A Girl With A Football Obsession =)

I love my team and I criticize them all the time, but I don't think that's a bad thing. I don't like to make excuses for them when they are bad, but I will defend them when other attack my boys.

I didn't get to watch the game, I've been missing way too many games recently and I hate it. So here are some pictures:

There is so much awesome in this picture :) image via Reuters

The scoreline says it all Image via Getty

Sir Alex needs to figure a way out of our defense crisis because we cannot keep playing with Fletcher as a right back. Without him our midfield looks depleted and lacks the creativity. Rooney also needs to get his game back because the last couple of games he has not shown up at all. If he wants to prove us his greatness he needs to start scoring a lot more goals. I still don't understand why Berbatov does not play the full 90 minutes. He seems to be pretty fit. I know that Sir Alex wants to avoid any more injuries, but we do need players in order to do well.

I don't even want to discuss our defense...

Valencia were not much better, but at least they didn't lose. The game was actually boring, and nothing interesting happened. Veeyah's genius didn't show up at all, Mata was OK, but I have to say that both teams played really defensive football.

Liverpool seem to be having a mental breakdown so I don't even want to talk about them.

I said in an earlier post that I was going to start watching the Bundesliga so I watched the replay of Bayern vs Berlin today. I was really impressed by the way that Bayern played. It was quality football and they are a really great team. I know that they had a really shaky start to the season and they seem to be back in track. They played so well and dominated the entire game, it was beautiful to watch. There seems to be so much discipline in German football, and I really like that. There was no arguing with the ref, no pointless falling to the ground, it was complete football and I loved it.

I actually feel really bad for Mark Hughes. Poor Sparky, I think he really tried to something with City, but City are shit, so he failed epicly...

My dad just came in to tell me that United didn't lose to Sunderland. I told him I know, they lost to Fulham. Then he said "Oh the same Fulham that drew 1-1 with CSKA Sofia. They couldn't beat CSKA, but they could beat United. How sad is that?" I then proceded to kick him out of my room.

Then I felt like I had betrayed them, so I am now wearing my United scarf, just to prove myself that I still love them. I couldn't finish watching the game, it was that bad. I turned it off about five or six minutes before the end. I think I was hoping that when I checked the score they would have equalized at the last minute or something like that, but none of the happened. I think I'm actually more upset with Fergie leaving Berba, Owen, and Obertan on the bench and taking out Giggsy so early. I think those were some bad decisions and Berba and Owen definitely should have started and we should have played a 4-3-3 or something like that. Anything would be better than 5-4-1. And the Rooney dive was a fucking disgrace. I don't understand why he did it, and he never should have done it. I think that he is one of today's more fair football players, but that really just made me angry. I don't know what's up with footballers these days, first Gerrard, now Rooney and Xavi...

I'm just really upset that we didn't win because that would have given us the same number of points as Chelsea and we would have had the opportunity to top the table. I don't think that they can win the title this year, or win the Champions league. Our squad is definitely not strong enough.

And Valencia... Oh poor Vale... I was really hoping that they would be able to win it against Real, and they back twice, but the poor things were unable to score the final equalizer. (Score was 3-2)

When we went in to the match against Wolfsburg on Tuesday I expected them to lose 2-0. With a team of two first-team defenders, we really had no chance. 13 of the 19 players were midfielders. 13. Holy crap. Park was forced to play defense, and he is a winger, not a defender. I have to say that we did look really bad. We couldn't keep possession, but Kuszczak is my hero. He made so many great saves, he basically saved the game for us. Along with Michael Owen, Obertan was brilliant. I think it was the second goal where he beat like three defenders to make the pass to Owen, who scored.

I really can't hate Owen after he scored the winner against City and scored a hattrick to put us on top of the group. He is such a brilliant player, just not all the time. I think he has to be in a good mood or something. Basically, I think that he has been a good signing for United.

On a different note, I have no idea what we are going to do against Villa this weekend. I hope that Rooney and the Berba are fit so they can start, but defense will be a big problem. Villa are a good team, and I don't think that we will be able to get away with mediocrity again.

Liverpool were also pretty horrible today. I thought that because it was their last game in the Champions League this season they would win it, but of course they decided to prove me wrong. Torres came on for around twenty minutes and his brilliance is back. The team doesn't seem to be connecting and that bothers me a lot.

Barcelona also got away today with a 2-1 win over Dinamo Kiev. I was hoping that they won't qualify, but they are Barca after all.

