Finally free for a new post and lots
of things did happened in the last few weeks. As mentioned in earlier posts,
the last race of the F1 season did finished dramatically, and it ended up
another heart break for me! Who would have thought that Sebastien Vettel would
have a disastrous start to end up in last place in the opening lap and went on
to finish the race as the World Champion. Alonso did whatever he could to
finish 2nd in the race, but still lost to Vettel by mere 3 points.
Rafael Benitez was appointed as the
manager of Chelsea and what a start did he had. Immediately he had all the home
fans in unity to jeer and boo him, which just a few seasons ago, he was the
manager of Liverpool who denied Chelsea’s advancements in the Champions’ League
time and time again. The year Liverpool won the Champions’ League, they met
Chelsea in the semi-final and Liverpool won by a Luis Garcia’s goal that was
not even close to the goal line! No wonder the Chelsea fans can’t stand Benitez
now managing their team. Sometimes you just have to wonder what is Roman
thinking.
It is a fact that Benitez did won
lots of trophies before, but if you look into details, he won trophies only
when he took over a team. In fact, the teams he won trophies with, were built
by his predecessors. Just look at the teams he built when he had prolonged his
stay. Liverpool went from bad to worse, Inter Milan went from champions to
struggle in mid table. The only midas touch he seemed to have, is to get
Fernando Torres to score. No managers seemed to be able to get the best out of
Torres and since his transfer to Chelsea, he seemed to be past his best and
becoming a joke when he should be in his prime, remember his glaring miss against
in front of an open goal mouth? Benitez arrived and after a slow start, he did
manage to get Torres to score in consecutive matches.
Anyway back to local front,
Singapore got off to a good start in the Suzuki Cup by beating Malaysia. Then they
lost to Indonesia, which could only draw 2 all with Laos! Are the standards in
the region rising or are we actually moving backwards? Needing to win to
advance, Singapore chose to make things difficult for themselves by allowing
Laos a 2 goal lead before defeating them by 4-2, and topping the group.
Thailand seemed to be back to their best by topping the other group with Philippines
advancing at the expense of Vietnam. Now the question is, will Singapore be
able to defeat Philippines? The Lions had not scored against them in their last
3 encounters.
I would like to see a final of 3 times
champions Thailand taking on 3 times champions Singapore, but the romantics in
me would definitely root for Philippines for a spot in the finals, which would
be at the expense of Singapore. Seems like I’m not even giving a chance to
Malaysia at all!
Will there be anymore drama in the
sporting world towards the end of the year? I do hope so because this what
sport is about and how spectators enjoy the sports.
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