Transfer Deadline Day Recap

Ah, transfer deadline day. The day when most clubs do their entire transferring, despite there being a whole summer to do it. This is just demonstrated by Arsenal, whose buying season was entirely limited to this day. Park Chu-Young from Monaco, Per Mertesacker from Werder Bremen, Andre Santos from some Turkish club, Mikel Arteta from Everton and Yossi Benayoun from Chelsea all came in on deadline day, while they barely made any buys the other 3 months.

Soccer Week Wrapup: August 28th, 2011

I'm a Man United fan at heart, but that doesn't mean that I don't care about the other EPL clubs or the European leagues or even leagues like MLS which are far from "top class". Although the Man United 8-2 Arsenal scoreline is probably the best of the bunch from the world of soccer this week, there were a few other shining tidbits that I'd like to mention.

Never Mind There ARE Troubles at Arsenal

So I stood up for Arsene Wenger last week in my article Are There Any Troubles at Arsenal? and now he just goes and make me look like an idiot with that SHOCKING performance. Now, I'm a Man United fan, but even I would never have thought that United would've scored eight goals! And some of them, to be fair, were pretty spectacular, especially the 2 Rooney free-kicks and the Ashley Young long shots-that one could be the Paul Scholes of the future!

Are There Any Troubles at Arsenal?

So you guys have all heard about Arsenal's recent woes at the transfer market and on the pitch, yes? Well, if you haven't, Arsenal have just sold arguably their best players in Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri to Barcelona and Man City respectively as well as Carlos Vela (to Real Sociedad) and Emmanuel Eboue (to Galataseray). Their replacements? Emmanuel Frimpong, Carl Jenkinson, Ignasi Miquel and Aaron Ramsay. Well, the headlines have been screaming for Wenger's head after these decisions, mainly because Wenger hasn't used the Fabregas/Nasri transfer fees to buy any world-class talent.

New Season of Soccer!

Ah, August. The peak of summer, the last month before you have to go back to the dreadfully boring sludge of school. And the start of the new European soccer season!
Well, a few things happened in the summer that I wasn't aware about. For one, Sergio "Kun" Aguero is now at the trillionaires under the name of Manchester City. I thought Aguero's transfer was just to make Tevez stop threatening to leave unless he gets a $10000000000/week salary or something...

Arsenal are Nooby

Which is why they deserve a mention. A 0-0 draw against Blackburn? LOL. And Chelsea conceded a goal against Stoke (ROFL) and Liverpool only scored once against West Brom (LMFAO) which leaves Manchester United witha 4-2 win over West Ham. Sure, it wasn't easy (the Hammers were actually leading 2-0 at one point thanks to 2 rather soft penalties) but Rooney scored a hattrick and some other guy scored #4 for a 4-2 win. Basically, United have the title wrapped up since Arsenal are trailing them by 7 points while Chelsea are overtaken by Manchester City in 3rd and Liverpool are waaay down bottom. But who'll stay up? Avram Grant's done a great job with the Hammers considering the club's financial position but his side are still in the relegation scrapheap. Should make for an interesting season...

I LOVE WEST BROM (or Roy Hodgeson, at least)

Sorry if I haven't posted here for a while, but I was too busy being enthralled by how West Brom made Arsenal look like the fools they are at defending. As early as the 3rd minute they scored from an Olsson header who Arsenal so foolishly left unmarked (Almunia should've done better too, but that mistake is really just the tip of the dungheap) and West Brom lead Arsenal 1-0. Scott Carson, the real man, proved he at least earned the right to wear #1 after a fantastic save off a rebound shot from Aaron Ramsey after van Persie hit the bar with a header. Half time: Baggies 1, Gunners 0...

HOORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Well ManUtd have become well.......unpredictable.
After losing to Chelsea and Liverpool, both rather off-form and poor teams, they draw Arsenal in the league cup tie. Well, my first reaction is: Well, this is the beginning of the end. To be honest I was actually expecting some traumatic scoreline like Arsenal 4-1 Man Utd but then I see that Man U have fielded 7 defenders. o.o Now I'm thinking: Oh great Arsy are gonna win on penalties and United's Devils are gonna be even more tired for the league game. No way in hell are Man United gonna score.
They scored twice.
The da Silva brothers, Fabio and Rafael, were suddenly wingers while John O'Shea returned to his old position of defensive midfielder while Rooney retreated to midfield. It was more of a 4-5-1 formation than a 7-1-2 that it seemed to be. Still, 4-5-1 is not an offensive formation in the least, and United's defense has been rather shaky all season long. I thought they would attack, attack and attack, playing something like a 3-4-3 with Berbatov on and....yeah.
Anyways, the first goal came from a van der Sar throw, obviously. Fabio da Silva then set a move which ended in a Rooney cross for Hernandez, whose header was palmed away by Almunia. Fabio was on hand for the equalizer for 1-0 in the 28th minute.
Arsenal, who are now out of the Carling and European Cups after losses to Birmingham and Barcelona respectively, now seemed out of the FA Cup. And to think that 2 weeks ago they could've won a Quadruple. However, they came back in it, particularly van Persie who was sent off at the Camp Nou. He, Nasri and Koscielny all had shots that the Dutch giant Vandy Sar saved, in addition to a near-Wes Brown own goal that  the goalkeeper handily parried.
But then United got their second when Djorou's clearance went straight to Rooney's head, and needless to say, it was a goal. 2-0 in 50 minutes, while playing with 7 defenders. Not bad.
Obviously Arsenal basically reverted to a 2-5-3 after that. Everyone went forward but van der Sar was brilliant again in keeping a clean sheet. Why is he retiring again?
And then...
The End....
Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal.
BOO YAH!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and btw United are facing Bolton in the FA Cup final after the Trotters beat Birmingham 3-2 thanks to a 90th minute Lee Chung Yong strike.

OMFG (again)

So 5 days after losing to Chelsea, ManUnited now lose to.....Liverpool.

O.O

Basically, Kuyt scored a hattrick, Maradona's follower Luiz Suarez was involved in all 3 goals, and  Hernandez did get a consolation for United, but they still lost. 3-1.  Sadly, this wasn't the whole story.  

Liverpool fullback Jaimie Carragher blatantly fouled and injured Nani. A free-for-all on the pitch ensued, and Nani even had the guts to show his injury to referee Phil Dowd, while Suarez was busy pulling Rafael's hair in the background.  Somehow, Dowd did not send anybody off, but gave yellows to Carragher, Skrtel, Rafael and van der Sar. Is it just me or are all Premier League referees blind?

OMFG

So, a few weeks after United lose to Wolves, they lose AGAIN. To CHELSEA.

And this is right after a rather dismal tie with Olympique Marseille and a very fortunate Manchester derby, won by Rooney's magic. Sadly, this time United actually deserved to win the game. Luiz should have been sent off for his challenge on Hernandez and the penalty was....well.....very soft. The outstanding Chris Smalling clearly got the ball in the area and if the referee wasn't a complete idiot he would've said play on. Well at least Smalling didn't get sent off. Vidic will now miss the Liverpool fixture after a 90th-minute red card. And since Ferdinand is injured, Wes Brown will have to take his place.

Van der Sar was brilliant in this game. He saved a good shot from Malouda, another from Luiz, but his moment of fame was still to come. After only managing to parry Lampard's free kick straight to Ivanovic, van der Sar still somehow tipped the ball to Vidic who cleared. Vidic, despite his red card, was also rock solid and made several important clearances and blocked Zhirkov's shot which would've went in.

Rooney then scored a low 25-yarder. He seems to be regaining his form at the moment, which is good, because Manchester United need him to settle this crisis of losing 2 out of 3 games when they had previously gone the whole season unbeaten. But United's undoing was in the 2nd half.

They just sat back and defended instead of pushing and pressing Chelsea, who were now free to attack. It was rather debatable why. United had an obvious advantage up front with Hernandez, Rooney, Nani and Scholes all in the mix. At the back, however, they had Vidic, van der Sar, Smalling, Evra and O'Shea. Vidic and van der Sar are undoubtedly world-class, but Smalling lacks the experience for games like this. Evra is way too offensive, and O'Shea isn't very good at all. Maybe Fergie just had this random spazz =/.

Well, Essien swung a cross in and Luiz netted the equalizer. Then, after a random swing of chances, Lampard was basically gifted a penalty which he drove past van der Sar and into the goal, making Chelsea lead 2-1.

If Arsenal win against Tottenham, then they will be within 1 point of Manchester United, an easily catchable distance. Apparently, the center cannot hold.

