TOUR EVENT
Icelandic opera singer Gardar Tor Cortes performed at Upton Park before the next West Ham match, playing the club’s anthem and the famous Nessum dorma aria from Turandot opera Giacomo Puccini. However, high art did not inspire the club of his compatriot Eggert Magnusson - the “hammers” were brutally beaten by Chelsea . The role of the ruthless princess, solving tricky riddles, was brilliantly performed by Jose Mourinho. But from Alan Kerbishli the brave and quick-witted Calaf did not work, and he can already prepare for execution. The home team manager managed to solve only the very first puzzle by answering Tevez to Wright Phillips. Then everything went awry, and scoring accents in the score of the match were arranged exclusively by guests - the same Wright-Phillips, Kalu, Drogba. “Chelsea” wins the Premier League for the ninth time in a row, once again drawn to the leader and is waiting for new victims. West Ham’s chances of salvation are now only slightly better than the newly executed young Persian prince (read Watford). However, Puccini did not have time to finish the opera, and everyone is free to think out the ending himself. Perhaps Kerbisley will still end with a happy ending.
HERO TOUR
The pre-match ceremony touched the lively impressionable Sean Wright-Phillips more than others. The Chelsea winger had the best match of the year, scoring their first goals in the Premier League this season. Two beautiful Wright-Phillips goals in the first half, composed with an interval of only five minutes, fully corresponded to the given atmosphere and at the same time decided the outcome of the meeting. The hopes of West Ham were mercilessly trampled upon, and Sean himself, after a year and a half of torment, had the opportunity to prove his usefulness to Mourinho.
TOUR FAILURE
Rob Styles , the referee of the match, “Manchester United” - “Sheffield United”, on Tuesday, apparently, got up on the wrong foot. The referee worked very strange, managed to annoy both the hosts and guests, taking a number of controversial and indisputably wrong decisions. In the first half, Stiles missed two gross fouls from Sheffield players, one of which cost an injury to Patrice Evra. In the second half of the game, the “blades” were already damaged - the referee did not award a penalty for Heinze’s obvious foul on Lewton Shelton, taking away from the latter the well-deserved joys of an excellent debut. It is Stiles’s happiness that the match was unusually calm and didn’t cause much doubt.
TREND
The leaders of English football are desperately trying to keep their strength ahead of the decisive matches of the season. Caught in the busy schedule, “Manchester United”, “Chelsea” and “Liverpool” use all possible methods to save their players. The Mancunians, by virtue of circumstances deprived of the opportunity to rotate the squad, for the last thirty minutes of the match with Sheffield just walked around the field, rolling the ball in their own half to understand Old Trafford's applause. Jose Mourinho in the game with “West Ham” gave rest to the glorious people who worked in the Cup of Ashley Cole, Joe Cole, Makelele and Ballack. Well, Rafa Benitez along the way also had time to experiment, playing against Middlesbrough (as the days before with Manchester City) with the only forward and Stephen Gerrard as a free artist. All three clubs achieved solid victories.
CM. ALSO
Having broken the vow of goal silence last Saturday, the Spaniard Cesc Fabregas scores the second winning goal of Arsenal in four days and again does it beautifully.
TOUR FIGURES
The match with Watford confirmed long-held conjectures - the uncompromising Blackburn Mark Hughes clearly woke up to a craving for symmetry. The last 20 matches of the Premier League team dispense with draws. 10 wins and 10 losses during this time logically led to the current 10th place in the standings.
Dmitry LONGICH