Manchester United win English Premier League title

Thanks to a 1-1 draw by Chelsea at Arsenal, Manchester United have officially won the 2006/07 EPL title. Congratulations and thanks for keeping Chelsea from winning another crown. Mourinho, I guess, has a future in wrestling, but maybe not at Stamford Bridge, especially not if there’s no FA Cup trophy to put in the awards display.

Manchester United won 0-1 at Manchester City on Saturday and then Chelsea’s away draw sealed the deal on Sunday. Must be nice for the ManU fans to “win the league at City,” especially with a game at Stamford Bridge coming up. They’ll be able to gloat to their hearts’ content and no doubt they’ll have snide words for the Blues when they meet in London.

Anyway, congrats.

Real Madrid 3 – 2 Sevilla: The Guti Show in Insanity-Vision

There are times as sports fans when we must admit our enemies are, actually, really good. This is one of those rare moments. Jose Maria Guti is a good player. Man, that hurts. I just had to get that out there, though, so that I could move along and get to the real issue at hand: Real Madrid vs Sevilla at the Bernabeu.

The game was, to put it pretty mildly, fantastic. There was so much energy on display and no one sat back and defended. The final score (3-2) suggests as much, but it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what this game was like to watch. The man of the match, Guti, wasn’t even on the field until he came on for Raul in the 59th minute as part of a double switch that also took Miguel Torres off for Ivan Helguera.

Quick Hits first before I get to a detailed breakdown of the game.
Goals: Maresca 41’, van Nistelrooy 62’, Robinho 78’, van Nistelrooy 85’, Chevanton 93’.
Red cards: Luis Fabiano 74’, Robinho 79’, Aitor Ocio 82’.
Yellow cards: Miguel Torres 40’, Sergio Ramos 55’, Hinkel 67’, Robinho 79’, David Beckham 84’, Javier Chevanton 84’.
Man of the Match: Guti

Those lists give you an idea that this was not a calm game, but even that doesn’t let you in on the absurdity that was Luis Fabiano’s sending off: he wasn’t on the field. He was warming up along the sideline and got a red card. For what, I don’t know yet, but no doubt the match reports and the Spanish press will fill us all in. Regardless of why it happened, I’ve never seen that before. And then Robinho was sent off after being shown a single yellow card immediately after scoring the go-ahead goal.

Much, much more after the jump.