The first week of the new English Premier League season 2010/2011 is already over. It seems that there are more exciting results on the first week already.

The Champion Chelsea started off with a HUGE BANG with a 6-0 win over newly promoted West Bromwich Albion. I thought they may be struggling at the beginning of the season due to their off-form pre-season matches recently. It seems that they are actually saving their energy during their friendly matches including their Charity Shield match again Manchester United but made a big differences and impact in the way they played on the first competition match. So, don’t be fool by their previous slum performance.

Manchester United needed their veteran players to turn things around to win their first match. Rooney may still not yet recover from his bad World Cup experience but I hope he could improve gradually to be the top scorer again for the club this season. I hope Berbatov will gain back his form that he had from his previous club to do well this season. He may not did well last season but if he still wanted to stay at Manchester United, he MUST do well now and he did score this first goal for the club for this season.  Manchester United will have more choices for striker this time and hopefully my favourite player Michael Owen will play again and make a big success to regain the Premiership title.

The big spender Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur will challenge the great big FOUR of the Premiership but they ended up without any impact at all. Let’s see how they perform in their next matches and if they still do not make a big impact, I think they will still be OUT of the big FOUR teams.

Liverpool is still struggling from my point of view. New manager and some new players BUT I am glad that their previous manager Rafa Benitez is GONE now. No point keeping him since what he can do is just talking only. The Champion League that he won on his first season for Liverpool was NOT actually his team but the team picked from the Liverpool manager BEFORE him. Let’s see if he can be success in Inter Milan.

Arsenal is using his young players like what Sir Alex Ferguson did. No need to spend so much like Manchester City and Chelsea but to develop young players to be CHAMPIONSHIP materials. But Arsenal 1-1 draw with Liverpool leave Arsene Wenger to restructure his team especially the goalkeeper. Can Mark Schwarz change their style? Let’s see IF he joins Arsenal from Fulham.

The biggest surprise is Blackpool. Normally there will be one newly promoted team to do well at the beginning of the season. YES, only at the beginning of the season and NOW it is still at the beginning of the season. How Blackpool perform later and will still be in Premiership, we will see. But I guess this season Wigan will be demoted. However, the ball is round, anything can happen. Even Chelsea can be demoted if suddenly they lost all their matches.

This is just the first week. The coming week will see who can maintain their form or improve further. This is going to be another great English Premier League season.

So, which team do you think will win the English Premier League 2010/2011?

It may still be early BUT let’s vote and see how many of you will be CORRECT at the end of the season.

Please cast your vote below. Select the TEAM that you think will WIN and click ”SUBMIT SURVEY” button.

Thanks.

Victor Wan

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The greatest football team in the world, Manchester United FC, just completed their tour to Malaysia and played two matches here. I did not attend the first match against the Malaysia team on Saturday 18 July 2009 due to my commitment to attend an event. However, when they announced they were to play another match due to their cancellation to Jakarta because of the hotel bombing incident, I was ready to go to the second match on Monday 20 July 2009 at the same venue, the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.

1. This was my third time seeing them playing LIVE in front of my own eyes. The atmosphere inside the stadium was great. Everyone was enjoying their time.  However, while the first match was almost full house, the second match was filled up about half of the stadium only. Maybe, it could be due to Monday, a lot of fans still need to work. Here I was inside the stadium.

 2. My favorite player, Michael Owen was in the starting lineup. Here is the starting lineup for Manchester United team.

MU and Malaysia team together before kickoff

3. The match was played very fast between the two teams and I was able to capture Macheda’s goal on my own video camera. However, 2 minutes later, I was still excited about the goal and did not able to capture their second goal which was scored by my favorite player, Michael Owen.

Macheda's goal

4. In the second half, Rooney, Berbatov, Ferdinand, Nani, Anderson and Scholes were among the players came in for substitution. The match was still very energetic and both sides almost score their goals. However, at the end, the final score was still 2-0 won by Manchester United.

5. I enjoyed my time watching them played in Malaysia and looking forward to the new football season coming soon. May Manchester United continue to dominate the English Premier League and capture back the UEFA Champions League.

Good Luck to you, Manchester United.

This post is about one of my favourite sports, Football or Soccer.

Michael Owen is one of my favourite players. He was once very sharp in his skills and able to score fantastic goals. He is one of the best in my list.

1. Since Newcastle United was relegated, I foresee there is no point for Owen to remain there. To maintain his career and get back his opportunity to play for England, he should try his luck to go back to Premier League at least. And at least, there were some buyers interested on him, Hull City and Stoke City.

2. But suddenly, a breaking news came. Michael Owen is heading to Manchester United.

3. When I heard this news, I shouted “YES !!! YES !!!”. He is moving to Manchester United. He is going to play for Manchester United. Why? Because Manchester United is my favourite football club.

4. There he is………after completed the medical checkup and immediately signed and sealed the contract. Isn’t he great in the new Manchester United home kit?

5. Now the problem is, will Alex Ferguson play him all the time or just put him on the bench just as a backup striker? Or will he be rotated to play in the first team? Let’s see what and how Alex Ferguson is going to do with him.

6. WOW !!! Since Manchester United is coming to Malaysia for the off season summer tour, make sure Owen is in the tour as well. Well, he should be. Shouldn’t he? It will be great to see him in action right in front of my own eyes.

7. To Michael Owen, welcome to Manchester United and to Malaysia.

Thank you for reading.