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- HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2011
I hope you had a great night on Halloween! The truth is that I do not remember how we celebrate it in Spain but I want to explain that in Wales it is celebrated as Americans do with the legendary Trick or Treats, dress consisting of famous scary character and going house to house with a bag or bucket and asking for candy. And so, I took my two kids, Bailey-as Scream, and Noah Angel - spider-man, along with their cousins and we walked all over the street. It is easy to call each door with 6 kids crazy about sweets, but it was clear that if someone refused to give them candy he'd get an eggy forehead. Luckily, no one refused. The Halloween party for adults is quite different although they retain the dressing up, something very unusual here. People dress up and have parties in homes or at clubs in the tradition of drinking until you drop.
- PREMIER LEAGUE: SWANSEA-BOLTON
After a week of much reflection and analysis on the draw suffered in Wolverhampton, the team received Bolton Wanderers, another team destined to be entrenched in the fight against relegation. In the Liberty Stadium they weren't thinking like that , and with the motivation to win against a direct rival, we began the big game on a very wet afternoon. The same eleven as last week but the first half was short on chances, although we controlled the game. 0-0 at the break but the second half was another story. We started strong and so it was that on the right wing Nathan Dyer 'expelled' the left side of Bolton, Gardner, and from the same free kick Joe Allen opened the scoring in a great performance, and a finish like Andres Iniesta, as he went past three opponents and finished very well with his right foot.
After the goal began the display of football. The whole team felt comfortable with the ball so we opened the field and enjoyed many times, but the second goal came from a corner on the left where Dyer's attempt at goal became a pass to myself! I controlled the ball inside the area and Darren Pratley (ex of Swansea) took me down and the referee did not hesitate to point to the spot. Scott Sinclair was entrusted with the task of making it 2-0.
While we were still creating chances, Bolton, with a man down, managed to get a goal through Danny Graham - an own goal with 10 minutes to go. The entire stadium was thinking about the match against Wolves, but this time was different. With Bolton launching a desperate attack, I took a clearing pass and played a ball to Danny Graham to leave him alone in front of the goalkeeper, beating him to make the final score 3-1.
* Notes:
-We show that we learned the lesson of knowing how to keep an outcome in favor.
Danny Graham has 4 goals in their last 4 games.
-In the first 5 games at the Liberty Stadium no one has managed to score, as the only goal came fitted boots Graham, a real striker.
-I played the 90 minutes back and I also won the penalty and got assist.
-We're tenth with 12 points, 6 above the drop and 3 from Europe.
-I have also been named to the team of the week on different websites, here are the links:
I hope you had a great night on Halloween! The truth is that I do not remember how we celebrate it in Spain but I want to explain that in Wales it is celebrated as Americans do with the legendary Trick or Treats, dress consisting of famous scary character and going house to house with a bag or bucket and asking for candy. And so, I took my two kids, Bailey-as Scream, and Noah Angel - spider-man, along with their cousins and we walked all over the street. It is easy to call each door with 6 kids crazy about sweets, but it was clear that if someone refused to give them candy he'd get an eggy forehead. Luckily, no one refused. The Halloween party for adults is quite different although they retain the dressing up, something very unusual here. People dress up and have parties in homes or at clubs in the tradition of drinking until you drop.
- PREMIER LEAGUE: SWANSEA-BOLTON
After a week of much reflection and analysis on the draw suffered in Wolverhampton, the team received Bolton Wanderers, another team destined to be entrenched in the fight against relegation. In the Liberty Stadium they weren't thinking like that , and with the motivation to win against a direct rival, we began the big game on a very wet afternoon. The same eleven as last week but the first half was short on chances, although we controlled the game. 0-0 at the break but the second half was another story. We started strong and so it was that on the right wing Nathan Dyer 'expelled' the left side of Bolton, Gardner, and from the same free kick Joe Allen opened the scoring in a great performance, and a finish like Andres Iniesta, as he went past three opponents and finished very well with his right foot.
After the goal began the display of football. The whole team felt comfortable with the ball so we opened the field and enjoyed many times, but the second goal came from a corner on the left where Dyer's attempt at goal became a pass to myself! I controlled the ball inside the area and Darren Pratley (ex of Swansea) took me down and the referee did not hesitate to point to the spot. Scott Sinclair was entrusted with the task of making it 2-0.
While we were still creating chances, Bolton, with a man down, managed to get a goal through Danny Graham - an own goal with 10 minutes to go. The entire stadium was thinking about the match against Wolves, but this time was different. With Bolton launching a desperate attack, I took a clearing pass and played a ball to Danny Graham to leave him alone in front of the goalkeeper, beating him to make the final score 3-1.
* Notes:
-We show that we learned the lesson of knowing how to keep an outcome in favor.
Danny Graham has 4 goals in their last 4 games.
-In the first 5 games at the Liberty Stadium no one has managed to score, as the only goal came fitted boots Graham, a real striker.
-I played the 90 minutes back and I also won the penalty and got assist.
-We're tenth with 12 points, 6 above the drop and 3 from Europe.
-I have also been named to the team of the week on different websites, here are the links:
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