Arsenal's Fruitless Hunt Continues....

What is it now? 6 years without a trophy?

Lmfao and the only remaining member of the famous 2003 "Invincibles" side is Gael Clichy who, along with fresh new blood Jack Wilshere, were Arsenal's best players. They were really lacking in invention after yet another injury to their inspirational captain Cesc Fabregas and were also undone by some rather senseless substitutions by Wenger, who brought van Persie off at 1-1 and brought on Bendtner, who isn't the best striker around. At least bring on Chamakh or something! Well Wenger listened but brought off Arshavin, another one of Arsenal's great players. =/ .__. .

But that didn't mean that Birmingham had to give around 150% to beat this Gooners team. They really should've had a penalty when Lee Bowyer rounded Gooners keeper Wojciech Szczeny and was pulled down, but somehow the assistant flagged for offside. If he didn't, the score would in all likelihood have been 1-0 to Birmingham and Szczeny would've been sent off, leaving Arsenal down a man. And this was in the opening 2 minutes.

Arsenal had a few shots in the early game, with both Arshavin and Nasri coming close. But Birmingham were lethal on the counterattack and won a corner, which Nikola Zigic (or the Serbian Peter Crouch) nodded home for 1-0. Arsenal were level 11 minutes later, after a Wilshere long shot crashed down off the crossbar and van Persie knocked home the rebound. However, Arsenal were really bad the first half and Birmingham should've had this game wrapped up.

They were a bit better in the second. Nasri again went close and Bendtner had his shot saved by Foster. Birmingham fought on and Fahey crashed a shot off the bar but there was no striker to bury the rebound.

But Arsenal only had themselves to blame for Birmingham's winner. Or, more precisely, their defense. The goalkeeper spot in Arsenal was precarious, with Manuel Almunia (a former Osasuna B team member), Lukasz Fabianski (who's Polish =p but seriously, he sucks) and Szczeny the contenders. Szczeny's weaknesses were already shown in the early stages, and now he dreadfully misinterpreted a Zigic cross after center back Koscielny (another weak spot) missed his cross. In a move like Petr Cech's against Turkey in Euro 2008, Szczeny spilled the ball and Obafemi Martins tapped home on an empty net.

Defense has proven to be the Gunners' Achilles Heel again. Ever since Jens Lehmann left in 2008, there has been no world-class goalkeeper in Arsenal's squad. And Arsenal's defenders aren't really that good either, as after Kolo Toure left for Man City, they only have Sebastien Squillaci and Clichy as reliable defensive players. Maybe they should get Puyol =P.

So the Arsenal Quintuple dream is truly finished. They lost the Carling Cup and United are reopening the gap in the Premier League. They could still win the FA Cup and the Champions League, but their recent shaky performances don't bode altogether well.

What a Weird Week...

In the midweek Champions' League fixture Manchester United were rather poor in a drab 0-0 draw with the French team Olympique Marseille. Both teams mustered only 2 shots on target and only Darren Fletcher of United had a decent opportunity, his shot saved by OM goalkeeper Mandanda. Sure, Scholes changed the game in the final 18 minutes, giving United 2 chances, both wasted by Berbatov and Nani respectively and a golf ball was thrown in as United took a corner; the only talking point in a dreadfully boring contest.

The other midweek fixture between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan was much more interesting. Sure, it only ended 1-0 to Bayern, but both sides contributed to a great match which saw both teams miss chance after chance, and only Bayern's Mario Gomez tucked home a 90th-minute winner.

But in the league fixtures today, United scored 4 against Wigan. Despite the 4-0 scoreline, the Latics were much the better team throughout the first half and only a defensive collapse allowed United to score 3 goals in the last 15 minutes. Javier Hernandez scored his 12th and 13th goals of the season in this match, and gave the disappointing Berbatov a run for his money in the contest for the starting striker position. Rooney's recovery continued as he grabbed the assist for Hernandez's second goal and scored one himself, albeit a tap-in from Berbatov's cross.

This is the beginning of a tough week for United. They are away at both Chelsea and Liverpool this week. Sure, Chelsea need to recover from their FA Cup fiasco with Everton but Liverpool are fast on the road to recovery with the "Messiah" Kenny Dalglish playing a big role. This might be the week where United need to prove their title credentials i.e. their "match of the season".

