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Friday, August 29, 2008

Arsenal 4 - 0 FC Twente - match rating and a little review

salaam all

we had Champions League qualifying match last night at The Emirates against FC Twente. leading 2-0 from the 1st leg, the match should be a good way of excorsing the effect of horrible performance that we showed against Fulham last week.

the match was at 3.00 am Malaysia time. with Liverpool match being shown almost all the time by Astro, i can only settle for the delayed telecast at 5.00 am. woke up at 5.56 am thinking sh!t, i must've missed the whole of first half. quickly turn on my Astro to found out the match just started up until 15th minutes. huhhh...glad about that.

just a short 1 about key points from last night match. i like how Nik and Theo in particular never gave up on trying. failed? just keep on trying. the result? both of them got a goal each. and it's amazing to think how much impact 1 player can have to a team. Cesc is world class, there's no 2 way about it. he maintain his fitness throughout the season, we surely have a shot at the title.

so we won 4-0, goals by Samir, Billy Gallas, Theo and Nik to take the tie with aggregate 6-0. the draw for the group stage is at 12.00 am tonight. surely we all Gooners will wait the draw with high interest as there are some very strong clubs in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th pots. anyway, match rating followed. disclaimer - this match rating is only based on the match starting at the 15th minutes.

Al - less than convincing performance by our #1. there's a couple of incident where his decision making can surely at the least were questionable, most particularly when he came out too far to the front for the cross ball where our defends had it cover. lucky for us the Twente player was offside. not good Al, not good at all. (4)

Bac - solid performance. going forward well, combined with solid defense. remember him and Gael were having the hard time containing Twente forwards during the 1st leg but nothing get past them last night. (6.5)

Johan - solid and reliable display from the young Swiss defender. based on merit, he should play the Newcastle match. heck, he should played the Fulham match. but we all know le Boss will bring back King Kolo back to the 1st eleven for the next match. (6)

Billy - showed glimpse of the old Billy Gallas in this match. even scored a goal. but everything seems easy when we are winning. the question remained how he will lead our young team when the chips are down. and based on the Fulham match, it doesn't looks good. (6.5)

Gael - solid performance. see Bac comment as both having similar efficient display. (6.5)

Theo - good hardworking performance by young Theo. he should keep doing this and surely we have a very good player in our hand. he kept it simple when he has to, and most importantly used his pace in the correct situation. and how we all can see he need that goal. nice finishing touch also. Ade should learn from him. (6.5)

Denilson - decent performance. seems like Cesc presence in the field gave that extra assurance to him. a really glad he got the assist for the Nik's goal. he need that backpass and assist to help him get over that performance against Fulham. (6)

Cesc - not at his best yet, most probably due to match fitness but we all can see the impact of having him on the pitch. as for our current squad, if he can stay fit for the whole season, we have a shot at the title. (6.5)

Samir - good game by our new boy. 2 goals at the Emirates in as many matches, i don't think we can ask for more from him. give him time to fully adapt to our playing style (which i predict to be January barring any major injury), and people will see what the hoo-haa about him. (6.5)

Robin - not a very good game by Robin. too many chances misses in this early season, last night was no difference. at least his free kicks were getting better. need to step up fast; both for Arsenal and his sake. Nik is ready to pounce any time now. to be fair, IMHO he just need 1 goal to get going. (5)

Nik - like Theo, good hardworking game by the young striker. ball control can be better, but i like his confidence. that confidences were what causing our 2nd and last goal. never afraid to do what he wanted to do. c'mon Nik, prove me wrong. i always think he will be a big player, just not for us. i'd be glad to be proved wrong in this. (6)

subs

Eboue - less than decent display only from him. looks lazy at times. not a good way to prove to le Boss that you are Arsenal 1st eleven material. (4)

Ade - good display when he came in. looks hungry for goals during the time Cesc was on the pitch but then looks rather disinterested when Cesc was brought out. we don't need this kind of behaviour, more so from our number 1 striker. (5)

Song - assured display by him. am really curious to see what exactly is le Boss plan with him. surely will be exciting to see his progress with our team. (5)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Double Treble!!!

