Picks of the day

UEFA Super Cup


MANCHESTER UTD vs ST PETERSBURG
Match No. 0501
Home 1.55
MANCHESTER UTD (-1.5) 2.65
TG 2 = 3.30, 3 = 3.60
D-H 3.90
2-0 7.50

BPL

33 hits now..


HULL CITY vs WIGAN
Match No. 0301
Draw 3.20
WIGAN (1.5) 1.12
TG 2 = 3.30, 3 = 3.80
H-D 13.00
1-1 6.00

BOLTON vs WEST BROMWICH
Match No. 0302
Home 1.80
BOLTON (-1.5) 3.15
TG 2 = 3.30, 3 = 3.70
H-H 2.65
2-0 8.00

MIDDLESBROUGH vs STOKE CITY
Match No. 0303
Home 1.57
MIDDLESBROUGH (-1.5) 2.70
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.40
D-H 4.70
3-1 9.00

EVERTON vs PORTSMOUTH
Match No. 0304
Draw 3.20
PORTSMOUTH (1.5) 1.20
TG 2 = 3.60, 3 = 3.70
D-D 4.80
1-1 6.50

WEST HAM vs BLACKBURN
Match No. 0305
Away 2.70
BLACKBURN (1.5) 1.13
TG 0 = 8.50, 1 = 4.40
A-A 5.00
0-1 8.00

ARSENAL vs NEWCASTLE
Match No. 0306
Home 1.40
ARSENAL (-1.5) 2.30
TG 4 = 4.70, 5 = 8.50
H-H 2.10
3-2 21.00

SUNDERLAND vs MANCHESTER CITY
Match No. 0308
Home 2.20
MANCHESTER CITY (1.5) 1.14
TG 1 = 4.40, 2 = 3.50
D-H 5.00
1-0 6.50

ASTON VILLA vs LIVERPOOL
Match No. 0309
Away 2.20
ASTON VILLA (1.5) 1.16
TG 2 = 3.30, 3 = 3.70
A-H 25.00
1-2 7.00

BPL latest.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is set to miss four matches, including the first two World Cup qualifiers, because he needs a groin operation.

Gerrard played through the pain barrier on Wednesday to help Liverpool into the Champions League group stage.

England travel to Barcelona to play Andorra on Saturday 6 September and face Croatia away four days later. in the Premier League he is set to miss the matches involving Aston Villa on Sunday and Manchester United on 13 September.

James Milner's representatives have hit back at Newcastle after they revealed he has handed in a transfer request.

The 22-year-old has been heavily linked with Aston Villa and informed Newcastle of his desire to leave last Wednesday.

"The club is very disappointed that James sees his footballing future as being away from St James' Park. He is a valued member of the squad and it is only a year ago that he signed an improved long-term contract here."

Newspaper reports claimed on Wednesday that Villa boss Martin O'Neill was preparing a £9m offer for Milner, who joined the Magpies from Leeds in 2004.

Although the transfer request was handed in seven days ago James has been professional in keeping the matter private whilst giving strong performances for Newcastle United.

Manchester City have completed the signing of their former winger Shaun Wright-Phillips from Chelsea.

England's Wright-Phillips, 26, has signed a four-year contract at the City of Manchester Stadium having rejoined for an undisclosed fee.

He told the club's website: "Obviously I'm delighted to come back to City and I can't wait to get started again."

Wright-Phillips left City to join Chelsea for £21m in July 2005, but struggled to hold down a regular place in his three years in London.

He made only 43 Premier League starts, scoring four times, as he fell out of England reckoning too.

Champions League holders Manchester United were drawn with Scottish champions Celtic in the group stages of this year's competition.

The British pair will also face Spaniards Villarreal and Danish side Aalborg in Group E.

Chelsea were drawn with Roma, Bordeaux and Romanian minnows CFR Cluj, while Liverpool will meet PSV, Marseille and Atletico Madrid in a tough group.

Arsenal will play Porto, Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kiev in Group G.

The four English sides were guaranteed to be kept apart after being made top seeds, but Celtic could have faced any one of them after being drawn in the third pot of clubs.

