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ACF Fiorentina 6 Elfsborg 1. Yes, the Viola are really the real deal – great finishing! Wow! Donadel’s rocket-goal! And FSR didn’t place a graphic over it – yay!
Spartak Moscow 2 Bayer Leverkusen 1. Spartak’s second goal was scored by Mozart, and I’m a bit surprised that the FSR team didn’t make more of a meal out of the player’s name.
Hapoel Tel Aviv 0 Tottenham Hotspur 2. Keane’s volley. There was no mention on the Report, unlike in certain British tabloids, of Berbatov’s sour face after he had scored the second goal for the team whose manager doesn’t want him. I wouldn’t worry if I were Berbatov; many teams in the world would take such a quality player in an instant.
Bayern München 2 Bolton Wanderers 2. Who da thought?
Another Barclay’s Premier League team had a good result, too: Nürnberg 0 Everton 2.
Kudos to Fox Soccer Channel for the upcoming games this weekend – an interesting selection if you like the Premiership or Italian Serie A. Just for fun let’s predict the score for the games being shown on FSC Friday 9th to Sunday 11th November:
Hereford Utd 1 Leeds Utd 4.
Manchester Utd 4 Blackburn 0.
Liverpool 3 Fulham 0.
Tottenham 1 Wigan 0.
Portsmouth 2 Manchester City 2.
Sampdoria 0 Empoli 0.
Palermo 1 Napoli 1.
Inter 2 Lazio 0.
AS Roma 2 Cagliari 1.
And in the big West of England FA Cup 1st round clash, let’s go with Torquay United 1 Yeovil Town 2.
What other news? Ah yes, Ruud Gullit’s becoming the new LA Galaxy coach. We wish he were still playing. By the way he used to have his own reggae band – betcha didn’t know that!
We have to take issue with Max Bretos. He gleefully suggested that because an assistant referee made the right call concerning a ball crossing the line in last week’s 2-2 tie between Arsenal and Manchester United at the Emirates Stadium, it rebuffed those calling for goal line technological aids to help referees in their decisions. “What a load of cobblers!” as they may or may not say in Northampton. So if the ref had made a mistake, then Max’d be calling for the tech? It didn’t sound like it. In any case, many of the contentious decisions in football are centered on penalty kick calls, not only whether the ball has crossed the goal line. The time has come for replays to be allowed in order to help the referees at any stage of each game. How absurd is it that on the big screen replay at the stadium we the spectators can see (say) the obvious dive or the clear foul, but the referee must be artificially handicapped in not being allowed to use this in his or her decision making? Not all games have the televised replay capability it is true, but that capability should be made a requirement of club and national teams whose matches take place in the world’s major leagues and competitions.
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