Monster mauling by Scousers

El Nino leaves Vida biting the dust

Awful. Shameful. Shocking. These are some of the words that were going through the minds of the home crowd at Old Trafford. The Scousers ran riot, not at Anfield but right at the heart of the Theatre of Dreams. At the start of the match, there were some questions raised on Fergie's selection, particularly his decision to field Anderson in favour of the more experienced Scholes and putting Tevez as the strike partner of Rooney ahead of Berbatov. I would have thought that Giggs should play a part too considering that his set pieces from corners would be a tremendous asset, like how they worked against Chelski.

United were awarded a soft penalty when Park Ji Sung came tumbling down after Pepe had failed to pull the breaks in time. From the referee's view, it looked like a deliberate pounce on the man but from the front camera view, Pepe could be seen trying to desperately stop from clashing. Anyways, there was a feeling of "Here we go again!" when United took the lead with Ronaldo scoring the penalty. It was also felt at that time that Liverpool will be facing a remainder hellish 67 minutes on the field. Winning is an absolute must for them and a draw will not be sufficient. It was that kind of pressure coupled with the fact that they are already 0-1 down and having to face the hostile crowd at Old Trafford.

Just 5 minutes afterthat, Torres provided an equaliser to mark the start of the floodgates. The nature of the equaliser is a horrific mistake from Vidic. Skrtel pumped a long ball into the United half and Vidic could have easily head it back, but nope...he let it bounce once and Torres, lurking dangerously near him, took the opportunity to snatch the ball to go one on one with Van der Sar. I had to admit that that was some brilliant individual skill. Vidic stumbled embarassingly after failing to catch hold of Torres. Oh man, when you have a clinical marksman like Torres going 1 v 1, he's gonna bloody well score, unlike United's no. 32. The thing is never ever let someone like Torres have the space to waltz alone and Vidic obviously had a pawned face like Philip Lahm as a result. Ok..fine..they have equalised but a 1-1 draw is fine too.

Just a minute before half time, it was Patrice's time to be the baddie as he brought down Gerrard in the penalty box. Gosh, I think that Patrice should have just let him go coz he might not have scored in the first place. Gerrard duly delivered the penalty and afterthat he actually ran and kissed the camera at the corner flag! So, Liverpool went to the dressing room at half time, taking a 2-1 lead. That's fine too, because with the firepower that United have, getting a 2-2 draw would be sufficient to cause a setback for Liverpool. I would imagine Fergie blasting his blur defenders to wake up their ideas and for the attackers to take more initiative. Apparently, whatever grandfatherly hairdressing that Fergie had given, it didn't work. By the 75th minute, time is running out for United and everyone in the squad is running out of ideas. Fergie's desperation for the equaliser can be seen as he subbed in all three attackers - Giggs, Scholes and Berbatov.

It was another woeful moment for "man of the match" Vidic as he hacked down Gerrard to earn himself another straight red in a Liverpool fixture. (previously, he got the same straight red at the previous match at Anfield). Aurelio steps up to take the free kick, and this time, it was Van der Sar's turned to get pawned. Oh man, he just stood there like a pole stick when Aurelio bend in the free kick. So did the United wall standing still there. 3-1 down, 1 man down, less than 15 minutes left..it's as good as packing the bags and heading to the showers unless of course Liverpool can do an Arsenal in conceding 2 in the last 90 minutes of a derby..haha. By then, any sort of motivation of mounting back an equaliser would have been evaporated. It's not a familiar situation for the United squad as they have not been subjected to a league game loss for months already. The final blow of humiliation was slammed into United when Dossena lobbed one over van der Sar to make it a quadruple comeback. This 4th goal was very similar in nature to the first goal, in that Liverpool had caught United with their tails behind their back. 1-4 the final score..and this is probably one of the worst disasters that had occured on Old Trafford soil.

This is very bizarre and strange. Man Utd also took the lead in Anfield before losing. They lost Vida to red cards on both occassions. And I really can't understand how a team which has trouble scoring against the likes of Stoke City on two occasions, drawing with Hull City and losing to teams like Middlesbrough could bang in four away goals against their fiercest rival. You have to commend them though, for smashing 4-0 against Real Madrid and repeating another four goals against another titanic team. Football is a funny game, where 2+2 don't neccessary equals to 4. Every legendary player has his bad day. For Vidic, it's a bad day coming at the wrong time. He hardly made a single mistake for this whole season, and all of them had to compound as one on that day. Those kind of mistakes, if they were made by Ferdinand, would have been more believable..haha.

