Lions, Transfers, Goals oh my

    So I tried to make a play on words and I know it failed, eh I tried.  So much happened this past week.  Of course England got on track with Euro with a 5 - nil thrashing of Andorra (Crouch x2, Gerrard, Defoe x2).
    West Ham came out on top in what is an unbelievable transfer move with Tevez and Mascherano.  I am a little sketched out about this.  The same group wants to buy West Ham that sold the players, just seems a little shady, but then again Chelsea is my team and everything they do is shady.  While West Ham was celebrating all the top teams were in spin mode, Man U released a press statement saying that they thought about the duo but decided they werent worth the trouble.  We will see how Sir Alex thinks when he realizes how much a striker shortage he has.
    Back to the Euro Qualifiers.  While Steve's competitive era started off with a bang some others didnt do so well.  Italy is still in their "hangover" from the WC and only got the 1-1 tie.  And guess who they have next and where they play... France in the Stade de France.  Too bad Zizou wont be on the pitch, the Italians would probably be scared if even stepped in the stadium.  Talking of the French brings me to Jose's slave comments about Makalele.  Claude had sent in his letter saying he was retiring from international football after the world cup final, which is a great stage to go out on, however Raymond called up the player and threatened to have him benched for Chelsea if he did not show.  Kind of sucks.  Another French Chelsea player, Gallas, who finally moved to the French Suburb of London that is called Arsenal, as reportedly said that if he was played in games for Chelsea he would have scored Own-goals against his team.  My question is how did it get so bad for him.  He missed the USA tour, he could have come late, eh oh well Chelsea has 4 england regulars in their midfield and defense... not too bad.
    Refereeing started off well, it should only get more interesting.  I have a boys varsity game tomorrow afternoon between a public and private school in the area. While my games this weekend got canceled due to a tropical storm, this next weekend I have a u16 center and a u19 center, should get very fun/interesting...
im sure something else will come up this week