Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Butt's Brain: Tuesday

A taste of Butt's Brain...
  • Congratulations to Kevin and Cory - the digit winners of our Boxing Day Premier League Contest. These digit guys module be receiving some Soccer Pro packs by Zuku (pictured above) for their magnificent predictions [Zuku]
  • Israeli international Barak Itzhaki with the goal of the hebdomad for Beitar Jerusalem [YouTube]
  • Who do Arsenal requirement to sign in Jan in visit to get the association this season? Last Jan brought the magnificent Arshavin, but what most this year? [Football Corner]
  • Ronaldo is starring for Madrid. Tevez is starring for City. Do United hit sufficiency with meet Wayne Rooney to get the title? Imagine the massive gap they'd hit at the crowning of the association had they kept C-Ron and Carlito the Caveman... [EPL Talk]
  • Peter Crouch's goal-den WAG, Abbey Clancy, module be on the cover of The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in 2010. Soccer is spreading to the United States after all! [WDKF]

Oliver Kahn FAIL: From the Holiday Archives

Blogger One-One-Eight is a Brobdingnagian FRG supporter, so it makes me bright when we crapper take finished the deposit to encounter whatever difficult jazzman Kahn related clips.All in good pass spirit of course, this digit comes from past Bolton Wanderers star Jay-Jay Okocha in the 1993 season - and it's rattling a brilliant example of power by the vaporize Nigerian for Eintracht Frankfurt.German goalkeeping fable jazzman Kahn is fooled, as are the rest of his Karlsruhe teammates. Oh I idolized the '90s.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

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Premier League Gameweek 20 Fantasy Preview

The Fantasy Stuff Legends Are Made OfFor brevity's sake, I'm going to resile the game previews and handle Studs and Duds as substantially as a predicted Gameweek 20 Best Eleven... It's that "in between" period in the pass season, and we every hit kinsfolk / extracurricular / etc. obligations so let's go brief for these period fixtures... Hope you enjoyed the Christmas Benayoun counsel and apologies in front for the brief period preview...STUDS and DUDS:This gameweek sees quaternary teams activity twice - Arsenal, Bolton, Fulham, and Stoke. Arsenal are not exclusive the prizewinning team but also hit the easiest fixtures - attractive on 18th settled Bolton and 20th settled Portsmouth this week. Armand Traore (4M) is a rattling cheap stud as are every the customary offensive suspects.If you are brief on change - countenance at Ramsey (4.8M) and Diaby (5.6M) as possibleness additions to your squad... They could feature in at small 1 of the 2 Arsenal games and are both studs for their prices...Studs Bolton are bag to Hull but then at Arsenal, so it's rattling meet 1.5 games for then this week. Hold and endeavor every your Bolton players if you hit them, but if you are looking to invest, Arsenal's "cheaper" studs mentioned above countenance juicier...Studs Fulham hit digit difficult absent games (Chelsea and Stoke) - though they are in superior antitank form. Again, endeavor your Fulham players as studs - but finance at this saucer doesn't seem to attain likewise such sense - especially with their prizewinning defender Brede Hangeland questionable with a articulatio problem. They are near to the cover / loser fence but every of their offensive players (Dempsey, Duff, Zamora, Murphy, etc.) should be started...Lastly, I'm not quite trusty what to attain of Stoke this threefold gameweek. They hit a great schedule - digit bag games (Birmingham and Fulham) but are discover of form, and despite the "Aura" around Sorensen and their defense, they hit actually exclusive kept 3 decent sheets discover of 8 bag games this season... Shawcross is a field uncertainty for the city game, and patch I crapper wager digit decent sheet discover of digit perhaps, I can't wager digit decent sheets in this one. Again, endeavor your Stoke players but you are better off finance in Arsenal's affordable studs than buying into Stoke at this point...Buying players from those 4 teams module insure that you hit studs this week, but attain trusty to countenance to the daylong constituent as substantially as the brief term...Other studs this hebdomad allow MANCHESTER CITY and EVERTON players. I wager they place together pleasant performances on Boxing Day and that momentum could carry over into the week...Duds this week, to no field surprise, allow Burnley players, Wolves players, and West Ham players. The likes of Alexander and Bikey (frequently owned Burnley players), Craddock (Wolves), and Robert Green and Upson (West Ham) are every affordable and owned by thousands of managers, but grappling off against alarming attacks...Lastly, the field dud this hebdomad is Christmas rest and rotation, or, more accurately: every 20 Premier League managers. The managers hit promised to attain a clump of changes cod to rest and trauma and the tight fixture itemize and that could wager the likes of high priced players like Rooney and Berbatov (rested for Owen?) or Torres (rested for N'Gog?) perhaps presented exclusive limited run-outs. Maybe it's meet talk, but the lowercase niggles and algid defy module surely change the coloring of some starting elevens crossways the country this week. Make trusty you hit a strong governance or be embattled for some surprises...Gameweek 20 Best Eleven:GK: SorensenD: Gary Cahill - Gallas - EvraM: Arshavin - Chung Yong Lee - Pienaar - Tuncay - LampardF: Rooney - TevezSubs: Kuszczack - Zamora - A. Traore - Faye Ab

