Shanghai Premier League

Amigo's and Amiga's,

You will wonder who on earth is Sao Ching Niang....? Well
actually she is not on earth as she is a famous Chinese
Godess in charge of the weather. She is nick named the
"Broom Lady" as she uses a broom to move clouds whenever
there is a big occasion, like the Beijing Olympic games for
instance ! Well Saturday night it was raining and with a
full 4 games program on Sunday I knew we could be in a bit
of trouble.  Luckily ms Sao helped us out as exactly at 9.00
AM the rain stopped and the games could go on as planned. In
the evening its started to rain again, all I could do was
look up and smile to Shao Ching who was waiving with her
broom !

Flamenkos - Super 48 7-1
This was a SPL Cup qualification game which was a good warming up for the Flamenkos. Hans commented after the game that Super 48 was playing decent football, keeping apace with flamenkos for a good 20 minutes, even making them a little nervous, which indeed is good to see that they are improving week by week !

Hawks - Galacticos 6-1 
I received a text message from the Galacticos Manager/Captain Ned at 3.00 AM in the morning. "Iassume the games are off tomorrow right" ?  Think half of his team got stuck in the nightlife and never made it to the
pitch ! Still the ones who made it had a good game of football.

Dulwich - Bulls 1-0
Bulls were low on numbers as well and Dulwich was at full strength. Very even game in the first half 0-0. Second half Dulwich had more energy and power so actually they wasted quite a few good opportunities but
managed to score one which gave them all three points.

Japan - ERS 8-4
Very entertaining game ERS decided to attack in full style which resulted in quite a spectacle. Goals everywhere and the first half score was even with 2-2. In the second half ERS had their defense exposed a few times
and that's dangerous vs Japan esp when our French Friends were running out of battery.....!
On a positive note no other team managed to score 4 goals against Japan this season who are now top of the SPL equal on points and goals with the Lions !

Right before the start of the year of the Tiger we will have
our SPL quarter finals on 7th of February. As these are
outright Cup ties I don't dare to make predictions and would
recommend everybody to come and see for themselves !

9.30  AM Flamenkos - ERS

11.15 PM Japan - Lions

13.00 PM Dulwich - Hawks

14.45 PM Galacticos - Bulls

The weather forecast calls for rain but hopefully we can
count on Sao Ching's broom again ! 

Cheers Freek / SPL President on behalf of the SPL Committee