Aston Villa Out of Europe!

Aston Villa crashed out of the Uefa cup tonight, a cup that they could have won for this season, against CSKA Moskow 2-0. Martin O'Neill had told the Villa fans on Tuesday that he was taking a makeshift reserve side so that he could save first team legs for the Premier League and their fight for a Champions League spot. And lets be honest, on current form nobody would take that spot from Villa. They have been pretty awesome this season, and would have taken a 5 point lead over Chelsea had they beaten them in their home encounter last week.

My opinion is that O'Neill made the wrong decision. Just as Alex Ferguson did in Manchester United's game with Blackburn last week. If its not broken, don't change it. Even though Man Utd won last weekend 2-1, they lost their glorious defensive record, with Roque Santa Cruz breaking the invincible defense. Ferguson left Van Der Sar out of the team as he was on the vergo of the World Record for consecutive clean sheets. O'Neill needs wins; his team need to battle in every game and get wins, confidence, and even more desire to win trophies. Instead what has happened is Aston Villa are now out of the Uefa cup! All they have left this year is the league, and there is nothing worse than having nothing else to focus on! Come this weekend, Villa have a chance to make me eat my words, and come the end of the season I might look back at this post and be proved completely wrong (and I hope I am, Villa have been one of the most entertaining teams this season) but only ime will tell!

This story from the Daily Telegraph tells it best: English TV abandons coverage of Aston Villa Uefa Cup tie

Beckham and the Powerswerve DB to stay in Milan?

It looks like David Beckham will be staying in Milan after he admitted that he wanted to stay in the San Siro and battle for his place in the England side. After a very difficult time in Los Angeles with the LA Galaxy, Beckham has had a fantastic time in Milan, becoming an extremely important piece of the Milan team. Milan and Beckhams lawyers have been fighting for a full time transfer to Milan, but LA Galaxy held out, looking for a transfer fee of upto $16million. A deadline was set for last Freday night, but AC Milan fell well short with an offer somewhere around $6million. Rumor has it that Galaxy shareholders are holding out to gain back money they invested in bringing Beckham to LA.
My opinion: Beckham is staying at AC. He currently has too much going for him, playing at a great level and looking good for his place in the English side. Beckham has another World Cup in him, and who would not want to play in a World Cup. Add to this the fact that Victoria is now in the Fashion capital of the world, and Beckham will not be back in LA come April!
Beckham currently wears his personalized Adidas Powerswerve DB cleats. Click here for a review of the cleats.