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!
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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.

The comebacks of all comebacks!

(Anamul and Craig – you are funny guys, can you think of a better headline for this historic day? I’ll come back to it another time.)

The Champions League final hasn’t happened yet, it’s tomorrow and I await it with great anticipation. The Fabregas household will stock up on chocolately snacks and will be adopting a neutral position – do I support AC Milan then Man U can say they were beaten by the Champions or do I support Liverpool, an English team? Who can at times be a bit dry – even (the legendary) Kevin Liverpool fan agrees with this. Actually after Cashley Cole’s remarks today about Liverpool I kind of want them to win just to spite him, Arsenal are well rid of him I say! So what is this comeback you talk of I hear you cry!

Oh before I get to it, I was on arsenal.com and read about the “Emirates Cup” – OK, it sounds a bit crappy but it means football in the summer with Arsenal playing Inter Milan and PSG. There are two matches in the day and it costs either £30-£40 depending on where you sit, which is fairly decent considering you watch 2 matches! I thought it would be a supercool thing to go to in the summer holidays so I was all getting ready to call up the booking line, then I got scared they would field the Arsenal reserves (like the Chelsea v. Man U match featuring Dong et al.) so I haven’t got a ticket. They are probably all sold out now anyway.

This sunny and beautiful lunchtime as I was waiting to digest my food (I’m sort of fussy and didn’t want to play straight after eating), I was watching the Sixth form sharks. Anamul’s team was not looking in good shape – indeed, the form that Teague is in at the moment, anyone who plays against him doesn’t look great. It was also probably because they were a man down, it was just Anamul, Ashley and Jonathon holding the fort with Anamul acting as rush goalie. The score was something like 9-3. When my food was fully processed in my stomach, or perhaps intestines big or small, biology confuses me, should I make a joke about Chemistry and me and Cesc or is that just sad? Anyway moving swiftly on…I came on and turned the game around (just kidding!) but really we just improved phenomenally! I’m not good at writing reports when I’ve played as I forget most of it! I remember making a good tackle on Danny, and then me and Ashley did a Ronaldo and Rooney thing where I raced down and provided him with the ball, but unlike Rooney he didn’t score this time. Suddenly our football was smooth and beautiful. There was this one moment when we did some brilliant Arsenal passing, I think even I got a touch, and then Jonathon scored a super goal (unlike Arsenal! But just wait til RVP is back!) Anamul scored a great header from a corner. (Hey – I delivered my first ever corner today!) And the goals just started flowing past poor Peter Pick (some alliteration for you there). To be fair, they were great goals rather than bad goal keeping, although one went right through Peter’s legs which was rather amusing. We brought it back to 10-10, it then went to 11-11 and then Sixth form Gunners (playing like them, Wenger would have been drooling over us, and all of us being supporters of the Arsenal it seems an appropriate name for us) went on to win the game. Forget Manchester United coming back at Everton from 2-0 down, forget the 2005 Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan when Liverpool came back from 3-0 down to take it to penalties with Mr Spaghetti legs Dudeck, our comeback from 9-3 down is one of the reasons I love football, it is cliché but true – anything can happen, nothing is impossible (although England qualifying for Euro 2008 does make me wonder sometimes).
Any words from the triumphant captain? Or fellow players? Enjoy tomorrow’s match, I hope it’s a good one!

Sixth form Gunners
Ashley
Anamul
Jonathon
Izzy
Dan

Teague’s team
Teague
Marina
Danny
Peter

Thursday, 17 May 2007

Jose's appeal!

Where is my dog?

Hardcore football match!

Hardcore football match! (not the most inspiring of headlines, but it was just gonna be “football match” so thank god for the adjective hardcore, and it certainly was hardcore!)

I am absolutely exhausted so cut me some slack with this write up – but it was such good fun I feel I should record it for posterities sake! Just to demonstrate how tired I am before kick off I was looking at the ground and said “oh look there’s a tree” when I meant to say “worm”, believing it to be a worm when in fact it was a small twig. The goal of the season was scored today early on in the match; Ashley made a great run across practically the whole pitch I think, and set up Aaron who did a brilliant volley past Teague – it was amazing, the set up to the goal and the goal itself, executed beautifully by the sweet smelling Demster! Ashley’s run and pass to Aaron was like when Ronaldo breezed across the pitch and set up Rooney in the United Vs. ____________ match and the goal was almost like the Robin van Persie volley in the Arsenal Vs. ____________ match. We missed Anamul today! Where were you?! And of course Mike, Peter Pick, Craig and ________________(insert name here if I’ve forgotten you – just kidding!) We played for ages so I can’t give a minute by minute analysis, and by the end we were lagging but so dedicated that we continued playing! I scored 4 goals which I am very stoked about, but only one of them was actually a good goal, although I can’t actually remember it, take my word though! One of them, it was rumoured, may have been a hand ball, but I don’t think so! Everyone else scored way more, with Jake on over 5, and the rest of them scoring loads! I had loads of chances which I fucked up, or Teague stopped me getting, which became a tiny bit frustrating so I had to wrestle him to the ground. Then Jake rolled me in the mud as revenge for probably hitting or grabbing him, I can’t remember! I was sort of like Arsenal, all the chances are there and we can’t get it into the back of the net. There were two awful times when it was crossed to me right in front of the goal and all I had to do was stick me foot out but I didn’t. Then there was the one were it was an empty goal the ball was right in front of me and I didn’t stop, touch or controlled it so it rolled off! Cringe!

