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THE WEEKEND THAT WAS 7-3-06
Kean Thomas
THE WEEKEND THAT WAS IS SPONSORED BY PADDY POWER
The Oscars Edition
This weekend saw the good, the beautiful and the glitterati descend onto Hollywood and the good, the bad and the ugly descend onto Premiership grounds across the country.
Premier League
Middlesbrough 1 Birmingham City 0
Vids' Brummy voodoo continues. Five goals in four games against the second city team. It wasn't a pretty game. In fact if we're honest we were damned lucky to take all three points. This was a must-win-six-pointer and it gave us our third win on the bounce. Last time we achieved that Lee Cattermole was still at school. Last time we got four on the spin?? ...I'm betting Noah was still at school. Charlton away next weekend for the chance of connect four.
Bring on Roma.
WBA 1 Chelsea 2
It appears that the Chelsea team are getting as bored as I am of their winning ways and are deciding to spice things up a bit with a bit of chew. By all accounts it took Robbo just fifty-seven seconds to realise that Damien Duff was a f***ing f***y. Jose Mourinho took exception to this and called Robbo a f***ing w***er. More stars there than on Hollywood walk. Joe Cole and Didier 'Diver' Drogba netted for the champions elect, Kanu netted the consolation. WBA face Birmingham next week in what should be a cracker. 0-0 it'll be then.
Manchester City 2 Sunderland 1
What do you find in ancient Greece? Ancient kebabs.
Greek international Georgios Samaras bagged a couple to stink the soon to be relegated Mackems. Mick McCarthy has paid the price for not keeping them up by losing his job. Shame really, nice guy who told it like it was. Manchester City sit in ninth place and are still hunting for a European spot.
Tottenham 3 Blackburn 2
Good week for the new Ireland captain Robbie Keane who extended his goal scoring record midweek against Sweden and then goes and scores a couple against a much improved Blackburn side. Still don't like them though. Spuds are still in the all important fourth Champions League spot, five points ahead of Arsenal. Talking of which...
Fulham 0 Arsenal 4
How can Fulham be so crap as to lose 4-0 at home? It would never happen to us. Ahem.
Arsenal looked like scoring with every attack during this game and Fulham have to be thankful to their keeper for having a half decent game. Terry Henry bagged a brace, whilst the youngsters Adebayor & Fabregas helped themselves to a couple. Fulham slip below Boro in the table, while Arsenal look forward to Wednesday's clash with Real Madrid.
Aston Villa 1 Portsmouth 0
Villa keep their noses in front of us in the table, and more importantly to them move themselves three points away from the relegation zone and their West Midland neighbours WBA and Birmingham. Pompey are looking dead and buried now, with a defence that leaks like a sieve and an attack that really couldn't score in a brothel. Saying that I'd be happy if Boro took on Lua-Lua as he had a good partnership with the Yak.
Liverpool 0 Charlton 0
Oh dear, another Charlton goal fest. That's three 0-0 draws in a row for the South London team as they start to slip down the table after looking for a Euro spot earlier on. Liverpool face Benfica on Wednesday needing at least two goals to progress, and they haven't hit two goals in a game since the start of February when they beat...Charlton. Spooky.
Newcastle 3 Bolton 1
The Chuckle brothers continue their good run of results, three in a row now, up to eleventh, but still only five points in front of us. Talk about Hobson's choice. Is it possible for both team to lose? If only. Shearer got his 4,782,987 goal for Newcastle, Nobby (hee-hee) got another after his double last week. Shola Ameobi got the last after the funniest air shot I've seen since I played on Thursday.
West Ham 2 Everton 2
Match of the day according to Sky Sports Football First. And you know what? They got it right. What a game, four excellent goals and end-to-end attacking football and a rarity of a James Beattie goal. Marlon Harewood got the game going after a flowing move before Leon Osman hit a rocket from distance. Dean Ashton repaid another chunk of his transfer fee before Hailey's comet scored the equaliser.
Roma's winning run came to an end this weekend after a draw with Inter. Thanks to the Milanese for softening them up.
Spare a thought this week for the family of Peter Osgood, who died at the young age of 59 and for Gary MacAllister who sadly lost his wife this weekend. She leaves behind a young family.
Same time, same place next week and until then. COME ON BORO!
THE WEEKEND THAT WAS IS SPONSORED BY PADDY POWER
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