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The Reds keep marching on..

It depresses me that more people do not watch football. No I don’t mean the one where one guy THROWS the ball to another guy and the ball touches a foot a handful of times in a game. I am talking about soccer but will refer to the beautiful game as football as it is known everywhere outside of the United States.

The first sport I ever played was tennis and will always appreciate the game, however my first sports love was football. Waking up early in the morning to watch a football game with my father felt nothing short of amazing.

As soon as I could differentiate teams and players I knew I would forever be a Manchester United supporter.

At the time the team was a budding sensation that was slowly but surely starting to dominate the new league formed in England: The English Premier League.

I have followed the team from King Eric to Giggsy. The red devils have always been a title contender and Sir Alex Ferguson(SAF) put up another amazing squad this year following last year’s double.

But SAF always knew how to fuse experience with youthful ingenuity.

Putting out a team lacking three of their starting defenders and his two starting strikers SAF knew it was going to be an uphill battle against a thirsty Aston Villa squad who got trampled 5-0 by Liverpool a week before. With Liverpool winning on Saturday they were not 2 points ahead of united atop the table.

United were all but up to the challenge.

Down 2-1 going into the last 15 minutes game the reds would need to produce another magical comeback. It started with Ronaldo completing his brace with a swift left-footed shot passed the keeper bringing Man U level again.

But the icing on the cake was produced by a completely unknown 17-year-old that Ferguson had placed on the bench before the game due to the lack of fit strikers.

Kiko Macheda was subbed in at the 60th minute and showed glimpses of what he was about to do at the end of the game.

In the 3rd minute of extra time Macheda received a pass, with his back to a defender, from Ryan Giggs just inside the penalty box and swiftly got away from his marker with a heavenly turn through his legs and placed a remarkable curling shot into the top right corner of the net passed the diving keeper.

Macheda had done it, United had triumphed, and effectively stomped on Liverpool’s dream of winning the Premier League for another year.

Even though there United still have five games to play, they have a game in hand over Liverpool and had gotten over their recent slump with Macheda’s resounding strike.

Watching that game made me realize why I had fallen in love with the game. Football always left me feeling anything could happen at any point. I only wish more American’s would see the sport for what it is and choose not to embrace it because they feel they have their “own sports” in baseball, “football”, basketball and hockey.

GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED!

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Macheda is swarmed by his teammates

Something about sports

So here I am sitting on my lazy boy recliner watching TV when a light bulb appears above my head. "I should totally make a sports blog from a real fan's view point!" So here I am after 30 hard seconds of thinking up of a name for this blog and I come up with "The Real Sports Guru". "Sports Guru" to indicate that I am Indian and a sports genius and "The Real" to mock the imposters who have already taken the url for sportsguru.blogspot.com. Which by the way I am not linking so please do not visit their website as there is no such thing as free advertising.

First order of business:

Watching the premier Christmas day basketball game I was extremely entertained yet frustrated at the same time. I am of course talking about the Suns-Spurs rematch from the playoffs of like what the past seven years? Those of you who thought I was referring to the Celtics and Lakers you will soon learn that I am not big on Boston sports and am lukewarm for the Lakers. The Spurs trailed pretty much the entire game and pulled of an amazing win at the buzzer to bust the Suns bubble once again. The Spurs struggled incredibly shooting the ball, hovering constantly below 40% for the game before just finishing above. Tim Duncan was shown up multiple times by "The Diesel" with some "flashy" crossovers and easy layups. Manu shot the rock as if it weighed a ton and the Suns tandem of Stoudemire and O'neal were causing havoc in the paint for the spurs. So here we are again, Phoenix ahead for most of the game in their own building but no one seems to count out the spurs in any playoff atmosphere contest. They fought back after being being down 11 points to take the lead in the final minutes of the game before grant hill gave the home team the lead after recieving the ball back after inbounding to lay it in from a ball screen from steve nash. With 4.3 seconds left on the clock the building was on fire and the suns looked like they might have this one. But nothing but ice cold water seemed to run through the veins of the experienced spurs. Parker recieved the in bounds and drew the defense to him before passing it out to the perimeter to new spur this year, Roger Mason and BANG!! The shot is good as the clock expires and silence consumes the building while the spurs bench rush on to the court to maul mason. Once again the spurs proved their worth and stunned the suns when it counted the most.
Say what you will about the "boring" spurs but they always seem to show up come playoff time as can be seen by their 4 championships in the past decade.

On a side note I did not watch most of the Lakers game but am glad that the Celtics winning streak came to an end. I could not handle the ESPN analysts just hand the trophy over to the celtics already.

Second order of business:

Mark Texiera as a proud member of the yankee empire I would like to welcome you to the winning column. Say what you will about the yankees exorbant amount of funds and the crazy free agent contracts they hand out, but they are dedicated to their fans and the yankee brand and will take whatever it takes to put the best team on the field.

Now here is my first post for this blog, hopefully it comes to something and I gather a few readers who enjoy my views of the sporting world.

With that Happy Holidays and Boo yah!!