Whew, what a weekend! Well, I missed my weekly dose of the recap show on account of an ALCS game 7. However, I did catch four of the weekend's games, including Manchester United's dismantling of Villa. Despite Villa scoring first, United were absolutely rampant, terrorizing the Villains at every turn. It's hard to believe this is even the same side we saw at the beginning of the season. Rooney ran riot in attack and the Red Devils linked up in more flowing offensive moves than I can remember. A very entertaining and offensive game.
Among the other leaders, Arsenal and Blackburn won games that they needed to and should have won. And Liverpool scored two penalties to steal all the points right at the death against archrivals Everton. There really wasn't any other choice for the ref than to give the two spot kicks, but my oh my, the calls that weren't made for Everton. For me the most glaring was that Kuyt was not sent off for his horror two-footed jump kick and Everton definitely had reason to believe they should have been given a penalty of their own. The Toffees will certainly think they've been hard done, should have at least garnered a point. Man City kept up their form with yet another goal from, guess who-- Elano.
Both Birmingham and Sunderland continued playing competently and coming away empty-handed. And today's Spurs-Newcastle match surely has Jol pushed to the brink. One can only imagine that anything less than a fabulous week will see him gone in a seven day's time.
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