Manchester United? 1. (Scored by Wayne Rooney, my secret soccer sicksadwrong crush.)
Ronaldo? Riding pine for the first 3/4 of the game.
Look, I know nobody cares but Maggie about this shit, but this is the equivalent of the Red Sox making it to game 4 of the World Series, leading 3-0 and deciding that Manny Ramirez needs a day off. It's completely fucking inexplicable.
The frontrunning douchebags that support Man U have got to be absolutely livid. (It's worth noting, speaking of frontrunning douchebags, that the Yankees and Man U signed a ridiculous marketing pact back in 2001. Like attracts like, is all I'm saying.) I mean, a win would have killed Chelsea for the season. Hell, a draw would have put Man U solidly in position for the title.
But no. It was Ronaldo's turn for a day off, and so he sat. Well, he sat until partially through the second half when Ferguson figured out that perhaps he should play the guy that got them to this point and put him in as a replacement for Rooney. Unbelievable. How is there not rioting about this? (Wait, there probably is.)
As I complained about last night, we couldn't really watch the game stateside, so I didn't get to see it. Apparently, Nemenja Vidic was carried off the field after he split his lip in a collision with Didier Drogba's knee. I need to see this footage, people. Need.
I love soccer. It's so fucking violent. Case in point: I just watched Sunderland's Cameron Jones and Middlesbrough's Emanuel Pogatetz (who is now working on his second yellow card in about five minutes) knock heads so hard that I thought Jones was dead for a solid sixty seconds. Jones, for the record, is currently back in the game with a huge bandage wrapped around his head. (Seriously, Pogatetz is just stalking Jones now. It's kind of fucking creepy.)
Anyway, since I hate Man U about sixty times more than I hate Chelsea, let's salute Michael Ballack for his Superman-like performance against the Red Devils. Michael Ballack, I raise my Diet Coke to you, sir.
(I told you people you should watch more soccer. Dude's pretty.)
2 comments:
Both scored by Michael Ballack.
I thought that said BallSack, and was disappointed to find out otherwise.
See, I used to like Man U., before I ever got to see them, because Spike did. (Shaddup, it doesn't count as the bad kind of fangirl if you're fangirling a character on a show, and don't get to see any games anyway.)
And then I liked them because I liked Ryan Giggs -- he's wily.
And then they got Ronaldo, who is very talented but whose best talent is getting free kicks and PKs called by pretending to be fouled, and had to break up with them. Seriously, I hate that guy amazingly much.
And Ferguson had the nerve to say refs don't protect him? Um, we have instant replay, asshole, and tripping on a blade of grass isn't something refs should protect you from.
Much happier rooting for Arsenal.
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