[Man Utd Fanatic Mode On] No sweat that Liverpool has won this. Liverpool pose little threat in the title race. They always screw up in the future and in the end. I need not repeat names like Hull City and Wigan. The chances of them screwing up is 1001% on every match they play. This is merely an anomalous defeat, a small blip in a string of excellent results and we're still top, 4 points ahead with a game in hand! We'll see the Scousers at the party celebration at Old Trafford at the end of the season!

Ok..fanatic mode off now but mathematically, United could still lead by as much as 7 points provided if they win their extra match. The most important thing now is that the squad shrug off this defeat and concentrating on a new set of winning run again. The road to title retention will depend on how well they response from this defeat. Hopefully, it won't be like 2003 where after losing to Wolves, United went down from top spot to a spiralling set of results that caused them to finish 3rd instead. In any case, this will be a result to forget for United fans. And it would well go into the history books as one of the most embarassing results for Man Utd.

Jalan Universiti

Yesterday, I joined Charles and a couple of other CF folks for a session at the squash court and it was great fun. It's only my second time playing it but I could feel myself improving. Looks like every Friday is gonna be squash playing day. It's a fantastic way to work out and relax actually..lol. In a way, it feels to shiok to whack the ball back against the wall =p

I had to attend a law conference at the UM law faculty today since I've been told that I've won one of the prizes at a online writing competition organised by elawyer. The conference itself sounds interesting though since it's dealing with blogging and the law, touching on various issues such as defamation, sedition and copyright infringement. It was nice of Vincent to drive me down using my car coz I'm not that confident of driving in KL roads myself. This was the case of availablity of hardware but no proper skill to operate it..haha. Yup, we planned to leave by 7 am to have some extra time in case we get lost. Unfortunately, I forgot to set my alarm and I ended up waking at 7.20. So, we only managed to leave at around 8am. We had no idea of the exact route from Nilai to UM, so we just followed along the North-South highway to get to KL first. After getting into the KL main town, we then proceeded to try getting into the Federal Highway where there is an entry point that leads to UM. We managed to get all the way to the Federal Highway using the first try and that's already quite a feat..haha. Not only that, we managed to find Mid-Valley on the first try. We could have actually reached UM on time but we made a mistake in turning into the Petaling Jaya side at the entry point leading to UM. So, we wasted like 30 minutes or so trying to get out of PJ..haha. Btw, it was interesting to visit PJ again because I just came across the place where I performed under the Yamaha Music School when I was still young. Mama actually fetched me there to that place in PJ for the performance and I could still remember it eventhough I went there once only..haha.

When we finally found UM, we made some turning mistakes before managing to find the faculty of Law itself. As UM is having some inter-uni football match, all the parking place at the law faculty and outside of it is full already. So, we ended up parking at the roadside..lol. By the time we entered, the conference is nearly half-done. But aye, we managed to catch a few questions and answers from the first half. We were surprised to catch Gavin sitting there at the conference too! Apparently, he had also won something for the elawyer contest..haha. The second half was more on the issue between bloggers and the government. Quite a few interesting points were discussed for both offence and defence aspects that could be employed by bloggers if they were to be charged in the court. And most the case law relating to this part of the law always constantly involved either RPK, Rockybru or Jeff Ooi as the defendants..haha. As the speaker had mentioned, a lot aspects on the law and the blogging lies in the grey area, especially in relation with the Communications and Multimedia Act.

I wasn't told which prize I would get but of course, like every other hopeful contestant, I will wish for the top 3 prizes. When 5 contestants had passed the consolation prize mark, it gets pretty much more intense. 2 more passed and still not my name. My bubble burst though when mine was the 8th name for the consolation prize..haha. Anyways, a very big congratulations to Gavin for securing the 3rd prize in the competition! At least Inti had one rep in the top three..haha. Ohhh, another thing, it was very honourable indeed to get to see Azmi Sharom in person! He's one person I would seriously want to be my law lecturer. At first I couldn't recognise him when he was speaking because he didn't have his trademark spectacles on. I only realised that it was him after Gavin pointed it out. Haha..everytime when a person asks me whether a lawyer or a person dealing with law academics can have long hair, I always quote Azmi as an example.

