, they were showing old footage of Wembley matches back in the day and the greatest goals etc. There was this one save by a goalkeeper where the ball went past him then he flipped like a fish or a dolphin or something and kicked the ball out with his legs, it was amazing! Does anyone know who that was and the match? I’ll give a prize to the person who gets it!
This is what was going through my head as I watched it. If it wasn’t revision time I’d do a proper write up!
Just before the match I was thinking: I would never pay to see an England match, even if the ticket was free I’d be a bit unsure, unless Craigy G was playing of course! But when I saw all the players, I decided to support them and started to feel a tiny bit patriotic.
Ate a pear flavoured biscuit – pear flavoured! That just isn’t right! Not a good omen!
Kaka has gelled his hair back
C’mon JC! I saw those stopovers ’av it!
Kaka! Left footed?
Am eating chocolate and raspberry flavoured biscuits – they taste better (we also have chocolate & orange flavoured biscuits and chocolate & lemon – bet you guys wish you were with me!)
Robinho – stopovers galore, if only Cristiano was with me now
Beckham takes a free kick – just like the old days
Controversy! Flagged offside but apparently it wasn’t.
The Italian Job theme tune sung by the fans.
Ooohh so close from Becks
This is deep dude, Ronaldinho had the number 10 shirt (legendary for the Brazilians) but then it was given to Kaka.
Ronaldinho nutmegged Gerrard and he fell over
I love Ronaldinho’s smile.
39 mins Ronaldinho spins around a player, I shall be trying that on the pitch, inspirational.
Beckham and Kaka have a little hug.
Half time – Innocent smoothies!
Michael Owen comes close with a header – just over
After Ronaldinho takes a short corner England get the ball and go on the counter attack, suddenly they come alive, lots of one touch fast paced footy!
68 minute wow! I had the faith in them, had been bigging them up throughout the match – the commentators went a bit quiet after this. John Terry’s header was some header – awesome. And it Beckham’s free kick that set it up.
They’re singing God Save the Queen, they should change “the Queen” with “John Terry” it still rhymes…sort of
Pure England style: We almost score an own goal. I got confused and was cheering because I thought it was the Brazilian goal.
“Rule Britannia!” go the fans
The Brazilians are going for it – it’s very tense.
Dyer my son, you should have gone for it!
3 minutes extra time – eek. Nooooo it’s sickening.
I knew it, I could feel it coming 1-1. It’s a shame, it would have been super cool to have beaten Brazil and it was a good match. Poor JT and Becks looked pretty upset. Bring on Estonia!
15 seconds away from a 1-0 win, but I’d been saying to Sue as we watched it, 1-0 isn’t safe!
Maybe if they’d left most of the team on rather than disrupting play and flow by using loads of subs we could have held on to the lead.
I guess it worked out fair in the end: We score, they score, it’s a 1-1 draw.
I want to watch the Copa America, Brazil V Argentina. Will it be on Sky?
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaa! Oh My god! I never thought I’d be so excited about an England game, which as I write this at half time is 0-0, but after being deprived of football for a fair while, and still being relatively new to this whole malarkey, it has been thrilling in my opinion! Leonardo agrees with me. It’s good to see the pundit Leonardo again, it’s been too long, he’s so sweet, I love his anAlySiS (hehe! But enough of that). Goal of the season is on!!! Love it, classics
Agger Liverpool. His first goal
Robin van Persie V Charlton
Barry Villa V Tottenham
Anleka Bolton V Arsenal smacked it
Paul Scholes Villa V United
Rooney United V Portsmouth rainbow floater
Landzaat Wigan V Arsenal
Rooney Bolton rooney + ronaldo
Mcfadden Everton
Gardener Villa V Bolton
Second half has started, better start watching! Although I wanted to do my write up of the first half! All in good time I guess!
