Sports drive me insane

I have a term paper on which I really should be working right now, but instead I'm staring at the live scores of the Federer vs Verdasco match and I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown. I really admire Federer, and I know that he isn't as good as he used to be a couple of years back, but I still don't enjoy watching him lose. He is a set down and it was a deuce on his serve right now and thank God he won it, or I might have exploded.
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 :)

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:)

Watching United play today was amazing. After not having a particularly great past couple of football weeks I wasn't expecting much from them, and then I saw that Berba is still injured and I basically gave up. I'm glad they proved me wrong, because I enjoyed watching them walk all over Everton today :)
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...
Ahh, you like that hug, don't you?

RAWR

Gabs :)

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RAWR, second edition

So basically, it has been a horrible football month...
Rawr 1: Russia did not qualify. I was actually upset when I found this out, because ever since Euro 2008 I've been in love with their national team.
Rawr 2: Ukraine did not qualify. I have to support my Slavic peoples, and my best friend is Ukrainian so she would be pretty upset.
Rawr 3: Henry's hand! I really wanted Ireland to beat France, and they were doing so well but then Henry's stupid hand got in the way!!! He better get some HUGE punishment from FIFA or I will hunt him down.
Rawr 4: Bulgaria winning versus Malta. What's the point?! I mean you lost to Cyprus, why piss me off now?
Rawr 5: Ballack is injured! I love Ballack, so he better get his ass together and get well SOON.
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"News" and stuff

I really should be in the process of writing my ten paged paper about Don Quixote right now, but instead I have chosen to do this :) I've written about five pages so far, and the report is due Monday and it's really hard and complicated and blah, blah, blah.
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.
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Baby Come Back

Nando needs to come back. NOW! I am currently in the process of watching the Liverpool vs Birmingham City game, and Liverpool got really luck to equalize and be at 2-2 right now. Stevie is back, but it doesn't work without Nando. They've been looking so dreadful I cringe every time I watch them play....



We need you back, darling games aren't as pretty without you :(

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Bad Week(s)

The last couple of weeks have been pretty disastrous when it comes to football.
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...
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NO!

NOOOOO!!!
I just read that Nadno has hernia and might need an operation. This not only means that he might be out for a while, but will also be the end of Liverpool's season. They can't play without him! They especially can't play without him and Stevie out.
This is bad, really bad...

Fernando Torres




Feel better love <3
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