I've decided to resurrect my love for German football before the World Cup, so I will start watching Bayern Munich again. I love all their players, but I haven't been watching any of the Bundesliga matches, so I've decided that I will watch at least one match every week.

Berba seems to have recovered from his injury, he played for around 25 minutes today, and he didn't really do much, but I'm glad he is back.

I'm afraid to admit this, but today I rooted for City. I know I should hate them, but when they had the opportunity to help United I will always support them. Now, we are just two points behind Chelsea and hopefully they will drop more points soon. I was ecstatic when Chelsea missed the penalty, because they never miss penalties, and when Tevez scored.

Real are also winning, and CRon is back and scoring. KAKA isn't here, which is making me really sad, and I didn't want to watch the game, but I saw Sergio score!

I don't want to talk about Liverpool.

I'm pretty happy with the groups, but there isn't anything really interesting going on, except maybe in group G, the one with Brazil, Portugal, and Cote d'Ivoire. I hope that there are underdogs, because those always make the tournament more interesting. I'm happy with Germany's draw, it doesn't look like it's such a tough group, although Serbia and Ghana are not bad teams. Hopefully, they will make it out whole. As much as I hated Spain during the European Cup last summer, I seem to love them now, but think I still support Germany over Spain. I refuse to give up my first football love.

I'm really upset though, because tomorrow I won't be able to watch the United game tomorrow. I've been pretty good with their games. I think I've watched the past 10 games, and I've been happy with their results (except Chelsea, of course). I wanted to watch them hopefully, hammer Hull so I will have to find a replay somehow.

We are going to the semis.

Berba is back and he is pretty

Everything is back to normal

We better kick some serious ass this weekend :)

And Valencia better play well tomorrow too, because that would make this a good week. So kick some ass my boys

And Silva is making me cry. I can't believe he will be out for a month. Fucking pricks that keep kicking him.

So I was pretty happy with Unite's win, although their defense was disgusting. They were lucky that they played Pompy and not some decent team. Wazza was great, though, which can be seen by the hat-trick. And Giggsy just makes me smile. I was really happy that all the old guys are back in the team. Neville was bitch-facing all over the pitch, Scholsey was all gingery, and Giggsy, well he was just being Giggsy. Thomas Kuahjkfhsdkjfhk, whatever his last name is, was awesome at goal, I think he will inherit Van Der Saar's spot.

Valencia, on the other hand made RAWR. They played so well, and they were leading 1-0... They should have won the game! I can't believe they let whatever other team they were playing score! And poor Silva had to be subbed because of injury, but Veeyah was great. I still can't get over his karate kick goal.

Chelsea also won, so they are still five points ahead of us... At least Arsenal are now like fourth or something. Chelsea need to start loosing. NOW.

Oh, Liverpool won, so I guess good for them...

All the build up around the Classico was for nothing. The game was pretty boring, and both Barca and Real really sucked. I didn't think the football was of such great quality and both teams were so disorganized, although I have to give it to the Barca defense, they were pretty great. I think that I have finally decided if I like Barca or Real more. I think the only reason I watch Barca is because they play great football, I actually don't like them at all. But I do like Real. OK, let me correct that, I like Kaka. I think he is the only reason I watch Real. Him and Ronaldo, because I want to see how he does after he left Man United.

Oh, and he is pretty to look at.

Seriously, Man United, losing to Besiktas at home? At home? If you can't beat Besiktas what am I to expect from you? I know that they weren't playing with their best team, but come on!If they don't win this weekend there will be some madness going on on this blog.

Also poor Liverpool are killing me... If Valencia make it through to the group stages and have to play Liverpool that will be very interesting. Two of my favorite players against one of my favorite teams... I think I'll go with Vale and Torres and Gerrard can console each other. It's been a pretty uninteresting several weeks in football, the games have not been as exciting, but I'm pumped for the World Cup!!! I think it's less than 200 days now!!!

The reasons we lost:

Gibson was singing

Macheda hung about and bitchfaced/ looked pretty

Anderson was scared of the ball

In tennis news... FEDERER!!! So, I really did think that he was starting to lose some of his edge after the U.S. Open, but he's been beating good players left and right, I'm so happy that he is playing well and I hope he wins the ATP tournament.

