Saturday, August 11, 2007

Simply The Best - Sunderland



Sunderland 1-0 Tottenham

Chopra made the perfect start to life on WearsideMichael Chopra scored in injury time to give Roy Keane's Sunderland side a stunning victory over Tottenham on their return to the Premier League.

3 comments:

garazon said...

I was looking at the Sunderland site tonight and saw they didn't fair so well in Saturdays game having their first loss this season. :( Well you know I must be in love by following the football results now! lol And I see I'm even more hooked on a certain Brit as I'm calling it football now instead of Soccer! LOL Oh I'm in deep!! :) Love you baby! xxxx

Alison said...

Oh you see I only post the good results...lol...well hopefully they just had an off weekend and will be back on form the next game !
Love you too Cowboy x x x

Mike said...

Well, I'll have to keep up with Sunderland now!

Back when G and I were messing around with Groups, we both did this weekly trivia chat. We had/have friends from all over, and like so much of the 'net, they complained that many of the questions were US-based.

They have/had a point, esp. in trivia.

So, when it was my time to host the quiz and come up w/ questions, I started researching other things, British history, some stuff on tv shows (Eastenders, things like that, plus the connection between many American shows and their UK roots)

I was getting some footy trivia when I saw where Man U. had just become the most valuable sports franchise in the world. (the Dallas Cowboys have been in the top three for the longest time) I read the diff. names, some odd-sounding to me (as if a lot of Texas names aren't odd) and found Arsenal.

Wow, that sounded cool, military connotation, tough team I thought. I mentioned that to my friend Minnie who lives in Colchester...

...and now I'm an avid Chelsea fan. It was hard to convince her that I REALLY wasn't a Arsenal fan. She sent me some Chelsea gear, nice jerseys for being a quick turncoat.

Being a Dallas Cowboy fan, I know all about jumping off and on a bandwagon.

All I know about footy is I'm also really glad I didn't tell her I was a Liverpool fan. (I thought about it before picking Arsenal; the Beatles, all that, you see)

I'd been a scouser, whatever that is. It doesn't sound good, either.

And one more thing while I'm blathering on: I said something above about how the "Dallas Cowboys have..." and when I hear Brit sports announcers, it's always something like:

"Chelsea are expected to be back in the hunt again this year."

It's not wrong, not when one considers the object to be a single thing, such as a team, but we Americans use the plural and it must be because we consider a "team" to be composed of multiple subjects. I've always found that odd.

Of course, we Americans, esp. we Texans, have butchered the Queen's English (and before that, the King's) for centuries.