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Happy New Year!!

Liverpool won with a little bit of luck. That’s right, just a bit ‘cos for once they didn’t need to depend on a lot of luck to win a game.  A 5–1 scoreline is flattering for floundering Newcastle, who were visibly depleted from their earlier game on Boxing Day. Btw, towards the end of the game, did anyone noticed that liverpool played with 4 centerbacks, without any proper wide midfielders? Who cares, top of the table with 3 point lead.

And then Chelsea had to give Liverpool a slice of their New Year Pie after they allowed Dempsey to bag the equaliser, in a daring-and-fortunate game that Fulham took on against Les Bleus. Chelsea should have wrapped the game up, but it seems that Terry’s absence is a significant one.

So Arsenal won, yada yada, Man Utd yet to play, yada yada, then Man City drew, again, yada yada while Amr Zaki scores another penalty, yada yada.

Ooh, Everton was scintillating against Sunderland. Maybe Sbragia thought that he’d already got his managerial contract, its time to sit back, relax, hope for the sack and a big compensation package. This guy is brilliant.

A punching incident by Fuller on his own teammate, Andy Griffin, made him see red, pun intended, so West Ham collected another precious 3 points at home, much similar to West Brom’s 2–0 home win over Spurs, who finally, have some points to show for their endless, blunt swashbuckling displays of late.

At Dragonscage, there was much fun. Much much much fun. Mwahahahahahaha. Happy New Year Everybody!!!

DC Potluck Day

This time last year, I swear that there were more presents!!!

But, the spirit of giving were aplenty, as a few of us shared what we brought over to DC.

It was chaotic. Not since a long while has there been soooo many players. The good weather meant that the games stretched till almost 3pm! And most of our cramps meant we needed stretching afterwards too.

The games were good, there were a few runs (wins-in-a-row) but none surpassed the record still, although it was mightily close.

Good game, good day. Happy holidays everyone!

Arsenal 1 - Liverpool 1

Bring in Kaka to replace Dirk Kuyt. He’s reportedly unsettled at AC Milan after Ronaldinho’s arrival there anyways. 30Million pounds? Definitely worth every penny.

Need a cheaper alternative? How about Bayern’s Hamit Altintop? I’ve always been impressed with his attacking flair and long shot abilities. 15Million pounds. Why not?

Watching Liverpool STRUGGLE desperately against 10men Arsenal caused me to suffer from severe eyesore and uncontrollable frustration that comes with fits of anxiety.

Lucas, Arbeloa, Kuyt, Riera, Babel, El-Zhar and Ngog all failed to provide any penetration, and once again, without Torres, it was up to Gerrard to drive the team from the center.

And as expected, Liverpool switched to cruise mood, after Arsenal received the red card – cos they know as long as they don’t lose to the big four, its job well done. But I view it as a lack of ambition. Sticking to a 4–4–1–1 when you have 1 man extra is simply slack. Pfft.

So once again, it is a 1–1 stalemate at the Emirates Stadium for the last 4 games played there. Amazing stuffs indeed. Liverpool just can’t bring down the Arsenal fortress, and till Kaka makes his way to Anfield, I still won’t believe that this is the year the EPL title comes home.

Or maybe bring in Pablo Aimar?

Singapore 0 - Vietnam 1

Surprise surprise, Alfi came down and met up with us (Sidek, Bob, Mar) this evening to watch the game. Spirits were up, and the crowd filled the stadium steadily.

Soon the waterboys, Fadriano, Rizman and Saliman joined up with us, where we were seated beside the raucous Vietnamese supporters. A little sidetrack, some of the Viet girls didn’t look too bad either~!

Getting a drink was terribly a chore, as a queue mob of thirsty supporters haggled the stall, manned by a team of students (they look like they themselves could field 2 soccer teams!!), endlessly emptying bottles after bottles of Pepsi. $2 per cup — whoever said business was bad in the current economy?

The pre-game and in-game atmostphere beats the home couch+pillow combination of watching the match. A few outspoken/brash spectators gave us a bag of laughters throughout. Worth mentioning was the Dancing Uncle, which I believe was caught gyrating on camera by Alfi.

Just when we thought the game would end goalless, the sucker punch hit the Lions. Boohoo. Vietnamese takes the lead and their supporters erupt into a brainless frenzy. There was no way back into the game for Singapore. In Dota terms, it’ll be called ‘GG’, or Good Game.

What a dissappointment. The hype was good, the game was good, but the results wasn’t. Oh well, at least we got to see the dancing uncle~

For Ben's Sake

For Ben’s sake, (and one of the waterboys did commented on DC’s lack of frequent updates) here’s an update to update you that DC has updated an update, to keep our updates updated.

Sooooooooo we were back this Sunday morning, 21^st December, and the sun could have warned us earlier that it’d be putting on an all out, 101% performance. It was blistering hot today. But when will weather ever affect DC-ers?

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Topic of the day: Singapore Vs Vietnam.

Some of us will be heading towards Kallang in hopes of getting a ticket for the game. We’ll be meeting at 6pm, and queue for the tickets early, and perhaps grab some of the few better seats with decent viewing of the pitch.

I know, Singapore won’t stand a chance against the tricky and pacey Vietnamese, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy watching the Lions chase them aimlessly around the pitch. So don’t tell me its not worth watching the game live.

Wait a minute, didn’t the National Stadium closed down months ago? Hmmmm…

Blank Sunday

Apologies to all as DC was cancelled due to inavailability of the shadow committee members’ various commitments.

We will be back, I promise, next week and best of all, pretty soon it is Dragonscage Present Potluck day! Wohoooo~ Aren’t we all looking forward to that eh?

7th December 2008

For the first time in DC’s history it seemed as if there was a ball that got kicked out of the cage in every single game that was played. It was probably easier to pick out who hasn’t kicked the ball out instead of the other way round.

It seems that the rule of person who kicks ball out to retrieve the ball back immediately has been softly enforced, resulting in players refusing to follow it consistently. Thus, the notion of punishing the offending player to leave the game (while retrieving the ball) has been lost.

No punishment = no fear. The DC committee will be looking into this matter rather seriously.

Wait a minute, there’s a DC committee? Hmmm. Not that I’m aware of. Anyways….

We munched our lunch at Mad Jack that afternoon. As guilty in the picture here, Ba, Put, Fad, Bob, Sidek, Rash and Mar hastily gobbled down plates of Fish N Chips, Grilled Fish, Lamb Chops, Blue Mountain Burgers and what-have-yous.

A little sidenote to the event was that the original Chef had to leave early due to wife in labour, thus the replacement Chef came in, but didn’t do too well to impress us. However, being super hungry after an afternoon of Dragonscage, we didn’t left anything to waste on the plates.

So…

Is that Put in the background trying to gobble a blue mountain burger with one swallow? Goodness gracious!