Mourinho led Chelsea to two straight English Premier League titles, ending a 50-year wait for the club, and won both the FA Cup and the League Cup during his tenure. After this, we will not be able to see Maurinho’s antic anymore and surely I will miss that. I can still remember how he kept moaning and moaning from year to year on the disputed goal scored by Luis Garcia during semi-final match of 2005 UEFA Champion League. He is such a moaning specialist. Anyway, that will not take away his winning record at Chelsea. Former Israel coach Avram Grant, recruited in the summer as director of football, is said to take over from Mourinho.

Yay!!..I am a happy fan tonight watching Liverpool FC hammered Derby County. This game is what the fan is expecting from Liverpool FC. In the previous season, you would not have a chance to see many goals like tonight being scored by The Reds. If a game being dominated by The Reds, the most goals you will see is 3 or 4 with 1 or 2 consolation goals given. But this season, it seems like Liverpool FC has given an indication that the league tittle will be back to Anfield. I am feeling so gooooooood…

Tonight game with Derby County has shown that Liverpool FC has so much of quality this season. Eventhough without two local heroes, Steven Gerard and Jamie Carragher, Derby County was shown how strong Liverpool FC this season. Six goals being scored by Torres (2 goals 55′, 77′), Alonso (2 goals 26′,69′), Babbel (1 goal 45′) and Voronin (1 goal 76′) . Apart from the goal scorers, great performance has been shown by Liverpool player particularly Mascherano and Arbeloa. If The Reds is able to maintain this sort of performance throughout the season, Liverpool FC will be crowned as 2007/08 EPL Champion.

Hey, it’s been a while I have not updated anything on Liverpool FC since my last posting after the European Champion League Final which Liverpool lost to AC Milan. It was a painful final for a supporter like me. What an experience where I had to watch the final at a pub at Nile Hilton, Cairo. Well..Lady luck was not with The Reds.

After a long and busy summer, Liverpool FC has come back with quite an impressive squad. A few additions has been made with Fernando Torres, Ryan Babel, Youssi Benayoun, Lucas Leiva, Sebastian Leto, Andriy Voronin and a few more youngsters. Fernando Torres has become the most expensive player being bought by Liverpool at £20 million. It clearly shows that Liverpool FC is serious on mounting a challenge for this season English Premier League tittle. Manchester United felt some pressure when they refused to sell Gabriel Heinze to Liverpool FC and forcing the player to choose the Galacticos instead. Sir Alex was under pressure at this moment when they had the worst start in EPL since 1992 but do I care? I only care much for The Reds which I support not for the Devilish Red. HaHa!

So far, Liverpool FC made a very good start win 2 wins and 1 draw. That 1 draw is not supposed to be a draw. Bad Chelsea!!! Very very bad Chelsea..Liverpool should have won the match but was Robbed by Styles. Anyway, it’s a season with 38 match to play. Just forget about that match and concentrate on the coming matches. Some scrappy play was shown by the players during the three league games but it will eventually improve once they are able to gel together. As usual, my weekend will be slotted with The Reds games. So, macha!!!! Teh tarik satu, roti canai satu…!!

You’ll Never Walk Alone!!!

The first goal conceded was not supposed to be awarded in the first place. The referee should have done better because the faulth for free kick which lead to the goal was only a mere touch by Xabi Alonso on Kaka. The ball also strucked the hand of Izhaghi and deflected which made Reina dived into a wrong side. It was terrible decision! Then came the second which I cannot dispute the goal at all. It’s a mistake by the defence tried to play offside and Liverpool had to pay the price. Rafa should have not taken out Mascherano because without him, Kaka has nobody to control him. Mascherano was so effective in nulifying Kaka threat.

It’s still an entertaining game. Milan clearly has not shown they are the side who beat Manchester United a few weeks ago. Eventhough, Liverpool has not won the final, in my eyes, they are still the champion of Europe.YNWA!