After all the conference stuff and all, we went to Mid-Valley to hang out, chomp on some Carl's Junior and shop for some stuff. I drank almost 3 rounds of drinks and the result was that I ended up going to the toilet to pee like every 2 hrs. Well, at least my kidneys are thoroughly cleaned now..haha. It was not a totally wasted trip as I managed to get quite a few important stuff. First is the white formal shirt for mooting and I managed to get one from Seed at 50% discount. Then, I've managed to finally get my hands on another packet of my favourite green tea candies which I've been craving for so long since the beginning of this semester. Gahh..it seems that they have increased the price to RM 8. Previously it was RM 6 only.

I was intrigued last week to see Jason plugging in his ipod to the Proton car and that made me really wanna get the adapter that converts power from the smoking thing to play ipod music through the car speakers. So, we went asking around and compare prices, including the overpriced mac shop before deciding to finally get the lowest end one for RM39 which did not guarantee that it would work with Ipod. (based on plugging in the USB port) However, there's another avenue which would actually guarantee it to work and that is using the earphone jack instead. So, when I managed to test it, I was very delighted to see it working! Looks like thank God that I did not go for the other really overpriced materials which claimed that they could work with Ipod. This low end one worked just as well..haha. For the first time, mama's Proton car (with a cassette stereo) is actually blasting Ipod music! weeeee... =)

This coming week is gonna be to a "slog-till-I-pop" week as I've got both mooting and Malaysian Law presentation to deal with. And I still haven't got started with either of them...

Jose got swept aside

Vida gets mobbed by his ecstatic team-mates

It's round 2 for Ronaldo vs. Zlatan and Fergie vs. Jose as Inter visits Manchester. It's a familiar place for Jose as he had sat at the visitor's area several times in the past few years. Only this time, he would be leading an Italian club on English soil. Based on mathematical scoreline probabilility, Inter would have some advantage since a draw with some goals by them would suffice. Of course, to score even a goal, they need to think of a way to breach the titanic defence at Old Trafford coupled with the 12th man crowd.

One would have expected Jose to be much more impressive in holding out but they were already one down just after 4 minutes of playing. It's a typical familiar sight with Giggs swinging in a corner and Vidic connecting it with a header. Good job by Vidic to lose his marker (it's Vieira btw..haha) at the end and he definitely caught Julio Caesar by surprise. Inter won't fret too much though because they just need to score 1 goal to go through unless United adds another one to their tally.

Once again, Inter could not cope up with United's through ball style. For some reason or so, they themselves can't play through balls. They had to pass directly to the receiver and for that, even the likes of O Shea is sufficient to stop them. The only reason how Inter could become a threat to United's goal is when they pass to specific people like Zlatan and Stankovic. Zlatan himself has the individual strength, power and skill to bulldoze pass the defenders while Stankovic has his pretty terrifying long shots. Other than that, they are of no threat to the United defence. With just 4 minutes into second half, United sent Inter to doom when Ronaldo forced in a header to make it 2-0.

I think divine intervention is on Man Utd's side..haha. Two counts perhaps which could have changed the nature of the game. The first was when United was leading 1-0 and Ibrahimovic's shot could have equalised and send them to the quarters at the same time coz United would be under severe pressure to score another. But alas, the post comes to the rescue. The second incident was Adriano and his shot looked to have clearly beaten van der Sar and for the second time, the post was there to bounce the ball to safety. At the blow of the final whistle, it's 2-0 to United and Fergie has only beaten Jose for the second time in all their 13 meetings or so. Ronaldo of course, has beaten Zlatan for good this time, if Cantona wants to know..haha.

Besides the point of this crunchy Champions League match, there's a fueling speculation that Jose may be the man to succeed Fergie in Old Trafford. Mourinho's bravado in shaking hands with the United faithful does little to quell such speculations as the Portugese tactician wants to show why he's the special one in England and not in Italy..lol. He'll have lots of reflection to do though on Inter's underpar performance against United. Looks like the only team he will ever have to get to the Champions League final is his good old Porto. Anyways, it'll be interesting to see which team will be United's opponent in the quarters. All four English clubs progressed through to the quarters with Liverpool being the notable one in smashing Real Madrid 4-0 at Anfield. Chelsea and the Gooners barely squeezed through. Ahhh..another all-English final once again?

Watchmen

Rorschach's Journal: October 12th 1985 - Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... And I'll look down and whisper "no".

