Recently I’ve been thinking about Atletico Madrid.
Even doing some research on them.
So I will be able to preview Arsenal’s Europa League semi-finals.
As the team has stuttered and crumbled, they’ve gone off the media’s radar and even the greatest spin-doctor organised sport has ever seen can’t do much about that.
Since Arsenal have become irrelevant to the title race, and the Top Four, teams like Liverpool and Spurs are getting far more coverage.
Manchester City won the 2018 title with five games still left to play.
Beating Spurs on the same weekend that United lost 1-0 at home to West Brom was a rather bizarre way for the league season to end. But it merely confirmed what we all knew was going to happen.
Pep’s energetic, super-skilful team were consistent enough to win far more Premier League games than anybody else.
But they lost twice to Klopp’s Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final.The first of those defeats was came after a disgusting assault on the City bus by Liverpool supporters.
Clearly, people who support a club for life suffer plenty of highs and lows.
I used to be a fan who was sometimes ecstatic but deeply upset at other times. I supported Burnley as a kid in Stevenage and then started supporting Chelsea at university. But when Dave Sexton sold his two best players to Southampton and Stoke, I realised that I was a Peter Osgood supporter and an Alan Hudson supporter, not a Chelsea supporter.
Since then I’ve not supported a club but have spread myself around all the big London grounds.
On West Ham, it’s interesting that the board have decided to abandon plans to hire a Director of Football and are giving David Moyes a permanent contract and more power over which players are bought and sold.
Oddly enough, Burnley play Chelsea tonight and I’m looking forward to this one.
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