Off to see Everton take on Chelsea tonight. Looking forward to seeing a few top class players in the flesh, and see how Chelsea cope with our new 4-6-0 formation. Chelsea are very competent away from home and Everton have been terrible at Goodison all season. In addition, Chelsea have the opportunity to take advantage of Liverpool's inability to beat 10-man Arsenal yesterday, and go top. Chelsea have some great players, proper ones. If you give it some thought, and escape from Sky's Orwellian-style promotion work that would have us believe every Premiership player is Pele in disguise for a moment, you can probably count the number of truly great footballers in England using just your fingers. OK, maybe the odd toe. I'll give you Ronaldo, Rooney and Rio at Manchester United; Torres and Gerrard at Liverpool; Cech, Terry, Carvalho, Ballack, Lampard and Drogba at Chelsea. Arsenal look like they've got some starlets in the making and they play some cracking, attractive football but would either Man Utd or Chelsea swap what they've got for Adebayor? Liverpool might. Fabregas will be a top class player in a couple of years.
And that's the lot. There are some good looking youngsters at Villa (as we found out), and Owen is still knocking about in the frozen tundra of the North East crying for an escape route to a 'big' club. City signed Robinho but is he really that good? Scores at Eastlands but is found out away at Hull as many predicted, so much that it now looks as if he just excludes himself from selection to avoid the coach trip.
Away from our match tonight, Manchester United won the World Club Cup or Club World Cup, in Tokyo. Is anyone really interested outside of United's financial controllers and their legion of TV-viewing fans in places like Singapore? Tim Vickery writes a great blog relating to how strong European football is compared to South America on the BBC site. United beat Liga of Quito, a team from Ecuador. Ecuador.
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