Sunday 14 November 2010

The madonnina is ours

So. Zlatan has scored the winner in his first derby for Milan. That pushed me over the edge.  I am now a blogger.

Who am I writing for? I guess mostly for all those people I have terrorized with football emails over the years.  And anyone else who wants to join the discussion.

What am I writing about? I guess there are no rules but judging from the functioning of my brain there will be little space for anything else but football.  And just to make things clear from the very beginning. I speak in "we" terms about three clubs and a national team. Orebro SK (I need to learn how to make umlauts on this machine very, there is one on the first O), AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and Sweden.  You better live with it.  Sure, I have a constant flirt with Atletico Madrid and I have had the occasional affair with teams like Celtic, Leverkusen and Feyenoord, but I am totally over them.  Orebro, Milan, Tottenham and Sweden will be the natural focal points of this blog.

And so we have just witnessed a Milan derby with the ingredients we could only have wished for.  Zlatan scored, Nesta was too cool for school, Gattuso was ready to kill and Materazzi nearly got himself killed.  Last week Bale thrashed Maicon in the Champions League.  What's next? Easy. Nordin Gerzic will sink the nerazzurri in next years Europa League.
 
That was a soft start. I hope to deal with the heavier stuff next week. That is Pippo, Astrit and Anttonen.