Too long a break

 

 Sorry for the long hiatus. We let the blog seep through to a dormant state for the last two weeks or so as we had to occupy our minds with work in the office.

 Now we vow to turn around the defunct state of the blog and spring life into it again. We would be back with our weekend predictions, ‘big games’ previews and review, players’ ratings and many more articles.

 To bring to you some recent news and events that occurred last week, you must have enjoyed the weekend action which had plenty of goals in the ‘big four’ matches only if you are not an Arsenal fan.

 Titles are not won in November but they can so easily be lost. I wonder if Arsenal fans are beginning to worry about their team’s prospects this season. They have lost close to one-third of their matches so far losing 4 out of 13. What must be worrying Arsenal fans more (they must have been used to their team not winning anything by now) is that the team has been woefully inconsistent. While everyone has been singing praises for Arsenal’s fledglings, much deeper cracks seem to have appeared in their first team set up. Arsene Wenger got a fantastic response from his team after the loss against Stoke when they beat Man United but the performance against the ‘Villains’ according to him was lackluster, lack of enthusiasm and energy. Arsenal is dropping far too many points at home and if you come to think of it they have played just one of the other teams in the ‘Big Four’. They still have to travel to Old Trafford, Anfield and Stamford Bridge and also entertain the latter two at Emirates.

 On the subject of big games, Manchester United should be well placed in the title race come March as they have played all the big away games of the season bar the one at Eastlands. If the performance against Stoke is anything to go by then they are also discovering their goal scoring touch.

 Liverpool has been the surprise package this season. Over the years one has got used to hearing Liverpool’s false promises of doing better and winning the league the next season during this time of the season. But they seemed to have that around this season; they are coming out unscathed in tough away games though it will be interesting to see if they can sustain that for the entire season.

 Chelsea has started well as they have always done since they go the taste of fine Russian vodka. They are also hitting top gear this season and have an excellent goal difference which might actually decide the outcome of the title race. Chelsea loses very few matches but draws a bigger proportion of matches and it will be interesting to see if the form of some of their goal scorers like Anelka and Lampard ensure otherwise.

We had another boring week of International friendlies, they are the worst that can happen to a club at this point of the season when there is usually a hectic schedule for the top teams. Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex can testify this as they will be without the services of Walcott and Berbatov respectively thanks to the meaningless friendlies.