Anyway, enough about me. As I can’t recount the match to a satisfactory standard, I’ll write about individual players, although I might be slightly biased towards my team! Ooh we saw a fox run across the playground, well me and Teague did, everyone else ignored me when I said “oh look there’s a fox” like I was imagining things or something.

Adam Jonas: Like Rosicky but better. Adams work rate is brilliant; he’s always going for it and getting it to, as opposed to going for it and flopping! He has skills too, and can dribble the ball along with style and control, that I often find myself just watching his feet and then when he passes it to me, I just stand there as happened on several occasions today! Another good thing about Ads is that he is generous with his passing, he knows when to go for goal himself and when to pass it which is a good quality! Unlike…
Ads also made some good saves when he was in goal.

Aaron Demster: Who tries to do everything himself and doesn’t pass enough! He tries his Ronaldo skills and then gets disposed! Scored the goal of the season, and does have skills, just needs to pass a little more! I lost count of the number of times Ashley was shouting “over here” and just got ignored. Smells gorgeous!

Ashley Lowe: Set up the goal of the season with style and composure. I think it was him who scored the second best goal of the match. Lots of other chances that just went wide, he sort of like Arsenal and me sometimes. Left quite early on.

Joe: Scored lots of goals and another hardworking player who can be found all over the pitch. His celebrations get more extravagant with each goal! The first was an Alex Fergie jig thing, and then he went for the Rosicky bury- head -in –shirt celebration. Keep up the good work, maybe practise some new celebration dances! Adebayor and Henry can give you some moves! Supports Everton which is a worry – joking! I like toffee, actually I lie, it sticks on your teeth, it’s fudge that I love!

Jake Colman: Did a brilliant skill thing near the goal where he did a sort of backward kick thing, it’s hard to describe. Scored lots of goals to mine and Ads’ annoyance! Strong rivalry between Ads and Jake after Jake could have scored but was fouled by Adam who went on to save Jake’s penalty, which otherwise would have been a goal – he was robbed! Lots of nice passing and goals. Grrrrrrr! Quite intimidating!

Teague: Talking of intimidating!... Oh, what can I say about Teague, words fail me! He was probably/definitely man of the match today; he played exceptionally both in goal and on the attack. Hardly anything got past Teague and the amount of times he stopped me scoring was quite painful for me! It must have been even worse for my team mates, he just stopped everything. Teague was on fire. Brilliant footballer. Skills, goals, the lot! Grrrrrrrrrrr! Although slightly underhand tactics when dealing with me!

Chris: Also had many goals today. Very tenacious and lots of energy! He is working on his skills, such as confusing me with the ball and not letting me get it. Good at getting the ball and around the pitch and good positioning and passing and all that jazz!

Other players: Dan, for a little bit, and a guy but I don’t know his name, sorry!

That’s all folks, bring on Saturday!

Friday, 11 May 2007

Manchester United V Chelsea...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

What a boring match! But the guys were so funny it passed the time and was proper jokes! We were watching the Tesco bag flying across the field, they were cheering the almighty Dong and being mean about Tevez (don't worry Tevez I defended your honour!) Who the hell were half the players? Lee? Dong? C'mon? It was so funny when Dong was substituted, Ben pointed out that when Rooney shook his hand or whatever, that Roo was like "Who are you?" Although action on the pitch was pretty dull, the Man U fans came up with a genius chant that I've been singing since...give it a go!...to the tune of Winterwonderland:
"Mourinho are you listening? Did you keep our trophy glistening? We've come here today/ to take it away/ back to the Fergie wonderland! Top stuff! Ben also taught me a wicked Arsenal chant but I can't be bothered to write it out! So Just ask me to sing it to you! Cristiano was looking very buff in his suit, and I don't usually like guys in suits but he can pull it off! Ummmmm is there any other footy news to report?
That same day as the dry Chelsea - United match (I mean if you don't believe in it or don't want to win, don't play, I don't want your 0-0 draws) I was playing with teh guys at lunchtime at had a pretty good match I reckon! I got shoved on the floor by my own team member Aaron, but he smells so good I'll let him off! It was a high tempo game, we were down but them embarked on a brilliant comeback but couldn't quite beat Teague, Ads, Peter Pick and Anamul. But there were skills all round!
Better do some revision work or something! See ya guys!

Friday, 4 May 2007

Oh My god! All the excitement...

...first Jose Mourinho, then Cesc's B day, that I forgot to mention that two yummy Spaniards may be making their way to Stanford Bridge...it is rumoured that Jose has David Villa and Fernando Torres on his shopping/wish list! It also said in that free paper, the London Lite, that Sheva wants out and that his wife was calling Milan and crying down the phone, oh my what drama! Bring on the handsome Spaniards!

