NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 5

Halfway thru the second half, between marvelling at Ronaldo's dazzling skill and brilliance, and wondering how girls could go crazy over someone with perpetually greasy locks and a deformed torso (crazy being the operative word), I saw the referee walking to the sidelines with two bottles of Coke and handing them over to the linesman. And I was all, seriously, that's what footballers drink now..??!! Becuz the last I heard Coke contains a million teaspoons of sugar and hardly replaces electrolytes the way isotonic drinks do. I mean, that's why footballers are always drinking from those blue and yellow Lucozade bottles right? Except for Liverpool, of course, who display their love for Carlsberg loud and proud. It took me another five seconds to figure out that the Coke bottles were probably thrown on the pitch by Newcastle hooligans, the offending projectiles being launched right after Ronaldo's brace. Yes I am that stupid. Disgraceful behaviour anyhow.. although I did want to throw a similar object at another Portugese before (hint: whose name starts with an M and ends with an OURINHO).

Is it weird I just typed out a full paragraph becuz of two Coke bottles? I just find it odd when I watch games and see things that aren't normally associated with football. Like how I was all, omg omg!! when they played Keane's Everybody's Changing at St James Park right after. Or how I get a kick seeing players out of their kits (read: jerseys and shorts. Not, yknow, footballer porn) and in suits, for instance.

Poor Eduardo. I really hope the injury inflicted by Martin Taylor doesn't turn out as bad as it seemed. I mean, yeah I know he plays for Arsenal, but even I'm not enough of a monster to wish career threatening injuries on anyone, especially after being so well-equipped with the knowledge of what they can do to players; look at Alan Smith's fall from grace after his long hiatus becuz of the injury obtained during that fateful FA Cup loss to Liverpool: just trashed 5-1 by his old teammates!! Of course there are examples of happily ever afters, namely a certain Paul Scholes who didn't let an eye problem stop him from fighting his way back into the first XI.

(Edit) Well you could knock me over with a feather. Guess who just admitted that certain post-match comments he made yesterday were "excessive" and said "in the heat of the moment"? Yep, Monsieur Wenger who previously claimed that "(Martin Taylor) should never play again" after Eduardo sustained a henious leg injury becuz of a mistimed tackle, but softened his stance today, saying "it was a highly emotional afternoon". The very same man whose only talent I thought was whining. I'm not about to switch loyalties or anything, but I'm pretty sure Fergie would've never done the same thing. Awesome.