They will get their chance to test themselves against the English champions in two mouth-watering clashes.

Dimitar Berbatov's hopes of a move to Manchester United look to be fading after Sir Alex Ferguson said he was "less optimistic" about new signings.

The United boss, who had a £20.5m bid for the striker rejected, was uncertain whether he would boost his squad before the transfer window shuts on Monday.

"I'm less optimistic so we'll carry on," Ferguson said.

"I've no idea what's going on. It's very hard to get communication with some people in life."

Berbatov has made no secret of his desire to leave White Hart Lane but Tottenham are determined that their £30m price-tag will be met.

United are unlikely to be pushed into paying over the odds and Ferguson may be prepared to miss out on Berbatov.

Berbatov's Dimitar Berbatov's agent Emil Danchev is believed to be in London to hold crisis talks with Tottenham.

It is understood that Danchev hopes to meet boss Juande Ramos and chairman Daniel Levy in a bid to thrash out the striker's future.


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UEFA Champions League's draw

UEFA Champions League holders Manchester United FC will begin their trophy defence in Group E facing Villarreal, Celtic FC and Denmark's AalborgAalborg BK. Last season runners-up, Chelsea FC will pit against AS Roma (host city of final), Bordeaux and Romanian newcomers CFR 1907 Cluj in Group A.

Five-time champion Liverpool was group with PSV Eindhoven, Atletico Madrid and Olympique Marseille. Fernando Torres will face his old club for the first time. Arsenal will make long journeys to Turkey and Ukraine as they face Fenerbahçe SK, FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Porto.

BPL Europe's finest

Cristiano Ronaldo won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award for last season outstanding performance. The winger was also named Forward of the Year for his incredible 42 goals last season.


Ronaldo receives his award from Michel Platini

Chelsea trio, Petr Čech, John Terry and Frank Lampard won Best Goalkeeper, Best Defender and Best Midfielder.

east of anfield

this is way too long... lol... Liverpool secured their passage to e Champions League group stage after a late Dir Kyut strike on 118th mins of play. congratulations!

ive been used to doing things alone... last wkend no exception. instead of roaming e streets after my haircut... i went to catch DEATH RACE, a lovely jap dinner and dropby Harrys@Chjimes for Liverpool v Middlesbrough game. Teesiders was no push-overs.. judging e way... Weather n Huth subdued Torres n new-signing Robbie Keane. in e end, it was Liverpool groom Jamie Carragher n Captain Steven Gerrard who got e goals and 3 points, cancelling out Mido 70th min wonder goal. pics from then:








the liverpool anthem "you never walk alone"....





after the win, these guys went estatic.... lol....


entire of last week... was worse of my life... when Mido scored... my heart like... sank!.... not a way to end the week.... so i went to Gents... pee some bad luck away.. as soon i got back... Carragher equalised.. thru a slight deflection... Gerrard.. n how many times he gets Liverpool from e dead to triumph.... everyone... mostly decked out in Liverpool shirts... jump up n down... dun know one never mind... jus hug... pretty got bf one also hug me... shucks!... lol... we stand together... arms ard each other as we sang you never walk alone... i thought myself... lol... perhaps my problem is not a big issue after all... no need to ask u y this that.. or hate myself, blame others watsoever... this win is sweet... bitter sweet and hope more positives to come...

cant wait for 13th Sept. where defending champions Man United comes visiting...

in any English soccer calender... these 2 teams generate much interest here in Singapore... Man United have comes on tops last few seasons... i hope this time Liverpool will get a win... for us.. ABU fans something to cheer about.

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23- 25 Aug results

Results..

Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 2 Sunderland (0 - 0)
Liverpool 2 - 1 Middlesbrough (0 - 0)
Blackburn Rovers 1 - 1 Hull City (1 - 1)
West Brom 1 - 2 Everton (0 - 0)
Newcastle United 1 - 0 Bolton Wanderers (0 - 0)
Stoke City 3 - 2 Aston Villa (1 - 0)
Fulham 1 - 0 Arsenal (1 - 0)
Wigan 0 - 1 Chelsea FC (0 - 1)
Manchester City 3 - 0 West Ham (0 - 0)
Portsmouth 0 - 1 Man Utd (0 -1)

17 Hits this week..

Total 33 hits.

