Well, when someone like Cristiano Ronaldo said that he wants Wayne Rooney to move to Real Madrid, there are only 3 certain reasons of that:
1. he’s too much depressed and frustated with his not-big-but-getting-bigger-because of-being-exploited-by-the new boss injury
2. he’s lonely in Madrid because there’s no one can play with him well since only Rooney who was willing to surrender his position as a striker to him (in condition: ordered by Sir Alex Ferguson)
3. he just…doesn’t have any friends there….*sigh*

And even worse, Ronaldo doesn’t know that Ronney doesn’t want to play with him anymore. He doesn’t even want to see you again, Ronny. HELLO???!!!

Hell, if until the middle of this month Ronaldo can’t still be recovered and play on the pitch, he will definitely say that Sir Alex Ferguson really should become Madrid’s manager!! (P.S.: wanna bet??)

How many times did we get something unexpected? In football case, I found it in EPL last weekend. People might have expected Liverpool’s 6-1 win over Hull City and seeing Fernando Torres scored his (first) hattrick this season, but even if I might have also, I didn’t really care about it. I did expect Liverpool to win the game, though, but not with that kind of score gap and Torres scoring hattrick. It was just too good to be true and less in expected way. People might hail Torres with his hattrick, but I prefer paying credit to Albert Riera’s beautiful play and Steven Gerrard’s cool goal from the left side.

So, what did you expect when you watched Arsenal fighting against Fulham last Saturday? Cesc Fabregas’ smart and beautiful passes and determination? Goals galore? Or…the so-called great talent of Arshavin? Well, you didn’t see that, did you? You could only see Fulham played so much better than the Arsenal side but still lost 1-0 at the end. Hell, Arsenal even had to make use of Fulham’s unluck sloppy pass to get the ball through and score one goal. The only good thing about Arsenal that you could see was Mannone replacing Almunia in the goal post. But yeah…, I can only call it an unknown-goalkeeper syndrom. Once you’re a second or third goalkeeper who’s not expected by the public, and when the time you had to replace the main goalkeeper for an injury or punishment, you’ll be so much triggered to prove yourself worthy compliment. But then, when you’re up to be the main goalkeeper, you can only see yourself a fool.

I’m not telling you bullshit, people. Do you remember Micheal Rensing’s performance in 2006/2007 Champions League when he replaced Oliver Kahn for card accumulation? He was great, yes. But if you see him now as the main goalkeeper of Bayern Munich, I know that you’re pretty sure he’s too much awful for a big team like that. Oh wait…did I mention Bayern Munich?? They lost 1-0 against Hamburg last week, didn’t they? That’s the reason why they tried so hard to grab Manuel Neuer from Schalke in the transfer window. Hmm…why do the hell suddenly I feel that there’s always something wrong with players playing in Bundesliga?? Is there really something wrong with them or…is it only my feeling???

Well yeah, when I expected Manchester United to score as many as they could against Stoke City, they only got two (with one set-piece). And…WAIT!! Did Chelsea really lose 3-1 against Wigan?? Hmm….they should’ve realized that earlier, seriously. A red card for Peter Cech? It’s weird, ha?? Poor you. From now on, you must notice some referees who don’t really like goalkeepers. Welcome to Tomas Kuszczak’s undeserved-red-carded-goalkeepers club!!

So, now the new season has been running for several weeks and this is my first football article since the last time I wrote a poem about Spanish team’s lost in the Confederation Cup (sorry, I’d been so busy with myself). Still being interested in the game? I hope so. Here we go.

When the big teams won the games, please don’t you easily believe that they really won them. Seeing Manchester United won 2-1 against Arsenal could only make me believe that they didn’t play like United and that Arsenal side deserved a draw result, whatever the way was. Arshavin was truly downed by Fletcher on the penalty box, and the referee should’ve not penalized Arsenal for Eduardo’ s stupid and not genius diving in the CHampions League, seriously. On, speaking of Darren Fletcher, he should’ve really separated his personal and professional problems so that the public won’t point out United for (still) mourning being left by Ronaldo. Oh yes, FYI, United have forgotten him anyway. And when you ask Rooney whether he still misses Ronaldo or not, he won’t remember him (’cause Rooney only remembers that he ever had a teammate named Cristiano). Yeah, we can’t stand of public opinion, right? Every time United lost their way in the league (as they did against Burnley), people still judged them for missing Ronaldo so much while that man has lost his own way in Real Madrid. Don’t take Madrid’s 3-2 win over Deportivo so seriously, ’cause he wasn’t even there (in connotation, I mean). Robben wasn’t there also, by the way. He’s in Bayern scoring 2 goals to make the so-called biggest team in Germany win 3-0 over Wolfsburg. Was it a good sign after the worst start in 43 years of the club’s history? I don’t think so…unless they release Ribery to Real Madrid so that he can be together with someone that he loves (no…not his wife, I’m serious!). Oh yeah, speaking of Real Madrid reminds me of Kaka. No, it’s not about him learning how to pass the ball under Guti’s supervision, it’s about AC Milan actually. Did you watch that Inter’s 4-0 win over Kaka’s ex-team last week? Was it really a derby match?? For me, it’s not quite….a Milan derby anyway. They don;t miss Kaka I think, they just miss how they are dictated to ply the game (this time, it’s literally).

