Bizarre weekend for Bookies and Predictors | All League results of the week | Premier League Results for the week

This week in Barclays premier league certainly will go down as one of the bizarre weekend for bookies and predictors as we got to seen the exact opposite of what we all thought that would happen. Just run through the all league results of the week...

West Ham United 2-2 Arsenal
Manchester City 2-2 Fulham
Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United
Bolton Wanderers 3-2 Everton
Chelsea 5-0 Blackburn Rovers
Burnley 1-3 Wigan Athletic
Birmingham City 2-1 Sunderland
Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Stoke City
Hull City 0-0 Portsmouth
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Aston Villa

Of all the 10 results Chelsea's win is predicted rest all are a real surprise. Bookies would have been bank robbed if they had recent results and form as criteria. Starting from Spurs Vs Stoke, who would have bet for Stokes away win, considering Spurs form and dominance in home ties. Burnley, lost their first home match. Manchester city drew 2 2 with Fulham, who a not a great away side. Arsenal drew West Ham away, after leading 2 nill for 2/3 of the match. Boltan conquered Everton in one of the most entertaining match. Sunderland lost to Birmingham after their last week heroics against Liverpool. To some extent Liverpool's 2 nill win against Man u was also a surprise result, where odds where completely tilted in favor of Man U.

I have seen some surprise here and there in the week, But never a week full of surprises like this. This goes on to show how competitive the league is, even competitive than last year. I predict that the champions will be determined in the final day with 2 or more teams in contention.

Arsenal Vs Blackburn Post match review | Arsenal 6 Blackburn 2 | Fabregas’s fabulous show | Watched by Thierry Henry, the future Arsenal Manager ?

Fabregas, is the word I should start for this post match review. He created all the goals until he was out there, making this his best performance statistically on the “d day” for Arsene Wenger. 4 assists and 1 lovely left foot volley and nearly 100% passing, what more you can expect a playmaker to do? And his emotional celebration of kissing the badge was icing on the cake, showed how much he loves the club and how much he is committed to the club. This match marks the land mark for Arsene Wenger who is now the longest serving Arsenal manager. But he didn’t have the perfect start as gunners went a goal down inside 10 minutes and after Vermaelen’s equalizer Blackburn Rovers again went down thro a Gallas deflected goal. But Blackburn was never a match for the quality of gunners as they could only watch Arsenal storming ahead. There was never a question on the quality of Arsenal, we all admire the kind of football gunners play, but today they showed immense character and determination, we have to thank Blackburn’s players for scoring the goals and putting the pressure and bringing the best out of the lads especially from Fab.
Player Ratings
Mannone 5: Made 1 or 2 diving saves. He has all the talent of representing a top premier league team, all he needs some experience, his lack of experience in decision making resulted in 1st goal. A lone spell to a lesser team in premiership will come good for him and the club
Sagna 5: Didn’t cover his ground resulting in a goal, may be not his fault it might be the team tactics of over attacking the full backs making him and Clichy look stupid at times.
Clichy 6: Made few cross here and there, luckily he didn’t have a swift attacking winger to mark.
Gallas 6: Solid, but unlucky to get a touch in Dunn shot that resulted in 2nd goal.
Vermaelen 7: Showed determination to make up for his mistake by scoring a fabulous 30 yard strike and continuing his scoring form for which he should thank Arsene Wenger for giving a free role, not many managers will give a free role to a center back.
Song 5: Lack of determination in defending a counter attack resulting in 2nd goal.
Diaby 7: Even though his passing wasn’t upto gunners mark, he did well in role he played thanks to Wenger for not playing him wide. He made life easy for Fabregas.
Fabregas 10: Brilliant with his killer passes and deft touches as usual. This is his best performance statistically.
Rosicky 7: Played as expected in his first start of the season, he was brilliant with his swinging balls and runs into the box and he also came very close to score.
Arshavin 7: Converted a brilliant ball from Fabregas
Robin van Persie 7: I liked the way he touches past the defender to score, he is doing it quite often these days.
Walcott 7: Scored in his first start of the season
Ramsey : Wasn't out their enough to rate
Bendtner 7: Scored a stunning goal in the dying minutes

Man of the match: Fabregas quite easily

All this watched by Arsenal all time top scorer, Thierry Henry, Who is in the headlines after his comment on returning to Arsenal. And all the football pundit and football tabloids across the country hint him to succeed Arsene Wenger. Which would in fact be great for the club and Arsenal loyal Henry. It was really wonderful to see him laugh with satisfaction and clap to salute the performance of the gunners. I cant see any other to succeed Arsene Wenger.

