It was a weekend of draws !!!

Chelsea drew with Spurs on Sunday !!!!

Inter Milan started their campaign to defend the Serie A title against Sampadoria with a draw :

I am sad but i do know that its just the beginning for both my teams and it will be just a matter to time until things start looking great...

Hopefully :)

Just like that !!!!

English Teams in Champions League

Four Barclays Premier League powerhouses, but where is the threat to stop another English invasion of the Champions League Final?

Barcelona are the natural challengers with a new coach in Pep Guardiola and a different way of playing, Jose Mourinho will love keeping Roman Abramovich waiting for another year and beware Bayern Munich under Jurgen Klinsmann. He means business on their return to the competition. The hardest draw is Real Madrid’s group, where UEFA Cup holders and Russian champions Zenit will pose a serious problem to the established powers.
One of Madrid or Juventus might struggle to find a way through. The eye-catching matches involving the English teams are the return of Fernando Torres to Atletico Madrid, Chelsea’s visit to Roma and — of course — Manchester United’s journey north to Glasgow. The defending champions have unfinished business in Scotland. And a certain former Rangers centre forward in their dug-out has a long memory.

Manchester United
Scots everywhere you look with Fergie, Gordon Strachan and Bruce Rioch, the former Arsenal manager, at Aalborg. United have far too much quality to be troubled, though they will want to improve on their attacking threat after two indifferent performances at the start of the Premier League season. Cristiano Ronaldo’s return should help! There are also no long-haul trips, which will please Fergie as he looks to keep his side fresh for domestic action. Villarreal are a difficult obstacle for Celtic. With Giuseppe Rossi leading the line, they will challenge for second slot and Celtic must overcome their rotten away record to advance. They may need points in Denmark to keep in the hunt.

Chelsea
There is little here to damage Chelsea. Roma are hard to beat on home turf, but rarely travel well — remember the seven they conceded at Old Trafford? They have good players, including former Liverpool man John Arne Riise and, especially, Francesco Totti if he gets out of bed on the right side, but Luiz Felipe Scolari will expect to go through with games to spare. Bordeaux are an average team from a declining league and Chelsea can target maximum points home and away. They will be rushing for the reference books to learn more about CFR, the champions from Romania. Watch Chelsea sail through (hopefully!!!!).

Liverpool
If you thought it was hard for Liverpool against Standard Liege, stand by for another bumpy ride. The highlight of the draw is the trip to Atletico Madrid, where ace goalscorer Torres and keeper Pepe Reina will visit old friends. Madrid can be the leading team in this group with quality players in Maniche, Simao, Luis Garcia and Diego Forlan. Marseille won at Anfield last season and ran Liverpool close in the group stages. We know all about the quality of PSV, who regularly qualify from this stage. This is a difficult draw, but none of the teams have the firepower of Liverpool. They should go through, but maybe only as runners-up to Madrid.

Arsenal
Difficult away matches, experienced opponents. If Arsene Wenger was waiting for the draw before deciding whether to move into the transfer market, he should be on to the bank manager this morning. Porto topped Liverpool at this stage last season and have Euro know-how. They don’t have great attacking might, but then neither do Arsenal. Fenerbahce gave Chelsea a fright in the quarter-finals last season and the Turkish club will be a hard place to go, especially with former Spain boss Luis Aragones in charge. Kiev were hopeless last season, but Moscow is a long, testing trip. Arsenal might have to settle for second place.

Courtesy - www.dailymail.co.uk

UEFA Champions League Draw - Road to Rome

Highlights of the show -

UEFA Goalkeeper of the year - Petr Cech
UEFA Defender of the year - John Terry
UEFA Midfilder of the year - Frank Lampard
UEFA Forward of the year - Cristiano Ronaldo

UEFA Player of the year - Cristiano Ronaldo

The Draw is interesting... the best one being Group H - Real Madrid and Juventus :)

Group A - Chelsea, AS Roma, Bordeaux , CFR

Group B - Inter Milan, Bremen, Panathinaikos, Anorthosis

Group C - Barcalona, Sporting Lisbon, Basel, Shakhtar

Group D - Liverpool, PSV, Marseille, Athletico

Group E - Manchester United, Villareal, Celtic, Aab

Group F - Lyon, Bayern Munich, Steaua, Fiorentina

Group G - Arsenal, Porto, Ferenbache, Dynamo Kiev

Group H - Real Madrid, Juventus, Zenit, Bate

Eyecandy

Sheva leaves for Milan

After two not-so-happy seasons, Andriey Schevchenko has moved back to Milan. His transfer to Milan was finalised and reported on Monday, 25 Aug 2008. Chelsea fans were divided in opinion on whether he was any good at all and / or whether he was any good at Chelsea.

In my opinion he was an outstanding player in an unsuitable place.. All of us know that Italian Football and English football is like Apples and Oranges....

May he earn all the respect and win the UEFA Cup this year !!!!

Inter Milan win the Supercoppa Tim

Picture Courtesy - http://www.inter.it/

Inter beat AS Roma 6-5 on penalties to win the Italian Super Cup on Sunday following a 2-2 draw in Jose Mourinho's first competitive game in charge of the Italian champions.

Sulley Muntari, a new signing from Portsmouth, gave Inter the lead after 18 minutes of his official debut after Maicon's cross had been deflected on to the bar by Roma defender Philippe Mexes. Last season's Cup winners Roma, playing their first game since the death of club president Franco Sensi last Sunday, levelled on 59 minutes at the San Siro when Daniele De Rossi lashed a stunning drive into the top corner from 30 metres.

Inter substitute Mario Balotelli thought he had snatched victory with a cool finish on 83 minutes but Roma forced a second equaliser in the final minute of normal time when the ball seemed to come off Mirko Vucinic and Inter's Dejan Stankovic. After a dull extra time, Juan missed the crucial spot kick in the shootout to give Inter victory before they start the defence of their Serie A title at Sampdoria next Saturday.

Frank Lampard ... True Blue Always

Much much richer after signing a new 5 - year contract with Chelsea...Gorgeous as always... He is the epitome of a true blue...