Haah… I feel like I was cursed by God last week. The fact that United won against Arsenal didn’t make me happy indeed. Worst, why did Sir Alex still trust Ben Foster?? Why??? English people just burden him with too much hope as the next national English goalkeeper, you know. If David James isn’t enough for them, they should try Robert Green more, not a left-footed often-injured lazy goalkeeper like that one. The fact that he became a copycat by imitating Manuel Neuer’s style in blocking the ball with his foot didn;t even make it better. Oh, did I mention Manuel Neuer?? I was cursed, twice!!! After great starts in Bundesliga, Schalke lost 1-0 against Freiburg (are you kidding me??? Freiburg??). Did Schalke ever have defenders at the back?? After a very long hsitory with different coaches, I don’t think so. Just compare them to real Madrid, they’ll look the same. But don;t compare the goalkeeper, please… Neuer and Casillas are just like 2 different poles of the world, I’m not kidding you. Well, I hope Magath can do something about it. I also wish for Neuer’s recovery soon after being injured in that game. Be recover soon, baby boy!! Please don’t make you Turkish uncle sad and worry much about you.

Last but not least, have I mentioned something about this season’s Champions League?? Have you known the groups? Now what, ha?! After making Arsenal and Celtic punching each other in the qualification, now they make the big teams kicking their own asses!! Real Madrid is in one group with Milan, Barcelona is with Inter, Juventus is with Bayern, Liverpool is with Lyon, Chelsea’s with Atl. Madrid, and I think Man.United won’t be happy either being in one group with the Bundesliga’s champion. What’s the point of making such kind of groups anyway?? Why don’t you just make them like this:

Group A: Man.United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool

Group B: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Atl. Madrid

Group C: Inter, Milan, Juventus, Fiorentina

Group D: Bayern, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, CSKA Moskow

and you what??? Just let Besiktas be the champion!!! DULL.

Apa yg sebenernya diinginkan oleh klub sepak bola semacam Real Madrid??? Gelar juara??? Trofi??? Pemain bintang??? Duit??? Popularitas??? Pengakuan dari seluruh dunia??? Kayaknya mereka dah punya SEMUANYA!!! Tapi buat aku, mereka bukan apa2 kecuali sebuah klub sepak bola yg sibuk mempertahankan gengsi dengan 9 titel Liga CHampion dan 31 titel La Liga. Mereka cuma sibuk mondar-mandir di layar TV buat cari muka dan mempertahankan nama besar!!!

Udah banyak korban dari tingkah mereka yg sok2 mafia demi nama besar dalam dunia sepak bola. Udah berapa kali para presiden mereka saling jegal buat jadi pimpinan dan dapat uang hasil korup??? Udah berapa pelatih yg mereka pecat hanya gara2 kalah terus2an padahal seharusnya mereka tahu kalo tiap pertandingan sepak bola itu udah diatur??? Udah berapa banyak uang terbuang sia2 buat beli pemain yg akhirnya ga ada gunanya??? Udah berapa pemain yg akhirnya terkutuk di bangku cadangan padahal mereka pemain bintang yg bisa ngeluarin potensi besar di klub lain??? Udah berapa korban, ha???!!! UDAH BERAPA???!!! Dan tampaknya akan segera bertambah lagi kalo si Florentino Perez jadi presiden.

Real Madrid bener2 ga tahu caranya membangun sebuah tim sepak bola yg baik dan benar!! Kalo mereka mau jadi tim tangguh di jagad sepak bola, seharusnya mereka ganti dulu kiper bodoh mereka yg ga bisa nangkep bola itu!! Udah ga bisa nangkep bola, masih ngerebut pelatih kiper orang lain lagi!!! DODOL!!!

