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Giggs named UK sports personality of the year

karen — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:19:12 +0000

Earlier this month Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the year, followed by Formula One world champion Jenson Button and athlete Jessica Ennis. The winner of this annual prestigious award is determined by a public vote on whose achievements have been most outstanding. The veteran winger’s win came as a surprise and even shocked the bookies. He had been an outside chance (even with his 11 league titles and two Champions League winners’ medals) amongst a strong field of contenders. Some 518,000 votes were cast in Giggs’ favour giving him the edge on Jenson who was ultimately the runner up. The win must have come as something of a shock to Giggs also since he hadn’t even prepared a victory speech for the eveningand was very nearly lost for words. Giggs’ victory only goes to show what a soccer obsessed nation we have become. Here’s some footage of his acceptance speech.

Premier League: Chelsea Too Strong for Man U

karen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:24:05 +0000

Last weekend’s match between Chelsea and Man U was a battle of the top dogs in the Premier League and resulted in Chelsea now being the clear leader on the ladder by five points. They went in to the match as the slight favourites and in the end the final score was Chelsea 1-0 Manchester United. Captain John Terry scored the second half-goal in the 76^th minute with a free kick from Frank Lampard. Man U came close on a couple of occasions but Chelsea defence proved too strong. Chelsea has now set a new club record of 11 straight home wins. Both Man U and Chelsea drew in the Champions League matches this week ahead of the game with each other. Manchester had to work hard to level the score with CSKA Moscow and fought back from a deficit of 3-1.

Champions League update: Lyons a late winner

karen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:07:39 +0000

Cesar Delgado scored an impressive last minute goal on 20 Oct for Lyon to seal a 2-1 against the Liverpool Reds which is now their fourth successive defeat. As if the absence of Fernado Torres and Glen Johnston due to injury wasn’t already enough of a blow to Liverpool, they then lost their captain, Steven Gerrard, only 25 minutes into the game with a groin problem. It was all downhill after this point. Their chances of qualifying for the knockout stage of the Champions League is now looking seriously shaky. Liverpool is still placed third in the Champions League Group E.

And unsurprisingly, Barcelona is still the top favourite to win followed by Chelsea, Read Madrid and Man Utd. The most favoured top goal scorer is Madrid player, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Champions League: Man U defeats Wolfsburg

karen — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:56:07 +0000

United came from behind to win the match on 30 Sept with 2-1 victory over Wolfsburg. Ryan Giggs scored his 150^th goal for United. They now lead Group B by 3 points. United are still the fourth favourites to win behind Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea and can be backed at 10.0 to win the season. I still can’t work out why Chelsea is favoured ahead of Manchester United. I wasn’t so impressed by their recent performance against Apoel.

Champions League has just begun!!

karen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:51:26 +0000

The Champions League football has finally just kicked off!!! Barcelona is the reigning champion at the moment and are again the favourites to win this most prestigious trophy in European football. But then the French side, Lyon, is also a very strong side in my opinion. As for Real Madrid, even though they are the second favourites to win at the moment, I have a bit of trouble taking them seriously and worry about the egos of some of their team members! This is the first season with the new qualifying format so there are several teams from minor leagues that have been given the opportunity to play for the first time. They may have less experience but I don’t doubt that they may give some teams a run for their money. But is really is a bit of gamble at this stage as to who may come out on top at the end of the day. So stay tuned for my betting tips.

Manchester United odds cut after beating undefeated Tottenham

karen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:37:16 +0000

It’s no secret that apart from the tennis, I’m a bit of the Premier League fan and in particular Manchester United. So as the season progresses you’ll hear from me from time to time about how they are going and what’s happening with their odds to win.

At the moment, their odds of winning the Premier League have been cut from 9/4 to 2/1 following their convincing performance against Tottenham. They came from behind to win the match. United are up against their neighbours Manchester City next on 20 Sept who are even money to finish in the top four.