Blackpool's slide continues as they stunningly lose 4-0 to Wolves, who now climb out of the relegation zone having a better goal difference than West Brom. Blackpool are now 14th and are only 4 points away from the relegation zone. And to think they were in the top 7 at the end of 2010. Villa's road to recovery continued as they easily dispose of Blackburn 4-1. Jermaine Beckford, who used to play with Leeds in League One, scored a brace in the 1st half for Everton to down Sunderland 2-0 and Newcastle hang on with 10 men to draw Bolton 1-1.

CHELSEA ARE OUT!!!

Alright so the FA Cup weekend has finished!

Chelsea, Crawley Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Fulham, Notts County and Brighton are out, while Leyton Orient and Arsenal still need a replay after a 1-1 draw. Manchester United, Birmingham, Bolton and Stoke are all in the quarter-finals while Everton face Man City in round 5.

So the best is first. Chelsea collapsed again at Everton, where they seemed to lack the drive to score goals. Lampard missed a hatful of chances, and Malouda spent 2 minutes just trying to get his wedding ring off his finger. In extra time, Lampard for once hit the target and Chelsea seemed destined to go through.

But Leighton Baines sent a 30-yard free kick into the top corner a minute from time and, guess what! Penalties are needed! Chelsea led 2-0 at one point when Lampard and Drogba scored while Baines missed for Everton. Jagielka kept Everton in it, and Anelka, so reliable in seasons past, bombed his penalty and Everton tied it up with Mikel Arteta's kick. Essien and Heitinga both buried their penalties, leaving the score 3-3. Then Heitinga's moment of infamy. While Ashley Cole was on his way for his penalty, Heitinga bumped him and Cole blazed the penalty over the bar. Phil Neville scored the final spot-kick and Everton won 4-3 on penalties.

So Chelsea showed again that they are an immensely overrated team. They simply have no stomach for pressure, just like AC Milan in their Tottenham game.

Manchester United just barely beat Conference side Crawley Town, who now have 5 games in hand and look certain to win the English Conference. Rooney, after his fabulous bicycle kick last week, looked ineffective and frustrated this one, while another United young boy Obertan was useless in attack. United had to thank Wes Brown, who scored a beautiful back-header and was rock solid in defense. But Crawley were surprisingly good for a Conference side, giving United no end in trouble. Ben Smith glanced a 30-yarder just wide, and Matt Tubbs tried a Rooney with an overhead kick of his own. Sadly, it went just over. Crawley's run was at an end.

Notts County, who were so good in the 2-2 draw with Man City, now lost 5-0 as the veteran Patrick Vieira scored twice while Dzeko, Tevez and Micah Richards also got on the scoresheet. Birmingham continued the Premier League clubs' rout by beating Championship side Sheffield Wednesday 3-0, while Bolton's Ivan Klasnic scored his 2nd goal in 4 days to down Fulham 1-0, and Stoke put Brighton away 3-0.

But the EPL clubs weren't all successful. Arsenal, who had been rocky recently, now drew at League One side Leyton Orient. Arsenal had just beaten Barcelona 2-1 in the midweek Champions' League fixture and looked to run away with it here, with 12 shots on target but somehow only managed a 53rd minute Thomas Rosicky goal. It wasn't enough as in the last minute Orient's Jonathan Tehoue broke through Gibbs and Miquel to score and ensure a replay for the Gooners.

So the quarter-finals of the FA Cup looks like this:

Stoke City vs. West Ham/Burnley

Man City/Aston Villa vs. Everton/Reading

Birmingham vs. Bolton

Man Utd vs. Arsenal/Leyton Orient

Rooney Saves the Day

Alright I was wrong about Rooney.

His strike was AWESOME, and it saved United from almost certain defeat by City, who I reckon were the better side. Certainly the Goal of the Season, unless somebody else does something even more spectacular.

Apparently it was Rooney's best ever goal too, in a season where he had only scored 5 times. Although he did score 30-yard shots against Arsenal and Newcastle before, this was undoubtedly the best in a rather lackluster season for the striker, after 34 goals in 42 appearances last season. That old geezer Scholes did a pretty good pass to Nani, who delivered a rather poor cross which was fortunately deflected by Pablo Zabaleta (who had a disastrous appearance) and Rooney did his magic to send the ball into the top corner.

