Review of the Week #7

Step aside Wayne Rooney. I couldn’t see where goals were going to come from for United this season but it seems Dimitar Berbatov, who has done nothing to justify £30million in the last 2 seasons, has finally found some form and can’t stop scoring. The Bulgarian’s hat trick helped his side to a 3-2 win over Liverpool who now sit in 16th place. There was a fiery atmosphere at Old Trafford however it wasn’t as rough as a game in Turkey this week where the manager was stabbed by his own brother! Can’t see Martin Ferguson following suit.

I found it odd that Fergie branded Torres a cheat after the game for apparently diving and going to ground too easily when Nani spent the whole game acting like a little girl every time he was touched. I know he wants to be like Ronaldo, but his diving is even worse and towards the end of the game it was just getting embaressing.

Darren Bent netted a 95th minute equaliser against Arsenal to leave Steve Bruce saying ‘it feels like a win’ and Wenger saying ‘merde’! Fabregas gave Arsenal the lead with one of the most bizarre goals of the season before Rosicky missed the chance to take 3 points with a crap penalty. There were only 4 minutes of stoppage time; you can imagine Arsene wasn’t happy.

With the Arse drawing, Spurs had two reasons to celebrate as two subs; Hutton & Pavlyuchenko secured in a 3-1 win over Wolves while new signing Sandro Ranieri didn’t feature. The Brazilian was left confused before Tottenham’s away fixture against Werder Bremen in the week as he turned up at Stanstead airport to be told by Harry Redknapp that he wasn’t in the squad. Sounds like unofficial squad translator Wilson Palacios was playing a practical joke.

Having lost at home to Blackpool, Newcastle won away at Everton thanks to a great strike from Ben Arfa. Can’t just be me who thinks his name sounds like a chav saying ‘Ben Arthur’.

After a midweek win over Zilina, Chelsea put 4 past Blackpool and now have a goal difference of 20 (although lets be honest, they've played Blackpool- Promoted, West Brom- Promoted, Wigan- sh*t, West Ham- sh*t, Stoke- not great). Next 3 games are Man City, Arsenal and Aston Villa- we'll see if Chelski fans are still as confident after those.

West Ham managed their first point away at Stoke minus Avram Grant thanks to Scott Parker who is by far their best player at the moment. However, a Match of the Day reporter obviously hadn't been watching the game and started his interview with Parker by saying 'Paul Mitchell here for Match of the Day with Mark Noble'. Mug

In the Championship, QPR went 5 points clear at the top of the table with a 2-0 win at Leicester while Middlesborough finally found some form with a 3-1 win against Reading.

The best game of the week was at Millwall who were beaten 6-1 by Watford much to the delight of pretty much every football fan in the UK.

In League 1, Peterborough missed out on going top as they drew with Exeter with Huddersfield taking advantage with a 4-2 win over Yoevil.

In other football news this week, a former caoch of the Togo National Team has been suspended after he hosted a fake match against Bahrain. Togo's Football Federation had no idea about the match where a group of players pretending to be the national team turned up and lost 3-0.

In cricket, Freddie Flintoff announced his retirement after consultation with medical advisors. Cricket will really miss his bowling and batting...although for me it will be him running out Ricky Ponting to effectively win the 2009 Ashes, the drunk interview he did the day after winning the ashes in 2005 and of course the infamous Pedalo incident.

In the 4th one dayer at the Oval, England were beaten by 38 runs by Pakistan. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt said after that some England players were paid to lose the game. Talk about trying to deflect blame away from yourself...

At the Great City Games in Newcastle this week, spare a thought for Pole Vaulter Steve Hooker who missed the matt after his jump. That's gonna hurt in the morning!

Best interview of the week was courtesy of Ronnie O'Sullivan who is definately the most relaxed man in snooker. 'The Rocket', who often plays matches with his left hand, was on course for a 147 but decided not to bother with the final black because there wasn't any prize money for doing so. The best bit:
Interviewer: 'Irrespective of the money, scoring a 147 must have been nice to experience'
Ronnie: 'Na, not really, I mean I've have loads of 147's ya know so I don't really get excited about it, but the ref talked me into potting the final black so I thought 'why not?'

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