All is set and done, the title more or less decided, the team is lost, they actually got no chance against ManU if you want to believe anyone...can't wait for Sid Lowe's verdict tomorrow...Eto'o is already talking about leaving next season, so..
eff it...Wednesday is your day...MAKE 'EM SAY UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
ManU
I used to see a chance to make it against ManU but right now, well...
Eitherway, a little bit of tactical thing for the game. The team needs Deco in midfield by any means necessary. In defense, I guess the line-up is given and despite everything, I'm not too worried about Zambrotta or Abidal against Ronaldo, specially if the Kaiser and the Marshall play too. The Marshall also should try to get a booking the next game, at least before the Kaiser gets one.
The key to me is the midfield. Here, I would do what Milan did last season:
I would play Xavi or Iniesta in center, flanked on both sides by Deco and Toure. That way Xavi, or Iniesta can dictate the game and the tempo much better and Yahya and Deco would try to take care of whoever attacks on that side, or Touré takes Ronaldo in some sort of man2man defense.
In attack, I would right now play with either Messi-Henry-Iniesta, or Messi-Henry-Eto'o. All in all, I would play Henry and somehow hope for a miraculous return to form of him, or I would bring him as a sub. But, Ferdinand is one of those defenders Eto'o doesn't like to play against at all. He is quick and physically strong and that's not Eto'o's game at all. Instead, I would try to play him against Neville or Wes Brown, whoever plays right.
So, this would be my team
------------1-------------------
--11--------4------3--------22--
------24-------6-------20-------
-------19----9------8----------
Subs: Henry for Xavi and if needed Bojan for Deco and Sylvinho for Abidal.
Eitherway, a little bit of tactical thing for the game. The team needs Deco in midfield by any means necessary. In defense, I guess the line-up is given and despite everything, I'm not too worried about Zambrotta or Abidal against Ronaldo, specially if the Kaiser and the Marshall play too. The Marshall also should try to get a booking the next game, at least before the Kaiser gets one.
The key to me is the midfield. Here, I would do what Milan did last season:
I would play Xavi or Iniesta in center, flanked on both sides by Deco and Toure. That way Xavi, or Iniesta can dictate the game and the tempo much better and Yahya and Deco would try to take care of whoever attacks on that side, or Touré takes Ronaldo in some sort of man2man defense.
In attack, I would right now play with either Messi-Henry-Iniesta, or Messi-Henry-Eto'o. All in all, I would play Henry and somehow hope for a miraculous return to form of him, or I would bring him as a sub. But, Ferdinand is one of those defenders Eto'o doesn't like to play against at all. He is quick and physically strong and that's not Eto'o's game at all. Instead, I would try to play him against Neville or Wes Brown, whoever plays right.
So, this would be my team
------------1-------------------
--11--------4------3--------22--
------24-------6-------20-------
-------19----9------8----------
Subs: Henry for Xavi and if needed Bojan for Deco and Sylvinho for Abidal.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thoughts on Californism Part III
Here's some type of Best Of to do list:
Best food: Burma Superstar
Like I said before, never had food as tasty as that. And the fact that you have a common table and everyone can eat from the dish of the other person and..just go there, best thing ever.
Best fastfood: In-N-Out
Despite Fatburger, Carl's Jr and whatever else, In-N-Out still rules in terms of freshness and taste.
Best sand: Venice Beach
Well, Venice...washed out, but what can I do? Still the best place to swim, surf and everything else.
Best place to avoid: malls and outlets
Don't waste your time going there, even if you are into shopping.
Best coffee: Peet's Coffee
Whoever told you that there is no good coffee in the US has been lying. Peet's ist just as good of a coffee as you can get outside of Italy. I personally can't think of an Austrian coffee shop or café serving better coffee. It's not all Strabugs.
Good city to visit if you stay off the redneck areas:
San Diego(Don't miss out on Balboa Park)
Best channel(TV): ESPN
I wished all US channels were like ESPN and that ESPN would show some European football too. But really, the people who work for them, apart of Stephen A. Smith, really know their sports, unlike European(German) Sports channels were mainly people talk lots of blabla not worth the money. But watching ESPN is one of the better things you can do, as there's probably no sports channel almost as good as them.