I've been eagerly anticipating this movie for months already! At first, I thought that it's gonna be released in June but then I suddenly realised a few days ago that Americans loved to put their months first before the days, so in fact, it's actually released on 6th March rather than 3rd June..lol. I first came across Watchmen when a Muse forum posted that the band's song "Take a Bow" was featured at the trailer. Haha..it's an appropriate band for an appropriate movie btw. It sparked my interest once again when I saw the trailer while watching Underworld 3. So, I started doing a little research before hand and found out that it's a graphic novel laced with lots of philosophical, sociological and ethical concepts. It's also a literature masterpiece to some extent. That was enough to get me interested..haha. So, when Charles invited me to watch it on Monday, I was very glad indeed.

First of all, in order to appreciate the movie, several stuff needs to be cleared. For those expecting Watchmen to be like the typical superhero movies of X-Men, Spiderman or Fantastic Four, they are gonna be very dissapointed. If the Dark Knight is considered to be the most philosophical movie up to date, then Watchmen trounces it flat big time. It helps alot if the audience have some historical knowledge about the Cold War era and perhaps some amount of English Literature before watching the movie. Trust me, if you're equipped with those information and knowledge, you will find the movie overflowing with the richness of conceptual ideas that could fill hundreds of pages of commentary. I have a feeling that History or English Literature enthusiasts will love that film because of its settings and features..hehe =p

Warning: Possible spoilers ahead

Watchmen is set in the alternate universe of 1985, where the USA had won the Vietnam war with its band of superheroes and Nixon gets re-elected. (No Reagan..haha) The interesting thing about Watchmen is that it incorporates itself to some extent to the real World History timeline and provided an alternate reality if things had turned out differently in some extent. The very concept of a "Superhero" and "Vigilantism" is heavily examined and scrutinised upon. Watchmen invites its audience to think deeper on the cultural/entertainment concept that has become part and parcel of society today. In Watchmen, the superheroes are incorporated into real living society. They are part of the society fabric, they have jobs, deal with the media attention, law+legislation, they grow old and retire, they struggle with alcoholism and social problems. The members of the Watchmen were not altruistically and straightforward good thinking heroes that we've always thought about. The lines between good and evil are blurred in Watchmen. They have done stuffs on both ends of the ropes. Each of the members of Watchmen embodies a set of extreme ideology and ethics. For instance, Rorschach believes in moral absolutism, Ozymandias holds on to utilitarianism, the Comedian has a nihilistic outlook on life while Dr. Manhattan's detachment from humanity led him down the thinking of determinism. Each of these characters are in some ways representatives of certain sections of society. It's interesting to note though that Ozymandias' name was taken from Percy Shelley's poem and his fortress throne bears a line from that poem too.

There are plenty of rich imagery and metaphors in Watchmen. The recurring images include the Doomsday clock face and the Comedian's smiley badge. I knew about the minutes to midnight symbolism at the doomsday clock coz I've came across it in a History Channel documentary and have done some small research on it a long time ago. It's basically the symbolic clockface used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist to measure how close humanity is closed to nuclear apocalypse. It's a very very real fear especially during the Cold War because one wrong decision by either leaders from the USA or USSR would see major nuclear holocaust. I find the repeated introductory imagery of the bloodstained Smiley face to be quite powerful because it's an ironical juxtaposition of innocence and violence. All throughout the movie, we see characters resounding the Comedian's punch line of "Life's a joke" and "having the last laugh". There is wordplay too in Watchmen - watching the watchmen, watchtowers (Jimi Hendrix's rendition is in there..lol), the watch itself and all them seem to interrelate with each other somehow. In fact, the first batch of heroes that America had was called the Minutemen. Woah..Stan loves all those word plays!..hehe. And then there's also some extent of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and T.S. Elliot's 1920s literature modernist feature inside the Watchmen plus also the disillusionment of the so-called "American Dream". Toward's the end of the movie, I think there's an allusion to Francis Fukuyama's historical thesis "The End of History" following the end of the Cold War (global hippie village..haha). There are lots of satire and Easter eggs in the Watchmen if one were to take the time to analyze the whole movie properly..hehe.

I love the music selection in the Watchmen too! In complying with the 80s scene and world, recognizable songs from that era were selected with what I perceive to be extreme appropriateness. There's Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence", Nena's "99 Luftballons", Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtowers", Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and MCR's cover for Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row". A nihilistic feeling indeed especially with 99 Luftballons and Desolation Row..haha.

