Some things never change. Chelsea lose or draw and Jose whines and whinges about the conspiracy against his poor liddle club. Reminds me of a comment I heard from a ref walking off the field after a youth championship game, responding to a coach protesting calls:

"If you'd have been a better coach or your team had been more skilled, you wouldn't have to worry about penalty kicks."

For the record, though Manchester United's game was not a great performance, I watched the replay of O'Shea's tackle on Gook about ten times and O'Shea did get (just!) the ball before he clattered through the player. No penalty.

Last year, I was saying he was all dribble, no net. This year he's going to win every award on the planet. CRon has been phenomenal this year. He deserves it (Dammit!).

The Portuguese winger declared it was a 'big honour' to be singled out by
his peers - but does not intend to rest on his laurels.

Ronaldo said: 'I want to keep working hard and getting better because these
trophies have now given me more motivation.

Uh, oh...

At least not all is lost for Arsenal

According to a newspaper report on Monday the 81-year-old
Queen Elizabeth, like her late mother, has been a keen follower
of the Gunners for 50 years.

'It seems the Queen follows football and she told us she was
an Arsenal fan,' Fabregas is quoted as saying. 'She appeared to
definitely know who I was and we exchanged a few special words.'


An unnamed senior royal source also confirms in the article,
which is accompanied by a mocked up photograph of the Queen
wearing a red Arsenal shirt, that she supports the club.

Hmmm. Not sure that isn't the equivalent of having your grandmother think that new band you like is "pretty snazzy..."

Another disappointing weekend for the Gunners, BTB, allowing Jermaine Jenas (rhymes with...er...weenus) to equalize at the very, very, very last kick of the game, when they'd dominated all day long. Arsenal is reported to have only come to life after young Cesc Fabregas was subbed on. How much does this team need this kid?!

On a brighter note, Celtic won the Scottish Premier League for a record 1,000th time in a row! Ok, I may be stretching it a bit, but they've won a lot of titles. Shunsuke Nakamura - perhaps, the deadliest dead ball hitter alive - notched the win out of a knotted affair with an absolutely magical free kick.
Check out some of Nakamura's work at YouTube.