Hammers Four: The Wrath Of Footcer
Thank goodness! "The cricket" is finally over and my main news Premiership news and rumor and silly manager's quote source BBC Radio Five Live can finally get back to covering a less inane sport full time. Well, they'll still of course have a bunch of blather on rugby but at least the rules in that make some sense.
Yes, I know I sound like one of those anti-footcer people here in the United States picking on cricket but in what other sport can a defensive team get hammered for 300 runs and it's called a great defensive stand? I mean, a bowler can get pounded for 50 by one batter, get one out and it's called a great performance?
It's like saying Aston Villa had a great moral victory today only getting beat by West Ham 0-4 because it seriously could have been much worse!
Looks like I seriously underestimated just how pissed off the Hammers were about "Green Street Hooligans." when I made fun of them in the entry, "West Ham Whining About The World's Spotlight." The Villans sure felt their wrath. I hope they let it all out now and have nothing left for the Fulham match on Saturday. With the Cottager's defense, today's game could have been 8-0! :(
West Ham could have loaned Blackburn and Bolton a few goals yesterday to actually made that an interesting game. I hope the Magpies enjoy their first win this weekend playing at the Northwest Pentitentiary All-Stars - that team has scoring issues! :)
The most shocking aspect of the West Ham victory, however, was who got the first hat trick of the Premiership season -- Marlon Harewood, West Ham's striker that's not a pensioner (yes, technically he has played for long enough to earn a footcer pension upon retirement, don't mix hairs with my age jokes)!
I guess with Thierry Henry out for up to a month the race for the first to three was wide open, but this is a man who hasn't scored a premiership goal in seven seasons! The last goal he scored in the top flight was for Nottingham Forest back when they were in the Premiership!
And, everyone's going to pick him up tomorrow in fantasy footcer. May they waste their money in peace! FC Footcer actually saw pain from this match on Yahoo.com since I dropped the scorer of West Ham's fourth goal, Yossi Benayoun when Michael Owen became available. FC Footcer on Premierleague.com, well we shant talk about that team as it's dead to me. :)
What a genuinely unpredicatable week in the Prem! Screw England beating Australia in sillyball, this was the upset of the day!
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But the anger was all around on this particular day. Before the spirit of international brotherhood that is the Champions League starts tomorrow, there was chaos all over the footcer world.
It's the usual eastern European suspects. In the news today, we have Croatia vowing to crack down on hooligans, police arresting 77 fans in post-match violence in Bulgaria, and Polish club fans rioting in the streets.
Reuters doesn't need an eastern European report, all they need to do is publish various police reports from around the region.
But, the story coming out that's really disheartening is one coming out of the Ivory Coast. Didier Drogba has vowed not to retire from international competition after his compatriots or "supporters" (in the loosest sense of the word) from the Ivory Coast threatened players after two weekend ago's loss to Cameroon that for all intents and purposes knocked the west African nation out of the World Cup.
Here's a man who chose to play for Ivory Coast when he was eligible to play for France and he's getting threats because they lost one game? And Drogba scored two goals in the game so he doesn't even deserve it. There are certain lines that shouldn't be crossed and threats against players are one of them.
It serves the Ivory Coast right if Drogba retires. The worst Chelsea fans are going to do is call him names in the press. Drogba doesn't need the Ivory Coast and until the fans down there understand that, they don't deserve to go to the World Cup.
Then again, I think he has more need to worry about West Ham than a lot of the countries the Ivory Coast plays - those guys have a huge chip on their shoulder!
Yes, I know I sound like one of those anti-footcer people here in the United States picking on cricket but in what other sport can a defensive team get hammered for 300 runs and it's called a great defensive stand? I mean, a bowler can get pounded for 50 by one batter, get one out and it's called a great performance?
It's like saying Aston Villa had a great moral victory today only getting beat by West Ham 0-4 because it seriously could have been much worse!
