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Weekly Blog: [05/08/2010]

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Well after a week away, I was surprised by how many stories you can find to talk about. This week alone I’ve found at least 21 different issues to talk about and I’ll try to talk about them all, at least partially, in today’s blog.

Sorry for all those people who missed me whilst I was away haha. I’m back now, though, and you could say this is a bumper issue blog. Anyway, enough of that, onto today’s blog.

The first issue to raise today is, ofcourse, the issue of the “bid” to buy Liverpol FC from the Chineseman, Kenny Huang. Although, yesterday, he came out and said that no formal bid has been made for Liverpool FC. The news being reported today, on the BBC Sport website, is that the Chinese government has been linked with a move for Liverpool FC.

There is one small issue with this Kenny Huang. Although Liverpool fans are desperate for Liverpool to be sold from the cowboys, we must be careful not to sell to any old person just to get rid of the Americans. This Kenny Huang is reasonably unknown, although he claims he has a rich family behind him. He said he will take the debts from RBS [Royal Bank of Scotland] and pay off the debts, but if we give the debts to someone unknown, who knows what might happen with that debt.

Moving on from that story to another story about Liverpool which was their game vs Rabotnicki last week. Ok, it was mainly the youngsters (taking away the fairly experienced backline) but it wasn’t the best viewing ever. Although, our main team is yet to play a full game together and, ofcourse, everyone is expecting them to play better as we’re sure they will. Rabotnicki fans are also being looked into for “racist” comments about Liverpool’s players. Despite this, we won 2-0 which is all we asked for (not the result, but the win), let’s see how we fair tonight with our bigger players playing.

I’m very happy with the news of us resigning Fabio Aurelio after releasing him (stupidly) at the end of June. Who knows what is going on with Emiliano Insua after his move to Fiorentina fell through due to contract demands. I’m still extremely gutted with selling Benayoun to Chelsea, but what I don’t understand is why we sold him when we had no manager. Surely if we have no manager you shouldn’t be selling players from the team, no matter how big or small they are. Benayoun was easily one of our best players and to just sell him to Chelsea (who, funnily enough, Martin Broughton supports) is a bit mystifying. Joe Cole is more than adequate to cover for his loss, though, and I will go on record now saying he will be the scoop of the summer. It’s not everyday you can buy a player with his quality on a free. Imagine having Joe Cole, Benayoun, Steven Gerrard and Alberto Aquilani behind Fernando Torres. I would mention having Javier Mascherano in the squad but I don’t know what the hell he is doing, if he goes, I’d be demanding £30m for him and I’d kick him out the door with that.

There was rumours a week or so ago about Liverpool being interested in buying Jan Klaas Huntelaar with money plus a Ryan Babel swap. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’d rather keep Ryan Babel. My reasoning being:

- He is quicker;

- He is used to the Premier League;

- Huntelaar is not used to the Premier League;

- Ryan Babel has a lot of potential (most of which has been wasted y Rafa by playing him on the wing).

I keep hearing people saying that Ryan Babel is a flop but think about the amounts of chances he has had and where he has been playing when he has had his chances. He has been mostly playing on the wings. He is a striker! Not a winger. He is playing second fiddle to David N’Gog, what the fuck? Ryan Babel is far better than N’Gog (don’t let N’Gog’s two goals against Rabotnicki blind you). Play Ryan Babel up front and watch him bag the goals. Give him more chances and don’t play him on the wing.

It was brilliant hearing the news that Fernando Torres has said he is staying after having an interview with LFC.tv and I hope he can stay injury free this season.

Bad times for Manchester City as the new Premier League rules say you need to register a 25 man squad on 1^st September for the league and Manchester City have 59 senior players. The 25 man team must include 8 players brought up in England for 3 years before their 21^st birthday and 4 of them brought up through the Man City rank within the same 3 year time before their 21^st birthday. That means only 17 of the big names they have can be registered, whilst they can have as many players under 21 in their team playing as they want.

This weekend, the Npower Leagues (formerly the Coca-Cola leagues but now renamed) kick off and I was thinking to myself “who will be promoted to the Premier League?” It’s a tough decision, but I expect Middlesbrough to push for promotion, Hull City and, perhaps, Bristol City who have acquired David James and have been told they may loan Michael Owen. Portsmouth may be hit by a 20 point deduction due to them being in administration and even owing the local cat money (joke!). What has happened to Portsmouth? About 50 owners in the last 3 years and they can’t even afford the electricity to power their ground. If they lose this court case, they might be forced to disband and Portsmouth FC will die. Sad times.