Chris Smalling, somebody I never even heard of, contained that traitor Tevez very well, so that he didn't even get a shot in, and City's only goal was a very fortunate deflection off David Silva. But United were no better and Nani's opener was due to a long blaster from Van Der Sar who unfortunately will retire at season's end. Nemanja Vidic was also epicly awesome to cover for John O'Shea, who I never really liked (he's Irish, after all. Just kidding.). But the midfielders, apart from Nani, were all rather poor, and Fergie should really have used the January transfer window to buy new playmakers to cover for Darren Fletcher, who rather lost his form these days, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, who are now too old, and Anderson, who is virtually non-existent.

In other news today, Arsenal bounced back from their 4-4 draw with Newcastle to beat Wolves 2-0 and gain some small revenge for Manchester United. Blackpool finally ended their 5-game losing streak to draw 1-1 at Aston Villa. West Ham came back from 0-3 down to West Brom to tie 3-3 and deny Baggies's new boss Roy Hodgeson an opening win. Birmingham's Nikola Zigic struck in the 91st minute for his team to beat Stoke 1-0. Blackburn and Newcastle had a goalless draw. Liverpool tied Wigan 1-1 and Tottenham just finished beating Sunderland 2-1.

Goals Galore in the Premier League

Wow...what a day in the Premier League!

In soccer, 2-2 is already normally a contender for "match of the day". 3-2 might even win the competition. Today, both these scores featured, but neither came close.

There was a 5-3, a 4-4 and a 4-3. The league leaders Manchester United lost for the first time in 29 games to the bottom team Wolves, Newcastle came from 4-0 down even though they just sold their top forward Andy Carroll to Liverpool and Joey Barton scored 2 of their 4 goals, when only 2 years ago he was in jail. Tottenham Hotspur missed a penalty, got a goal ruled out for offside, and was denied another penalty and still won the game in almost the 93rd minute. Louis Saha, a name almost none of us have heard of, scored 4 goals for Everton against Blackpool but Everton still struggled to repel the Tangerines. Defender John Pantsil scored his second own goal this week in a Fulham shirt, but his team still drew Aston Villa, while another defender, Stoke City's Robert Huth, managed to score 2 goals in 1 half. And Manchester City's Carlos Tevez, who recently handed in a transfer request, scored a hattrick.

This was no ordinary Premier League day. Tottenham-Bolton, Stoke-Sunderland, Fulham-Villa and City-West Brom could've won the "match of the day" in previous weeks. But now they've been relegated to the back pages in favor of Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal, Wigan 4-3 Blackburn, Everton 5-3 Blackpool and Wolves 2-1 Manchester United. No ordinary game has a comeback from 4-0 down. No ordinary game had somebody scoring 4 goals. No ordinary game had two bottom-half teams score 7 goals between them. And CERTAINLY no ordinary game had 20th beat 1st.

Why oh why Manchester United? Why did your amazing unbeaten run have to end at WOLVES of all teams? No offense to them, but they aren't exactly the best team in the world. And that gingerhead Scholes attempted to throw the ball into the net! Not exactly the best way to score (and not get sent off, for that matter...). Even worse, Ferdinand is now out for 2 weeks, and while he was gone, United once conceded 2 goals in 3 minutes in a 3-3 draw with Everton. And Rooney, who was so good last week, failed to show up this time. Maybe last week's double was just a 1-hit-wonder in a miserable season for the guy. Still, you have to give credit to Wolves. They went 1-0 down after only 3 minutes and still managed to win and hold on to their lead in 5 minutes of injury time.

BLACKPOOL

Hey fellow Premier League watchers! Heard the latest news?

I'm not writing about Darren Bent's 18 million euro transfer (he can go rot in a hole for all I care). I'm not writing about Liverpool's recent resurgence under Kenny Dalglish. I am talking about Blackpool

In this season Blackpool have been quite simply stunning. An opening 4-0 win over Wigan. A miraculous 2-1 win over Liverpool. 8th in the table. And to think they were in League One just a few years ago!

But now they've been fined.

In a 2-3 loss to Aston Villa early in the season, Blackpool manager Ian Holloway, who had led the Tangerines from their League One days, made 10 changes to a side that had tied 2-2 with Everton the previous week. Apparently this is a Premier League offense and Blackpool has been fined 25000 English pounds.

