by jaypap » Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:38 pm
every year as the season approaches i watch in great anticipation for gh bring in the kind of player only real madrid fans lick their lips over...we bring in potential and we wait and hope...we get excited as true fans b/c we love our club and want to succeed...we usually get carried away with all the media hype and surreal anticipation...
but this year, ive analysed carefully, im not caught up in the dream and am being realistic...my attitude may be born of frustration but nevertheless i am staying unemotional about our chances...i will not be impressed by no names and unproven talent any more...
they will not raise my hopes this season, cause im more than realistic in saying that unless the no names are a revelation which is very rare, we will be struggling with the same style and performance as last season...
i dont really expect diouf to excel, nor cherou to take hammans spot and compete with viera for the best in the league in that position...i dont expect heskey will score 16 goals and i think too much will fall on owens shoulders as usual and he'll either get injured or crumble under the pressure...
i see hyppia and henchoz being solid and us grinding out 0-0 draws and 1-0 wins with no system or class...baros may be a shinning light with 15 goals if he gets the game time...and we will finish 3-6 and become even more vocal next year...i rate the above mentioned outcome as an 80% chance of occurring....it'll be 10% if we do worse or better...i cling on to that 10% better like a child to his owen shirt, but the adult in me sees frustration, a game style that disgusts me and me flicking thru the pages in lal liga to see how becks is doing rather than young owen!
and of all the damn shames in the world, that has to be one of the biggest!