After the match
I’d been planning on revising war poetry as I watched the match, “That there’s some corner of a foreign field, that is forever England”, the fact that I completely forgot about this shows how captivating the match was! It was a very bright start from England in the first half. After all my moaning and complaining about them, they actually played really well today and I’m willing to admit that. Leonardo even thought they deserved to win. Although there weren’t that many attempts on goal during the whole match it was still entertaining, just watching Brazil was great, especially Ronaldinho. I love all the little flicks and tricks and all that. After all the dismal England performances of the past, this almost looked a different team. Here are the notes I was taking as I watched the match, it would have been better if I’d written the minutes they’d occurred, creating a minute by minute analysis but I forgot. Just before the match, they were showing old footage of Wembley matches back in the day and the greatest goals etc. There was this one save by a goalkeeper where the ball went past him then he flipped like a fish or a dolphin or something and kicked the ball out with his legs, it was amazing! Does anyone know who that was and the match? I’ll give a prize to the person who gets it!
This is what was going through my head as I watched it. If it wasn’t revision time I’d do a proper write up!
Just before the match I was thinking: I would never pay to see an England match, even if the ticket was free I’d be a bit unsure, unless Craigy G was playing of course! But when I saw all the players, I decided to support them and started to feel a tiny bit patriotic.
Ate a pear flavoured biscuit – pear flavoured! That just isn’t right! Not a good omen!
Kaka has gelled his hair back
C’mon JC! I saw those stopovers ’av it!
Kaka! Left footed?
Am eating chocolate and raspberry flavoured biscuits – they taste better (we also have chocolate & orange flavoured biscuits and chocolate & lemon – bet you guys wish you were with me!)
Robinho – stopovers galore, if only Cristiano was with me now
Beckham takes a free kick – just like the old days
Controversy! Flagged offside but apparently it wasn’t.
The Italian Job theme tune sung by the fans.
Ooohh so close from Becks
This is deep dude, Ronaldinho had the number 10 shirt (legendary for the Brazilians) but then it was given to Kaka.
Ronaldinho nutmegged Gerrard and he fell over
I love Ronaldinho’s smile.
39 mins Ronaldinho spins around a player, I shall be trying that on the pitch, inspirational.
Beckham and Kaka have a little hug.
Half time – Innocent smoothies!
Michael Owen comes close with a header – just over
After Ronaldinho takes a short corner England get the ball and go on the counter attack, suddenly they come alive, lots of one touch fast paced footy!
68 minute wow! I had the faith in them, had been bigging them up throughout the match – the commentators went a bit quiet after this. John Terry’s header was some header – awesome. And it Beckham’s free kick that set it up.
They’re singing God Save the Queen, they should change “the Queen” with “John Terry” it still rhymes…sort of
Pure England style: We almost score an own goal. I got confused and was cheering because I thought it was the Brazilian goal.
“Rule Britannia!” go the fans
The Brazilians are going for it – it’s very tense.
Dyer my son, you should have gone for it!
3 minutes extra time – eek. Nooooo it’s sickening.
I knew it, I could feel it coming 1-1. It’s a shame, it would have been super cool to have beaten Brazil and it was a good match. Poor JT and Becks looked pretty upset. Bring on Estonia!
15 seconds away from a 1-0 win, but I’d been saying to Sue as we watched it, 1-0 isn’t safe!
Maybe if they’d left most of the team on rather than disrupting play and flow by using loads of subs we could have held on to the lead.
I guess it worked out fair in the end: We score, they score, it’s a 1-1 draw.
I want to watch the Copa America, Brazil V Argentina. Will it be on Sky?
Pre match ramble
England V Brazil: Pre match ramble
I’m feeling very excited about tonight’s match. Not because I expect England to play well or anything crazy like that, just as I’ve been football starved of late (and miss you guys a lot!) and holed up in my house revising – I can randomly quote Hamlet: “Thrift, thrift Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats did swiftly furnish forth the marriage tables”, know dandy little stats: President Johnson’s approval rating soared overnight from 42% to 72% after his handling of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and geographical facts such as 40% the Netherlands lies below present sea levels (if you’re reading this in the Netherlands, don’t panic – just find a hill…actually you probably don’t have that many hills…)We’ve gone all out again with the snacks, M&S biscuits – they even came in a tin! I wonder if Lampard is playing, I reckon he’ll be left out so Gerrard can play, maybe he’ll have another “wrist injury”. I’m hoping Kaka and Ronaldinho will be exciting to watch, they had a quiet World Cup, but maybe they’ve been saving themselves for this!
I was at WH Smith today buying some pens, oh the excitement – I also brought an alarm clock from Argos – rock n roll all the way! And I was standing there reading the football magazines for a bit and thought I’d share the information I learnt:
Heinze and Ronaldo are good friends – I bet they exchange hair tips, Gabriel has the most lush looking hair in the Premiership in my opinion, I love the way it buffs about when he runs.
