ONTD FOOTBALL

 
(picture carefully selected so you can get a nice clear view of Fronk's hunchback :ppp)

It was a boss day for my two fav footballers today!!! =) Frank got the winner against Wolves to ease some pressure of AVB (although negl, he should count his lucky David Luiz stars that he wasn't sent off) to make him the highest scoring midfielder in the premier league, and my Crouchie became a centurion by bagging his 100th and 101st premier league goals!


( Frank & Pete not needing to train~~ )


So whilst we're talking records, what records are you hoping your team or your favourite players break this year, whether it be personal or all-time?

Hi darlings! OK, I counted up nominations from this entry, and in the case of categories where there were some serious lack of interest, boosted a few nominations from The Guardian’s pages. You know how Julianne Moore didn't win a single Oscar in 2003 despite being nominated in Lead for Far from Heaven, and supporting in The Hours? Well, being nominated in two categories can often split the vote and work against you, so I took the liberty of collating votes for players who were nominated for player & underrated, so as to prevent them from featuring in both categories a la Mrs. Moore. By this vein, Modrić and Leiva got bumped up to first class, and Peter Odemwingie and Charlie Adam are flying economy. So, here we are! Voting time for Premier League Awards of the Season 2010-11~~~

Just a few rules before we start:
01. You don’t have to vote in every category by any means, so if ~who’s da hottest~ doesn’t interest you one jot (or you think all the nominees are munts), feel free to omit the category.

02. If you do vote in a category though, please do a 1), 2) and 3) (your first place will get the most points when I aggregate them up.) Votes with only 1 or two will thus not be counted.

03. This is not a Jamie Redknapp system of doing things, so you cannot be like 1) Gareth Bale, 2) Gareth Bale, 3) Gareth Bale. In fact, to try and prevent partisan bias getting in the way, in the categories of Best Player, Goal, Flop, Underrated, Disgraceful Calls, Character and Most Attractive, you cannot vote for more than the same team more than once in the same direction. This sounds convoluted, so I’ll try to explain. Say you’re picking goal, and you liked Tiote’s goal vs Arsenal and Nasri’s goal vs Fulham, that’s fine, you can put both down, because even though the former involved Arsenal, it was against them. Similarly, say you’re doing Worst Call and you want to vote for Carragher not getting sent off for his foul on Nani as well as Rafael not getting sent off for his foul on Lucas, that’s also allowed despite it involving both teams, because one is against Liverpool/Man Utd, and the other is the fouls are *on* them. God this is confusing. But basically, what I mean is, say you’re picking Underrated, something like 1) Leighton Baines, 2) Phil Jagielka and 3) Yaya Toure wouldn’t be allowed (the first two both play for Everton). Note that this is not enforced for match category, so it’s open house for voting there.

04. If you genuinely only care about your 1) and want them to do as well as poss, then you could do tactical voting, that is to say make your number 1 your 1), and then for 2) and 3) just bung down two that you know have no chance of winning, as this will then deprive any close competitors of getting points. So basically what I'm saying is, I can't stop you from (or even detect, tbh) ~voting strategically~, such as making Modric your #1 just to deprive Vidic of winning it or whatever.

Any questions, just ask, I know, I know, I'm a knob, I need2train
( the nominations, as voted for by you~~~ )

From one Ivorian to another. Last year, Drogba scored the winner for Chelsea in the FA Cup final. Today, Man City won the FA Cup final thanks to a goal from another Ivorian, the man who scored the winner in the semi-final, Yaya Toure! Some celebratory pics and a qt article from The Guardian's long-suffering Manchester City fan, Simon Hattenstone.



( And after all, Yaya is City's wonderwall. )

 
(title because Torres cutting his hair = the ultimate Samson act. And because our owner buys stuff without much regard to the consequences. And because Rachel and Quinn duet this song in the upcoming episode of Glee and it's amaze.)

HIYA. This little known thing called "Fernando Torres actually doing what a striker ought to do and scoring for Chelsea at long last" happened today! And it happened in the London derby between Chelsea and West Ham, the clash of the rah West Londoners and the East Enders. Ancelotti went with the three-prong attack that served him so well in the 3-1 wins over Birmingham and West Brom (I saw neither match against the two Midland teams; was watching the NLD when the Chels-Birmingham match occured and was in Liverpool actually in the Everton-Blackburn game during the West Brom-Chels match, otherwise, I would have done a spam for it. I don't like to spam for matches I ain't seen cos I feel like a bad bung) meaning that Torres was benched and the Malouda/Drogba/Kalou attack started. However, it took time for Chelsea to find their feet, as West Ham, rock bottom of the premier league, were playing for their survival. And they did a pretty damn decent job of it, but were no match for Ashley Cole (best LB in the world, I know I remind you every time I do a fracking picspam but don't you bloody forget it. :p) gave a peach of a cross to Frankie Lamps, who scored aptly. Then the second half. Drogba came off for Torres (and didn't look happy about it, le sigh), and Torres looked as thirsty as the Stamford Bridge pitch looked wet. He bloody wanted it, perhaps galvanized by some shitty journalism that has been written about him in the past week, so much so that, when he missed the ball a first time in the penalty area, he doubled back, and zinged in the ball. It was the tightest of shots and just went into the net, but OH LORD IT WERE BEAUTIFUL. Florent Malouda bunged in a lush third to add gloss to the scoreline, but tbh, this was Torres' moment. Good things come to those who wait, and whilst the premier league is probably realistically out of our hands, it was brilliant, bloody brilliant, to see Torres score a goal for us, and the manpile that all the Chelseabung players pile drived on him, showed that we all wanted it as much as he did. GOOD BUNG.

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( on the first page, of our story, the future seemed so bright )