of the big Liverpool victory over AC Milan a few years ago, and boy has Rafa put on a few lbs since then.

you can’t tell me that officiating crew in the USA – Honduras game wasn’t legit.

I almost picked them as my team instead of Liverpool when I started following the EPL- they’re not a top side, but they are one of the more enjoyable ones in the next tier below the Big Four.

Probably would have saved myself a lot of heartache had I chosen them. Liverpool have a better chance to win trophies than Villa, but that also sets me up for more disappointment when they fall short. As for today’s match, it’s just pissing me off. Damn beach ball!

Destroyed by Arsenal (and it looked like as much Wigan as Arsenal) then go beat Chelsea by two. Lose away to Hull, draw with Man City. I guess you can live with four points from that stretch if you’re Wigan, but a weird way to get them.

Well, Petrov scored at 47 min to open up the 2nd half nicely. My stream went dead just as he wound up to shoot. But the audio cont’d, so I sussed out from the Italian commentors that he scored – but kept calm until the video kicked back in a minute later verifying my hunch. Then we almost scored like twice more and also Adebayor was semi-brought down in the box with no call – coulda gone our way – no huge complaint tho’ – besides SWP shoulda put the ball in the net off the rebound.

But then Pablo Zubaleto our left back got his 2nd yellow and was sent off. When he got his first yellow I thought he was a risk to leave on the field considering how many stupid wild flying tackles he throws down. My hunch was correct – got another dumb foul and now we’re down to 10 men. To top it off Adebayor started just standing around wincing, which effectively put us down to 9 men. But, class that we are, we pretty much played them even the rest of the match – even had a chance or two to win it. Adebayor was yanked for a new left back [Kompany’s debut – did well, hardly noticed him] and 2 more halfbacks eventually subbed in to help out. Given had to make a brilliant save to preserve the draw in the 89th minute, but we escape with the point. The next 3 games are all quite winnable so we’ll make our hay there after Robinho and Bellers return.

Adebayor is a dog. Yet, he coulda scored like 3 goals if a few bounces woulda gone his way. Guess that’s the bag he brings. Getting Bellamy and Robinho back should help things. Zubaleto has to learn when to take his chances better – or Hughes needs to learn you can’t trust him not to earn double yellows.

We coulda really made some noise in the standings had we won these last 2 games. I’ll remember this stretch if it’s tight at season’s end. Now we need to go 3-0 and get back up the table. Then we’ll go buy Frank Ribery. ha

Great little bookmark for keeping up with UEFA Cup fixtures/results/highlights – LINK

You see that little bitch slap Ronaldhino gave to Raul after the no goal? Funny. Good for Milan though, came out and had an awesome second half.