Happy Birthday to my darling Cesc!

So I was just browsing the internet and went on the Arsenal website to find a photo of Cesc for my "izzy's footballers" poster (selling for 20p a go, but if I like you, you can have it for free!) and I noticed it is his birthday! 20! Happy Birthday Cesc! Your all grown up now! Much love and hugs and kisses, Izzy
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The Special One speaks, all hail the Special One!

I'm very honoured to report that Jose Mourinho himself has visited and left a message on this blog! What he had to say was so damn amusing that I have given him a post of his own! So here it is! Jose in all his glory!



your damn right i got things to say about that!! i'll start with a four letter word beginning with c to sum up that performance- C_ _ _. Can you guess what it is? No? I shall tell you, cos i am the special one. The word was CRAP! I knew from the start that they were going to lose and I tried to tell everyone but they wouldn't listen! For me, Chelsea is the only team. Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea. Chelsea play football, Chelsea score goals, some people say, Chelsea, its a good team, but for me, I say that a manager makes a team what it is. It no matter how the players play well, Chelsea, players are rubbish, like Joseph "The Fat Man" Cole. But i say, that Chelsea manager, myself, wonder team on its own and should've won. Chelsea this and Chelsea that. We will always win, and I will always be the special one. I am the best. I am also quite humble and modest and do not like to talk about myself. Lastly, i want to confess my unu-dying love to you, Izzy. I have always admired you. You've always been my Special One, if you know what i mean!! Dont keep me waiting, lets get together. All my special-one love, Jose Mourinho
03 May 2007 08:11

Thursday, 3 May 2007

Nooooooooooooooo!

Nooooooooooooo! I don’t really have any other words to describe how I feel! I’ve just got in from the pub and am watching Desperate Housewives so don’t expect much from this report, especially as the result was 3-0 to AC Milan. I’m reeking of smoke too which is a bit manky! I need lots of love and hugs so after you’ve read this make sure you give me some words of comfort, TLC or something! On the way back on the bus I just got off the phone to my mum talking about the match then the man behind me tapped me on the shoulder and asked me about it so we were talking about Kaka and Ronaldo. He was saying Kaka was the best and I was saying it was Ronaldo (“stand by your man” as the song goes and all that jazz), but tonight he was right coz Ron did not shine so bright! He’d lived in Milan for 7 years and seemed friendly in a sort of “I’ve just been listening to your phone conversation” sort of way – just kidding.

Well it was certainly a night out! On the bus on the way the man sitting a seat in front of me was watching porn on his mobile phone! Right on the bus! I couldn’t believe it, it was horrible so I just stared intently out of the window, then he smiled at me when he got off! Shudder shudder! I found Jack Stamps and Ads was there. The people behind us were Arsenal fans and for the whole of the first half were going on about how Arsenal were the best team in Europe and played the best football (well, I agree to extent, that’s when they find the back of the net!) and for the whole of the second half they were supporting AC Milan and saying how they were going to eat “Italian pizza at Pizza Hut”. It was a good match but I can’t really appreciate that at the moment as I’m feeling bitter. AC Milan deserved to win – I don’t know what happened to Man U, they, as Ads said, “fell to pieces”. I can’t really remember a moment of brilliance from any of the players which is so disappointing because I’d had such high hopes for them – I honestly believed that they would score the first goal, and while I recognised that Milan are top stuff, I thought United would have the edge and just get the win. Man United can play so magically but tonight wasn’t one of those nights. They were totally outclassed by Gatusso and Kaka and the Milan lot. The beginning of the second half looked more promising and they were building up and creating chances, sort of, but it wasn’t good enough. The annoying thing is that Dida isn’t great at all and I reckon it would be pretty easy to get a couple of goals past him, but first they had to penetrate the Milan defence which was immovable. It was nice to see Vidic back but still it just wasn’t good enough! So we lost 3-0, the first of course was Kaka, but even then we could’ve come back. The second goal should not have been a goal and their defending – if you can call it that – just summed up United’s whole performance – a shambles. I can’t remember the third, I’d had enough by then, but it was just after Ads had said “United aren’t going to come back from this.” If only United had scored some it would have been a thrilling match even if it had ended in defeat, but they didn’t even come near really. I bet Jose will have something to say about it tomorrow morning. Well, that’s my rambling for tonight! A little apology to Ads who had to put up with me rating all the players on their looks – I promise I’m not fickle and do actually watch the football. It was probably 30% me remarking “Kaka is quite cute, oooohh I like Gattuso getting all fiery, Ronaldo looks a bit like a turkey etc.” and then 70% serious match analysis and general moaning noises as United stumbled about.

Well I should start writing about our school matches, probably better than the way United played tonight (but I still love them). It was a good match, apart from when Yan kept on forgetting to play and was fiddling with his MP3 player and then smacked the ball into my face. Teague was an outstanding goalkeeper and was my man of the match. I think he’d been watching Pepe Reina the previous night!