cosmicway

Arc de Triumph is at 15.30, clashes with second half. I expect CFC to be home and hosed by that hour. En cinque chevaux: 11 (Ectot) -16 (Avenir Certain) - 8 (Treve) -18 (Taghrooda) -7 (Just A Way).

It was a good match against strong opposition, most certainly not the likes of the Romanian team we played last year or Galata or Schalke who in my reckoning are not worthy of the bundesliga. About the missed chances, well those players we have are not exactly known for doing this every time, so it can only be seen as a strange coincidence.

tame efforts. schurle tried from an angle but the keeper saved. oscar was the worst finisher among those above.

Sporting are a good team. Left themselves exposed but they played well. We missed infinite number of chances, made it dangerous.

Dance of the missed chances. I think we are going to win - they are a relatively useful side up front. PSG looks like they are also going to win.

Dangerous political-military movements always existed in the middle east and in eastern Africa. Magdi, Tuareg, Black September, Saddam ... You put them down but nothing happens. The only real solution is a Marshall plan, to end poverty. It was done in Europe in the 1950s.

I will buy.

Turk hava yolari = Turkish airlines Turk deniz yolari = Turkish sea lines

We definitely played better in the same match last season. Again the woodwork saved City from more goals, but they failed to score whereas this time they were lucky to make it 1-1. The one point is ok by me but it's not one of the performences we are going to remember.

Fact is they were faster. In the first half Willian was outpaced and he did n't manage one correct pass. So even with ten men they created chances. It was lucky for them though. Nothing for 90 minutes and suddenly billiard-like accuracy.

Last year we played better. The posts saved them a from 3-0 defeat and towards the end they became dangerous. this time luck was on their side and after Diego hit the post, they got their equalizer through Lampard as well ! I think Toure was their best player. Overall not a bad result and certainly not disastrous.

Drogba put up a Torres performence yesterday. I think it's not good for him to get involved in a player capacity any more. Fabergas was unlucky to miss that chance in the first half and also to become the man responsible for Schalke's equalizer. They nicked the ball from him. I have seen countless such. One very typical was in last year's Arsenal v. Dortmund, the 1-2. Arsenal forward was looking for position in the edge of the box to shoot, has the ball nicked from him, counterattack, the Germans score. If the defenders don't play man to man or have eased down it always spells danger. Yesterday we missed 6 open goal chances: Ramirez, Cesc, Drogba (2), Hazard (2). Drogba finished the second of his chances as best as he could, also Hazard the second again of his two chances. The other four misses were horrible.

Cesc tried to scuff that ball. It's better to use the tip of your shoe in that position.

Stupid giveaway.

It was the day god fell asleep in Greece. Olympiakos could n't even hold the ball for the best part of one minute, but they scored three against a horrible Atletico defense. 3-2 in the end. Atletico managed a similar thing 5-6 years ago, lost home and away to Aris Salonika. Atletico had Forlan then.

Schalke put up a certain resistance last year, until the their goalie miskicked the ball. Because of the silly performences against the Swiss before Schalke, there was some danger. I don't fancy them, somewhat better than Galata Saray maybe but we got to be careful. On Sat we scored own goal and for a time it looked like Swansea were going to have a second rather than us equalizing. Swansea collapsed as soon as the second half started but that was their problem. I think we must be careful and avoid costly defensive errors.

Riddle for Liverpool supporters. If you find the solution Liverpool are going to win the league: You are given the set of the first 50 natural numbers N = {1,2,3 ... 50}. You pick two numbers at random and take them away from the set but add the value of their absolute difference. So if you pick 40 and 50 their difference is 10 and the new set is N1 = {1,2,3 ... 39,41 ... 48, 49,10}, that is 40 and 50 are gone and a 10 is added since |50-40| = 10. Continue in this vein until you are left with only one number. Prove -using analysis- that when you are down to one number, that number is always odd.

Anyone watch from firsteuro ?

Firstrow now wants me to disable adblock. That's kind of dangerous, ain't it ? Only audio now.

Alright if we find some who speak like Terry Thomas. But will they be finding the net ?

Ha. I though the police caught the spurs players for orgy - it happens some times.

L/pool 1-0 up. I mixed up the times. It was 15.30 Gr time not 15.30 UK time.

Huge drift for Spurs. 2.80 at 2pm, 6.50 now. What happened ???? L/pool were 2.70 now 1.40 !

Everton are good, I can think only of City as probably their betters. Very lucky for us to score in the first minute. Great win.