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Ruud van Nistelrooy scored both goals in the 62nd and 81st minute against the 10-men Charlton team. Jason Euell was sent off after 2 bookable offences by Mike Riley, the match’s referee. Besides the goals and incident above, it was a fairly boring match lacking flow of play.

The rest of the results for tonight:

ARSEnal 1 - 1 Pompey
Blackburn 1 - 3 LiverFOOL
Bolton 2 - 0 Boro
Chelski 4 - 2 Tottenham
Everton 2 - 2 Newcastle
Soton 2 - 0 Wolves

So after tonight’s matches, ARSEnal retained the top flight of the EPL table with only 1 point advantage over Manchester United while Chelski is trailing on 3rd with a match in hand. Pompey’s fourth in the league for now, a good start for them in their first season in the EPL.

If Pompey manages to remain consistent and in-form, a place in Europe competition for next season could just come true for them!

Finally, after so many unbeaten run in the Premiership, Man United fell to Southampton at St. Mary’s after what seems to be a goalless draw.

On the 88th minute, James Beattie headed home the corner to break the deadlock between the 2 sides. Having pressured Man United throughout the match paid off for Gordon Strachan’s side as they didn’t let Man United settle down to a preferred pace in the game.

And at the meantime it’s halftime at the brand new City of Manchester Stadium where Manchester City is leading Arsenal by 1 goal, courtesy of an own goal by Lauren… really funny how he was pressured to commit that own goal…

Anyway, will report more soon as I resumed sticking my eyeballs at the idiot box. If Man City pressures Arsenal like what they did in the 1st half, they should well win this encounter with the Gunners… stay tuned!

Update 1:
Sheesh, spoke too soon, just barely few minutes from the start of the 2nd half, Wiltord equalised for the Gunners! 1-1 now…

Update 2:
Final score Man City 1-2 Arsenal…. Fredrick Ljungberg scored the winning goal after a misunderstanding between the Chinese fullback, Sun and the former Gunners No. 1, David Seaman…

So ARSEnal remained at the top of the Premiership table…

Yeah… today’s been a good day… started by watching midnight show last nite - SWAT - helluva nice movie Not gonna talk much about this - go watch it!

Slept at 5am and then woke up at 8am to drive down to Nilai to get my results and enroll for the new semester. Thankfully I managed to pass all my subjects (2 A, 1 B+, 1 C - for maths) and enrollment was a breeze this time around…

Then came back to KL - slept a bit and then watched Manchester United beat Newcastle 2-1 at St. James’ Park (sorry Aiz.. ) and Kimi Raikkonen is in front of Schumi for tomorrow’s race at the Hungarian GP

The starting grid for tomorrow’s race (unless I’m very much mistaken):
1. Alonso
2. Ralf
3. Webber
4. Montoya
5. Rubeno
6. Trulli
7. Kimi
8. Schumi
9. DC
10. Panis

Hehe! Man Utd thrashed Bolton 4-0 in the season opener! 2 goals from Giggsy and 1 each from Scholesy and Ruud van Nistelrooy summed up the match @ Old Trafford.

Fergie gave both new signings Christiano Ronaldo & Eric Djemba-Djemba a taste of the English Premier League in 2nd second half. My dad and I both held our breath whenever Ronaldo gets the ball coz he’s really got the skill - and the jersey number 7 to match as well…!

Ronaldo, being only 18 years old, played with composure and excellent skills, zigzaging around the left and the right flank like Giggsy and threatened the Bolton defence ever since he came on halfway thru the 2nd half. He was brought down in the penalty box, and was awarded a penalty kick. Alas, Ruud van Nistelrooy kick got saved by the Bolton keeper, Jass-whatchamacallit… that’s his first ever EPL penalty miss (and 2nd in a row, after missing the one during the Community Shield penalty shootout last Sunday).

Nevertheless, it was a great game for Man Utd to step up the challenge to defend the EPL champions title. Arsenal won the match against Everton at Highbury with the scoreline 2-1 where Sol Campbell (he’s in hot soup (pun intended ) now, coupled with the video investigation of his retaliation kick on Djemba-Djemba during the Community Shield match) was sent off! An Everton player was sent off as well in the match (dunno who - sorry ah, didn’t check any site for details).

And newly-promoted Pompey recorded their first ever Premiership match with a win over Aston Villa (2-1).

Glory glory Man United!

Yeap, Manchester United is the newly-crowned 2003 FA Community Shield winner!

Man Utd beat ARSEnal 4-3 in penalties after a 1-1 deadlock in the 90 mins regulation play. As there was no extra-time, penalty kicks had to decide the winner and Man United’s new American goalkeeper Tim Howard managed to save 2 penalties while the new ARSEnal keeper Lehmann saved 1. Mikael Silvestre was named Man of the Match that was played at 2pm in the Cardiff Millennium Stadium.