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Butt's Brain: Boxing Day

Everton were Saved by the FellainiA whatever hurried Sat morning Boxing Day observations from around the Premier League. I've been healthy to check quaternary matches springy (two simultaneously over the past quaternary hours on the PC and tele) and am 15 minutes absent from Liverpool vs Wolves but this is what has caught my eye...
  • Everton seem to be turning a corner in their season with a alive ordinal half pass today while Sunderland continue to start far brief of the impressive expectations they ordered for themselves in August and September. The 1-1 entertainer was fair, though Everton perhaps should hit taken every 3 points with a lowercase meliorate closing from the likes of the commonly lethal Saha. Sunderland looked distinctly mediocre after the prototypal 20 minutes in which they submissive - null more than a mid-table aggroup and while designer and Bent did consortium nicely for a goal, they offered null special in the ordinal half.
  • Steven Pienaar looked superb on the ball in the ordinal half. I wouldn't be astonied if he was at the hunch of the move for Everton against Burnley when the Clarets visit Goodison Park on Monday.
  • Jordan Henderson, Sunderland's teenage prodigy, looked beatific on the ball and in accumulation in the ordinal half - he was famished and played with fire...
  • Fulham could attain the Europa League again. Tottenham module not attain the Champions League. Fulham continue to show that they are a rattling designed side and crapper modify endeavor whatever enthusiastic digit contact football in the attacking ordinal low Roy Hodgson. He is far and absent the trainer of the past digit eld in the Premier League. Not modify close. A 3-0 get over metropolis United last hebdomad and a decorous sufficiency 0-0 entertainer with Tottenham today and Hodgson crapper be happy with his side's Boxing Day performance.
  • Clint gladiator was at the hunch of everything beatific for Fulham but was prodigal with his chances in the box. He had digit or three rattling anaemic shots either on direct or meet off target. I astonishment if man American Landon Donovan (on loan soon to Everton) would hit finished meliorate in those kindred situations and put a content away... Murphy, Duff, Zamora, Gera every had beatific attacking spells as substantially against Tottenham.
  • Didier Drogba sure did not go discover to continent with a bang. Just as I had been predicting / expecting for whatever time now, Drogba could not keep up the awful content per mettlesome form forever... Two direct blanks (against relatively direct opposition in West Ham and Birmingham) for the Ivory Coast cover and as Drogba goes, so do Chelsea. The aggroup is in a bad strech of form correct today and faces tight at the backwards Fulham in meet a whatever days...
  • Enjoy the holiday weekend... Now to the Liverpool match...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

England: Premier League Weekend Preview

Roberto Mancini makes his gesture as metropolis City manager on Boxing Day then 24 hours later Arsenal patron Aston Villa at Emirates Stadium. Elsewhere on this festive weekend of footballing action, lowermost digit teams West Ham United and Portsmouth go head-to-head, association body Chelsea make the trip to Birmingham City, out-of-form metropolis lock horns with in-form Wolverhampton Wanderers patch Fulham foregather London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.Preview