The alarm has been set to 04:40, 5 minutes before Northern Ireland against Sweden is going to start. And what do I see now? My worst fears has been made true.
Sweden:
Isaksson – Nilsson, Hansson, Mellberg, Edman – Alexandersson, Andersson, Svensson, Ljungberg – Elmander, Ibrahimovic
Meaning, it’s the most defensive line-up we’ve ever played. Källström (Lyon) out, Wilhelmsson (Roma) out. Instead Alexandersson (Gothenburg) and Andersson (Malmö) is going in. Give me a fucking break.
With Allbäck limping around semi-injured, it seems like it will be Johan Elmander and Zlatan Ibrahimovic that will start up front for Sweden when facing Northern Ireland in the Euro Qual. in Belfast. Personal feeling is that it’s about time Elmander proves that he is a striker and not “the-allround-Mattias-Jonsson-good-at-running” kind of guy.
Score, win or question the system. What about 4-2-3-1 with Zlatan solo on top? It’s the new future, what the hell happened to potential-superstar Alex Farnerud btw? He’d be perfect in that kind of system. Shit. I’m worried about Healy, not because he’s a brilliant player, but he can score. He’s the kind of same guy as Klose, “the worst-best player in the world”, scores on everything but can’t do anything really. And with our shaky defence orchestrated by Olof “take it with the hand” Mellberg – everything can happen. Is Kalle Svensson even in the squad? I may hate Majstorovic, but if we play Hansson and Mellberg in central defence, Mellberg is supposed to be the “runner” and Hansson the “positioner”. C’mon, it’s been 5-6 years since Mellberg had speed, he IS NOT, I repeat, IS NOT – Joachim Björklund.
Could someone please call Lagerbäck and state that Roma is a bigger club than IFK Göteborg and Wilhelmsson a greater player than Alexandersson? That it’s Northern Ireland we’re facing and not France – that it’s not safing defence that is the primary objective of football? Without even the game having started I’m sick of the Lagerbäck-era.
SHOW US RESULTS BEYOND THE QUALIFICATION STAGE! “Well, first the primary goal is to get to the Euro Championship and then we’ll set new goals.” – I already KNOW that’s the answer Lagerbäck. WE DON’T JUST WANT TO GET THERE, WE WANT TO WIN THE ENTIRE SHIT. GET IT?
Wow, it’s really on at Bond now. Got heaps of assignments that all seem to be due this or next week, of course I’ve saved all of the biggest one for last, it’s just a way of life and the way I am. I never seem to change even though I’ve been saying for 9 semesters that “next semester is going to be different, get all of the major stuff out of the way and just chill before finals” – never happends of course, but it’s still a good philosophy! One I might never live after.
I just had my first final, actually it’s a bit early so the teacher had to call it a quiz, one of my courses is divided into practical and theoretical so we will have to “quizzes” instead of just one final in final week. It’s kind of good, it means that this quiz was worth only 20% and that the next quiz will be in the same region, so you really can’t just fuck up a final totally and lower your grades cause you didn’t have time to study only for that in final week. Anyway, this was the practical part, it consists of doing statistical relationships between variables in SPSS (the worst program ever created by mankind to this date). It’s exactly as fun as it sounds, looking at alpha, Chi-Square and p/f-values is not my future, I’ll tell you that much. It went alright I think, I thought for sure it would be the HD but I’m not so sure anymore since I think I kind of made a fool of myself on the question with the most marks, shiesse. But that question was pretty much the only one I didn’t really understand so it might give me some points and the rest of the exam was pretty much a cruise to the end. Saw a lot of people drawing graphs and shit in Excel, totally unnescessary if you ask the professor which rocks.
New youth system in Hattrick for those interested. Instead of the normal youth pull occuring every sunday, managers are now entitled to choose whether they want the new or old system or both simultaniously. I’m keeping both until all the bugs and some questions have been answered about the new one. The new one consists of each teams getting their own youth team as well, this team is available to play in their own youth league that can be created by users. The team trains and consists of 15-16 year olds that can be rewarded a spot in the senior squad once the turn 17. It’s kind of a cool idea in theory, it will be interesting to see how it works in practise though, I doubt it will make an impact in short term, however over the longer term, with the possibility to train more than one factor each week in the youth team, it might provide some stability to the transfer market which has been crashing for the last year or so.
Just reached the sofas on the fourth floor at Bond, got a Japanese girl next to me sleeping like never before. I’m going to go into dream mode as well before next class I reckon’. Seeya!
Went bowling with Karo, Reiser and Thomas this evening, after two shaky throws the game was on. Finished the first round at 158 and scored around 120 in the second I think. Still lost in total against Thomas with 1 point though, fucking annyoing. Reiser was also crushed by his girl Karo with stunning 5 points or something, good stuff. Then the game was on for the pool, beat Thomas in a hard five setter with 3 to 2 after he pocketed the white after the black as a final shot. Good stuff!
Really sweet on Strike Bowling on mondays, its two for one bowling and free pool after 7, we should go there more often!