With England manager Fabio Capello choosing to drop a lot of the flops and old players after a dismal World Cup, it seems like David James, Stephen Warnock, Ledley King [who Capello admitted that he should never have taken to the World Cup], Rob Green, Michael Carrick & Aaron Lennon will all be dropped. Jamie Carragher and Emile Heskey have both retired from international football. Kieran Gibbs and Jack Wilshire. After seeing Wilshire in the Emirates Cup, I’m surprised that Arsene Wenger has said he might not get the game time he wants, although he was fantastic and I hope he gets a place in the England team. Joe Hart is expected to take top spot in goal and Ben Foster might be recalled in the friendly vs Hungary.

Although I hate Harry Redknapp, as I think he is stuck up, arrogant and not very friendly (although I don’t know him in real life), I do agree with him that playing an international friendly 3 days before the Premier League kicks off is ridiculous. A lot of the players have just spent 6 weeks together for the World Cup and are probably sick of seeing each other and they’ve just got back to their clubs for preseason and now they’re off for another international game, after preparing for a few weeks for club duty, and then they come back on Friday. It’s ridiculous and a waste of time. Fabio Capello’s suggestion of having a mid-winter break like the rest of Europe has been rejected, Capello said this was the reason England flopped so much as they was tired after such a gruelling season.

Yesterday was the day Konami lifted the embargo for people to talk about the latest code of PES 2011 and, from what I’ve saw, it looks fantastic. Ok, I say that every year it seems, but this year, I can say right now, it will wipe the floor with FIFA 11. The first thing I looked to find out was whether Liverpool is licensed. Sadly (for Liverpool fans anyway), they aren’t. Manchester United are licensed but no other Premier League teams have been announced as licensed. The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are licensed again, rumours of the UEFA Super Cup being licensed are flying around and the Copa Libertadores (the South American version of the UEFA Champions League) is licensed.

The biggest news, though, to come out of this is that there is no stadium editor, as first thought, but there IS a stadium CREATOR. This shall be interesting to look at when the game comes out. The annoying Mark Lawrenson has been replaced by... an annoying Jim Begin. Replace one idiot with another, it makes sense. At least now we have an ITV commentary team, Jon Champion and Jim Beglin. The new menu layout looks awesome, new and refreshing. During the game, from what I’ve saw, the name plates at the bottom are gone, the players names appear above their heads, the power bar appears below their feet and there was no radar, although there probably will be one.

The news this week that Gary Neville has fucked up his £100,000 Mercedes was comical. The idiot put petrol into the car, which is ok, until you realise it’s a diesel car. What a twat!

Moving onto some non-sporting news, “adult entertainment” [basically pole dancing and shit like that] has been banned from being advertised in job centres as women might feel like they’re being “forced” to work there if they can’t find a job. A lot of nonsense.

The idea of the Mosque being built close to Ground Zero has gone ahead and will be done. This is absolutely ridiculous, it’s like putting a Nazi memorabilia shop next to a World War 2 concentration camp, it doesn’t happen! Which twat decided to do this? The sick minded bastards!

A funny story this week is a man is packaging himself to the Edinburgh festival. He is going to get his mates to tape him into a box and pack him onto a delivery van to be delivered to Edinburgh. He will have a drink and a phone with Twitter on to keep him busy and others updated on his travels. Another person is challenging himself by only catching local buses to get there.

This week, David Cameron is thinking of bringing in yet a new law which is anyone living in a council house will be reviewed every 5 years to see if they are allowed to keep their house. Basically, if there is only 1 of you living in a house and you have a 3 bedroom house, you might be told to move to a 1 bedroom accommodation. Basically, moving British people so that immigrants with 20 kids can take our houses, that is another story though. It looks like Cameron is attacking the poor.. Again! Does this mean the Queen has to move out of Buckingham Palace? She doesn’t need that many bedrooms.

And finally, 3 men travelling abroad on RyanAir had to pay £1,135 to transport their 3 violins abroad. Looks like RyanAir are on the fiddle again! Sorry, I couldn’t help the joke xD

Anyway, that is all for this week’s blog. I haven’t quite got through all 21 subjects but I will finish the list off next week. Comments below please and I’m yet to decide on next week’s blog so ideas will be welcome.