A Week in European Soccer (4/9/10 - 4/15/10)

EPL

- Over the weekend there weren't too many exciting results or much movement in the table. Manchester United wasn't able to get a much-needed win over Blackburn and Man City got a huge 5-1 win over Birmingham. United and City will be facing each other on Saturday. Will Rooney be fit?  Mancini hopes so.

- On Tuesday, Chelsea was fortunate to just barely defeat Bolton 1-0 and go 4 points clear ahead of United. However, on Wednesday, Arsenal suffered a huge 2-1 defeat against Tottenham officially knocking them out of the title race. Wenger certainly wasn't happy about that. Personally, I'd like to give my young, but what I think to be my mature opinion on this: WENGER NEEDS TO BE SACKED! The man isn't bringing the kind of talent into his lineups which can be seen as Arsenal simply haven't been able to produce the much needed results over the past few weeks (as was the case in their loss, essentially, to Messi). However, it seems the  Arsenal doesn't feel this way.

Spanish Premier League
- After Real Madrid suffered their huge 2-0 loss at home to Barcelona, they bounced back with great discipline and athleticism by winning earlier today 2-1 over Almeria. With the win, they are now only 3 points behind league leaders Barcelona. For Real, they are going to have to hope Barcelona slip up over their next six games otherwise Barca will be saying "hello" to another league title.

Photo Credit: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Cleat of the post: Nike5 Zoom T-5 FS...awesome color way!

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