And the best goal celebration of FIFA World Cup 2010 Goes to...

FIFA has announced that it will award for the best goal celebration of the coming world cup. This news came just one day after Craig Bellamy goal celebration cost Manchester city 2 points (according to officials). I really felt sorry for Man City and Bellamy, that they went on to lose the match, even though they are arch rivals to me the Arsenal fan after that 4 - 2 thrashing, simply because they were brilliant that day, they came back 3 time to equalise and Bellamy was simply outstanding with his cool finishes, hope that Robin Van Persie saw the video and took a cue of how to finish!

So, coming to the goal celebration award, will it be the baby act of Torres or the job done of Gallas or acrobatics of Nani or archery of Guiza or boxing of Tim Cahill or rounding the ears act of Toni or any samba dance (definitely not the Adebayor's celebration) could win the award. I started to believe that players would also practice for goal celebration. But they have to remember not to take their shirt off (which results in yellow card) or celebrating in front of opposite fans (which will result in match bans) and make it short and simple (avoiding Bellamy incident).

What went wrong for Arsenal and my Comparisons | Manchester City 4 Arsenal 2

Yesterday was really a disappointing day for Arsenal and me. Arsenal were thrashed 4 - 2 by the rich boys. So what went wrong not only for Arsenal but also for my comparison.

1. The inclusion of Nigel De Jong, we was completely brilliant yesterday, he used his strength to good use to keep Fabregas quite. If he didn't start, things could have been different.

2. Left Winger of Arsenal - In absence of Arshavin, his replacement Diaby was a completely waste. He failed to test the wing backs which i considered the weakness of Manchester city. I was surprised that he played full 90 min. May be he is a central midfield player thats why he lacked the qualities of a winger, in that case Arsene Wenger could have started with Eduardo he showed in the recent past that he can start in the left side of midfield also.

3. Fragility of starting line up - On the closing 30 min Arsenal players were completely fragile that resulted in 3 goals, were as citizens were full of energy even though the international break was for both the teams.

4. Joleon Lescott - He played as good for his price tag. He blocked every ball inside his penalty area. I thought he would lack confidence after the opener at Goodsion park, but he was exactly the opposite, he was full of confident and won tackles comfortably.

5. Central forward of Arsenal - Robin Van Persie is not a ideal central forward, he lacks strength. But he is the ideal Left Winger, he can do great wonders in the left side of the pitch rather that at the center, remember he was the top assisting player of 2008 - 2009 season. So arsenal definitely need a Strong, Solid Forward, hope Wenger gets some in the January transfer window.

Eventhough its a humiliating defeat for Arsenal, there are few positives. Robin Van Persie scored his first league goal of the season, the only forward to score for Arsenal this season so far. Thomas Rosicky's first goal in his first match in 18 months. And Remember last season after Man City defeat, Arsenal went on to be unbeaten for 19 games. Hope that winning streak continuous this season also.

Manchester City Vs Arsenal | Manchester City Vs Arsenal Preview | 4 3 3 vs 4 3 3 | Arsenal 2008 vs Arsenal 2009

This week end, Arsenal play with against Arsenal 2008 .. er .. Manchester City at City of Manchester Stadium. Both the club's fan will be eager about the out come of the match, as this Manchester City's first quality test and for Gunners its a match against two alums of Arsenal, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure. It would be interesting to see Gallas marking Adebayor and Toure marking Robin Van Persie. I call this match as4 3 3 vs 4 3 3, both the teams have applied this attacking formation this season and have been successful too, but Arsenal leads in the total goals scored list and Man City have 100% win record. So rather than predicting formations or results as usual, I gonna compare the teams so that you can come to predicting terms.

