What you missed while getting a Lego-themed wedding band…
- UEFA Champions League roundup: Tottenham 4-1 FC Twente, Inter 4-0 Werder Bremen, Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-3 Lyon, Schalke 2-0 Benfica, Valencia 0-1 Manchester United, Rangers 1-0 Bursaspor, Rubin Kazan 1-1 Barcelona, Panathinaikos 0-2 København.
- CONCACAF Champions League roundup: Municipal 1-1 Columbus, Santos Laguna 5-1 Joe Public, Seattle 2-0 Marathon, Puerto Rico Islanders 3-2 Toluca.
- MLS roundup: Colorado 4-1 Philadelphia, San Jose 3-0 Chicago.
- Rangers manager Walter Smith employed the same 5-4-1 formation at home against Bursaspor that they used away at Manchester United.
- Sir Alex Ferguson think Javier Hernandez could challenge Wayne Rooney for a more regular spot in the starting rotation.
- Rio Ferdinand avoided a recurrence of his chronic back injury by standing for the entire 2-hour flight to Valencia.
- Harry Redknapp believes that Tottenham’s win over Twente can be put down to his team selection; Twente manager Michel Preud’homme thinks that referee Terje Hauge had more to do with their success.
- Redknapp also claims that Tom Huddlestone (who perhaps should’ve been sent off for elbowing Twente striker Marc Janko in the face) is the “most un-aggressive” player on the Spurs roster.
- Samuel Eto’o had a hat trick and an assist in Inter’s 4-0 win over Werder Bremen.
- For the third straight meeting between the two clubs, Barcelona failed to beat Rubin Kazan.
- Stuart Holden has extended his contract at Bolton through 2013.
- Tim Cahill is pretty sure that Everton will improve.
- Patrick Vieira wants a more regular role at Manchester City.
- Roy Hodgson isn’t prioritizing the Europa League, and yet he does plan on playing oft-injured striker Fernando Torres in today’s match against Utrecht.
- Lukasz Fabianski is “ready for Chelsea” after saving a penalty against Partizan Belgrade.
- Didier Drogba is similarly excisted to play against Arsenal on Saturday.
- Sheffield Wednesday will face Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on November 17th after being hit with their second winding up order of the season over £600,000 in unpaid taxes.
- AFC Wimbledon is on top of the table in the Blue Square Premier League; promotion this season would see Wimbledon back in the Football League for the first time since Wimbledon FC was relocated to Milton Keynes and renamed MK Dons.
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Municipal beat Columbus 2 – 1. The first goal was a beauty.
6 of the 21 goals scored yesterday were from penalties, and 4 from 21 yesterday. I don’t know the record for highest percentage of penalties scored in any given round, but 10/42 is 23%, and that seems pretty high.
I liked Wimbledon (now MK Dons). I was mad when they left for Keynes. I started following AFC Wimbledon when they were founded. I really, really hope they make the league. I think that club have a bright future.
On the other end of the spectrum, Sheffield Wednesday. The sad thing is that you get the feeling, this being the 3rd wind-up, that the end is coming soon. The sad thing with football is that this is going to be the rule upcoming. We’re only going to see more of this as the years roll by. The leagues are going to have to institute some financial controls to make this issue go away and given the money they make out of all of it, I’m sure the hesitance is there.
I’d like a bottle of whatever Cahill had with dinner. It must have been strong.
That whole Wimbledon/MK Dons thing always makes me think of the Browns/Ravens situation and just pisses me off.