Dengan segala kejahatan sepak bola yg telah mereka lakukan, mungkin mereka bakalan jadi juara apapun yg mereka inginkan. Tapi yg bisa aku pastikan adalah, mereka TIDAK AKAN PERNAH JADI TIM YG SOLID DAN BAHAGIA SECARA MENTAL!!! LIAT AJA NTAR!!

I’ve been so sick of hearing people talking shit about how Manchester United become the champions of this season Premier League. They said United are just lucky, United can be champions because they have much money, many football stars, and bla….bla…bla….yada…yada….yada….!!!! As a big United’s fan, I feel totally humiliated!! And you know what?? FUCK YOU ALL!!!

People (the contenders in particular) can’t stop pointing out United unworthy to be champions. Beyond all the secret facts behind the title race, and I will highly argue that United are worth champions. Whatever the shits thrown onto them, I can prove that they are indeed great team with capability of winning any trophy.

A. First Factor: Players

People said that United can be champions just because they have so many football stars with high salary, and of course were bought with high price. Do you know the fact?? I’ll tell you some categories of Manchester United players:

1. Star – Players a.k.a high salary and famous players: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, and Dimitar Berbatov (They are certainly the high-rated players in both United and England. So, the stars are only 4 men!!).

2. The Old Men Players: Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, and Edwin Van der Sar (They have high risk to be easily injured and subsided, but fortunately not).

3. Developing Players: Micheal Carrick, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Anderson, Nani, Park Ji-sung (They’re not stars yet, but they contribute much on this team and highly help the team to play great football).

4. Non Star – Players a.k.a The Unsung Heroes: Darren Fletcher, John O’Shea, Wes Brown, Tomas Kuzsack (Their big contributions are never mentioned by media and commonly underappreciated by the supporters, but they are the ones who can sacrifice anything for the team. And just FYI, their salary are not as high as Ronaldo).

5. Young / Academy Players a.k.a Players who wait for the senior players being injured so that they can play: Federico Macheda, Daniel Welback, Jonny Evans, Rafael da Silva, Rodrigo Possebon, Darren Gibson, Ben Foster, Zoran Tosic (They’re highly talented, come up from the academy and cost no money, and the non-academy players do not cost so much money).

B. Second Factors: Money

Manchester United is indeed one of the richest football clubs in both Europe and the world. They got the money from right of television broadcast, merchandise, tickets, and bonus of participating in Champions League. But, they’re also well-managed. They’re not like Valencia which stupidly can’t pay the player’s salary. They’re great and smart in selling any single thing. So, if the other clubs can’t do the same smart management, whose fault is that, ha??!!!

When the other clubs and coaches pointing out United for having so much money to buy any expensive football stars, they certainly CANNOT open their eyes!!! In every three or four years, they could only buy one expensive player. In 2002, they bought Ferdinand for 29 million pounds. In 2004, they bought Rooney for 30 million pounds. And in 2008, they bought Berbatov for the same price as Rooney. Ronaldo and Carrick each only costed 18 million pounds, Nani and Anderson were both in package for only 25 million pounds. The rest of them??? You can ask Sir Alex how much Zoran Tosic costed compared to each Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba, and the failed Andriy Shevchenko.

C. Third Factor: The So-called Luck

I’d surrendered myself to see Liverpool as the champions of 2008/2009 season just at the middle of this term when they were at the top of the table. But when many of their players were injured, how could you blame on United which could take the top place??!! I tell you all, Ferdinand was injured for so many times, and who replaced him?? Only Jonny Evans!! Wes Brown couldn’t play this season, Gary Neville and John O’Shea also injured so many times, and who replaced them?? It’s only the young and unexperienced Rafael da Silva!!! Rooney broke his metatarsal again this year and couldn’t play for a long time, so did Berbatov. When Sir Alex couldn’t count on Tevez, he could use any player to play in front to be the strikers. Don’t say that you never see Giggs and Ronaldo upfront!! Did you see when Kiko Macheda scored to save United from losing the game??? I guess…yes… And now, with that condition, whose fault is that when other teams couldn’t make use of that???!!! SHAME ON YOU!!!

