Monday, February 28, 2005

luck be a lady

"the cruel cruel irony of life: liverpool captain steven gerrard scores own goal in dying minutes to cancel out an early goal by riise to give chelsea revived hopes of lifting the carling cup."

i sent the above sms to friends last night, while watching the cruellest game luck has ever played on anyone. the moment gerrard gained great hangtime and headed the ball into his own net, i knew that liverpool were done for.

done for.

it seemed like lady luck was sitting on the shoulders of the reds as riise scored in the first 45 seconds and chelsea seemed to be firing into soft foam as liverpool managed to hold chelsea's advances for the next 80 minutes. the fans were already singing songs of victory, taunting the chelsea supporters with cheeky chants. i was beaming, just praying that the fantastic liverpool defence could hold out for the last 10 minutes.

and then gerrard soared high above two of his teammates, headed the ball with the objective of clearing it...and the world watched in despair as it flew past a stunned dudek right into the net.

extra time was a blur for me. the resurrected energy of chelsea resulted in them scoring yet another two goals. tempers flared on the pitch. liverpool pulled one back. my friend kept answering my smses of disappointment. it was too much for me. i went to bed.

i awoke this morning to an sms informing me that chelsea has won their first piece of silverware in years with a 3-2 win over liverpool.

somehow i thought that since luck (or lack of, depending on which team you are rooting for) played such a huge role in the game, it should have gone on to penalties. just to make things fair. but no, lady luck had other plans on her mind. maybe it was to show gerrard that it's time to leave liverpool. or to give chelsea a renewed hope of winning a treble this season. or perhaps to remind everyone who's boss.

all i know is someone was having fun last night. it sure wasn't liverpool, and it sure wasn't me. lady luck is one heck of a whore.

lishun at 7:23 PM

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