The Usual and a New Spin

As always, this weekend was packed with games in the EPL with really no surprises in any of the usuual results. Fortunately for league chasers, Man U and Arsenal, Chelsea was only able to gain one point at St. Andrews against Birmingham while both "chasers" were able to gain valuable results; Man U won 3-1 over Hull today with Rooney being the hero and Arsenal gained a clean-sheet with a 3-0 win over Aston Villa.
In addition to my write-ups for each post, I will now also be adding "the cleat of the post" for each post. It will feature a new/ redesigned cleat that has either been an attention grabber or a cleat that is yet to be released on the market. Furthermore, for those interested the best place to check for complete and thorough reviews of new cleats is at Footy Boots or Eurosport.

Cleat of the post: Nike Total 90 Laser III

World Cup Draw

Yesterday, the 32 teams that qualified for the 2010 World Cup were drawn into their groups. Each of the 8 groups, A-H, has four teams who will play each other in round robin style with the top two teams in each group advancing. This year, USA was fortunate enough to receive a somewhat favorable group with competition coming from England, Algeria, Slovenia. This year's "group of death" is group G with Brazil, Portugal, Korea DPR, and the Ivory Coast.

Below are the 32 teams in their groups:
Group A
South Africa
Mexico
Uruguay
France (or should some of us prefer to say Ireland)

Group B
Argentina
Nigeria
Korea Republic
Greece

Group C
England
USA
Algeria
Slovenia

Group D
Germany
Australia
Serbia
Ghana

Group E
Netherlands
Denmark
Japan
Cameroon

Group F
Italy
Paraguay
New Zealand
Slovakia

Group G
Brazil
Korea DPR
Ivory Coast
Portugal

Group H
Spain
Switzerland
Honduras
Chile