To be honest, I would like to see Chealsea win tonight after what Sir Alex commented on Liverpool FC chances to win UEFA Champion League. He said that Liverpool FC has no chance to beat AC Milan because of what AC Milan has shown during the semi-final match when they defeated Manchester United. This comment is not supposed to come out from a professional manager like him but it is understandable considering the long history between Liverpool FC and Manchester United. I would love to see Liverpool FC beat AC Milan next week and make Sir Alex to eat his word. Also maybe make Sir Alex pour his own champagne instead of Carlo Ancelotti. We shall see on 23rd May in Athens.

The good news is I am able to watch the live match from my hotel room. Also there’s one UEFA Champion League pub at the lobby of the Nile Hilton. Maybe if I am bored watching in my room, I can join other Egytian Reds at the pub or maybe Milan? Heh! As long as I can watch the final, I don’t bother. YNWA!  

Espanyol 2-2 Sevilla

Sevilla win 3-1 on penalties

 Palop gets his hands on the Uefa Cup after an exciting encounter

Sevilla retained the Uefa Cup with a 3-1 shoot-out victory against Espanyol.

Adriano scored the first in a thrilling match with a lovely finish following a swift Sevilla break, but Alberto Riera levelled with a deflected shot.

Andres Palop denied Riera with a fine save and the game looked to turn when Espanyol’s Moises Hurtado was sent off for a second booking on 68 minutes.

Sevilla’s pressure told when Kanoute turned in a Jesus Navas cross, before a goal from Jonatas sent it to penalties.

But having done the hard work of taking the game to a shoot-out, Espanyol’s efforts from 12 yards were abject.

Palop saved from Luis Garcia, Jonatas and Marc Torrejon to

Read full article here.

The news of Sevilla winning the cup did not really bother me as I am waiting for next week UEFA Champion League final. Even, I did not notice that the final of UEFA cup was held last night. Hopefully the Nile Hilton Hotel do has live telecast of the match. If not, then I have to hop somewhere to watch the final. Liverpool FC! YNWA!

Liverpool FC made two new signings before the season end. It shows that Liverpool FC will not be fighting for players with inflated price during the summers. Maybe another one or two during the summer will not do any harm. Ukranian, Andriy Voronin was signed from Bayer Leverkusen and Brazilian, Lucas Leiva from Gremio. Both of them are good signings as Voronin is on a free transfer and Leiva is rumoured being bought for £5million. In Voronin, we have got a Ukranian World Cup star, while Lucas is presently captain of the Brazil U20 team playing the 2007 South American Youth Championship, and has previously been called up to the full Brazil squad. One young prospect player at £5million and one proven world cup player at no costs, in signing new players, Liverpool FC is not as stupid as the ‘Special One’.

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Andriy Voronin

Lucas Leiva

WHOLE ‘HICKS CLAN’ WILL BE IN ATHENS
Jimmy Rice 07 May 2007

And how I wish to have the same pocket as him, and buying my beloved Liverpool Football Club. I will!

This season has shown that Chelsea has been poor in getting players needed to maintain their status. They have been rocked by a list of injuries to player like John Terry, Ricardo Carvalho and their best goalie Petr Cech. But this is not an excuse for a team with GBP500 millions investment. Where is Lampard this season? People were talking and analyzing his skills last season and nothing has been heard about him this season. Their investment is nothing if the money is not spent wisely but lavishly to players who cannot contribute to the team. The deadliest striker of Italian league football, Andrei Shevchenko is only qualified to sit on the bench at Chelsea because he cannot fit into Moanrinho system. Moanrinho is a limited coach even with GBP500millions at his disposal. He still can pull out his trick for the last two seasons but starting from this seasons, I think he has losts it. Many other small teams do know how to nullify his team attacking threat and how to overcome his team tactical system. From my point of view, in order for Chelsea to progress, they have to sack that moaning coach. With a team full of talented players but choose to play a boring style of football, they are not worth to be a champion again.

Who will win the next edition of English Premier League? You know my answer..