Thursday football talk

I have not had time to write about the trip to Malaysia out I wanted to quickly talk about the overnight internationals and the upcoming EPL season.

First thing is that Australia has qualified for the Asia Cup next year which will be held in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and MALAYSIA. The game was pretty poor as they were made up of a group of young guys who play in our national competition the A-League. From the standard of passing I see why they play here and not in Europe. It was average but come the Asia cup, we should get the regulars in.

Which bring me to hoping they get grouped with Singapore or Malaysia (more so the latter) as it is likely that their games will be played in the land of my birth. Then I can start a football odyssey and go to their matches. It shall be great fun to partake and catch up with all. Now I have to convince Metria to come along. She can visit her friends and I can happily watch football. Steven – you should come as well!

Steven is my beloved cousin, a fellow Liverpudlian supporter (a great bloke then!!) and an Englishmen. His national team destroyed the Greeks via a 4 goal whooping. But beware of Greeks conceding goals. Actually not much should be read into the game as it was a friendly. See they are grouped with Russia who are managed for my nominee for “Australian” of the Year Guus Hiddink. And they better be careful, they may be in for a rude surprise!

Still the team looked a lot better with the new set up. Defoe as a striker was ordinary. But Stevie on the right worked well and Lampard played good in central midfield with Owen Hargraves as the holding player. There was more cohesiveness on the pitch and the first half was really good. Too bad they show this form 6 weeks too late and not when it counted. Oh well….

Lastly, I am looking forward to the start of the EPL season. Finally footy is back and we can look forward to weekends staying up late and watching matches. Sadly there is no fun as I expect Chelsea to win it all followed by LFC, then a gap to a combination of Arsenal, ManUre, Newcastle and Spurs.

But again Chelsea can not be considered a big club, we know the reason why the have won so much yet they have not managed to win a cup apart from the Mickey Mouse one – same as MU. All that money has ruined the game and of Roman leaves I hope the club falls coz they are not real, they are fakes and deserve all the supporters who have joined them after jumping off the MU bandwagon!