salaam all

Hari Sabtu, 23 Ogos 2008 sejarah tercipta dalam kancah bolasepak Malaysia. pasukan Kedah memahat nama Kedah dalam sejarah bolasepak Malaysia sebagai bukan sahaja pasukan pertama melakukan 'Treble', Kedah juga melakukan 'Double Treble'.

terima kasih coach Azraai

terima kasih barisan kejurulatihan dan pegawai2

terima kasih pemain2 Kedah

terima kasih Outlaw, Nelson dan Marlon

terima kasih arwah Datuk Ahmad Basri Akil

kita tawan Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil semalam. penyokong tawan stadium dengan memenuhi 90% tempat duduk di bahagian kita. team kita tawan stadium dengan memperbudak2kan team lawan, takdak lawan langsung la. nasib baik 2nd half dah slow down sikit, kalau tak mau kena 8 bijik depa. this is not me being arrogant, this is me being brutally honest.

apa2 pon Alhamdulillah sebab dapat buat Double Treble. lambat la nk ada team lain nk boleh challenge achievement ni

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Fulham vs Arsenal - match rating

salaam all

we lost to Fulham last night, deservedly. to prevent myself from doing a lot of cursing, i will only do match rating in this entry

Manny - do what need to be done. cannot be blamed for the goal as the cross was too low for him to go for it. would like him to be more vocal ala Lehman though. (5)

Bacary - not 1 of his better performance but still way better than most of the rest. he might want to be a bit more discipline with his overlapping, but with the clueless human being in front of him in the mould of Theo, who can blame him. (5)

King Kolo - played ok. however, it's really obvious that he and Billy Gallas are not the proper central defender pairing. i can only assume that le Boss was being cautious with his injury when he was brought out. (5)

Billy Gallas - how did we end up with this William Gallas? he was a superb defender during his time at Chelsea. heck, he was good enough for us last season. the goal last night was all his fault for not marking Hangeland well enough. and he also failed to lead the team last night. (2)

Gael - same with Bac, not 1 of his better game but way better than most of the rest. it'll be hard for him and Bac to better the high standard both of them set last season but i have no doubt that both are able to do it. (5)

Theo - the true meaning of trying too hard to impress and do not know his limitation. always wanted to do something fancy with the ball but most of the time causing us our possession only. you should just keep it simple most of the time dude, you are not that good enough..just yet. clueless!! (1)

Eboue - in the scapegoat category with Ade and Senderos. kept it simple, kept the ball moving well. the 2 runs he produced were nothing short of class. he looks very mobile, a good player when he can concentrate on his game rather than his antics. but will always get the blamed for everything though in this board. (4)

Denilson - why oh why you can't keep it simple when you have to. we are the Arsenal, it's all about passing and movement. not like the clueless Theo, he looks like he know what he's doing . but the executions all the time were horrendous. (1)

Samir - good game by him last night. you will see a different Samir when Cesc play. (5)

Ade - i was expecting a better game by him last night. he should have scored with that header chance. you can blame the striker when the service from the midfield was almost non existent last night. (4)

Robin - actually played ok last night. 2 things that irritates me were 1, his freekick. getting worst by the day. 2, all the unnecessary touch he make when he received the ball. he is so predictable now. but still, looks like he adapting well to the 2nd striker role. (3)

subs

Nik - don't have much impact when coming on. maybe we should start playing 4-3-3 now that we do not have any capable midfielder to deputies for Cesc. (3)

Song - am really glad to see him played well last night. still remember he was booed by our own fans during the match against Fulham at the Cottage last 2 seasons. my suggestion is let's put him and Eboue in the middle for the match against Twente this midweek. surely can't be worse than tonight midfield's performance. (5)

maybe i'll do the ranting in later entry when i feel like it

Sunday, July 27, 2008

hidup tanpa Internet & telefon

salaam all

lama aku tak update menda blog ni. pasaipa? lebih 10 hari rumah aku takdak line talipon. bila takdak line talipon, so takdak la Streamyx. nasib baik aku tak standby dalam time tu. tension aku dengan service Telekom. daripada Help Desk @ Customer Service sampai la ke Technical support. semuanya mengecewakan. apa dah jadi ngan Telekom la ni? time aku kerja pasang Streamyx kat Aloq Staq dulu, lain sangat daripada macam ni. at least aku akan call dulu customer sebelom aku close any report. ini tak, service belom OK tapi report dah close. budusss betui la