BPL 23rd AUG BERN's pick (selected);

TOTTENHAM vs SUNDERLAND
A-D (16.00)

LIVERPOOL vs MIDDLESBROUGH
D-H (3.80)

BLACKBURN vs HULL
H-H (2.10)

NEWCASTLE vs BOLTON
away win (4.20)

FULHAM vs ARSENAL
0-2 (5.70)


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BUCK UP

16 hits last week. Time to buck up man...Phew!!!

TOTTENHAM vs SUNDERLAND
Match No. 0301
Draw 3.70
SUNDERLAND (1.5) 1.45
TG 2 = 3.60, 3 = 3.60
H-D 15.00
1-1 7.00

LIVERPOOL vs MIDDLESBROUGH
Match No. 0302
Home 1.30
LIVERPOOL (-1.5) 2.00
TG 2 = 3.60, 3 = 3.60
H-H 1.78
2-0 6.00

BLACKBURN vs HULL CITY
Match No. 0303
Home 1.50
BLACKBURN (-1.5) 2.40
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.20
H-H 2.20
3-0 14.00

WEST BROMWICH vs EVERTON
Match No. 0304
Home 3.00
WEST BROMWICH (1.5) 1.20
TG 1 = 4.50, 2 = 3.50
D-H 7.20
1-0 8.50

NEWCASTLE vs BOLTON
Match No. 0305
Home 1.72
BOLTON (1.5) 1.33
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.20
D-H 4.50
2-1 7.00

STOKE CITY vs ASTON VILLA
Match No. 0306
Away 1.60
ASTON VILLA (-1.5) 2.80
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.20
A-A 2.45
0-3 11.00

FULHAM vs ARSENAL
Match No. 0307
Away 1.45
ARSENAL (-1.5) 2.50
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.00
A-A 2.10
0-3 9.00

WIGAN vs CHELSEA
Match No. 0308
Away 1.30
CHELSEA (-1.5) 2.05
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.20
A-A 1.80
0-3 8.50

MANCHESTER CITY vs WEST HAM
Match No. 0309
Home 2.18
WEST HAM (1.5) 1.19
TG 2 = 3.50, 3 = 3.70
D-H 4.40
2-1 7.50

PORTSMOUTH vs MANCHESTER UTD
Match No. 0310
Away 1.65
PORTSMOUTH (1.5) 1.30
TG 1 = 4.20, 2 = 3.30
D-A 4.40
0-1 6.50

BPL results 16-17th AUG.

ARSENAL vs WEST BROMWICH
1-0

WEST HAM vs WIGAN
2-1

MIDDLESBROUGH vs TOTTENHAM
2-1

BOLTON vs STOKE CITY
3-1

HULL CITY vs FULHAM
2-1

EVERTON vs BLACKBURN
2-3

SUNDERLAND vs LIVERPOOL
0-1

CHELSEA vs PORTSMOUTH
4-0

ASTON VILLA vs MANCHESTER CITY
4-2

MANCHESTER UTD vs NEWCASTLE
1-1

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Picks of the new season.

Time for weekly challenges to challenge TNP.

ARSENAL vs WEST BROMWICH
Match No. 0301
Home 1.13
ARSENAL (-1.5) 1.60
TG 1 = 5.40, 2 = 3.50
H-H 1.50
2-0 5.00

WEST HAM vs WIGAN
Match No. 0302
Draw 3.25
WIGAN (1.5) 1.28
TG 0 = 8.50, 2 = 3.30
D-D 5.00
0-0 8.50

MIDDLESBROUGH vs TOTTENHAM
Match No. 0303
Away 1.82
TOTTENHAM (-1.5) 3.20
TG 4 = 5.40, 5 = 8.70
A-A 2.95
1-4 32.00

BOLTON vs STOKE CITY
Match No. 0304
Draw 3.30
STOKE CITY (1.5) 1.33
TG 1 = 4.20, 2 = 3.30
D-D 5.00
1-1 6.50

