Champions League

As the UEFA champions league draws closer, I take a look at the teams and their chances. The ties are Arsenal vs Villareal, Manchester United vs Fc Porto, Liverpool vs Chelsea and Bayern Munich vs Barcelona. First lets look at Arsenal's chances of getting through to the semi-finals. Villareal are a solid team, with ex Arsenal midefielder, Robert Pires and their captain Marcos Senna and Joan Capedelva are both Spanish internationals. Arsenal have been recently in good form although many of their first team members are injured. They will need Samir Nasri Arshavin and Denilson to play at their best if they want to win the game.

Next we look at the united against Porto game. If united does not make any slip ups and play to their usual standard this will be an easy game, with Ronaldo, Rooney and Berbatov. With Ronaldo's speed and diving, Rooney's finishing and fouling players and getting away with it, it should be an easy game for United to win, though I don't expect them to play fairly.

Next we look at the two england teams playing. Well so far liverpool have been doing pretty well thrashing United's butt and then winning Aston Villa. If Torres and Gerard play with their teamwork, the chelsea defence will have some problems. However, Frank Lampard would orchastrate the midfield playing passes to the wings and still scoring. However their captain terry who is pro at missing open goals will be the piece in Chelsea which may cause them to fail. Let's hope he gets injured.

Now the final game of the round. In what I think will be the only good game, where players wont be falling down like Ronaldos or missing open goals like some England Captain, then we can all safely watch the game without feeling like we want to take a picture of them and burn it. I expect that Barcelona's strike force with Eto, Henry and Messi would give many problems to the the Bayern defence. Hopefully, Phillip Lahm will not let people run past him and score easy goals thus making himself seem like a short clown. The bayern attack will be led by Miroslav Klose who is good at scoring goals. However he scores when Bayern dont need to score, but when they need he is MIA( Missing In Action).

So hopefully the champions league will be fun and maybe some players(Ronaldo and Rooney) will get injured.

Blood Red Horse

The blood red horse book is about life in england for a knight during the crusade. The book showed the 'glamour' of warfare and what were the hardships of living during that time period. The protagonist of the story is William Thomas who is going on his first crusade as a knight. He has a blood red horse called Hossana who is about the size of a courser, but it can easily out maneuver a bigger horse. At first, when he leaves, he thinks that the crusades is going to be enjoyable and easy. However, along the way he learns all of the hardships in war and loses some of his loved ones.  

The book shows that lords were respected in the land their owned as they were the most powerful in their kingdom as they controlled everything. It took about 2 generations of families, to build a castle and usually, the lord who started the building of a castle would not live to see it. Most of the time, it was his grandson who inherited the castle. Most of the time, the first born son was the one who inherited everything that his father owned. This means that the second born son got almost nothing and had to find an alternative way to get an income. Most of the time this was from the church.  In the story William was supposed to find a way to get income, but due to the crusade, he  was allowed to become a knight and fight.

England 4 Slovakia 0

In the build up to Saturday's friendly with Slovakia all the talk had been about David Beckham setting a new record number of caps for an England outfield player, so much so that manager Fabio Capello chastised the media for not asking a single question about today's opponents in his pre-match match press conference.

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Wayne Rooney fires in his second goal

And the only nod to history in Capello's starting eleven was the retro new Umbro kit the squad paraded for the first time as the anthems blared at Wembley. Bobby Moore, the man Beckham would surpass when he eventually took to the pitch for his 109th cap, would not have looked out of place in it.

Capello instead chose to look to the future as he rewarded 21-year-old Tottenham Hotspur winger Aaron Lennon for his improved form at White Hart Lane with a starting place on the right of England's midfield. The youngster's emergence at the 2006 World Cup was one of the reasons that Beckham was dropped by former England boss Steve McClaren but Lennon never met expectations and his demise lead to Beckham's recall.

But now the pacy winger is back in form, back in the England team and he was quickly back into the action here at Wembley as he provided an early cross that was cut out at the near post as Emile Heskey lurked.

There have been question marks about Lennon's decision making and delivery of the final ball and his next attempted cross was deflected into the path of Frank Lampard, whose shot forced a good save from Slovakia goalkeeper Stefan Senecky, rather than delivered to his colleague by design.

Still, Capello had turned to Lennon to provide his team with blistering pace in the absence of Arsenal's Theo Walcott and his speed helped him beat the offside trap on 10 minutes. Although he made the wrong decision to pull the ball back to the edge of the box rather than shoot his immediate impact was a pre-cursor to a lively half.

When England's opening goal did arrive it came down the opposite flank as the unlikely duo of Wayne Rooney and Steve Gerrard combined to provide Emile Heskey with a tap in after only seven minutes. Rooney later scored twice while Lampard added one.

Man beheads sister

A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then headed toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot him amid what the police chief described as 'a killing field'. There was no clear motive for the events that unfolded on Saturday in a tiny Boston suburb that also is home to Governor Deval Patrick. But there was no doubt at the carnage wrought by 23-year-old Kerby Revelus against his three sisters in the two-family home they shared with their parents and grandmother. It is said that the murders came 24 hours after Revelus had gotten into a fistfight with a neighbor.  It seems that Revelus's target was the older sister, aged 17. However the second youngest sister, aged 9 called police dispatcher and within minutes an officer had arrived. Enraged, Revelus beheads the youngest sister, aged 5 in front of the officer and goes for his sister who had called the police. The police officer however shoots him and kills him. He died clutching the knife to his heart. This means that even to the end, he was a bad person and his intentions were to kill all his family members. Revelus has gone to jail before a year ago, but no details were released by the news papers. He also had gotten trouble before for punching one of the women in his house.