Amigo's and Amiga's,

The Expo opening excitement is fading and now all eyes and
attention will be on the last playing rounds of the SPL.
There are several teams battling for glory and even Super 48
is fighting hard to get their first win of the season !
We got rain again last Sunday and it seems that this season
the weather continues to be a major (disturbing) factor.
Rain means a slippery pitch and it boils down to technical
play !  So lets see the results of this weekend !

Japan - Galacticos 6-1 Just check out the Galacticos report
of the game and indeed the early games for them are always a
challenge as alarm clocks "made in China" doesn't seem to
work on an early Sunday morning and the fact that it was
raining at 2 AM that was enough for some Galacticos player
to think that SPL games would be cancelled ! But don't
forget we have our Grass-Master Adam and the pitch was
perfect again so Japan was there with 30 players and they
were there hungry and keen to clinch their first ever SPL
Champion-Ship ! First Half was 5-0 just because of the
numbers and the second half Galacticos realized they wasted
a chance to give Japan their first loss this season they
drew 1-1 but that was only the second half.

Dulwich - ERS 1-1 Good battle of football and both side
struggled a bit to control the ball on the wet field.
Dulwich took the lead but were put behind when their striker
Jamie was send off. This gave the French players confidence
and they started to dominate the game. A fantastic header of
Yannick gave them a well deserved draw. During the
celebrations the goal scorer was almost killed as they tried
to find outs whether his chest could hold 10 ERS players on
top of him. Luckily for him / his team and the SPL he
survived....!

Super 48 - Flamenkos 1-5 Full credits to Super 48 and I
think their team spirit is unbelievable ! Having not won any
game and conceded over 100 goals they are always there with
over 20 player and they always put a smile on their face.
Honestly I love that they fighting very hard for that one
goal per game and versus the much better Flamenkos they got
it again. Think we can learn a lot from their team Spirit as
we all know how hard it is when you lose several games and
the spirit is down but they are the same team and nice
people when they started in our League ! I say Chapeau !
Hats-Off and have no idea how to say that in Japanese !
Flamenkos just has a "Bad Day in the Office" against Super
48 !

Bulls - Hawks 5-0 Hawks was not able to field enough players
for this replay game. But the key was that the friendship
and the fair-play was more important than the result and so
it was ! High-light for me was seeing Bilgin our "Blog
Master" playing in a Hawk shirt ! Not sure whether this was
a pre-signal for the 2011 transfer window which will open
right after the World-Cup !

For now we are really going to have a SUNNY SUNDAY and we
have all important games to watch ! Forget the Expo come
straight to Green City and watch the SPL games ! No queues
and we don't charge, free entertainment of the highest level
in Shanghai subject to the "made in China" alarm clocks of
course !


9.30 AM Japan - Hawks The former Champions versus the
potential SPL Champions, what else you wish for ??

11.30 AM Bulls - Lions Big game for both teams and I can
guarantee it will not be 0-0 !

13.30 PM Galacticos - ERS Perfect game for the bottom teams
who want to get out of the bottom so it will be a battle
field. England - France, a world cup semi final ??

15.30 PM Super 48 - Dulwich maybe a Super Surprise .......!

Enjoy the final games in our SPL season and remember the
Friendship and Fairplay are far more important than the
result so make sure we don't need to show red cards this
time !

Wish you Great Games and Sportsmanship on Sunday !

Cheers Freek / SPL President on behalf of the SPL Committee
!