Readers of 90Minutes you have spoken. Nearly 70% of you – a whopping 23 people - said that video technology should be introduced.
The debate always arises a couple of times a year. Earlier in the season there was the phantom goal in the Watford-Reading game, and more recently Frank Lampard’s phantom foul(excuse the MC Hammer instrumental) on Xavi Alonso.
One of the key fixtures of the week-end was the "is one of you going to make the title race interesting or just hand it to Man Utd on a plate" contest between Liverpool and Chelsea. With the Red Devils having overcome the stout resistance of Everton thanks to a Ronaldo penalty, winning yet again, not conceding yet again, breaking records and looking irritatingly invincible as their seemingly irrepressible march to predictable Premiership glory continued, either Liverpool or Chelsea had to win in order to hang on to Fergusons coat-tails.
Liverpool would go on to triumph 2-0 thanks to two late Fernando Torres goals, but I have to say that despite talk of the result re-igniting the title race and despite Benitez's smug assertions in the face of contract questions or Robbie Keane queries that he was "enjoying today", I didn't see anything that convinced me that they will seriously challenge for the League.
Finally, the Sky Sports countdown clock has ticked its final tock: much to everyone’s relief the January transfer window is over.
In spite of a global credit crisis engulfing the world and bringing it to its financial knees, the Premier League’s spending continued unabated. A total of £160 million was spent by clubs in the past month.
Jorge Valdano in Saturday's 'MARCA' newspaper described Nicola Zigic - the on-loan 6 foot 7' Santander striker - as someone 'who produces above, the things that Messi does below' and for more than an hour on Sunday it was Racing Santander and their 'Messi of the skies' that had the upper-handf.
Lionel Messi had, however, been somewhat restricted in his influence on the match from his position on the substitutes’ bench, but that all had to change of course when the giant Serbian put away a Pereira won penalty in the 56th minute, forcing Guardiola to send on his young superstar to try and rescue a result.
“Weee,” and with 18 goals and only two 0-0s it was piss-your-pants with excitement time this weekend in Portugal.
And like three grown men sharing one urinal the big boys were standing on each other’s toes at the start of the weekend, as only one point separated them. All of them fancied themselves for wins as they faced opposition from the bottom four, and while two bonfires remained urine free, Trofense got their usually inadequate willy out and sprayed all over Sporting’s pathetic excuse for a fire.