Goal Keepers - Manuel Almunia Vs Shay Given, Both are very experienced and solid goolees, no one edges out.

Central Defence - William Gallas and Thomas Vermaelen Vs Kolo Toure Vs Joleon Lescott. Gallas and Vermaelen are in their form of their lives scoring goals as well and its vise versa with Toure and Lescott, Lescott especially is totally lacks confidence after the opener against Arsenal.

Wing Backs - Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna Vs Micah Richards and Wayne Bridge. Clichy and Sagna wins hands down, its like competition of the best vs the rest.

Midfield - Fabregas, Denilson, Song VS Barry, Ireland, SWP. This is the victory defining competition. Man to man comparison, Song Vs Barry, Barry wins. Denilson Vs SWP, both are different type of players difficult to compare. Fabregas Vs (Ireland)^2, Fab wins. But if Fab is not playing, Denilson Vs Ireland, where Ireland wins.

Forwards - RVP, Bendtner, Arshavin Vs Adebayor, Tevez, Robinho. Adebayor Vs Bendtner, Ade wins hands down, I'm sure he gonna score against his old club. RVP Vs Robinho, even though Robinho has all the talent he dosent have mental strengths, like determination, consistency and etcs, that's why RVP wins. Arshavin Vs Tevez, there is no comparison, Arshavin wins hands down.

Even though I'm Arsenal biased, most of the football geeks will accept the above, simply for the quality Arsenal posses. Its not about win, points, silverware its all about how you play to win, thats why we follow, love, live Arsenal forever. Money cant buy quality or Wenger, hope that the Rich Arab realises sooner before he gets transfer ban.

Joomla and SEO | Does Joomla Helps SEO?

How nice it would be if all the pages of your site get indexed without any SEO effect, that what happens with a site is developed with addition of JOOMLA, the content management system. Check out this site Skandagroup.org, this site developed in PHP has Joomla in it, now go ahead and check cached snapshot of the page of google toolbar for all the pages and you can see that all the pages has been cached by google that is indexed by google.

Joomla makes made search engine optimizer's work easy, rather than waiting for the inner pages to getting indexed or making some submissions to get indexed. But there are some minuses as well, there are some concerns like we should have limited contents, loading speed of the home page, etc. But anyways it is a break through technology in SEO consiering the fact thet Joomla is a open source.

Manchester United Vs Arsenal 2009 | Arsenal formation against Manchester United | Arsenal Starting line up vs Manchester United

This week end Arsenal ill be facing the defending champions or you can call them as depleted champions Manchester United at Old Trafford. Last season arsenal scored 4 out 6 points against Man U in league fixtures, this season with few star players missing in there squad, it will be interesting to see how gunners will fare this season. But the only negative thing for gunners going into this fixture is the absence of Francesc Fabregas, who could be out for up to 3 weeks. So its sure that we can't expect creatively brilliance in the midfield that produced score line like 6 -1 and 4 - 1 and also Arsenal are playing away from home against the champions, so we could say that its really tough for Arsenal to get a result and make it 3 out of 3 win this season. But don't underestimate them, Arsenal have quite often proved wrong who wrote them off.

Staring from current squad players, former players, football pundits and fans all over the world have prised Arsene Wenger for the new formation that he applied this season. But I seriously doubt that the formation would work without Fabregas. Against Man U in there own backyard, the formation should be more defensive. So i have gone for 4 2 2 1 1 formation.


Alexandre Song and Denilson play as two defensive midfielders, thats the best role that they can play rather that expecting them to be Fabregas. Theo Walcott should be fit in time for this game, but that is only my guess. So I have placed him as the right winder with Andrei Arshavin being the left wingers. Eduardo is the center forward accompanying this above him is Robin van Persie. The game plan is wings, we have got two great players playing in those position, let them create chances and our strikers finishing it, because Man U have two wall in the form of central defenders, its really fought to get past them but the wing back are not that convincing enough so we can expect something out there and let Song and Denilson win possession and feed the wings. I really convinced that Arsenal would at least get a point out of this, even without Fabregas simply because. Compare the midfield of Man U and Arsenal you will agree with me.