A Bizzare Week in the English Premier League
It's the end of another weekend in the English Premier League and I am sure Sir Alex is sitting in his favorite chair sipping a glass of red wine with a self-satisfied smile on his face. Order has been restored in the Sir Alex’s world of football. A place where Manchester United are always on top of the table, while their main title challengers scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong. Chelsea and Liverpool and Manchester City (whom Sir Alex has come to dislike intensely since the whole Tevez and Welcome to Manchester billboard fiasco are doing just that.
While for Chelsea there is no escaping their very bad defending on set pieces and the several chances that their strikers failed to convert cost them the match and the crucial 3 points. I am sure they are still wondering if the bizarre start to the game is what resulted in their bizarrely poor performance and the unexpected, unwelcome result. The person to blame for this bizarre start was who else but a certain Sir Alex. The Manchester United manager had, some weeks ago, raised questions about the referee's fitness.
Of course, his comments had been to distract the media attention off of his team’s abysmal performance. He hadn't bargained for this little added bonus which saw all the cameras of all leading sport broadcast companies showing the referee's warming up, a sight rarely seen, if ever. The poor referee's not used to this kind of attention but greatly excited and eager to impress the newly found audiences were seen warming up with a vengeance. They wanted to prove to the world that they were in fact, as fit as ‘butcher’s dogs.' Well, one of the referees, not quite used to his ‘new’ warm up routine, ended up injuring himself.
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