RAWR

I think that my obsession with sports have become a little unhealthy now. I have trouble concentrating, I have to check sports websites (ontd football) every five seconds and I can't really talk about anything else but sports. It's not like they make me happy or anything. Yeah, maybe I am happy after Manchester United win, but the nervousness and freaking out before and during the game definitely outweigh the happiness...

Huh.. maybe watching football is worth it :)

I've always liked Fletcher, but ever since he scored during the Man City game I started to really like him and now he is one of my favorite players on United. Valencia was also brilliant, but I think that he shouldn't come into the defense that much, he should stay more up front. Owen and Rooney didn't have a particularlI y great game, and Rooney was clearly annoyed to be subbed. Rooney really needs to step up and start scoring goals if he wants to be as great as Sir Alex claims he is.

I really like Gaby Obertan and I think he will have a great future with United, but his gloves are kind of annoying me.

Anyway, I also watched one of the most boring games ever, the Real Madrid vs. Sporting (I think) game which ended 1-0 for Real. Real looked pretty dreadful, and Kaka was getting annoyed, while CRon was sitting on the bench texting and laughing. I think that the most interesting part of the game was definitely seeing Ronaldo text. I think that the commentators were also getting kind of bored because they weren't talking much...

Basically, football has been helping me procrastinate... This week was spirit week at my school and Tuesday was Touchdown Tuesday and everyone was supposed to wear their football jerseys and stuff and I borrowed a Manchester jersey from a friend of mine (because even though I'm obsessed with them, I don't own their jersey) and wore my Manchester scarf. It was really cool, except one of my friends wore and Arsenal jersey and I got really mad, I think a little overly mad, but hey they all know about my live for United and my hate for pretty much every other team. There were a couple of people with Barcelona jerseys and I really wanted to take a picture with them, but I think it would have been kind of awkward because I didn't know any of them. But it was really fun to be able to show my United pride to everyone at school, I think that if people didn't know before, now they kind of have to realize that I'm the crazy girl with the football obsession.

While I was procrastinating today I was reading some articles about stuff that Nani and Evra had said in recent interviews, and one of them made me really angry, while the other one made me really happy.

Patrice is just such a loyal player and he makes me smile when I see him. Knowing that he really cares about United makes me like him even more, so he is no my Berba-Fletcher-Giggsy list (which is the good list).

Nani, on the other hand, just pissed me off! I mean he obviously doesn't start all the time because he is not good enough. He really needs to raise his game, because everyone has this season since Ronaldo has gone. I don't understand what his problem is, the only way in which he can earn his spot in United is by playing well, not by complaining... He has earned a spot on my Owen-Rio-Tevez list, which is not a list you want to be on.

Anyway, I think that Sir Alex's punishment by the FA was a little over the top, but we all know he deserved it. He did make inappropriate comments about the referee's fitness, but I think that a four-match ban was a bit too much.

I should probably stop procrastinating soon and go finish my paper.

To start with Manchester. First, they lose to a horrible playing Liverpool, then they pull of only a 2-0 win over some random team, and then they lose to Chelsea when they should have won. I rarely say this, because I am extremely critical of United and I hate having to defend them when they lose. But they should have won the Chelsea game. They played extremely well. Defense was there, midfield was there, everything was there. It was as though Ronaldo never left, and Vidic and Rio are not injured. But we let the game get away from us, and there is nothing we can do about it, as we sit at third place right now. The Champions League match on Wednesday was also horrific, although it was a good game to watch. We qualified, so I guess I shouldn't complain much...

Liverpool is next, and oh, boy are they in trouble... They've won only one in their last seven games, and they lost to Fulham, and they drew with Lyon. It's going pretty bad for them. I guess I'm lucky that I'm not a Liverpool fan, I just think they are cool :)

Valencia. They've been doing pretty well in La Liga, but pretty dreadful in the UEFA League. They better pick it up, or they won't qualify.

The Bulgarian teams. I think they have the fewest number of points in any of the groups so far, so it's pretty sad. And I was hoping that they could pull off a miracle or something this year, but then again I hope every year.

I'm working on a project for school and I have to log in to this thing and the password is miamidade, and I typed Manchester instead, this is how bad my obsession is...

Waking up early on Halloween to watch football sucks.

But it's worth it.

Why do I do all this for you?

BTW, can any United fan look at a picture of Tevez and not feel like punching him in the face?

