The new season of beautiful EPL football is just around the corner, kicking off with the Community Shield between last season's EPL Champion, Manchester United FC vs last season's FA Cup winner, Portsmouth. However the game was however dull, due to the fact that Man U was without Rooney and Ronaldo because of injury. Portsmouth started with their new signings Peter Crouch and Jermaine Defoe upfront, being not so effective, I guess it's because their height. Crouchy is about 2 heads taller than Defoe. Goalless after 90 minutes, both teams headed for penalty. Final score, Man U won 4-1. Portsmouth had 2 spotkicks over the bar, and another one saved by Edwin van der Saar. I don't understand how players who train for longer hours than watching TV can miss the penalty kicks. Ridiculous huh?
Arsenal has been impressive in pre-season with their young players. It's pretty amazing that Arsenal's youth development program is working so well, unlike Liverpool's. Liverpool is still stuck in the Gareth Barry transfer saga, CEO Rick Parry claiming that the asking price of 18 million pounds by Aston Villa too expensive. I share the same opinion but getting 30 year old Robbie Keane for 20.3 million pounds ain't expensive??? Let's be frank, with 20 million pounds, you can get players like Kaka, Ronaldinho or other top young players with better reputation, future and prospect.
I've just watched Tottenham played Roma, won convincingly with 5-0 margin. That's really impressive. I bet Tottenham will finish in the top 5 this season. Chelsea should be a potential title contender with new signing Deco and some good players like Drogba and Lampard decided to stay on.
Anyhow, let's just wait for the first game on 16th August.
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