Ronaldo DENIES EVERYTHING about dating the ex-Hollyoaks actress Gemma.
In the Arsenal magazine there was this section with the title “Tomas’ firsts…” which I thought was a bit weird and risky, especially as it was under the Junior Gunners bit, but it turned out to be stuff like: The first player I spoke to, my first memory, the first football team I supported. I can’t really remember any of the answers, but there was nothing amazing, no disrespect, it wasn’t Rosicky’s fault just the questions being a bit dry. But I have decided that I should try and work there and interview the players and write up match reports and stuff! How cool would that be!
Also, another interesting fact – in Man City, the rivalry between them and United is so deep that in the canteen/restaurant they have blue ketchup. The executive people are not allowed to have red cars either.
Lastly, before I go and make myself a toasted cheese sandwich, I have a question that even Anamul might not know the answer to:
When Cesc Fabregas plays for Spain, his shirt has “Cesc” on the back. However for Arsenal it has always been “Fabregas”. In an interview Cesc said he wanted “Cesc” on his Arsenal shirt but that “they wouldn’t let me. Unless you’re Brazilian, you can’t.” Indeed, Brazilian Gilberto Silva has “Gilberto” on his Arsenal shirt. Why is it different for non Brazilian players?
Watch this space for the match report!
I’m feeling very excited about tonight’s match. Not because I expect England to play well or anything crazy like that, just as I’ve been football starved of late (and miss you guys a lot!) and holed up in my house revising – I can randomly quote Hamlet: “Thrift, thrift Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats did swiftly furnish forth the marriage tables”, know dandy little stats: President Johnson’s approval rating soared overnight from 42% to 72% after his handling of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and geographical facts such as 40% the Netherlands lies below present sea levels (if you’re reading this in the Netherlands, don’t panic – just find a hill…actually you probably don’t have that many hills…)We’ve gone all out again with the snacks, M&S biscuits – they even came in a tin! I wonder if Lampard is playing, I reckon he’ll be left out so Gerrard can play, maybe he’ll have another “wrist injury”. I’m hoping Kaka and Ronaldinho will be exciting to watch, they had a quiet World Cup, but maybe they’ve been saving themselves for this!
I was at WH Smith today buying some pens, oh the excitement – I also brought an alarm clock from Argos – rock n roll all the way! And I was standing there reading the football magazines for a bit and thought I’d share the information I learnt:
Heinze and Ronaldo are good friends – I bet they exchange hair tips, Gabriel has the most lush looking hair in the Premiership in my opinion, I love the way it buffs about when he runs.
Ronaldo DENIES EVERYTHING about dating the ex-Hollyoaks actress Gemma.
In the Arsenal magazine there was this section with the title “Tomas’ firsts…” which I thought was a bit weird and risky, especially as it was under the Junior Gunners bit, but it turned out to be stuff like: The first player I spoke to, my first memory, the first football team I supported. I can’t really remember any of the answers, but there was nothing amazing, no disrespect, it wasn’t Rosicky’s fault just the questions being a bit dry. But I have decided that I should try and work there and interview the players and write up match reports and stuff! How cool would that be!
Also, another interesting fact – in Man City, the rivalry between them and United is so deep that in the canteen/restaurant they have blue ketchup. The executive people are not allowed to have red cars either.
Lastly, before I go and make myself a toasted cheese sandwich, I have a question that even Anamul might not know the answer to:
When Cesc Fabregas plays for Spain, his shirt has “Cesc” on the back. However for Arsenal it has always been “Fabregas”. In an interview Cesc said he wanted “Cesc” on his Arsenal shirt but that “they wouldn’t let me. Unless you’re Brazilian, you can’t.” Indeed, Brazilian Gilberto Silva has “Gilberto” on his Arsenal shirt. Why is it different for non Brazilian players?
Watch this space for the match report!
