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| May 19. THE MUNICH SIX Ludicrously, three players from both Chelsea and Bayern Munich who received yellow card | |
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MILWAUKEE -- Nyjer Morgan tagged up and took off, running past a stop sign from his third base coach. Game Tom Brady Jersey . And he might have been tagged out just before he reached home on a sideways slide. None of that mattered when Morgan was called safe then mobbed by his teammates after scoring the winning run in the 10th inning to lead the Brewers over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Wednesday night -- the second late-inning thriller in a row for Milwaukee. "Nyjer, hes got energy, and he felt it," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said of Morgans decision to ignore the sign from third base coach Ed Sedar. "Sometimes a player sees something a little different than a coach does." Then came perhaps the most unlikely development of the night: The Brewers eccentric centre fielder left the clubhouse without making some sort of offbeat comment about his big night to reporters. For what its worth, Brewers starter Zack Greinke thought Morgan made the right decision. "I thought he should have tagged," Greinke said. "Youve got to make a good throw, and Nyjers fast. I thought it was worth the risk." With the bases loaded and one out, Ryan Braun lofted a shallow fly ball to centre field. Morgan tagged up and took off for home despite the stop sign from Sedar and was called safe on a close play at the plate -- although replays showed that he may have been tagged out. "I had the luxury of seeing the replay," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "We should still be playing." Mattingly called the play "another argument for instant replay." Reliever Matt Guerrier (0-1) took the loss for the Dodgers, who have lost the first two games of the series. Kameron Loe (1-0) earned the win. Aramis Ramirez hit his first home run of the season for the Brewers, a massive shot that could help him shake off a sluggish start to the season with his new team. Ramirez hammered a pitch deep to left centre field to tie the game at 2 in the sixth. It was his 313th career homer as a third baseman, giving him sole possession of eighth place on the all-time list of homers at the position. Ramirez said he wasnt feeling any extra pressure to perform after starting the season slowly. "It happens," Ramirez said. "Its just unfortunate that it happened for a new team. But like I said, Ive been around long enough that I know that youre going to have ups and downs. Its a long season." Guerrier walked Jonathan Lucroy to lead off the bottom of the 10th, and Lucroy was lifted for Morgan as a pinch runner. Cesar Izturis then popped out on a bunt attempt, but Morgan stole second with Rickie Weeks at the plate, then went to third on a bad throw by catcher A.J. Ellis. The Dodgers put Weeks on first with an intentional walk, bringing backup catcher George Kottaras to the plate as a pinch hitter. The Brewers also won Tuesday nights series opener in thrilling fashion, on a two-run double in the ninth by Kottaras. The Dodgers made a defensive shift, with five infielders and two outfielders, and Weeks stole second. Guerrier then walked Kottaras to load the bases for Braun with one out. Greinke gave up two runs and four hits in seven innings, with two walks and seven strikeouts. "Last year, it seemed like we had so many games like the last two where we just found a way to win the game," Greinke said. "Like tonight wasnt anything special, but we found a way to win." Greinke came into Wednesdays game with a 12-0 record and 2.91 ERA in 16 starts as a Brewer at Miller Park. His 12-game home winning streak is the longest in franchise history. Greinke was coming off a rough road outing against the Cubs last Thursday, where he gave up eight runs in only 3 2-3 innings and took the loss. Dodgers starter Chris Capuano went six innings, giving up two runs against his former team. Capuano had two separate stints with the Brewers, from 2004-07 and in 2010, and was an All-Star in 2006. "I feel comfortable here," Capuano said. "It almost felt like a home game my last two starts here." Notes: Brewers SS Alex Gonzalez returned to the lineup after missing three games for the birth of his son on Sunday. ... Andre Ethier lined into a double play in the fourth, when Carlos Gomez threw behind Kemp to double him up at first base. ... Milwaukee LHP Randy Wolf (0-1, 10.61) faces RHP Aaron Harang (0-1, 5.91) in the series finale Thursday afternoon. Elite Rob Gronkowski Jersey . JOHNS, N. Black Tom Brady Jersey . In other CIS sports, the Guelph Gryphons open the cross-country running season atop the womens and mens national rankings, while the St. http://www.nflpatriotsgearshop.com/tom-brady-jersey/ . Jacksons suspension began immediately. He will be able to apply for reinstatement in exactly one year. This is Jacksons third drugs-related suspension, the previous