; the little -details- xXx

i can't believe how close lewis hamilton was to not winning the F1 crown yesterday--he was sixth in the last lap and massa was first, but he managed to slip into fifth to cross the line, and fifth was all he needed to win the championship by a point.

my heart breaks for massa. sixth straight brazilian GP win, and still no title.

now hamilton has something real to brag about. urgh.

arsenal vs stoke city? DIABY GO DO YOUR JOB WELL CAN AND VAN PERSIE YOU DON'T CHARGE AGAINST THE GOALKEEPER WITHOUT ANY REASONS AT ALL. now you go get yourself red-carded. excellent. 

(vela needs to have more playtime).

tottenham is shedding their ramos form seriously quickly--harry potterredknapp's waved his wand and suddenly roman pavluychenko has become the striker we all admired in the Euros and luka modric is quickly becoming that fleet-footed playmaker again. arsenal still managed to draw against them, but liverpool--who was still high from beating chelsea a week ago--lost! and hull city--ever since they beat arsenal a month ago or so, they've gained my respect, and the fact that they fought really hard against manchester united would only increase that respect; i hope they'd be able to stay in the premiership for a long time if their form continues.

miroslav klose: 3 goals and 6 assists in 6 games--top of the assist table in the bundesliga. you know what's so sexy about him? the fact that he's so unselfish he'd sacrifice glory he can bask in himself for the team and his teammates--he can't be happier that he's leading the assist table.

caught the first ever night qualifying f1 race today? shucks, kimi didn't get that pole position. again. but i think with the turns and twists in this GP, a pole position may not be as advantageous if you let your concentration slip for just one of the many turns. meh. fingers crossed it doesn't rain tomorrow--i'd rather it drizzle, and let lewis the rain dancer throws caution to the wind and dons the wet-weather tyre--and then the rain stops, and he'd pay for his mistake :D

ANYWAY--

--ZOMG BAYERN LOST TO HANNOVER 96. 1-0. a second loss in a row. even the combined onslaught of toni (you need to get back to your old lethal form. quick), klose (you came sooo close--you're almost there, man) and podolski (huh?) couldn't save them. klinsmann, what the hell is happening? your days are numbered now, man--the only way to redeem yourself is if you trash lyon in the champions league match on tuesday.

(and oh yeah: manchester united vs bolton. cristiano ronaldo's back... with his diving--technically, not diving; ronaldo was just too much of a dishonest prick to tell the referee that the bolton defender already had the ball before he fell, but it's still a frikkin' dirty lie, can?--that won manchester united a penalty. the commentator couldn't stop talking about the referee being stupid and that such refereeing is the stupidest he's ever seen in his career. ferguson would probably just shut up or even secretly thank ronaldo for that trick though--it's not as if united was spectactular against bolton.)

i wonder if michael schumacaher is around? i also heard that some other famous personalities like david "golden balls" beckham and nicole scherzinger would be around to see the F1's first ever night race. if only i'm around to watch this historic even too. looks like it's the tube box for me again...

(watching it on tv is sure as hell not as exciting as watching it live--the unbelievably loud noise of the roar of the cars overpowering the already deafening cheers of the crowd; now that's what i call atmosphere).

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bayern munich saw miroslav klose and tim borrowski scoring to push the bavarian giants into the next round of DFB pokal with a 2-0 scoreline against fc nurnberg on wednesday. miro gave way to make way for the comeback of the anticipated star of the team in the 65th minute: franck ribery. HE'S BAACCCKKKKKK! and so is miro, bitches :D keep track of his goals (and tim borrowski--now, that was a bargain deal seeing the number of goals so far from him) as he makes his way back to his form--slowly, but surely (all he needs is the fans' trust and belief in him--he's got klinsmann's, jogi's, and he's certainly got mine).

meanwhile, lyon thinks jesujuninho won't be able to make it for this weekend's game against AS nancy and next week's bayern game. :( oh noes! would lyon be without their miracle-worker against bayern (who certainly needs some miracles to be injected into the team themselves), but fabio grosso is gonna be back (i miss that man). still looking forward to an exciting showdown between these champion clubs, with juninho or not (keepin' my finger crossed that miralem pjanic may start).

and this comes damn late but oh yeah arsenal's youth team (which averages around 19 years of age) trashed newly relegated sheffield united 6-0. carlos vela, that hunk of a man, scored a hat trick, as aaron ramsey--another hunk of a (young) man--called the shots in the midfield. nikolas bendtner and jack wilshere got some time to shine too as this young teenage team beat a team full of veterans. that is our future team, gunners, and right now, the future's looking very, very bright.

in arsene we trust!

THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT--BUT I SAW IT UNFOLD WITH MY OWN VERY EYES!

Bayern Munich had just lost 2-5 to Werder Bremen. At home. In their grand Allianz-Arena stadium.

I...

well, I'm just in shock.

... this is the worst I've ever seen Bayern play. I don't know where to start since every frikkin' aspect of the team is just plain wrong. The defense! Shambles! It's as if they've never played together. Michael Rensing can be at fault for ... urhm all the goals?--although truthfully if the defense did their work, probably Bayern would have a chance (he was undoubtedly at fault for the second goal--a setpiece, and he still dare to blame his defenders for that. Uhm, show of maturity, please?). Miscommunication between Rensing and the defenders--and where's Lahm? I see him more in front than at the back--you are a frikkin' defender, Philip, and please start acting as one--cost Bayern the match, among many other mistakes. But if anything, this match probably served as a tight slap on the cheek of Bayern fans to remind them that oh yeah, their world class goal keeper Oli Kahn's no longer around to save us anymore.

