What is trending in football today: A Manchester United replica kit

It couldn’t have been made any more easier for Chelsea. They had every chance of winning the pot with a royal flush and yet were almost fooled by Benfica’s bluff. A penalty was awarded, early in the first half, which was almost saved. The opposition was reduced to ten men before half time. And yet they were outclassed, outpassed, and outrun the entire game. The match possession read 49-51 in the end.

The Benfica team looked like they had two bottles of Gatorade strapped to their backs the entire 90 minutes. Chelsea had a few chances here and there but their ship almost sunk to the depths of river Thames like the RMS Titanic. They were just able to breathe over water after Raul Meireles rescued his drowning team with a life boat.

An exasperated Abromovich looked like Caledon Hockley, the millionaire who plays Kate Winslet’s fiance in the movie, as he watched his team try to string together a few passes.

Enough of the Titanic jokes.

Jose Mourinho was skeptic about Chelsea’s chances of beating Barca and reaching the final in Munich. In the process of dismissing his former club and hinting that the referees would allow no such thing to happen: He called Barcelona as not just favourites but super-favourites to win the Champions League.

“Let me be honest, I don’t think the final will be a Real Madrid/Chelsea final. It could be Bayern or Barcelona, I just don’t think it will be Real Madrid v Chelsea and we know why.”

Pep Guardiola must be consulting a team cryptanalyst’s to decipher what exactly Mou mean’t, so that he could hit back at him in the next press meet.

Admist all this, Chelsea’s cross town rivals are patiently waiting for Wilshere to step out of his extra padded ventilator and play a few minutes of football. He was not included in yesterday’s reserve game and is expected to start on the Arsenal bench three weeks from now. Now that adds a new meaning to the word optimism in the gooner’s dictionary.

If living under Manchester United‘s shadow for the last seven seasons wasn’t enough, Nike decided to cut their costs and tweak the design of United’s jersey and release it as Arsenal’s kit for next season.

Meanwhile at City, Yaya Toure has cleared the air about his relationship with Mario Balotelli. He said, any news about a suspected fall-out between them was false.

‘They say I fought with Mario but it’s just not true. He is not my friend, he is my brother and I love him’.

And we are yet to hear Mario’s version of the story. I think we have to wait till this Sunday and pray that he scores against Arsenal, to know his feelings for Yaya.

Sergio Aguero has declared himself as fit to face Arsenal this Sunday after missing the last two Manchester City games.

The Argentinian striker tweeted and wrote on his official website: “During the match against Chelsea [last month] I injured my ankle and it was sprayed with a topical anaesthetic that caused a burn on the upper part of my right foot.

Arsenal must get the prescription for that magical spray and it’s the only chance for Johan Djourou to stop the Argentinian. He should not find it difficult to hide the spray in his underpants.

I’m going to end today’s post by giving a special mention to Fedrico Macheda. It has been exactly three years now since his goal against Aston Villa that had won Man Utd the title.

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