I was hoping I would be posting on an Angels sweep over the Indians, but since they got blasted 3-11 in the series finale against the Tribe tonight, I think I'll shift my focus to my favorite English soccer team. A midweek match against Sheffield Wednesday on Wednesday (interestingly enough) provided an attempt for the Bar Codes to continue their climb up the Coca Cola Championship table, and they sure did. A golden goal from my main man, a clean sheet from out keeping sensation, and the Magpies walked away with an all important 1-0 win.
It was 44,000 Toon Army faithful screaming for the boys in bars against Sheff, and the cheering really paid off. After earning a thrilling hat trick against Reading on Saturday, my main main Shola Ameobi earned a game winning goal on a feed from Andy Carroll just 15 minutes in. Keeper Steve Harper blasted a ball down field, which was picked up by Andy Carroll. Carroll sent the ball to the Amoeba, who chested it down, and blasted the ball into the twine from 12 yards out. It was his fourth of the year, and the second time in as many games that Shola earned himself a game winning goal. There was a couple of chances for Sheffield, but Steve Harper and the defense did what they had to do to keep the three points for our boys. All in all, it was another solid effort in the Championship race for the studs from Newcastle.
After 3 games in the lower division, 'Castle are 2-0-1 with 7 points in their first 3 games. What a different story than last season. Man, I wonder if I'm really setting myself up for disappointment by getting ready for promotion just 3 games into the new season. Hm. A weekend match against Crystal Palace looks like it is getting ready to get me even more excited. Palace is 1-1-1 this season (4 points), which isn't great, but they are coming off of a crazy 3-1 win over Ipswich Town. Of course, Ipswich sucks, so that really isn't a big deal. If my boys overcome Crystal Palace this upcoming weekend, can we just get promoted now and get it over with? I mean, Burnley just beat Manchester United. Anything can happen.
I'd just like to touch briefly on Celtic's 0-2 loss against Arsenal on Tuesday. The Hoops went into their UEFA Champions League match with high hopes despite most of the world being pretty sure that the Gunners would blow my boys out of the water. Well, most of the world was right. Gallas scored a goal at 43 for the away side, and Caldwell earned himself an own goal to seal the deal in the 71st. Caldwell deflected a cross into his own net, past Boruc, and the stylings of my boys just didn't get it done. I'm not sure how you'd get it done with a 4-4-1-1 against a 4-3-3, but that is what the Hoops tried. Our chances of making the groups stage of the Champions League is seriously in question. Of course, if you asked the players of the Sligo side, they would tell you that we are mainly focused on playing a Saturday match against St. Johnstone in a SPL league battle. Johnstone tied in their only game this season, with Celtic winning theirs, and a big win against SJ would possibly pump us up for the second leg against Arsenal next Wednesday. Hail! Hail!
Usain Bolt broke the world record in the 200 tonight in Berlin, dropping it in 19.19 seconds. You know, if he was to run his 200 in his world record 100 time it would have been 19.16. That's only a 00.03 second drop off from his world record 100 time stretched out over twice the distance. Are you kidding me? I still don't like the Jamaican wonder, but that is damned impressive. At least we know that Bolt is actually what he says he is, unlike this South African (allegedly).
0 comments:
Post a Comment