Football Fantasy

Our wish came true.. Well, one of our wishes, at least.. Hehe.. Last Sunday me and hubby went to watch one of the EPL matches.. Fulham vs Chelsea..
We were quite lucky to get the tickets as normally games involving the big 4 is difficult to get.

Please take note that we are not fans of either of the teams!! We are Liverpool supporters!!

Haha.. Yes, yes.. you all must be thinking why we watched the match? Well, of course we prefer to watch Liverpool match, but god knows when we will get to watch their match. Its difficult to get the tickets for Liverpool game. The only way is to purchase the tix under opponents quota. So on a bright sunny Sunday, 2nd day of Ramadhan, we headed out to Craven Cottage for our first taste of EPL.

Outside the Stadium, one of the team just arrived, but we couldn't see a thing, nor were we sure which team it was.

Inside the Stadium while waiting for the match to start

Chelsea players doing their warm ups

Cech

Terry

The atmosphere was different to any of the games that we have attended before. In prior years, we have attended the games played at bukit jalil stadium involving Man U as well as Brazil. However none of the games had the ambience of this game that we attended. Fans from both set of teams were singing and chatting throughout the game. The loudest was probably Chelsea(honestly we could only hear Chelsea fans singing as we sat in their section).

The game was about to kick off

Lampard

Drogba

The game however was ok, Drogba scored the first game and Anelka the second. Since Chelsea controlled the midfield, Fulham didn't really have a look in. Cech had nothing to do apart from defend a couple of corners and that was it. We were however very impressed with Drogba and Anelka as both of were speedy and well built athletes. Drogba was a live wire as he gave the defence a torrid time. From the Fulham team, the most impressive performer on that day was Hangeland. He was at least about 6 foot 6 inches and from far you could see that he was a big lad. We think he has a long future in EPL, and it will be a matter of time before one of the big 4 teams come in and swoop in for him.

After the final whistle blew, we were sort of addicted to the atmosphere. Can't wait for Liverpool to come and play Fulham and hopefully we get to sit on the away section so that we could sing You'll Never Walk Alone with the other Liverpool fans.

Ancelloti

Ballack

Wembley Cup

Last week me and hubby went to watch FC Barcelona's game at Wembley Stadium. It was our first time watching football game after 2years+ of stay in London.

The game was between FC Barcelona and Al-Ahly (Winner of African Champions League).

Stadium tak penuh pun, and no cheering from Barcelona's fans. Only Al Ahly's fans jer yg very cheerful siap bawak gendang tue. Although Barca did not sent their first team, but the first half we saw some of their main players in action like Abidal and Bojan. And during second half Messi was playing, wohooo!! Henry did not play at all, but he did do some training before the game starts, so dapatla tengok his face clearly and snaps a few photos. Sayang that they didn't allow DSLR in the stadium. Bawa compact camera jer. Quality gambar tak beshh... :(

Henry doing some training with his coach and teammates.

Messi in action.

It was a superb game. Barcelona won 5-1.

We decided to stay on for the 2nd game since the ticket allow us to watch both games. 2nd game was between Tottenham Hotspur and Celtic. The crowd were more lively than previous game. Celtic fans were so energetic, cheering their teams. We stayed until 1st half and then off we go, since our intention was to watch Barcelona game which have been fulfiled.

So, next in our list... EPL games!!