So, it’s all just bullshit when people said that United was only lucky being the champions because of Liverpool got so many players injured and just because they’re rich!! You know what?? If you’re incapable of doing great things and being jealous of others’ success….Then I call it NORMAL!! Sorry, losers.

This man is definitely fixed all the criteria of a goalkeeper in my perspective, and absolutely…the best goalkeeper I’ve ever seen!! Iker Casillas should’ve learned from him, so that yah…he wouldn’t get 9 goals in a row inside his net.

After playing like a group of cowards in the first leg of this season’s Champions League semi-final, Chelsea then played just like…oh no…I mean…they copied the way Manchester United played against Arsenal, playing tight defense and occasionally putting fowards counter attacks to get a goal. What??!! Have they lose their own ideas to play football and decide to play the strategy of the others?? United were at away game, it made a sense anyway… but Chelsea were at home, halooo…??? Have they been so lazy to think of some sort of genius strategy or…Guus Hidink is NOT genius at all actually?? Chelsea is no more a football team just like what I’d known in the era of Jose Mourinho, they’ re now just…a Xerox machine… However, thank God they’re not going to play in the final game in Rome anyway….

What happened to the referees lately anyway?? They’re too much fond of giving red cards to unguilty players. Darren Fletcher did a foul against Cesc Fabregas, I know…but that didn’t worth a red card. Eric Abidal just…why…HE DID NOT EVEN DO ANYTHING!!! What happened to them?? I’m really curious about what they’d thought on the pitch when leading a game. What?? Were they too much burdened by their bosses up side and then eventually decided, ”Oh, I’ve gotta give him a red card so that this particular team will not win in the final game!!” ?? Or perhaps they thought, ”Oh, I must kick him out so that this team can score more goals against 10 men!!” Yah, it won’t change anything whatsoever… Manchester United and Barcelona still play football and still…get their place in the final game of this season’s Champions League final. They are truly…football teams.

Oh yeah…among all horrible players I’ve ever watched on TV, Didier Drogba is the MOST DISGUSTING!! Who did teach him to be like that, ha?? Jose Mourinho?? Scolari?? Hidink?? He’s even…NOT so much a football player. Shame on you.

So, what about this mid-week Champions League semi-final?? Chelsea played like a group of cowards, Frank Lampard didn’t look like…Frank Lampard, and indeed…I wished Samuel Eto’o  could score a goal when John Terry couldn’t even charge him…

And…when was the last time you heard the name of…John O’Shea?? When Wes Brown got injured and O’Shea replaces him?? When Gary Neville can’t even see himself on the pitch?? When Rafael da Silva is not mature enough to be placed on the right-back in every match?? Yah…being a substitution almost all the time of his life in United is so pathetic, but that’s not until he saved his team from being lost. One goal against Liverpool in 2006/2007, and here he did it again against Arsenal in this season’s Champions League semi-final. Not being a star and sung by the supporters is not that bad, if you can do something. At least…you’re not a loser thinking of saving your own life without any brave to do something, or namely…coward…or…Chelsea???

So, this is what always happens in the world of football capitalism. You lost most of the times in the league, you got your position dropped on the table, you played like kindegarden children, you are horribly cursed on the media, and you can’t even believe in what you do, then….yeah…you fired your coach. Simple, easy, and you can save your money.

Many coaches and managers had undergone it, since..you know…coaches are just much the same as players, they are all just working class in capitalist structured-class society. So, when you can’t satisfy your boss, you get dumped. That’s it. So is Jürgen Klinsmann. When today’s news revealed his disposal by Bayern Munich’s management, I could just laugh at it…ironically. I could only say…finally. What happened…or maybe…what was being undergone by Munich for almost of the entire of this season has made me believe in the first place that I won’t even see him at the end of this season. Not that I have some sort of superstitious power, that just….makes sense.

I like Bayern indeed, and my admiration on them was even higher than mine on Schalke, but seeing them this season only makes me questioning myself. Schalke is not even better for most of this season also, but that’s not for the play, I believe. If you compare what Bayern and Schalke look like on the pitch, you’ll get my point. The worst decision ever taken by Schalke was firing Fred Rutten, trust me, since what Rutten had done for Schalke was better than what Klinsmann had. However, at least they can now get new atmosphere in the team so they can go on and…send Bayern some ass.

Yah, I can’t say anything but that finally word…whatsoever… But I’m very thankful that it is NOT Roberto Mancini who replaces Klinsmann. And perhaps…next, there will be other football club who wants to hire him and makes it look like…his Bayern.