two coming during his five seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 2007 fourth-round pick was banished for four games in 2009 and for 12 months starting in September 2010. Elite Wes Welker Jersey . Manager Bruce Bochy said Sanchez will have a microdiscectomy performed by Dr. Robert Watkins on Wednesday to remove part of a disc, the latest and perhaps most serious setback in the second basemans injury-marred tenure with the Giants. Tom Brady Super Bowl Jersey . Lipon had three goals and four assists in two games to help the Blazers win back to back games. The 19-year-old Regina native scored a goal and three assists Friday as Kamloops routed the Seattle Thunderbirds 7-2, and had two goals and an assist Saturday when the Blazers won 4-1 over the Medicine Hat Tigers.Back on Mar. 3 - after yet another dispirited and disjointed loss by Chelsea in a Barclays Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion - Roman Abramovich had seen enough. The following morning, Chelseas Trigger Happy Owner gathered with his sheriffs CEO Ron Gourlay and senior advisor Eugene Tenenbaum, a University of Toronto graduate at Chelseas plush suburban training facility in Cobham. The team had been summoned in for an all too rare Sunday morning stint. Abramovich had spent most of the previous week on the training pitch at Cobham bedecked in a club UEFA Champions League ski jacket and appeared to be relishing in the role as the worlds richest ball boy as Andre Villas-Boas put his charges through his paces. The presumption? Abramovich was sending the message for the world to see that he was standing by his beleaguered man. In reality he was running the rule over Villas-Boas assistant Roberto di Matteo to determine if the ex-player was of the necessary stock to guide the club for the rest of the season. As Villas-Boas packed his bags with Tenenbaum, Gourlay and Di Matteo alongside Abramovich ripped into the players for forcing his hand in putting Villas-Boas into the over populating pasture of ex-managers under the House of Abramovich. Seemingly working his way through a starting XI of managers in record time, Di Matteos appointment on Mar. 4 represents the ninth boss in SW6 since the unscrupulously media savvy microphone shy Abramovich took ownership of Chelsea FC in summer 2003. Whilst the talent budget has topped out at over $1 billion coaching severance payments are estimated to have added £100m to the Abramovich bottom line. The Swiss born, ex-Italian international Di Matteo arrived at Chelsea in the summer of 1996, earlier that spring at EURO 96 Di Matteo excelled for an under performing Azzurri. Ruud Gullit convinced enough to break the then club record fee when paying Lazio £5m for the 26-year-old. Di Matteo slotted into Gullits system seamlessly and along with fellow members of the Nazionale Vialli and Zola they took Chelsea on a European footballing odyssey the like of which the club had not witnessed since them halcyon early 1970s. When under Ron Chopper Harris Chelsea defeated European Aristocracy in the form of Real Madrid in the replay of the 1971 European Cup Winners Cup Final. The original final had ended deadlocked and UEFA staged the replay some 48-hours later. Imagine that Mr. Wenger. It was during a European match Di Matteos still rising career came to the most terrifyingly abrupt of endings. Playing back in Switzerland where he started his professional career Chelsea went into St-Gallen for a first round, second leg UEFA Cup tie. They came out of it defeated, Di Matteo with a horrendous triple leg fracture. Forever the fierce competitor on the pitch, a charmer off it after 18-months of recuperation and rehabilitation Di Matteo was left with no option but to hang up the boots. In his four full seasons at the club, Di Matteo picked up six medals, including two European, scored three cup final winners at Wembley including the very last goal at the original stadium at the 2000 FA Cup Final. His last appearance for the club purely symbolical when the then club manger Claudio Ranieri arranged for Di Matteo to lead Chelsea out at the 2002 FA Cup Final. His legendry status cemented when as part of the clubs centenary celebrations in 2005 he was named to the All-Time Chelsea XI. Upon retirement it wasnt back to the Alps but as someone often seen out and about on the streets around Stamford Bridge always willing to stop for a chat, a photo or autograph his passion for food and the explosive London gourmet scene saw Di Matteo take up part ownership in a local area restaurant. It was during his playing time at Chelsea he quenched his thirst for coaching when taking and completing his UEFA Coaching Badge. It would be almost a decade removed from the classroom before he took up the reigns of a club when in the 2008 pre-season he was named the manger of MK Dons, a club in the third tier of English soccer. His rise was vapor rapid. Two years, later he was managing a club in the Barclays Premier League. If the appointment of the 34-year old Villas-Boas was