yang Customer Service pon satu. asyik bagi alasan bodo. instead of preventing repeated case (which aku punya problem masuk dalam list), depa dok provide alasan bodo pasaipa blom ok lagi. then they had the balls to lie to me that there was no supervisor working. ces!! aku kerja ngan Customer Service Celcom la dulu. silap orang la hangpa nk muhung. Diksha, good luck to you nak pi kerja dengan Customer Service Telekom ni. as long as hang ikhlas, tak muhung time kerja hang akan ok. so actually nothing to worry about :-)

so, to put it in a simple-yet-so-true phrase :

Telekom Malaysia - reliably unreliable

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

jersey 002 : goodbye Highbury

salaam all

this is my second entry regarding my jersey collections. this time it's from 2005-2006 season, a season where we all bid our farewell to The Home Of Football. it was indeed a sad and emotional day to see the King of Highbury, Titi kissed Highbury's pitch to mark his thanks and goodbye to Highbury. but we need the move to the Emirates, so i won't complaint too much

ok, that should be it about Highbury. on to the jersey now. as it was the final season at Highbury the jersey was made in a special redcurrant colour which is a very different color compared to the normal red color that always be our first jersey color. it was kind of a tribute to the 1st ever jersey that we wore at Highbury. i myself adore this jersey

on the NN, after fulfilling my wish to put in Wrighty name for my 1st ever original jersey in the season before i plan to start a new project. i wanted to pay my tribute to the Invincibles (except A$$ley H0le of course). so i started my tribute project with the player that start it all. the player that define the 'Wengerball'. he is about the only good thing Bruce Rioch did in his short tenure as Arsenal manager. for me, talentwise he is up there with the best of them all. and by the best of them all i didn't mean Cristiano Ronaldo or Ronaldinho. what i mean by the best of them all is Zidane, Maradona and Titi. what make him less appreciated is that he never won a major world class tournament. but he was never under appreciate at Highbury though. there was a saying that if Thierry Henry is the King of Highbury, then Dennis Bergkamp must be the God of Highbury. and that, in my opinion is very true. i will end my post this time with a quote from Marco Van Basten.

"If Ryan Giggs is worth £20 million, Bergkamp is worth £100 million."





Tuesday, June 10, 2008

jersey 001 : the very 1st one

salaam all

i've been wanting to post up my collection of jersey that i have for some time. finally i'm able to do it now. but instead of putting all jerseys in 1 post, i will do 1 jersey per post. so, it's just normal for me to start with the 1st one

the very 1st original jersey that i own is a 2004-2005 season Arsenal home jersey

it was an expensive things to me at that time (not that it's not expensive now mind you..haha). however, after getting my pay from a part time job as an operator for Celcom at that time i'd force the decision to buy the jersey on myself. not just that, i managed to convinced my good friend Ponato to also buy an Arsenal jersey along with me..hahaha, evil me

so right after we finish our shift around 1.00 pm we took monorail to BB Plaza. and without much thinking when we reach there (as thinking may cause us to cancel our plan), we went straight to al-Ikhsan and buy the jerseys. i also plan to put name and number to my jersey. and there was not even a question in my mind to the number and name to be put at the back of my first Arsenal jersey. it can only be my all time Arsenal favourite player; WRIGHT WRIGHT WRIGGHHHHTTTTT :-)

so there goes my 1st post in regards of my jersey collection. much more to follow, just hope that i will have time to post them



Monday, June 9, 2008

my new ride :-)

salaam all

dah lama aku tak update blog aku ni. been busy these past few weeks. kerja, family and lots of other stuffs. my baby dah abes her semester, so it's time to rest and release all the tension she had during her semester. Asyraf dapat masuk IKM Sik. tahniah bro, dapat dalam Kedah pulak tu. study betui2 sebab takdak pelajaran susah nk survive hidup dalam dunia ni sekarang. dikSha still tunggu result UPU. hopefully akan dapat apa yang hang nak, abang selalu doakan adik2 abang. Apat dah abes final, la ni tengah cuti kat rumah. Fahmi pulak nak exam PMR taon ni. buat elok2, toksah dok main game banyak sangat. Bang Li pulak dah turn 29, harap2 suka hadiah daripada adik2 hang :-) kak Zila ngan Ain Sofia sihat macam biasa. geram aku tengok anak menakan aku sorang tu