HULL CITY vs FULHAM
Match No. 0305
Away 2.52
FULHAM (1.5) 1.11
TG 2 = 3.30, 3 = 3.80
D-A 5.20
1-2 9.00

EVERTON vs BLACKBURN
Match No. 0306
Away 3.50
BLACKBURN (1.5) 1.25
TG 2 = 3.50, 3 = 3.70
A-A 6.00
0-2 15.00

SUNDERLAND vs LIVERPOOL
Match No. 0307
Draw 3.40
SUNDERLAND (1.5) 1.40
TG 1 = 4.20, 2 = 3.30
D-D 5.50
1-1 6.50

CHELSEA vs PORTSMOUTH
Match No. 0308
Home 1.27
CHELSEA (-1.5) 2.00
TG 3 = 3.60, 4 = 4.60
H-H 1.70
3-1 8.00

ASTON VILLA vs MANCHESTER CITY
Match No. 0309
Home 1.80
ASTON VILLA (-1.5) 3.35
TG 3 = 3.70, 4 = 5.40
H-H 3.10
2-1 7.00

MANCHESTER UTD vs NEWCASTLE
Match No. 0310
Home 1.20
MANCHESTER UTD (-1.5) 1.90
TG 3 = 3.65, 4 = 4.60
H-H 1.62
3-0 6.50

EPL 2008/2009

Finally after about 2 months of waiting, the most popular game in sports kickoff its new season tonight. In between, there's European Championship and Olympics Beijing and not forgetting the Ronaldo transfer saga.

Oh forgot to mention that I went for an interview at Football Weekly, a football magazine. I did pretty well in Q&A segment and 2 short summaries on Arsenal vs Chelsea and Man Utd vs Liverpool. But not so good in "WRITING" out in Chinese. Yes, writing out, who the hell will write nowadays?? All uses software to type out those characters right!!! 

Anyway, this place is still my favourite playground, no MDA to kachiao!! (better not)

Arsenal


Aston Villa


Blackburn Rover


Bolton Wanderers


Chelsea


Everton


Fulham


Hull City


Liverpool



Manchester City


Manchester Utd


Middlesbrough


Newcastle


Portsmouth


Stoke City


Sunderland


Tottenham Hotspur


West Brom


West Ham


Wigan



Finally done... Took me 3 hrs to do this..

FA Community Shield

Manchester Utd have to expand their trophy cabinet today as they had won the FA Community Shield last night. It was a sweet revenge over Portsmouth, the team whom knock the red devils out in the 5th round clash last season. The season curtain raiser usually was a good omen for them as Utd went to win the league title and the Champion's League last time.











It was Manchester reserve vs Portsmouth first eleven. No Rooney, Ronaldo, Owen Hargreaves and co., it was Tevez who stole the show as he threaten to beat David James.

COMMUNITY SHIELD 2008

hi guys... the one other than soccersiao himself is BACK!!!!! :P

back for new BPL season starting this weekend... but first on tonight's season curtain-raiser... YES! the FA COMMUNITY SHIELD between defending champs Man United and Cup winners Portsmouth.

i thought all along like his previous no. 7, Cristiano Ronaldo would just have his wish and play the club of his dream, Real Madrid. his desire to moved and Real seemingly continuing courting of the 42 goal hitman i think could go through... but after whole summer of intense speculation... Ronaldo is staying.... if im a United fan (swear i won't) i will be disgusted by his loyalty after Ferguson stood much by him after the last World Cup. but understanding his desire to seek fresh play elsewhere... after winning all domestic English trophies available plus Europe top prize and top-scorer award. himself is ruled out after a ankle surgery... would he be back to his best... we shall see... i hope not!.. lolx....

along with Ronaldo, Owen Hargreaves, Louis Saha & Ji-Sung Park are among the absentees for tonight clash. Gary Neville probably captain the side since his injury in March 2007. United as i know, w/o key players.. still be one to watch out for in the coming season... though they might slower down the pace in the first couple months... Peter Crouch certain to comes in and partner his England colleague, Jermaine Defoe in attack for the Pompeys.



draw at HT.

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