The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

By: chris | August 19th, 2008

The Good

Brazilians in London: Yeah yeah, Portsmouth ain’t exactly on their level, but Big Boss is going to be mighty pleased this season with Luiz & Deco running the show at Stamford Bridge. See, money can buy happiness.

HSV: Hamburger just lost their most bestest player and quite possibly the finest WAG in the Bundesliga, only adding insult to injury. So what did they go ahead and do? Take a point away from the big bad wolf at Allianz Arena in the first game of the season (should be mentioned BM was sans Luca Toni & Franck Ribery, but having watched the former closely this summer in Swissaustria…not sure it would have mattered).

First Timers: Both TSg 1899 Hoffenheim and Hull City made their top flight debuts this weekend and both came up with somewhat unexpected victories….against pretty shitty competition. Still, it’s something, and it’s much better than starting off with a pillar to post whipping by Chavski or Bayern.

The Bad

Bandwagon Fans: Everybody hates bandwagon jumpers. Even bandwagon jumpers themselves are self-loathing to some degree. Now if you thought the Mourinho era was bad, wait until LFP has Chavski running riot over the Prem every week, but doing so like Stamford Bridge is the Bolshoi Theatre. Staunch anti-Chelsea followers are going to become Chelsea fans without even knowing it.

The YouTube Police: We had a post last week of that fantabulous goal Cristiane (not Ronaldo) scored against Nigeria in Beijing. Said post has now, like many other fantabulous YouTubed goals, been confiscated by the YouTube Anti-Fun Police. So here’s the question: Dontcha maybe think women’s football could use the publicity?

D’oh.

Ronaldinho: Senor Xavi broke the Shocking! News! that Dinho likes to party and live up the lavish lifestyle, saying:

“Ronnie has always led the same sort of lifestyle. He always told us: ‘that’s the way I am’.

“When you lead that sort of life you have to understand that when your level drops then the knives will be out. He is like that, he likes going out and enjoying life.

So yeah, Milan, real quiet town. Good choice.

The Ugly

Stefanus van der Klarijn: You know you need to see it again.

Fulham: They suck. They knew they were going to suck. But they probably didn’t expect to be gifting goals to Prem debutants in the first game of the season.

It’s going to be a long, long season of relegation fighting at Craven Cottage.

Tottenham’s Board Room: If you’re a member of the hierarchy at White Hart Lane right now, you’re embroiled in two different soap operas as the transfer window winds down. Your best player wants to leave for greener pastures within the same division for a direct competitor; his prospective replacement is looking to leave his club, and would love to join yours….but only if he can’t have his first choice (a Spanish love affair). Oh, and his price tag is absolutely ridiculous. Good times.

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Marco Pantanella

Oooohhh... what do you think Viacom will do? Tell the users "bad boy for uploading these vids! If you do it again we'll come to your house and take you away, and your children will be put in foster care"?
Melissa

It's actually not the "YouTube Anti-Fun Police" but the assholes over at Viacom & NBC pulling the plug. YouTube (or rather Google) is resisting a recent court ruling where Viacom demanded the usernames of all users who uploaded video (presumably to catch all the folks who did the unspeakable - such as post hilarious Daily Show and Colbert Report clips recorded off tv). Google is also resisting the US government who recently ordered the company to hand over all their records of every single Google search. Yup. Google keeps records of every single search we do and which IP address we are coming from.
Jan

"HSV: Hamburger just lost their most bestest player and quite possibly the finest WAG in the Bundesliga"

Grammar nitpick: it's either just Hamburg or Hamburger SV.
sandrahn

Good post except your use of the word "direct competitor" to describe MU's relation to Spurs. Don't think so. Spurs' direct competitors are more like MCity, Blackburn and further down the league. They're not even in Villa's category.
Squirrelpants

"Chavski"? Really? Put some effort into your insulting nicknames.
Anna

"Both TSg 1899 Hoffenheim and Hull City made their top flight debuts this weekend and both came up with somewhat unexpected victories….against pretty shitty competition."

It's funny, though, how despite being the most inexperienced of the three new Bundesliga teams, nobody's willing to grant them the "plucky underdog" status because of their, erm, "sponsorship". But we'll have to wait for a few more matches until we know whether money in their case can buy the success - or a couple of fans, at least. 49 tickets sold for an away match is rather embarassing, if you think about it.