ok, now to the real story i want to write here. aku dah ada new ride, a Green Apple Savvy. i gave a sneak preview in my last post. there'll be more pictures in this post but i would like to share the story on how i become the owner of a Katak Chumel as my baby put it ;-)

semuanya bermula dalam bulan 3. aku tengah dalam keadaan paling sibuk dalam 3 taon aku berkerja kat company aku sekarang. somebody decided to make a mess, and me and most of my department colleague spent almost 2 months clearing her sh*t. tuhan saja yang tau apa dah jadi ngan dia (the person who cause the sh*t). i don't even bother to know her name. anyway, aku balik daripada ofis dalam pukui 5.30, close to 6.00 pagi dan daripada jauh aku ternampak satu kereta parking dalam area flat aku. wow! lawanya. straightaway aku jatuh chenta. as i come nearer to the car (in my usual ride, a Honda. Honda ex5 that is..haha) baru aku sedaq yang kereta tu ialah a Savvy. pasaipa aku tak pernah sedaq ada kereta tu kat situ dan jatuh chenta earlier aku sendiri pon tak tau la

lepaih tu, setiap hari aku lalu kat parking lot tu aku akan ushar kereta tu. semakin sehari semakin suka aku kat Savvy. then aku pon buat research pasai Savvy. thanks for all the guys in www.savoc.net. aku memang dapat banyak tips dari sana. so the next step is ialah pi showroom dan ushar sendiri kereta tu dari dekat. so aku pi showroom kat PJ, dekat2 area ZNK. tapi jawapan tak berapa meyakinkan daripada salesman membuatkan aku rasa tak best. so aku decide untuk call Proton i-care dan dari situ baru aku dapat the real pictures on produk Savvy ni

then aku balik Kedah, untuk pi ushar dan survey betui2 pasai Savvy ni kat kedai Proton. meaning nk survey harga, maintenance rate dan banyak lagi benda. aku masuk tak kurang dari 5 showroom kat Aloq Staq and to my surprise there's an special program for Savvy purchase. salesman2 kat Aloq Staq kata nama dia 'scrapping program', where kita boleh trade in any kind of car as long as ada road tax, insurans dan lepaih check JPJ, Puspakom and polis bila beli Savvy dan kita akan dapat cash voucher of rm5k. wow! that is amazing. on top of that, if i choose to take the 2007 model i will get another rm3.5k discount. this is too good to turn down methink at that time. what more is my father own and old Toyota car. abah aku panggei model KE20 :-) unused should i add since i bought my parent a Iswara last year

so, intention aku yang sebenaqnya nak survey saja teruih bertukaq. the deal is too good to turn down. so aku balik rumah, dan tanya abah aku pasai kereta Toyota lama abah tu. the conversation sounded a bit like below

me : abah, kereta Toyota abah kalau juai 2nd hand dapat berapa
abah : hmmm..dalam rm200 kot
me : bagi kat cek la abah, buat beli kereta Savvy. dapat voucher rm5k
abah : ambik la, daripada dok tersadai kat bangsai belakang tu

yahoo!!!! so, long story short aku akhirnya beli Savvy aku kat Aloq Staq with a discount of rm8.5k in total. hujung bulan 5 haritu aku balik ambik. terima kasih Yasmeen and Nisah sebab teman dan jaga aku time drive balik KL..hehe..aku masih amatur dalam driving, so kasik chance la eh

bawah ni gambaq2 Savvy aku kat blok 21 ni. so my baby, i promise you that i'll pick you up when you come back from Aussie after this :-)

pandangan dari hadapan sisi sebelah pintu penumpang

pandangan hadapan

my parking lot in Block 21 ;-)

pandangan hadapan dari sisi sebelah pintu pemandu

sudut lebih luas, sekali ngan pokok sebelah tu..haha..dan belakang tu ialah Angkasapuri

both of my rides. the 'Katak Chumel' and my legendary 'Wira Angkasa'..haha

sememangnya teman yang setia sejak aku mai KL 4 taon dulu