The stuff about Watchmen which I have written here is only a small insight of a mammoth. Lol..I have enough material to go on and on just about the character analysis of Watchmen alone but that'll take forever. The movie's about 2hrs 40 minutes but even with that lengthy amount, I felt that it was not enough to cover the details of the graphic novel. And that 2hrs 40 minutes went off in a captivating blip while I was watching it without me realizing it. Actually when the movie ended with the rockified Desolation Row, there was this urge from me to just give a standing ovation for a brilliant piece of masterpiece..haha. Many of the comics movie adaptation don't live up to the glory of the printed version but this Watchmen movie does do justice to its printed cousin although there were some minor deviations from it. If you're a English Literature/History/Philosophy enthusiast, do watch the movie and read the graphic novel coz it's really worth it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the clock now stands at 5 minutes before midnight...

Ops Gegar

Yesterday's Ops Gegar organised by FES was fantastic. We had a surprise guest speaker whom we've never expect to be there. Woah, it was indeed an honour to meet her in person. Her writings and thoughts have always been inspirational. I think one of her main statements is very true. She pointed out "There's no such thing as sensitive issue. Only a sensitive or insensitive approach." Overall, I think Ops Gegar is an excellent opportunity for us to be aware of the societal problems around us. Many of us have in a way grown so disgruntled that we spent most of the time grumbling rather taking time to heal the land we are living in. Instead of complaining, change must start from us and we should at least give thanks to God for where he has placed us. It was a long day there but a fruitful one indeed.

Since there's no school tomorrow, we went for another service at Acts Church which was located at the hotel beside the Summit at Subang. Lol, I drove to Subang Jaya for the first time! This means to say that in another landmark, Stan has arrived in his long lost home while driving an automobile for the very first time..haha. From my observations yesterday and today, I would say Subang has changed way lots since the last time I knew it 9 years ago. The shoplots in front of Taylors used to be pretty rundown and they have all those good old kopitiams. I remember that place has nothing much except that I used to take art classes there at one point of time. USJ was the modern place but not the Subang main town. Right now, they have Starbucks, Macs, Subway and countless number of other outlets there. Woah, seriously, one day after all these final exams are gone, I should really take the car there for a spin and rediscover back the old routes that are still shelved in my mind with places like, SRKSJ, somebody's tuition center, my former homes, and Taipan. That's gonna be so nostalgic.

I kinda enjoyed the Acts Church service and I think they have a very good hospitality and ushering team there. Not only that, the media team is fantastic and I find the weekly bulletins announcement rather impressive. Since it's the evening service, the whole place is filled mostly with youths and there's quite a big group coming from Inti actually. Anyways, the environment feels Subang Jaya-ish, if you know what I mean..haha. Lol, I get to know a few new people there and everyone got confused with the Jonathans, Alvins, Kelvin and a Melvin. It was nice of them to provide dinner too, so we didn't go back with empty stomaches..haha. I think it'll be great to visit there another time in the future..hehe =p

Christian Awareness Week

It's been a blast for the past week with the Christian Awareness Week held in my uni. Haha..I just wanna thank God that it turned out quite well as we've planned it to be. Monday started out a little rough because there was a clash with the opening ceremony of another event. On the night before, we scrambled to do some last minute finishing touches on the notice boards and decorations and stayed up late till bout 1am plus to get it done. Anyways, after the opening ceremony, business resumes normally.

It gets better on Tuesday since we can go full blast since there's no other stuff to block our arrangements of the boards. We had piano and guitars at first and it's upgraded to a full band with drums and bass guitar on Wednesday. Valerie and Gordon sang very well together! I think the feature that attracts most attention from the crowd is the band performance coz people literally stopped to watch us perform..haha.

We also had Gideons people coming on Tuesday to give out free Bibles. There was this one elderly Indian couple from Gideons that I got to know who happened to be from Taiping before moving to Nilai to stay. It seems that they know who my grandfather was and where his optical shop coz that's where they get their spectacles made. Haha..they were surprised to hear that I was his grandson..lol. Small world indeed..haha. And they know Pastor Bernard and Dr. Dhoss too. Woah, looks like everyone knows everybody from that small town. =p

One section of the booth which I'm always very pleased about is the music videos/mp3. I think probably for the first time in the whole history of the place that tracks from "Sixpence None the Richer" are being heard and played over there, courtesy of Stan..hahahaha. And so did a whole range of selection from other superb bands like Relient K, Seabird, Sanctus Real, Rush of Fools and Switchfoot where a big number of people in this part of the world still don't know who they are. Lol, on the first day when we didn't have Eric's speakers, we used the amps to blast the music.

