Soccer Matchday: 29/09/09

Seriously wassup with all the hooha over the sacking of mourinho???

True, epl has lost quite a charismatic guy who sometimes, seem more interested in bickering with his fellow counterparts than playing football matches. But with the players and money at his disposal, the team plays surprisingly lousy football, accompanied by lousy results (lots of 1-0 wins). Isnt it better for someone to take over and make some major changes to the way they play?

During the match against man u, i thought chelsea played some better football than the mourinho's era. The players displayed more flair in their play, individually more adventurous with the ball themselves. This will promise goals, but of course, theres always chances of leaking too...

Grant may be tactically inferior to mourinho. But it's the players who determine most of the results, not managers. In tight matches, decisions made my managers will be crucial. But in a match like chelsea vs fulham, surely u cant argue that this can be regarded as tight in terms of quality of players?

So, my this week's best bet will be chelsea -1 1/2. Playing at home, fresh from a 4-0 thrashing of some lousy team a few days ago, and of course playing entertaining football again, wont make that hard to beat. Mind you, singapore pools is even offering quite a sumptuous opening odds of 2.10. U wont get such odds last season for a top team playing against an at-most middle table team. Forget abt all the hype around mourinho, the perceived doom-to-failure Grant, Chelsea will come out winning, with a margin of at least 2 goals to show for all their qualities.....

And of course, go for man u win agst lousy birmingham... Sure thrash.