Blackburn are out of the Carling cup as Tevez played the game of his life.Poetry in motion.He scored 4 out of Man U's 5 goals. The other outcomes of the game are that Blackburn manager Paul Ince is on the brink and Fergie needs a rethink. That's more poetry for you now.

Palermo goalkeeper Marco Amelia's outstanding role in their 3-1 win over AC Milan involved stopping a Ronaldinho penalty among other things.Amelia spoke about the save he made....
"It was like playing against Ronaldinho on the Playstation," he excitedly claimed, according to Channel4.

A brutal reality check for Arsene Wenger's much-vaunted young stars.
burnlburnl

Actually he makes a complete hash of it.He used both hands...!
He needs to look at old Maradona videos..!

Scolari has a conspiracy theory..

It's getting a bit un-Real. Getafe beat them 3 -1 whereas Barcelona sailed past Sevilla in style.Great goals from Messi (2) and Eto'o.Barcelona continue their reign in Spain with an unbeaten run of 19 matches and a 6 point lead over the rest.

The Mumbai terror attack has put Diego Maradona's two-day trip to Kolkata in doubt.If it doesn't work out there will be no doubt be many bitterly disappointed fans in Kolkata.However the people of Mumbai have weightier things on their minds right now.
The writer Suketu Mehta has captured brilliantly the dogged, resilient compassion of Mumbai in his book "Maximum City: Mumbai Lost and Found.

Sublime skill
"Yoann Gourcuff's silky touches tormented Chelse and thrilled the home support all evening. Cries of 'Ole!' rang out when the 22-year-old lifted the ball over John Mikel Obi and darted past John Terry, prompting a reaction from the Blues' skipper for which he was booked.

People have almost forgotten that he could score like this.It was scored in the last 7 minutes and brought AC Milan back into the UEFA Cup game against Portsmouth.So near and yet so far for Portsmouth - who were leading 2 - 0 till then.

The Fifa world player of the year 2008 is going to be one of these......
Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Andrei Arshavin (Russia), Michael Ballack (Germany), Gianluigi Buffon (Italy), Iker Casillas (Spain), Deco (Portugal), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Steven Gerrard (England), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Kaka (Brazil), Frank Lampard (England), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Franck Ribery (France), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), John Terry (England), Fernando Torres (Spain), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain) and Xavi (Spain).

...among other things is that Gerrard does not chuck things back and get suspended for three games.Drogba threw the famous coin back and is now is in a 'woe is me' lament mood.
Gerrard - who was struck by a lighter chucked from the stands - exercised restraint,refrained from chucking the thing back and now the UEFA are investigating the matter.

Remember Dusty Fog ? He was the fastest gun in the west.Refer to a book by J T Edson called ""Gun Wizard" for confirmation of above fact.The point is that he was the fastest gun in the west who used two guns at the same time.He would confuse the bad guys because they wouldn't know which gun he was going to draw first and he usually drew both at the same time.

Enough of Arsenal .Valon Behrami's goal against Sunderland ended West Ham's run of seven matches with a win.He could have made it 2 - 0 but managed to miss the sitting duck.Check video...

Winterburn, Dixon, Bould, Adams. Men. They would have stopped Fulham, Stoke, Hull, Villa, and City. The best defense in the League. George Graham turned out to be the incubus and Wenger nurtured that legacy.

When Wenger bought a more post modern touch with Lauren and Toure joining Campell and Cole it proved equally effective.