www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

I dislike the International breaks. It makes us miss EPL matches on weekends. Two weeks ago, I wanted to sell Lukaku to buy Vardy and then to make Mo Salah as Captain for my Fantasy Premier League (FPL) but delayed it due to the international break and later conveniently forgotten to to do that. What happened? Salah scored a magical goal and provided a superb assist, Lukaku fired blanks and Vardy scored a beauty and not only that, players not fielded or injured were not changed and all in all I missed and lost at least a good 30 points.  What an opener it was or Game Week 8 as Liverpool buried all doubts about them and the ghost of a shocked 0-3 drubbing in 2020. My original prediction was for 2-0 or 3-1 but did not wish to appear bias and the Reds were simply too good. If that Salah pass for Mane to score was incredible, Salah's goal was almost identical to the magical one he score against City. Firmino capped his performance with a simple hattrick. Now Salah's last ten games...

Another interesting and exciting week of EPL soccer in Game Week 7 before the international break saw Manchester United held 1-1 at Old Trafford by Everton where Martial redeemed himself a bit by scoring but the weakened Toffees without their key strikers were quite a match for them and when they thought they got a winner in the 86th minute, VAR came to rescue of the Red Devils. Sir Alex Ferguson said the "you should always start with your best payers" in reference to Ronaldo not starting. Would he really made the difference on the day? Or perhaps Solskjaer should only rest him against teams in the lower half? Have Sir Alex himself rested his top players from time to time during his days? If so, then it is not a fair comment. Which has a higher chance now - United winning the title or OGS getting the sack?  Norwich finally got a point at Turf Moor as they battled  Burnley to a 0-0 draw. Southampton played a good game at Stamford Bridge and looked like repeating their draw...

Liverpool are back for now with two solid wins but those are over Norwich and Burnley. Manchester City made light work out of Norwich. It appears that City seems to have an easy way with teams like Norwich and Burnley, etc. Was it the way they play that make things look so easy? Manchester United have stumbled at Southampton and fortunately salvaged a point. Tottenham have quietly gone about with two 1-0 wins. Chelsea showed their credentials as European Champions with an easy 2-0 win over Arsenal away from home but the team of the moment to me has been West Ham who twice came back to beat Newcastle 4-2 away and convincingly had Leicester City  thrashed 4-1. The whole team has been brilliant especially Coufal, Soucek, Rice, Fornals with Benrahma with Antonio the hottest! The Hammers' long-suffering fans can now shout "Come On You Irons"! I have always like West Ham since the days they supplied the England greats and continue to do so with their youths to the England team....

What a start to the new EPL season! Manchester United were the most impressive. Champions City limped out with an opening day defeat despite featuring 100million pounder Jack Grealish. The Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin (Lee Majors) costs only 6 million back then but by today's value maybe worth like 40 or 50 million. If David Beckham was Golden Balls then Jack Grealish is the Golden Calves. Here is why...the greatest golden calves in world football since the days of Moses... Each calf costs 50 million pounds. I think Jack's calves will give Phil Mickelson more than a run for the money. Now look at Phil's. It has also been heartening to see Spurs fans showing support in a pre-season friendly to Bukayo Saka who was racially abused. Also great credit to the Brentford fans who stood out to applaud him in person and Leicester players who warmly and personally welcomed back Raul Jimenez on the pitch for his absence last season due to a cracked skull.  All in all it was a gr...