Bits and Pieces.

Well all 36 views and a few comments as well on the first blog. Thanks for that. This will be a short blog this week due to er... time constraints so here we go.

• Zlatan Ibrahimovic's red card against St. Etienne was one of those moments where you think what was he thinking? Was he watching Jason McCateers against Macedonia all those years ago? He was probably trying to go for the ball but so badly timed it was comical. One thing for sure about Zlatan he is never boring. If you have not seen the Kung-Fu kick in question here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flJuG0PdJxo. At least PSG care capable of losing a game in France and hopefully to all Ligue 1 fans out there it will be also competitive with Marseille and Lyon both making good starts to the league.
• Manage to catch the Juventus-Inter Milan match at the weekend and a very inspired performance from Inter in the Derby d'Italia to finally end Juventus run of 49 league games unbeaten. How significant this result will be in the long run who knows but with leaders like Javier Zanetti, Walter Samuel, Esteban Cambiasso and Diego Milito in your side playing as inspired like they did on Saturday night then Inter have a fighting chance on all fronts this season.
• I predict a German winner of the Champions League this season. I have unfortunately not watched much of the Bundesliga this season but with the impact the three leading sides in Germany are making in this seasons Champions League the Bundesliga seems to be the place to be. With the way German football is run( nearly all the top clubs are run by the fans, excellent football stadia and relatively cheap matchday tickets) The Germans have showed the way on how to run big football teams without alienating their fans and also producing good football to boot. It is refreshing to see that billonares are not treating these teams like their playground and not sacking managers on the whim or trying to dictate who should start in the team week in, week out. The knockout stages of the Champions League will be interesting for sure one it reaches that point and could be the best in history. (Sorry for the hyperbole!)
• One last point. I am am fan of the Guardian podcast which goes out every Monday and Thursday and a fan of their Spanish correspondent Sid Lowe so when Sid sent out an SAS to save historical Spanish Club Real Oviedo buy buying shares in it then I thought why the hell not! A bit of football romanticism that you can now say you own a little part of the football club. More details are on the website created to non-Spanish speaking people. It is a worthy and Ill be buying my two shares tomorrow. http://www.realoviedo.es/weboficial/index.asp?Pagina=vernoticia&IdNoticia=7956  http://www.realoviedo.es/yosoyelrealoviedo/index.html

Right that is for another blog. Hope you enjoyed it. Talk soon.

Keith