Saturday Morning Premiership Tidbits
Posted by Bobby on August 25, 2007
5AM and I’m ready to go. The first televised match starts in about two hours, so here’s some important information to browse through:
Supposedly, Sir Alex has predicted that United will win their first match this weekend. At the moment, it’s unclear what significance this has, as the same prediction was issued a week ago…. and the week before. It has also been announced that Brazil international Anderson will make his debut, in hopes of energizing the squad and getting everything back on the right track. Does anyone remember the last time a situation similar to this happened? (Kleberson 
). With Rooney and that Portuguese guy still out, things aren’t looking good for the Red Devils.
Kasey Keller joining Fulham means that there are now four bald Americans with a starting goalkeeper position in the EPL. Keller probably won’t start this week, but next week we could see a riot squad. If the sun shines, expect to see it glisten off the heads of Keller, Friedel, Hannnanhemasnhffbh (however the hell you spell it), and Howard. Alexi Lalas will then proceed to call one of them “the best goalkeeper in the world”, depending on which one happens to be mentioned in his next interview.
I have no idea if there have been any updates on Michael Ballack, but I wouldn’t expect to see him anytime soon. Supposedly he weaves all of Peter Cech’s rugby caps by hand. I’d really like to know if that little piece of cloth will really save Cech from head trauma if he’s involved in a scrum half as bad as the one that seriously injured him.
I’m also really bummed about the whole Brian McBride’s kneecap deciding to twist the wrong way and fly out the socket deal. Dempsey will look even more lost out there without the only decent striker the U.S. has ever produced. Shoot… with Keller, Bocanegra, Dempsey, and McBride, there’s no telling how many wasted build-ups and frustrating finishing moves that squad would be able to pull off. And we’d all get a birds-eye-view from that awesome Fulham roof cam (if you haven’t seen it, it basically looks like you’re looking at the action vertically for the entire game). I’ll cry if they are relegated.
Coming up in an hour or so: Arsenal vs. Man City.