On Wednesday night, we had a question and answer session for people who have those "hard" questions for Christians. For that, we have a special CF meeting at the SAO concourse itself. Although most of those attending are Christians themselves, we still do have some rather interesting visitors. Tons of freebies were given away and that included also tracts and magazines. I created some information brochures which contained basic information on the core beliefs of Christianity. We had a special term for the extreme giveaway session and that is "joyful hour". Lol..it sounds like happy hour to me =p

On the final day, we had a movie screening to wrap up the whole event. I must say we were pretty bold in picking the position of the movie screening and also getting electricity from a most unlikely source..hehe. But it's a great way to wrap up and part of me feels kinda sad to pull down the decorations earlier because it's just has been such a great week and all of us had put lots of effort into making CAW happening. By God's grace, I hope that we can do something similar next year again too :)

Carling Cup 09 Champs for United

Hero of the night Foster lifts the Carling Cup with his jubilant mates

Man Utd and Tottenham locked horns at Wembley to battle it out in the first of this year's domestic competition cup final. Tottenham had been the previous winner of the Carling Cup last year and they start the game as defending champions. Meanwhile, Fergie has promised his young guns that they would be able to play in the cup final following their impressive displays during the earlier stages and run-ins of the competition. Foster, Evans, Gibson and Welbeck were all drafted into the first eleven.

A couple of incidents stood out in the goalless 90 minutes. Ronaldo was booked for what was perceive to be a dive by the referee and both Fergie and the player ain't feeling too pleased about that. John O Shea was also walking dangerously on thin line with some poor tackles when he had a yellow card to his name already. Ronaldo could have been the hero of the night when he twist and turn in the dying moments of the regular 90 minutes to squeeze in a shot. It was on target but the ball hit the post and bounced away. Patrice Evra was another potential hero of the night during the extra time period but his shot went over the bar. Finally, it had to be decided on penalties and United themselves were on new ground with Ben Foster tendering the post instead of the usual van der Sar. Both could be seen engaging in deep conversations before the shootout for some tactical discussions. Giggs started the ball rolling by scoring the first. O Hara was the first taker for Spurs but his shot was superbly saved by Foster! Tevez, Corluka and Ronaldo hit on target. And then it was Bentley face to face with Foster and he missed with the shot wide off goal! What an embarassment..the worst thing a penalty taker do is to have a shot not on target. Considering that Bentley had a reputation in goalscoring, it was double embarassment. Anderson sealed the shootout victory for Man Utd with his final shot.

It was evident that like Portsmouth in the Community Shield, Spurs didn't do their homework in practicing their penalty shoot-outs. On the other hand, Fergie and some old guards like Giggs had seen it all with their experiences and they were unfazed with dealing with shootout pressures. It's another trophy added to the Manchester cabinet but it has to be said that this final belonged to the young guns because of the run-ins that they had done leading to the final. Foster looks increasingly impressive and even Fergie had tipped him that he had the potential to be the number one in the future after van der Sar's retirement. Ahhh..a second-string United team had beaten the first-team of Spurs..haha.

On the Premier League front, it was wonderful news for United too after they found out that the Scousers had miserably lost 0-2 away in Middlesbrough. The latest lost had set Liverpool back all the way to 3rd behind Chelsea although their points were the same. This meant that with a game in hand, United could possibly stretch their lead to a massive 10 points. That's as good as one hand in the Premier League trophy already. All the hype from the 1-0 win over Real Madrid didn't help at all..haha. Looks like Rafa's still an European master but can't seem to get the domestic games right. Chelsea looks doomed another time when Wigan scored an equaliser but they were definitely relieved with Lampard scoring a last-minute winner to prevent themselves from drifting further away from Utd. The Gooners were as usual..useless as they have a 4th consecutive draw with three consecutive 0-0 scorelines. What happened, Arshavin?..haha. I'm getting pretty annoyed with them coz I kept losing my banker bonus in the Premier League score guessing game for relying on them. I should have banked on Everton instead! Anyways, United's next match will be at St. James Park and it would be tricky although Newcastle is pretty much in the dumps.