The final footy awards
I’m not feeling well, so I was sitting here thinking about football – the England and Brazil friendly coming up next week – initially I thought Booorrriiinnggg, then my mum reminded me that Kaka would be playing so maybe it will be worth watching after all (don’t worry Ronaldo, you’re still my number one! Cristiano that it by the way). Anyway I thought to pass the time I’d work on the izzyfootyblog football awards. Now I just want to point out how tough it is to designate awards to people, especially best footballer of the season, and it makes me sort of uncomfortable because I don’t want to offend people or leave people out, and don’t want to be biased either. But I guess I’m just stressing over this because I’m a girl and you guys being guys are cool and laid back about it all so you probably wont mind at all. Just to show how hard it is and that all of you are brilliant with your different styles, take Ronaldo for example. He may have got best player award, but what about Rooney? He’s had a pretty great season, then there’s Giggs and Scholes the veterans who have been impressive, and Vidic is arguably the best centre back in the premiership, although Carvalho may want to challenge him for that. And who can forget Drogba -33 goals Chelsea would have been lost without him. Kaka – the fight for best player in the world between him and Ronaldo. And who can forget the legendary Dong? The point I’m trying to make is that it’s hard to pick out individual players, and football is all about the team, it doesn’t matter how many classy players you have, if they can’t play together you’ve got nothing – just look at the England team. So after that speech, here are the results of the much anticipated izzyfootyblog football awards for the 2006-07 season.
Footballer of the year award: I was thinking about this for a while and narrowed it down to Anamul and Teague. Since I’ve started playing with all you guys I realise even more so than before how good you are because it’s so hard to get the ball from you and then I have to watch you, particularly Teague, score countless goals. I’ve been playing against Teague a lot (hence he got most intimidating behaviour award for his poor treatment of me!) and he has been on fire of late, and was absolutely amazing in goal. Then there is Anamul who is the players’ favourite; Teague put him as his favourite player in his interview and me and Ads were chatting about how good he is. Anamul is so hardcore he even went off to buy a ball when we didn’t have one and everyone was standing around not knowing what to do! So for his skills and dedication and all round football knowledge and encyclopaedia I award best footballer of the season to Anamul.
Best move in a match: Jonathon did the Kaka roll back thing to the delight of me and Emma who screamed and cheered.
Most likely to be picked for the England team replacing both Lampard and Gerrard: Craigy G
Best tutor football fan: Mr Chaudhri
Romeo and Juliet award for star crossed lovers: Teague and who ever he happens to be behind when a corner is being taken.
Best smelling footballer: Aaron Dempster
Best celebration: Joe
Best match: You decide, which was your favourite?
Best stepovers: Anamul back in the day when he used to do them, but then he stopped? Why Anamul, why? Aaron does them too much, no disrespect!
Most intimidating footballer: Teague
Best cheerleader: Patricia
Player most like Rosicky with a work rate like Kuyt: Adam Jonas
Most impressive shots shot wide: Ashley Lowe
Player who would have received the most red cards and doesn’t understand the rules, but tries very hard: Izzy
Footyblog of the year: www.izzyfootyblog.blogspot.com
Liverpool’s Harry “Cool” award for coolest footballer: Please submit your nominations for this very prestigious award.
I’m going to make you certificates and everything! Actually I should probably be revising now!
Quick match report for Thursday 24th May periods 3+4.
We played this in the cage and as soon as I came on I put a sweet cross from Jonathon past Chris! I then scored again later on! This was a brilliant and fast paced match, with plenty of goals. My team (with Craigy G, Jonathon, Michael Gibbs and Yan with Simon in goal) were winning 19-18 and were about to reach 20 until Jonathon hit it over the fence and the match was abandoned. I was marking Anamul and was chasing him down whenever he got the ball and tried my very best but I don’t think I once dispossessed him which was infuriating! As Ashley Cole said about Ronaldo one match, he had me in his pocket. Actually I think I made him lose the ball when I remarked that “This is the reason Ronaldo gets hacked down”, and I think Anamul feared for his safety. Gibbsy and Jonathon were extremely skilled and did lots of good stuff and Yan tackled Anamul which was highly impressive! Lots of good play all round!
I feel sort of sad that we won’t have any matches at school anymore, but this summer we have to meet up and play and I will present the certificates I may have made by then! So make sure I have your contact details and you have mine so we can round everyone up! And keep checking the blog for updates! Much love to you all and it has been a pleasure and much much fun playing with you guys! Izzy
Don’t forget Arsenal fans to get tickets for the Emirates Cup in July – bargain price at £25-£30! (Arsenal should pay me for that advertising!)