I thought that the book did a really good job at showing what football really does to some people, and how important it is to us, the fans. I'm actually afraid to become that obsessed with football. I still can't believe how it's taken over my life in less than a year, and how much United started to matter to me. Living in Miami, where no one really cares about European club football (except Barca) I have never met any other United fan. Here, Manchester United belong to me. I don't care about who owns them, who their manager is, they are my team. I've never been to an actual game, but in the past year that goal has made it's way all the way at the top of my "To Do Before I Die" lists :)

I guess what I'm trying to say is, that the book is amazing. If you haven't read it, go read it. Now.

RAWR.

Both of the Bulgarian teams lost their matches, leaving them at the bottom of their respective tables. CSKA has only one point, and Levski has 0, I think they are the only team without a point. Valencia also didn't perform as well as they should have, even though Veeya was playing. Liverpool also lost and I was pissed because they had been playing dreadful football lately. Man United's performance in Moscow also wasn't pretty.

Now moving on to the more important stuff. Let's begin with the only positive thing from this weekend (unless you are a Liverpool/Chelsea fan)- Valencia. They were lovely against whatever team they played and they won 3-0, with Veeya scoring, of course.

The bad: Real also drew with Sporting (I think) and I wasn't happy because I don't like it when Kaka is sad. Ronaldo really needs to get back on that pitch and make him happy again, and they can make football babies. I mean goals...

The ugly: I guess I should give you a warning that the following paragraphs/ pages might be filled with tons of angry United rambling.

The fact that they lost has definitely reflected my mood this week, and anytime any of my friends (who don't give a crap about football) mention United I feel like kicking a kitten. I guess I should probably talk about the game and how stuff went. I was really nervous and I didn't sleep well, but just like before any major game I knew that if they had a chance to win, then United would screw up. It still hurts when my prediction does come true.

Our starting line-up was not weak, and now that we have van der Sar back our back line should have been much more stable. One thing I didn't understand was why Darren Fletcher did not start/ was not on the bench. He is a great player and he could have been a great contribution to the team.

Berbatov and Rooney played up front, but as usual Berba was the link between midfield and Rooney. The first couple of minutes Rooney had some good attacks, but after that he was gone. Berbatov tried to make something happen with Valencia, but he didn't look very enthusiastic. Neither one was at their best shape, Berba's passes weren't as good as they usually were, and Valencia was chasing down balls like he should have been. Giggs wasn't much better either, I think he should have been subbed. I didn't understand why Sir Alex subbed Berba and not Rooney. He should have brought Owen in much earlier and taken out Rooney because he was obviously struggling.

Scholes and Carrick did OK, but not as well as I would have likes. Scholes' passes were flawless, like usual, but that was all he did, he didn't really defend or help create any situations. Carrick did much better, he created many opportunities, but he couldn't execute them.

Our back four were pretty poor, especially whenever Torres touched the ball. I mean you could see the fear on their faces the moment the freckles got the ball. Ferdinand was out of shape, and he should have been able to stop Torres when he broke away and score the goal. Vidic was fine, but some of his tackles were awful, same goes for Evra.

It was pretty bad, and we deserved to lose, but I'm still mad. Berba shouldn't have gotten that frustrated with all the challenges that went against him, that definitely affected his football. Also, Torres!!! AHHH!!! That little b*tch! I mean, I love him and all, but what was with all the diving?! I think all the frustration is out.

They better destroy Blackburn in their next game, or I will be really mad.

At least this is better than 4-1... Right?

It needs to be Sunday, like now.

I'm really nervous, and I don't know if United can pull it off.

I mean, it is Anfield...

And they haven't been playing that well... 

AHHHHH!!!

I guess I'll just think about Valencia for a while

At least they make me smile :)

And this guy makes me smile too:

- a part of the Man United game 

- the Liverpool vs Sunderland match aka the Pepe Reina vs The Red Ball Match 

- Barcelona vs. Valencia!!!!

- Real Madrid vs whatever aka Kaka-Did-Not-Take-His-Shirt-Off vs. *yawn*
- Inter vs. Geno aka OMG Stankovich vs. whaa?

- Milan vs Roma aka PATO vs. ?

- Man City vs Wigan aka Bulgarian scored vs boring 

I discovered that while my favorite Milan player might be the seventeen year old Brazilian who goes by the name of Pato, I still love Inzaghi. That dude is a complete genius! Seriously, he is about a hundred years old in football years, and he is still playing, as a striker nonetheless. 

I was quite happy that City didn't win, I just love it when my Mans are on top of the table :)