somewhat of a shocker the return of a club legend as an assistant was less so. Di Matteo afer all was walking in a path well Chelsea trodden. He was simply following in the footsteps of the likes of Ray Wilkins, best known as Ancelottis sidekick, who was originally appointed as deputy to Vialli in 2000 and Steve Clarke who stepped up from the youth coaaching ranks to sit alongside Mourinho. Rob Gronkowski Super Bowl Jersey. . Di Matteo inherited a Chelsea side that was the worst performing one since Abramovich became the keeper of the Stamford Bridge Castle. Worse than that the what happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room mentality had long since disappeared. Senior players were alienated by Villas-Boas, the varnished veneer was completely stripped bare when a mere few hours ahead of Chelseas Round of 16 first leg at the San Paolo heated exchanges occurred between Villas-Boas and two of the clubs most senior players and Euro veterans. Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole were overly hostile as they questioned the reasoning behind dropping them along with Michael Essien to the bench for such a pivotal match. Ironically Villas-Boas last match in charge of Chelsea back on Mar. 3 was overseeing a 1-nil defeat against West Brom. Di Matteo had been fired by that very same club some 12 months previously. Fast forward less than two months and 15 matches later and with just a solitary defeat courtesy of a very later marker away to Manchester City the diminutive Italian has not only re installed a winning culture such is the confidence he has instilled throughout the club that famous grin is back on the face of the worlds wealthiest ball boy. In doing so and almost exactly a decade to the date, Di Matteo gets to lead out his club at the FA Cup Final again. This time, its not in a ceremonial role. Then two weeks later, he gets opportunity to finally remove the European Cup bridesmaid banner from Chelsea when they stride out in their opponents own backyard looking to make the awful memories of Moscow 2008 slip away from Chelsea feet forever. If history is any yard stick the name Chelsea FC will finally get to be etched on one of the most famous of trophies that there is in all of world sport. Munich has previously hosted three European Cup Finals. Each time a debutante has walked away with the hallowed silverware. MATTERS OF THE MIND If we accept that Sir Alex Ferguson is the Zen Master of football kidology, what to make of Roman Abramovich. More to the point his own personal open ocean cruise liner that officially goes by the tag of a private yacht. Actually the worlds grandest such vessel it measures well over 150 metres in length, comes resplendent with six decks and wait for this its very own mini-submarine. Sailing into the Barcelona Harbour shortly after Chelsea had disposed of Benfica in the quarter-finals the yacht quickly became the toast of the town, a Barcelona tourist hotspot. Especially so in the 24 hours leading up to Tuesdays second leg with many hoping to get a glimpse of the Chelsea owner. They would all be sorely disappointed. Abramovich was back in London. Spotted shopping close to Stamford Bridge a few hours before Tuesdays extraordinary match. PARTY HEARTY With demand for tickets outstripping supply where some newspapers are reporting by the incredible margin of 20 to 1 the London based website sportingintelligence.com reported early this morning that UEFA has organized a viewing party to beat all viewing parties. 65,000 unlucky souls unable to get their mitts on a ticket to the Fußball Arena München can instead purchase a ticket to the officially sanctioned public screening that will take place at the München Olympiastadion – Bayerns old stadium. Just like the real event itself supporters will be segregated. The screening will form the show piece of week long events in the Bavarian capital ahead of the final. Scheduled to kick off 20h 45 local time Saturday night, May 19. THE MUNICH SIX Ludicrously, three players from both Chelsea and Bayern Munich who received yellow cards in their respective semifinal second legs will all miss out on what likely would have been the biggest match in the entire careers. Stubbornness, not discipline the reason why. For the 2010 World Cup and making amends for mistakes previously FIFA declared an amnesty. Whereby all players on a yellow card going into the Quarter Finals automatically had them wiped from their record for the semi final. Only a red card like John Terry rightfully received Tuesday night would see the players banned from a World Cup Final. With plenty of time to convene by the stroke of a pen the UEFA disciplinary executive could restore the six players to their squads. In doing so it would come with the added benefit of enhancing Anglo-German relationships on a night when upwards of 50,000 Chelsea supporters will literally be mingling on the Munich streets with hundreds of thousands of Bayern fans. ' ' ' |
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