The midfield. Maybe the players were rejoicing that they thought Franck Ribery was gonna be back (but he was in the stands with his cute daughter and a seriously hot Klose--a sight for any girl squirming in pain from the medication on her abrasions) and so they decided they would play like shit and let Franck save them all. How many passes were complete? The commentator was making a joke about it, but I couldn't really remember (and to top the match off, I got stuck with some lame, unfunny annoying commentator, yeah), but again, they weren't frikkin' united. They seemed confused and/or hungovered--after the first three or four goals went in, all the players just seemed to let their souls leave their bodies which roam around screaming for BRAIINNS BALLLLL.

Van Bommel was supposed to be the captain and a defensive midfielder--after two matches in the bench, it can be expected that he might be out of form. He was supposed to inspire, to be there. But I almost forgot that he's allowed to play again this match until there was a shot of him looking frustated. Maybe it was a bad day for him--well, after the match, it would be everyone's bad day.

Franck Ribery was bitching away into his phone by the time it was 0-5. The commentator was saying how he was calling his mom about his black day in the stadium, but since the phone bitching went on until almost the end of the game, he said that Ribery had been calling up all his family members to pour his despair on--that was probably the best joke the commentator'd cracked in the game. Personally, I'm just scared that his conversation went like this:

"Hello, Ma? Yeah, I think I totally made the wrong choice in clubs--even Marseille won't lose 0-5 in a home game against a side that's missing 4 key players. Yeah, Manchester City still offering for me? Hmmm..."

I believe that Franck is wayyy nicer of a guy than that, but it's obvious that if Bayern's without him until they find another midfield talent, we're dead. Schweinsteiger and Ze Roberto are trying really hard to control the midfield, but they're not as creative as him--we just need a playmaker to sort things right.

And then up front. Miroslav Klose was out injured and so Podolski had the chance to shine. Except he did not--the only thing I remembered him for this game was how he and Luca Toni blow the few chances they made. It wasn't as if the Bremen goal was threatened much or anything, and when the ball finally was played there, crosses went awful and finishing was literally way over the top (crossbar). I couldn't help but think (since I'm such a Klose fangirl) what would happen if Miro was there, poor form or not. Well, it wouldn't really make a difference since the ball hardly ended up at the offence's feet, and he'd just be blasted for not making chances again. At least this time around the flames would be directed at Poldi and Toni--who hasn't really gotten to his ol' goal blasting form yet.

I still have an inkling of thought that maybe performing in front of the Bremen crowd may give him some motivation. Like how Tim Borrowski came on as a sub after half time and proceeded to save the horrible scoreline a little by scoring 2--there was almost a chance of him making a hattrick at the last minute or so, but it was to be denied. Bremen could have made it six, but thankfully the ball went behind the goal. If there's one thing Bremen did wrong today, it's how they let down their guard after they secured a definite victory ("yeah, like Bayern can come up with five goals in 20 minutes"--they did come up with 2 though) and let Borowski to slip through the cracks and scored. But they still clinch that victory anyway, and the boasting rights for trashing the champions in front of their very own fans--oh, it was a fullhouse by the way.

Miro sat in the grandstands today and he looked so pained by the end of the first half when Bayern was already 0-3 down--he'd probably wished that he could just jump down in the field and play. But he looked damn good even while looking so frustated. :D

And so...

... yeah. Bayern's plagued with out-of-form players and what seems to be a lack of motivation (I translate that drowsiness I see on the field as a lack of motivation--what else can it be?). I sure as hell don't see that EPL-style pace that Jurgen Klinsmann wants to instill in the team. Speaking about Klinsmann, he'd need to be really careful since this loss--Bayern's first home loss since April 2007--might wear down the fans' patience, the board's and most importantly, Uli Hoeness'. I feel a bit bad for the bloke--he's a nice guy and he's made a miracle before. But can lightning strike twice? Maybe he's right, and his policies need time to be implemented, but after such a huge landslide loss, such "time" may not come easily. The thing about football is that people want "instant", people want "now" and now he'd bear the brunt of everyone's frustation.

Bayern's dropped from the second spot to the fifth spot while Werder climbed to the fourth in the league standing. Schalke is now at the top spot, whereas Martin Jol's Hamburg went down to the second stop after a brief stint at the top.

The start of the OktoberFest usually means Bayern triumphing against their opponents as the beers flow in the street of Munich as statistics show. The Bayern homepage says that if the statistics are right, then Bayern should beat Bremen 3-1 today. But this time 'round, the beer's not gonna be passed around in happiness, but to help drown the players' and fans' sorrow.

Next week: FC Nuremberg on Wednesday for the Cup and Hannover 96 in Bundesliga. Nuremberg's in the 2. Bundesliga--they got relegated last year, but their match against Bayern's always hyped up as it's the Bavarian Derby right there. Hannover's currently in the 14th spot with 5 goals scored and 10 goals conceded. I'd like to see some definite changes made here despite Hannover probably posing as a lesser challenge--it's not that I want Bayern to be a defensive team, goodness, no! But defenders must get their priorities right, and the entire team must know when to be defensive and when to attack, not to walk around so dazed and confused. Need to work on passes and Bayern better have its sights on another playmaker or groom one since it's bad depending on Ribery too much. And more shooting practices for the strikers :D so they can have proper finishing.

(On a really random sidenote, I wish I could be there in Munich to enjoy OkoberFest. Ahhh, autumn, sausages and pretty girls and boys dressed in that cute traditional costume. Totally beat getting hit by a car and doing homework :D)