A New Year - A New Hope
The highlights of the year 2005 were new coaches Rafa Benitez masterminding Liverpool's dramatic comeback in the Champions League, and Jose Mourinho buying Chelsea its first title in 50 years. Meanwhile in Europe, Barcelona and Ronaldinho were mesmerizing opposition teams and Brazil were proving once again why they are the team to beat in this year's World Cup. Meanwhile, Fergie reached his lowest point in his ManUtd coaching career as they were knocked out of Europe in the group stages itself.
The new year brings new hopes and expectations, a promise of better football and there is eager anticipation among fans that their clubs would do better. While certain clubs were eager for the transfer window to open, there were the others who seemed wary of it for the fear of losing their best players.
Ever since the implementation of the Bosman ruling, which incidentally celebrated its 10th anniversary a couple of months back, the players have become stronger than the clubs. In addition, the gap between clubs seems to have widened financially, resulting in many clubs waiting for billionaires to take over and invest money into the clubs. Portsmouth might just be the next Chelsea as talks take place for a takeover by a Russian billionaire.
Meanwhile, I expect Chelsea's domination in EPL to end as soon as Sunderland wins another Premiership match. It's quite obvious that neither will happen in the near future. Boy! Am I eagerly awaiting for some exciting clashes between Chelsea and teams like Sheffield Utd next season!
There is the World Cup in the month of June where we can expect to see a wide galaxy of stars, all weary and burnt-out after a long season that included the respective leagues, Champions League, Cup and more Cup Championships. England coach Eriksson would have been very relieved to see ManUtd crash out of Europe altogether and thus, the burden on Rooney lessening to an extent.
Apart from the lone World Cup they won on home soil, the England football team always seem to falter in the top competitions and some cynics still point out that England was lucky as the ball never crossed the line in that fateful final. Maybe, the curse from that final victory is still on the national team. The team is being hyped up as never before and if the English press are to be believed, the only thing that stands between their team and the trophy is Brazil.
The new year brings new hopes and expectations, a promise of better football and there is eager anticipation among fans that their clubs would do better. While certain clubs were eager for the transfer window to open, there were the others who seemed wary of it for the fear of losing their best players.
Ever since the implementation of the Bosman ruling, which incidentally celebrated its 10th anniversary a couple of months back, the players have become stronger than the clubs. In addition, the gap between clubs seems to have widened financially, resulting in many clubs waiting for billionaires to take over and invest money into the clubs. Portsmouth might just be the next Chelsea as talks take place for a takeover by a Russian billionaire.
Meanwhile, I expect Chelsea's domination in EPL to end as soon as Sunderland wins another Premiership match. It's quite obvious that neither will happen in the near future. Boy! Am I eagerly awaiting for some exciting clashes between Chelsea and teams like Sheffield Utd next season!
There is the World Cup in the month of June where we can expect to see a wide galaxy of stars, all weary and burnt-out after a long season that included the respective leagues, Champions League, Cup and more Cup Championships. England coach Eriksson would have been very relieved to see ManUtd crash out of Europe altogether and thus, the burden on Rooney lessening to an extent.
Apart from the lone World Cup they won on home soil, the England football team always seem to falter in the top competitions and some cynics still point out that England was lucky as the ball never crossed the line in that fateful final. Maybe, the curse from that final victory is still on the national team. The team is being hyped up as never before and if the English press are to be believed, the only thing that stands between their team and the trophy is Brazil.
posted by Lucas @ 4:48 AM
2 Comments:
If england make it to the semis it ll be a great achievement. My favs are Argentina. They have a super squad.
I am not sure abt Argentina...they seem to be struggling at the moment. They lost their final WC qualifier...all doesn't seem to be well among the players with rumours of strife. Veron has no place in the squad mainly due to some problems captain Sorin has with him. Maradona wants Veron in the squad but Pekerman doesn't seem to budge from his stand. Also, Heinze is injured :( and mostly out of the WC.
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