Best channel(radio): NPR
NPR is the one perfect channel. It has great in depth analysis on politics and news, it plays decent music, it's hosted by people with some sense of humour not taking themselves too serious(unlike an Austrian "alternative" channel) and you can basically listen to them all day. Make sure to download the excellent podcasts as well, specially All Things Considered.
Some other things to see include the Amoeba music store, The Getty, Downtown L.A., Fisherman's Wharf(but mainly for the seafood/only if you like seafood) and Berkeley. I haven't done all of that yet though, you got to keep something open for next time.
Best food: Burma Superstar
Like I said before, never had food as tasty as that. And the fact that you have a common table and everyone can eat from the dish of the other person and..just go there, best thing ever.
Best fastfood: In-N-Out
Despite Fatburger, Carl's Jr and whatever else, In-N-Out still rules in terms of freshness and taste.
Best sand: Venice Beach
Well, Venice...washed out, but what can I do? Still the best place to swim, surf and everything else.
Best place to avoid: malls and outlets
Don't waste your time going there, even if you are into shopping.
Best coffee: Peet's Coffee
Whoever told you that there is no good coffee in the US has been lying. Peet's ist just as good of a coffee as you can get outside of Italy. I personally can't think of an Austrian coffee shop or café serving better coffee. It's not all Strabugs.
Good city to visit if you stay off the redneck areas:
San Diego(Don't miss out on Balboa Park)
Best channel(TV): ESPN
I wished all US channels were like ESPN and that ESPN would show some European football too. But really, the people who work for them, apart of Stephen A. Smith, really know their sports, unlike European(German) Sports channels were mainly people talk lots of blabla not worth the money. But watching ESPN is one of the better things you can do, as there's probably no sports channel almost as good as them.
Best channel(radio): NPR
NPR is the one perfect channel. It has great in depth analysis on politics and news, it plays decent music, it's hosted by people with some sense of humour not taking themselves too serious(unlike an Austrian "alternative" channel) and you can basically listen to them all day. Make sure to download the excellent podcasts as well, specially All Things Considered.
Some other things to see include the Amoeba music store, The Getty, Downtown L.A., Fisherman's Wharf(but mainly for the seafood/only if you like seafood) and Berkeley. I haven't done all of that yet though, you got to keep something open for next time.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thoughts on Californism Part II
Looking back after yesterday, maybe the best thing about California was not seeing so much football. Barca's game last night was just utterly depressing and right now, I guess it's more a matter of Rijkaard wanting to leave than anything else.
I stayed up until 1.30 am to watch the NCAA Elite Eight games. Impressed once more by UCLA. Surprised that North Carolina won with 10 points against Louisville. But it's all good.
A quick look at the cities: I saw too little of LA unfortunately, only Santa Monica, a bit of Wilshire, but not the areas I wanted to visit, which was down to my means of transportation sucking bad. But LA is great, sort of. Just stay off the Tehrangeles path and you are safe. My next stop was San Diego, which is in some ways a wonderful city, because basically more than half of the people speak Spanish and not English, the weather is just incredible, Balboa park is even more incredible and overall, the city and the whole county is just wonderful from both city-built and nature view. The big problem might be that San Diego is a city dominated by Navy, Army and whatever else so you might just find the occasional redneck more easily than anywhere else in California.
But given the weather, who gives a ffffff
Vegas was sort of interesting. I still have a love/hate relationship with Vegas. I really don't know how to feel about it, but at least right now I see the point of having a city like Las Vegas. It's just a place they need to vent off, most of them at least. I would love to know how the flux to Vegas is but I might guess that it's more frequented by people from SoCal and maybe also the more conservative areas. In some ways, the city is just ridiculous, but it has some type of magic which makes sure you might return.
San Fran was to me the ultimate dream of a city as it combined everything good you have in Europe with the good things of California. It had a decent public transport, it's left-leaning(Nancy Pelosi for president!!) and the city and everything...well it's just a dream.
A good article I read today on the current economic crisis in the US, although I still have my doubts whether this is really the big one.