Footballer of the year award: I was thinking about this for a while and narrowed it down to Anamul and Teague. Since I’ve started playing with all you guys I realise even more so than before how good you are because it’s so hard to get the ball from you and then I have to watch you, particularly Teague, score countless goals. I’ve been playing against Teague a lot (hence he got most intimidating behaviour award for his poor treatment of me!) and he has been on fire of late, and was absolutely amazing in goal. Then there is Anamul who is the players’ favourite; Teague put him as his favourite player in his interview and me and Ads were chatting about how good he is. Anamul is so hardcore he even went off to buy a ball when we didn’t have one and everyone was standing around not knowing what to do! So for his skills and dedication and all round football knowledge and encyclopaedia I award best footballer of the season to Anamul.
Best move in a match: Jonathon did the Kaka roll back thing to the delight of me and Emma who screamed and cheered.
Most likely to be picked for the England team replacing both Lampard and Gerrard: Craigy G
Best tutor football fan: Mr Chaudhri
Romeo and Juliet award for star crossed lovers: Teague and who ever he happens to be behind when a corner is being taken.
Best smelling footballer: Aaron Dempster
Best celebration: Joe
Best match: You decide, which was your favourite?
Best stepovers: Anamul back in the day when he used to do them, but then he stopped? Why Anamul, why? Aaron does them too much, no disrespect!
Most intimidating footballer: Teague
Best cheerleader: Patricia
Player most like Rosicky with a work rate like Kuyt: Adam Jonas
Most impressive shots shot wide: Ashley Lowe
Player who would have received the most red cards and doesn’t understand the rules, but tries very hard: Izzy
Footyblog of the year: www.izzyfootyblog.blogspot.com
Liverpool’s Harry “Cool” award for coolest footballer: Please submit your nominations for this very prestigious award.
I’m going to make you certificates and everything! Actually I should probably be revising now!
Quick match report for Thursday 24th May periods 3+4.
We played this in the cage and as soon as I came on I put a sweet cross from Jonathon past Chris! I then scored again later on! This was a brilliant and fast paced match, with plenty of goals. My team (with Craigy G, Jonathon, Michael Gibbs and Yan with Simon in goal) were winning 19-18 and were about to reach 20 until Jonathon hit it over the fence and the match was abandoned. I was marking Anamul and was chasing him down whenever he got the ball and tried my very best but I don’t think I once dispossessed him which was infuriating! As Ashley Cole said about Ronaldo one match, he had me in his pocket. Actually I think I made him lose the ball when I remarked that “This is the reason Ronaldo gets hacked down”, and I think Anamul feared for his safety. Gibbsy and Jonathon were extremely skilled and did lots of good stuff and Yan tackled Anamul which was highly impressive! Lots of good play all round!
I feel sort of sad that we won’t have any matches at school anymore, but this summer we have to meet up and play and I will present the certificates I may have made by then! So make sure I have your contact details and you have mine so we can round everyone up! And keep checking the blog for updates! Much love to you all and it has been a pleasure and much much fun playing with you guys! Izzy
Don’t forget Arsenal fans to get tickets for the Emirates Cup in July – bargain price at £25-£30! (Arsenal should pay me for that advertising!)
Friday, 25 May 2007
izzyfootyblog End of school and season for the Sixth Form Sharks!
Well, well, well, it's what you've all been waiting for! Awards time! I can't decide whether to put up people for the awards and then you guys vote for them or whether I should just pick! I'll write up some awards now and come up with some more later!
Best footballer
Best skills
Most skills
Smoothest player like my Cesc: Anamul
Best brown haired girl called Isabelle: Izzy
Worst goalkeeper:
Buffest boy
Best smelling boy: Aaron Dempster
One who plays most like Rosicky: Adam Jonas
Most likely to be called up for England: Craigy G
Best Craig: Craig
Best cheerleader: Patricia
Best commentatorL: Izzy
Good shots but always hits it wide: Ashley Lowe
Most goals this season: Teague/ Craig
Most intimidating player: Teague
Best stepovers: Anamul back in the day
Classiest goal:
Diver
There are some gaps which I'll fill in, if you have any nominations, particularly for Worst Goalkeeper, feel free to add them!
