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Columnist Randy appears to like the beer he's receiving:
With my first payment from Farlie on Footie in hand (Dogfish
Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA), I decided to chronicle a few interesting things we
learned in the BPL this week.
1. Landon Who?
While the American press heaps loads of praise on Landon
Donovan, the best American in the BPL, by far, is Clint Dempsey. Dempsey, Fulham’s
all-time leading scorer, this weekend became the first American to register a Premier
League hat trick with his stellar performance against Newcastle (he also had a
hat trick in his last outing against Charlton in the FA Cup). Dempsey is in the League's top five goal scorers this season, and is now the top goal-scoring midfielder (he
was previously tied with Farlie on Footie favorite Frank Lampard). Dempsey’s all around play has greatly
improved this year and hopefully will translate into transfer interest from one
of the League's top teams so he can get a chance to play in the Champions League next year.
Now, let's just hope USA Soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann uses Dempsey to his full
potential leading up the 2014 World Cup.
2. Wolves are
absolute rubbish
Coming off an embarrassing mid-week loss to Championship
side Birmingham City, Wolves followed up with a home defeat to Aston
Villa. To add insult to injury, former Wolves' star Robbie Keane scored the
leveling and winning goals, the last on a beautiful strike from 20 yards that
went in off the underside of the crossbar. Wolves haven’t kept a clean sheet
at home in 10 games this season, and are winless in their last eight fixtures. The only thing
keeping them off the bottom of the table is a more inept Wigan squad, but at
this point they seem destined for relegation. The only question that seems
remaining is when manager Mick McCarthy will get the sack.
3. Tottenham Had The
Chance
Spurs had a golden opportunity to gain valuable
ground on table-leading Manchester City this weekend. With Vincent Kompany
still suspended from his red card against Man United, Gareth Bale and company should
have exploited the City defense. The first half offered some fairly pedestrian play by both sides, with perhaps the exception of a bit of spirited play
by Sergio Aguero and David Silva. Spurs were able to capitalize on an error by Kompany’s
replacement Stefan Savic for a goal by Jermaine Defoe and had a spectacular equalizer from
Bale. However it was apparent that Spurs missed Emanuel Adebayor, who was unable to
play due to loan conditions, as they had problems generating chances. While it
was questionable whether mario Balotelli deserved a red card for his stomp (I’ll
leave the full lamenting to Columnist James), it was not questionable as to the
foul and resulting penalty the sealed the match for City. Now down 8 points in
the table, it will take a lot of luck for Tottenham to catch City.
And I’ll leave you with one last observation: Anyone who
appears in one of the “Man Up” Miller Light commercials needs to go into hiding
and stay out of public view for fear of embarrassment.
This is farlieonfootie for January 25.
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