I stayed up until 1.30 am to watch the NCAA Elite Eight games. Impressed once more by UCLA. Surprised that North Carolina won with 10 points against Louisville. But it's all good.
A quick look at the cities: I saw too little of LA unfortunately, only Santa Monica, a bit of Wilshire, but not the areas I wanted to visit, which was down to my means of transportation sucking bad. But LA is great, sort of. Just stay off the Tehrangeles path and you are safe. My next stop was San Diego, which is in some ways a wonderful city, because basically more than half of the people speak Spanish and not English, the weather is just incredible, Balboa park is even more incredible and overall, the city and the whole county is just wonderful from both city-built and nature view. The big problem might be that San Diego is a city dominated by Navy, Army and whatever else so you might just find the occasional redneck more easily than anywhere else in California.
But given the weather, who gives a ffffff
Vegas was sort of interesting. I still have a love/hate relationship with Vegas. I really don't know how to feel about it, but at least right now I see the point of having a city like Las Vegas. It's just a place they need to vent off, most of them at least. I would love to know how the flux to Vegas is but I might guess that it's more frequented by people from SoCal and maybe also the more conservative areas. In some ways, the city is just ridiculous, but it has some type of magic which makes sure you might return.
San Fran was to me the ultimate dream of a city as it combined everything good you have in Europe with the good things of California. It had a decent public transport, it's left-leaning(Nancy Pelosi for president!!) and the city and everything...well it's just a dream.
A good article I read today on the current economic crisis in the US, although I still have my doubts whether this is really the big one.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thoughts on Californism Part I
I'm back home now from my 2 week trip to California. To me, there's the US and there's California, both are two different worlds. California, maybe it's the weather, maybe the weed, I really don't know, but this whole laidbackness and everything is just great and I can also live very well with friendly people, I don't need what I got here to be challenged. I didn't miss on anything really there, well maybe apart of internet but looking back, I didn't miss much there either.
For football, you got enough channels right now thanks to the growing number of latinos. But better than that, I got really hooked on March Madness(Go Bruins! And if it goes wrong, I bought my NC blue backpack already..), food is great, intellectual challenge is there(I still have to find a radio station in Europe as good as NPR, Financial Times, The Nation, NYT are available everywhere, I can't imagine a university I would rather prefer to study at than Berkeley), basically, you got everything there if you just look after it.
Yeah, alright, the people believe everything you tell them, Arnold is their governor..so what? Does it matter?
What bothered me so far most was the Tehran/Irangelesian style of living in the US, which basically consists of shopping at malls, going to Vegas, hanging out with Iranians all the time and after 20 years of living there, still not being able to speak english decently, plus believing blacks and latinos are some sort of lower people. But then again, that has nothing to do with Cali, but it's maybe more about Iranians.
Eitherway, if you ever hit San Francisco, make sure to visit Burma Superstar. I haven't had food as good as this in my whole life or let's say it's definetly top 5. Incredibly good restaurant.
For football, you got enough channels right now thanks to the growing number of latinos. But better than that, I got really hooked on March Madness(Go Bruins! And if it goes wrong, I bought my NC blue backpack already..), food is great, intellectual challenge is there(I still have to find a radio station in Europe as good as NPR, Financial Times, The Nation, NYT are available everywhere, I can't imagine a university I would rather prefer to study at than Berkeley), basically, you got everything there if you just look after it.
Yeah, alright, the people believe everything you tell them, Arnold is their governor..so what? Does it matter?
What bothered me so far most was the Tehran/Irangelesian style of living in the US, which basically consists of shopping at malls, going to Vegas, hanging out with Iranians all the time and after 20 years of living there, still not being able to speak english decently, plus believing blacks and latinos are some sort of lower people. But then again, that has nothing to do with Cali, but it's maybe more about Iranians.
Eitherway, if you ever hit San Francisco, make sure to visit Burma Superstar. I haven't had food as good as this in my whole life or let's say it's definetly top 5. Incredibly good restaurant.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Friend or Foe?
What I have been thinking and saying for a while...did Obama's spiritual father say anything really bad?
Tales from my father
Tales from my father
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