Highlight Of The Week: Liverpool beats Manchester United

This week has seen some fascinating encounters in English football, with the debut of Robinho for Manchester City and drama in the Newcastle United boardroom, as well as several English teams playing in European competitions.

Saturday’s encounter between Manchester City and Chelsea saw the debut of Robinho, the most expensive player the Premier League has ever seen. The thirty three million pound signing played out a brilliant game, including scoring a stunning free kick, although despite his efforts City were still outclassed by Chelsea who ended up winning by three goals to one.

In other games, Liverpool beat Manchester United with a victory that ensured that they stayed second in the Premier League table. The score line (2-1 to Liverpool) was fair, with Rafa Benitez stating that “Liverpool were the better side in the second half, and the fans and players deserved the win”.

Arsenal also carried on their fantastic streak, beating Blackburn 4-0 at Ewood Park, meaning that they are in third place in the Premier League. The game was a thrilling encounter, with Emmanuel Adebayor scoring three goals to complete his hat trick, which was a wonderful achievement considering all of the transfer talk that has been centred around his future.

West Brom beat West Ham by three goals to two in a thrilling match, with the final score replicated on Sunday by Everton as they beat Stoke City. Fulham also played well this week, winning against Bolton (2-1) with goals from Gera and Zamora in the first half. Other games on Saturday included a draw between Wigan and Sunderland as well as a win for Portsmouth at home to Middlesborough, with Aston Villa beating Tottenham away on Monday.

There have been some huge problems for the Newcastle board this week, with “King” Kevin Keegan quitting as the manager after he stated that “he didn’t have the freedom to decide which players were bought and sold”. Fans have been getting increasingly annoyed with the club after Mike Ashley bought the club and former footballing legend Dennis Wise was appointed as ‘Director of Football’ at the club, forming to protest outside St. James’ Park almost every evening. Tempers were not cooled after the shock defeat to Hull City this week, which means that the club are trailing behind the rest, currently standing in sixteenth place on the Premier League table.

Mike Ashley has, however, given the fans something to cheer about after putting the club up for sale this week. The billionaire stated that “I am no longer prepared to subsidise Newcastle United”, adding that he finds it ridiculous that he can’t even take his own children to football games from the fear that they might get assaulted, although he did claim that he was very proud to have owned the club.

It has also been a very good time for English teams in the Champions League this week, primarily for Liverpool who beat Marseille by two goals to one in France. Steven Gerrard scored both of the goals for Liverpool, who now have the upper hand in Group D. Chelsea also enjoyed emphatic success against a French team, beating Bordeaux 4-0. Arsenal and Manchester United both drew in their games, meaning that they will have their work cut out to really get off the starting blocks.

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