From Row Z with Love – 1

 

Remember us in your prayers

Everyone who has seen Chicharito is familiar with his pre-match rituals. There he is. On his knees, eyes closed and arms raised in prayer.  Well guess what, I think it works for him. How else do you explain his performance against Wigan? He produced more bad touches in this single match than Giggsy has made premier league appearances. And to top it all, there was the penalty. It was a strike so weak, Al Habsi had enough time to take a picture of the rolling ball on Instagram, post it on Facebook and get three likes – all before comfortably saving it. But come the final whistle, and the man had an assist and a goal to his name. God sure does work in mysterious ways on the football field.

 Thank you for explaining

The prominent display of the DOCOMO sponsored ‘Replay’ sign was the highlight on an entertaining Saturday around the Premier League. The little revolving rectangle on the screen was so big, it almost blocked out Robert Huth at one point. In the end, when you think of it, it was a nice gesture. Without the assistance of the ‘replay’ band , this is how things would have unfolded – “Wow. Crouchie scores against City again. And again, this time in dramatic slow motion. And again, from a different angle. With  Joe Hart stranded on all occasions. City are going to find it hard to climb back from this 3-goal deficit. All thanks to you, DOCOMO. They will never fool us again. “

 Is it the white shirt?

Look who is back among the goals again – It is Dimitar, wait for it, Berbatov. That’s right. The only creature, apart from the horse, that is capable of sleeping in a standing position. The man who struggled to find the elusive net at Old Trafford, is curling them in at Craven Cottage. He grabbed a brace on his debut. Now who would have thought of that? Not the wily Scot for sure. Was it the Manchester weather? Was it Wayne Rooney’s hair? Was it Vidic’s wife? Whatever it was, it sure wouldn’t be the shirt. Or would it?

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First it was Wayne Bridge. Now it is Anton Ferdinand. Judging by the way John Terry is making friends, he could very well audition for a sequel to ‘How to lose friends and alienate people’. What say, Simon Pegg? Sleeping around with a colleague’s ex-wife, parking in handicapped spaces, accepting money from a reporter for a tour of the stadium, and the mother of it all – making racist remarks. And surprisingly, it is that friendly lamb of a boy, Joey Barton, who goes to jail. Mario Balotelli, it is time to up your game. There’s a new ‘gangsta’ in town.

 

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