Looks like I seriously underestimated just how pissed off the Hammers were about "Green Street Hooligans." when I made fun of them in the entry, "West Ham Whining About The World's Spotlight." The Villans sure felt their wrath. I hope they let it all out now and have nothing left for the Fulham match on Saturday. With the Cottager's defense, today's game could have been 8-0! :(
West Ham could have loaned Blackburn and Bolton a few goals yesterday to actually made that an interesting game. I hope the Magpies enjoy their first win this weekend playing at the Northwest Pentitentiary All-Stars - that team has scoring issues! :)
The most shocking aspect of the West Ham victory, however, was who got the first hat trick of the Premiership season -- Marlon Harewood, West Ham's striker that's not a pensioner (yes, technically he has played for long enough to earn a footcer pension upon retirement, don't mix hairs with my age jokes)!
I guess with Thierry Henry out for up to a month the race for the first to three was wide open, but this is a man who hasn't scored a premiership goal in seven seasons! The last goal he scored in the top flight was for Nottingham Forest back when they were in the Premiership!
And, everyone's going to pick him up tomorrow in fantasy footcer. May they waste their money in peace! FC Footcer actually saw pain from this match on Yahoo.com since I dropped the scorer of West Ham's fourth goal, Yossi Benayoun when Michael Owen became available. FC Footcer on Premierleague.com, well we shant talk about that team as it's dead to me. :)
What a genuinely unpredicatable week in the Prem! Screw England beating Australia in sillyball, this was the upset of the day!
---
But the anger was all around on this particular day. Before the spirit of international brotherhood that is the Champions League starts tomorrow, there was chaos all over the footcer world.
It's the usual eastern European suspects. In the news today, we have Croatia vowing to crack down on hooligans, police arresting 77 fans in post-match violence in Bulgaria, and Polish club fans rioting in the streets.
Reuters doesn't need an eastern European report, all they need to do is publish various police reports from around the region.
But, the story coming out that's really disheartening is one coming out of the Ivory Coast. Didier Drogba has vowed not to retire from international competition after his compatriots or "supporters" (in the loosest sense of the word) from the Ivory Coast threatened players after two weekend ago's loss to Cameroon that for all intents and purposes knocked the west African nation out of the World Cup.
Here's a man who chose to play for Ivory Coast when he was eligible to play for France and he's getting threats because they lost one game? And Drogba scored two goals in the game so he doesn't even deserve it. There are certain lines that shouldn't be crossed and threats against players are one of them.
It serves the Ivory Coast right if Drogba retires. The worst Chelsea fans are going to do is call him names in the press. Drogba doesn't need the Ivory Coast and until the fans down there understand that, they don't deserve to go to the World Cup.
Then again, I think he has more need to worry about West Ham than a lot of the countries the Ivory Coast plays - those guys have a huge chip on their shoulder!
posted by incendiarymind at 5:22 PM
2 Comments:
Hey, I like "the cricket". It really makes sense, if you'll only sit down and take the five or six hours it requires to acquaint yourself with the rules. Granted, that would take care of the first day of a test match, but you'll still have three or four left to enjoy! ;)
And while Teddy Sheringham is old, he's not that old. In fact, I think he's younger than my older brother. They're really close in age, anyhow.
And talking about Nottingham Forest being the Prem is sad. I remember them in their glory days in the 1970s, as well (we used to have taped games, probably from the BBC, on our PBS station in Connecticut when I was little). And how they're struggling to stay up in League 1! It would be really sad to see them in League 2 next year, and non-League the year after that.
As for the fans in Cote d'Ivoire, they aren't the only insane ones in Africa. I believe it was the fans in Mali that were threatening their team after some of the earlier qualifiers. They took hooliganism out of Western Europe, and it grew new heads in the Balkans and Africa. Can't FIFA learn from the myths of the Greeks???
I've sat down and listened to "the cricket" for about 15 hours this Ashes series (and watched "Lagaan" about a year ago) and I understand the rules. What I don't understand is their way of drawing. It should just be two innings in a five day match and be done with it. Though that would mean it got a little more like baseball and I'm sure the rest of the world would hate that. But if you made it two innings, it would be a better sport than baseball.
Teddy Sheringham is going to be 40 at the end of this season. Sure that's not old for us here in the non-professional footcer playing world but he's the second or third oldest player in the entire league system (there's some 43 year old down in League Two if I recall).
Hooliganism will never die but the thing about western European hooliganism is the players might have been threatened but somehow there's less fear of the fans actually carrying it out than other places in the world.
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