In the first half, Silvestre headed home a flicked-on corner kick to a lead. However, ARSEnal responded 4 minutes later with a long range freekick by Henry. ARSEnal was then reduced to 10 men in the second half when Francis Jeffers was sent off for a kick on Phil Neville and ever since then, struggled to mount any incisive attacks.

van Bronkhorst and Robert Pires’ penalty kick was saved by Tim Howard while Ruud van Nistelrooy’s kick was saved by Lehmann. All in all, it was a good match, though it’s lacking some pace perhaps due to the lack of competitive match fitness and the scorching heat, with temperature rised to over 100 degrees Farenheit.

Whoa… what a fantastic race! Incident-filled in the beginning, action-packed towards the end…

Tho I was pretty sad to see Kimi out of the race before even the first corner (pretty much I sum it caused by Ralf who forced Rubens too far to the left, in which Kimi was already there trying to take advantage of Ruben’s slow start) but I stayed on to watch, despite having sub-standard frozen pizza for dinner… there’s no Domino’s here in Nilai!

Really good strategy by the McLaren team, in which sensibly stretched DC’s race from a 3-stopper to 2 stops unlike the Renaults and Ferrari in which the former suffered from rear tyre blisters (they were using the Michelin soft compared to DC’s hard tyres…) and the latter suffered a puncture or what Ron Dennis said it to be a tyre failure due to the track temperature and race conditions… and Schumi ended up 7th… muahahahah

So Monty won the race, followed by DC and then Trulli and Alonso… the Toyota drivers were the next on the finishing list… Okay enuf of me talking about the race… I’ve got a Java exam paper tomorrow at 8am and haven’t even at all started studying!

I’ll leave you guys to comment on the race in the comment section…

of using team orders (which has been banned by the FIA prior to this season) on the previous race, the British GP - Read here

What a sore loser that Schumi is… he’s got nothing better to do besides drinking beer and eating sausages issit?

Look at it last race, DC easily let Kimi pass coz both was on a different strategy clearly…. DC’s strategy changed after he lost the neck support (in which Ralf claimed that caused him his race… bleh… another sore Schumi) so it’s only logical that DC let Kimi pass… after all, besides fighting for positions in the World Championship, the team drivers ARE SUPPOSED to do the best they could to get more points on the Constructors Championship…

Haih… does it benefit the team as a whole if DC were to hold up Kimi in the last race? No… not like some Ferrari drivers, already on course to a 1-2 finish yet decided to call Rubens to move over to let Schumi pass… that is of no benefit to the team’s constructors standing, but more of a questionable team order…

What’s your say on this? Please, if you’re one of those sore-eyed Ferrari fans who’s got nothing better/constructive to contribute to this issue, then just keep your opinions to yourself… only proper comment/discussion is welcomed…

Yeap, just woke up a short while ago… fell asleep after watching the Legendary Four Aces on TV3 earlier…

Came back to Nilai this afternoon… last nite’s British F1 GP was really exciting, lotsa overtaking moves, madman on the track, twice safety car deployed…

Imagine this, first time SC was deployed due to DC’s headrest flew off onto the track… second time was a mad protestor wearing a kilt… DC got something to say?

Anyway, Rubeno won the race, very deservingly, Montoya was quick being second while Kimi barely managed to maintain his position at 3rd just in front of Michael Schumacher who got it all wrong when the teams all rush in for pitstops during the 2nd SC period…. DC managed to recover his bad qualifying position to being 6th… The Renaults were a pretty quick package for this GP, but alas, quite unlucky for them…

Oh yeah, in the World Pool Championships 2003 Final, Thorsten Hohmann is now the new world champion after beating Alex Pagulayan 17-10 late last nite (or rather early this morning)

Over the weekend, I managed to finish up my part on the projects and escaped home for a quiet but satisfying weekend… and I got Murray Walker’s autobiography, a gift from a dear friend of mine… thanks!

Okay that’s it for now… shall blog more tomorrow or so after the project presentation…

Ralf Schumacher is back on pole position again to start off tomorrow’s race at the revised Magny-Cours circuit. Joining him on the front grid is his teammate, JP Montoya (casually referred to in this blog as Monty).

Has Williams finally realized the powers of the FW25 car? Are their cars finally improved to suit the use of Michelin tyres? Only time will tell…

1. Ralf 2. Monty
3. Schumi 4. Kimi
5. DC 6. Trulli
7. Alonso 8. Rubeno
9. Webber 10. Panis

In another totally unrelated sport across the English Channel at Wimbledon, the Williams sisters dominated the Wimbledon Open women’s single finals yet again with Serena beating her 1/2 fit younger sister Venus 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Williams domination eh? You bet!

:D That’s right… Friday qualifying @ the French GP ended up with Jos the Boss Verstappen topping the timesheet with rookie Justin Wilson second…

Surprised? Well, not actually surprising, since the drying wet track is the culprit really… the top runners came out first (according to the World Champ. standing mar) on a relatively wet track and in the end the 2 Minardi’s managed to put in racing slicks and sped off along the drying racing line on the track…

Big smile (like this one ) on Paul Stoddart’s face… now who says Minardi can’t be top on qualifying?