FA Cup 3rd Round

I was able to officially catch my first 'live' football match in my new lease of life on last Sunday at 1 am. Haha..From now on, I need not resort to any sort of unorthodox overseas method juz to catch one. At first, I thought that my first match would be at the 13 Jan weekend since last weekend would not be featuring Premier League matches and that the players needed a break. Oh well, but I seem to forget that there's such thing as cup matches. That's because usually, my unorthodox channel dun really feature cup matches unless its the final.

Anyways, back to the discussion on Man Utd vs Aston Villa. It was a really cagey match especially in the first half. Anderson nearly did a Ryan Giggs when he crazily ran from his own half. Oh, Carrick got some shots towards the last minutes of the game but as usual, his shots do not pose any sort of threat. It's difficult really to pinpoint what kind of role Carrick has even after being in the club for more than a year. He is really really a 'central' midfielfer that is neither good in attacking or defending. Sometimes, more like a fill-up space player in the middle to link up passes..lol. The introduction of Rooney into the field at the 2nd half definitely opened things up and not long after that, Ronaldo scored with the help of Anderson and Giggs and Rooney added the death blow. Overall, boring match in the first half and until the last 10 minutes of the game, there is always an impression that it would end up as a replay.

Over to the other teams, Liverpool's miserable run of misfortune continued with a draw with lowly Luton Town that is on the brink of bankruptcy. They're miserly, they rather save 200k for their own needs than donate it to help a club that is gonna die liao. Considering that it's being played at Luton's stadium, Liverpool should give a bit chance lar. Maybe the 1-1 draw was a slight retribution for that Scroogy attitude..lol. The New Year EPL weekend for Liverpool was hilarious and a big joke. Of all the people, it had to be Titus Bramble to spoil the party. Well, we all know Bramble's 'legendary' defensive skills and his 'glorious' partnership with Boumsong during his time with the 'wonderful' club of Newcastle. Seriously, maybe Shebbby Singh could suggest that Bramble should be playing as the striker forward instead of languishing at the back. Bramble has afterall, some hidden undiscovered talents of putting the ball in the back of the net and his ultimte skill was shown by how he killed Chelsea with his goal a few years ago! The title race for Liverpool is really as good as over already and they should juz focus on winning Cups instead.