My first reaction was...What the ****?

Why the hell would radically changing a side be noteworthy of a fine?

Alright maybe Blackpool were bribed to lose the match, but they only lost 2-3 to a good side! Why would Aston Villa even waste money to bribe them in the first place?

To make matters even more stupidly ridiculous, Ian Holloway has stated he would quit if charges are fined against the team. Um...overreaction-much? Just because your team got fined 25 grand (which isn't really a big sum in a league where players' salaries average around fifty grand a week) doesn't mean that you should quit and waste all the effort you did over the past few years. It's just like Fergie spazzing at refs when they make a bad offside call or something (but Fergie spazzes are fun =P). Mr. Holloway should NOT let all the crap the FA throws at him get into his head. In fact, he should ignore it and focus more on why his team have now lost 3 games in a row after that marvelous win at Liverpool.

Basically, behind all that charisma, Ian Holloway is still a person and Blackpool are just still a team. =)

Chelsea's Unfortunate Revival

Oh noes! Chelsea just regained their form! =S

For those noobs who don't know, Chelsea FC is a soccer club in London, England and great rivals to my fave team Manchester United in the English Premier League. They had a great start to the 2010-11 season, winning 8 out of their first 10 games and scoring 25 out of a possible 30 points. Man Utd, meanwhile, had rather absymal performances like tying 2-2 with 16th place Fulham and a 3-3 tie with Everton, who were 15th at the time.

But suddenly Chelsea collapsed. Maybe it was a 0-2 loss at Liverpool that screwed them up, because after that the Blues only got 1 win in their next 7 matches. Man Utd, despite tying a lot more matches (around 8), crucially never lost and soon cemented their place at the top of the table.

Sadly, Chelsea seemed to have rebounded after a 7-0 demolition of Championship side Ipswich Town and now, after beating Bolton Wanderers 4-0, looked to have regained their form.

But Manchester United will beat them!

Hattrick

Yay! The first post about my life =).

Hattrick is an online football (or soccer, for you North Americans) management game. Founded in 1997, it used to be the standard for most online football managements. At its peak in 2005, Hattrick had nearly 800 000 users and some GMs (Game Moderators) were so busy that it was almost a month before most users received their team. Since then, numbers have fallen, as recent rivals such as PowerChallenge's ManagerZone have become extremely popular and give Hattrick much competition. Hattrick now has around 750 000 users, and is in it's 43rd season.

I joined Hattrick in August 2010, midway through its 42nd season. As a beginner I found this game complicated and confusing, but help from the Hattrick Wiki and some experienced users helped my team avoid relegation (demotion to a lower league) and I came 3rd out of 8 teams.

From my perspective, Hattrick is a great game for patient people. For those people who want instant action or technical epicness, Hattrick is not the game for you. There is only one league match per week, on Sunday, and one cup/friendly game on Wednesday. The way Hattrick plays its games is by a system called HT-Live, which lets you follow your games minute-by-minute in text format. If you actually want to see your players kick the ball, I recommend the aforementioned ManagerZone, which lets you see your match in a 3d match engine. However, I had a bad feeling about games that PowerChallenge made, as I used to play a game, Power Soccer, by that company but that basically ended in frustration.

Hattrick is not a game for people looking for big exciting things. There is no booming crowd sounds when a goal is scored, no goal being scored and the ref calling offside. Hattrick is a game for people that give it a chance. I thought about quitting the first day I signed up, but I decided to actually wait a few days. The presentation is terrible, the forum looks like it was from the Stone Age, and overall the site basically begs for modernization.

However, Hattrick is an extremely fun game to play. It takes a lot of thinking putting your player in the perfect position and your team with the best tactic to counter your opponent's strengths and exploit his weaknesses. And it feels great when you see your tactics pay off and you get a win. It is always exciting when you enter a bidding war for a new world class goalie and feel as if you got the final bid until your bidding rival suddenly tops it. And it is tense when you and your opponent are tied late on for a crucial league match and satisfying to say the least when your star forward suddenly scores an 89th minute winner.

Hattrick is a great game. The site could use some modernization, the rules and laws of the game might give you headaches and sometimes the forum users are less-than-friendly but if you can handle all that, Hattrick is the game for you.

Here's the link: www.hattrick.org