For those of you in blue, this is Ray Kennedy, he's what a class act looks like
You know what sucks? Having a job and not being able to blow everything off to watch the midweek matches. And not being comfortable enough with the IT monitoring to stream it at work. And McAfee catching all kinds of malicious URLs on Soccernet’s site that make it spaz out when you’re trying to load a gamecast. And John Terry.
We’ve got some outstanding matchups this weekend. The douchecanoe derby in London between a team I kind of respect because I certainly know how it is losing players to Spanish riches, and the team I wouldn’t relieve myself on if they were on fire and putting out the fire would save every endangered species in the world. Tough luck, polar bears, I’m a petty petty man and I feel wronged by Chelsea and their supporters so I’m going to wish nothing but bad things on both of them for the rest of their sorry existences.
But seriously why can’t we just ship a bunch of the whales that float up onto beaches up north and let the polar bears feed off them? At the very least it gives us a few years of Christmas commercials from Coca Cola.
But enough about how fat Michael Johnson is.
This is one of those days where I really have to think hard about who I want to triumph.
United and Everton? Well damn. The two that I’m bound to hate the most but also begrudgingly respect. United continuing to drop points is a good thing, and Everton probably don’t have a legitimate Europe push in them, so I’ve got to hope the blue side of Mersey gets the win.
Arsenal and Chelsea? Ugh. Luckily I plan on sleeping through this because I have a long day ahead of me. Arsenal are a more direct threat to fourth than Chelsea, but I don’t want to see Chelsea win a goddamn thing in my lifetime, so I guess a draw is the best thing here. But in reality I’ll only be pissed if Chelsea win. I just don’t like them. I don’t like their fans. I don’t like their kits. I don’t like that they gifted United a Champions League trophy. I don’t like their manager. I don’t like anything about them or anyone associated with them.
Essentially:
The Serie A matchups are even better, though. Sadly I’m going to miss both because I’ll be moving into my new house, but I really want to catch Juve and Inter. Inter tend to bore me in the league even when they’re not actually boring, but for some reason I love watching Juventus play. I’m going to try and catch a replay of it, which I never do really. It’s odd, I will not watch EPL games on delay, but I will often catch myself watching day or week old Serie A matches. Maybe because I don’t have a dog in the fight there’s no temporal bubble.
Anyway, if some of you don’t actually know who Ray Kennedy is, he’s one of the most revered players for both Arsenal and Liverpool. His story is tragic in that he had to sell all his memorabilia to pay medical bills, but he was just such a classy damn player. His debut for Liverpool after moving from Arsenal was against Chelsea. He scored right away. Chelsea lost.
So win it for Ray, Arsenal. Fuck off Chelsea. Eastern times follow this wonderful compilation.
England
Everton-Manchester United 7 a.m. ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com
Chelsea-Arsenal 7:30 a.m. ESPN2, ESPN3.com
Manchester City-Wolves 10 a.m. Fox Soccer
Sunderland-Aston Villa 10 a.m. Fox Soccer Plus, foxsoccer.tv
Norwich-Blackburn 10 a.m. foxsoccer.tv (tape at 4 p.m. on Fox Soccer Plus)
Wigan-Fulham 10 a.m. foxsoccer.tv (tape at 5 p.m. on Fox Soccer)
Swansea-Bolton 10 a.m. foxsoccer.tv
Burnley-Blackpool 12:20 p.m. foxsoccer.tv (tape at 6 p.m. on Fox Soccer Plus)
West Brom-Liverpool 12:30 p.m. Fox Soccer
Germany
Bayern Munich-Nuremburg 9:30 a.m. ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com
Italy
Roma-AC Milan noon Fox Soccer Plus, foxsoccer.tv
Inter Milan-Juventus 2:30 p.m. Fox Soccer, ESPN3.com
Spain
Villarreal-Rayo Vallecano noon DirecTV (477)
Valencia-Getafe noon ESPN Deportes, ESPN3.com
Barcelona-Mallorca 2 p.m. GolTV
France
PSG-Caen 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Ajaccio-Bordeaux 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Brest-Lorient 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Evian-Auxerre 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Montpellier-Nancy 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Dijon-Marseille 1 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Lyon-Saint Etienne 3 p.m. foxsoccer.tv
Netherlands
Ajax-Twente 2:45 p.m. ESPN3.com
Brazil
Santos-Atletico PR 4 p.m. GolTV
Mexico
Tijuana-San Luis 6 p.m. ESPN Deportes
Pachuca-Monterrey 8 p.m. Telefutura
Tigres-Santos Laguna 8 p.m. Telemundo
Irapuato-Leones Negros 8 p.m. GolTV
Atlas-Chivas 9:30 p.m. Galavision
Atlante-Morelia 10 p.m. Telefutura
NCAA
Boston College-Virginia 7 p.m. ESPN3.com
MLS
Real Salt Lake-Seattle 10 p.m. Fox Soccer
NASL
Fort Lauderdale-Minnesota 10 p.m. GolTV
Australia
Gold Coast-Newcastle 2 a.m. Fox Soccer (This is Sunday morning but yeah I’m not putting up anything that early Sunday)
Ross County 2*
Greenock Morton 0
That makes it five in a row, 10 scored and 1 conceded, and still topping the table by three points!
*That would be ATD’s Mark Corcoran with the assist on the second goal.
We’re cuckoo for Corcoran. Guessing that County’s exit from the Challenge Cup earlier can be counted as a blessing right now? (It was the Challenge Cup, right?)
I was at a second-hand clothing store at the market today and they had a handful of Bundesliga jerseys. Fuse would have made out like a bandit.