Much love dudes! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And Congratulations for your brilliant play
Best footballer
Best skills
Most skills
Smoothest player like my Cesc: Anamul
Best brown haired girl called Isabelle: Izzy
Worst goalkeeper:
Buffest boy
Best smelling boy: Aaron Dempster
One who plays most like Rosicky: Adam Jonas
Most likely to be called up for England: Craigy G
Best Craig: Craig
Best cheerleader: Patricia
Best commentatorL: Izzy
Good shots but always hits it wide: Ashley Lowe
Most goals this season: Teague/ Craig
Most intimidating player: Teague
Best stepovers: Anamul back in the day
Classiest goal:
Diver
There are some gaps which I'll fill in, if you have any nominations, particularly for Worst Goalkeeper, feel free to add them!
Much love dudes! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And Congratulations for your brilliant play
Thursday, 24 May 2007
Champions League Final, Tah Dah!
I am writing this at half time as I get so bored of watching the ads, like the one on at the moment with balloons and cars floating around. That’s the thing I don’t like about ITV coverage of football – at every moment they have an ad break, I bet they’d do it each time there was a free kick or something if they could get away with it. And I miss Gary Linker, I’ve become extremely fond of him, he’s a funny and charming sort of guy. Anyway, to the football, and what a fine example of football this match is turning out to be. For the first half my headline would be “Fluking Hell!” I’m just trying to resist eating another Tescos Finest Half Coated Triple Chcolate Cookies, ooh and Sue has just brought in some grapes. I had been really worried before hand thinking it would be either a really dry match or it would be thrilling. So far it has come very near to the latter, we are enjoying ourselves immensely. I have ended up supporting Liverpool, I don’t know why – it just felt right, I guess I’m sort of familiar with them from the Premiership. Another fucking ad break. No I don’t want a clean fence fast with your power spray. However in the Premiership, as we have all been saying lately, they can be a bit boring, apart from that match against Arsenal where they scored a lot. Even in the Champions League it has been pretty painful to watch them, against Chelsea especially. But they looked great straight from kickoff. Unlike the United v Chelsea FA Cup final where it was all nerves, you’d never guess these guys were feeling the pressure – they’ve just been flowing. Liverpool have been brilliant and there have been some inspirational moments of football, so it sort of saddens me to report that at half time Milan are 1-0 up and it’s not really deserved. Was it really a free kick? From the replay I saw, Alonso didn’t , oh my god some crazy men are banging on dustbins on the pitch and the players have to walk through it. Alonso didn’t touch Kaka. When the ball was put down I knew they were going to score, it was a good position but it was a bit of a fluke the way it just bounced off that man’s chest and he didn’t even notice. Two of my highlights were when Kaka did the roll back turn, I’ve been watching football for a whole season as well as the World Cup and the last 2 Champions League and I’ve never seen that before. Someone has run onto the pitch – but the TV wont show us, I bet Gary would if it was the BBC. I should probably watch the match now. Kaka little spin was a thing of beauty, but then Alonso went and did one too which was even better! I love it and will be practising my spinning tomorrow so watch out! When Kaka did it, Mascherano went on to tackle him, go Massy, I thought there was no stopping Kaka, but Massy did a good job, (there’s only one) Tevez would be proud!
Well, it was riveting and it was Liverpool’s match, but they didn’t win, so I don’t want to write about it any more. I get really down when my team doesn’t win and I don’t even support Liverpool, so I don’t know how the players and the hardcore, lifelong fans feel. Poor dudes. They played like winners though. Did you see Kaka’s t shirt? Nice to see the return of Harry “Cool”. I started to write a song about him, to the tune of Skippy the bush kangaroo, “Harry, Harry, Harry, the bush kangaroo” But I need to change the last bit.
Well, it was riveting and it was Liverpool’s match, but they didn’t win, so I don’t want to write about it any more. I get really down when my team doesn’t win and I don’t even support Liverpool, so I don’t know how the players and the hardcore, lifelong fans feel. Poor dudes. They played like winners though. Did you see Kaka’s t shirt? Nice to see the return of Harry “Cool”. I started to write a song about him, to the tune of Skippy the bush kangaroo, “Harry, Harry, Harry, the bush kangaroo” But I need to change the last bit.
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