Alright now, I’ve got a few confessions to make:
Phew… That’s a load off my back! 
Lampard scores to make it 2-1 to Chelsea.
My apologies for being horribly late. Now that you’ve forgiven me, let’s get on with it already:
● Liverpool beat an average-looking Manchester United 2-1.
● Arsenal hammered Blackburn Rovers by 4 goals to nil.
● Fulham edged Bolton Wanderers 2-1 in a relegation six-pointer.
● The madhouse that is Newcastle United crashed to a 1-2 home defeat at the hands of Hull City.
● Portsmouth defeated Middlesbrough by 2 goals to 1.
● West Bromwich Albion narrowly beat West Ham United by a scoreline of 3-2.
● Wigan Athletic drew 1-1 with Sunderland. Titus Bramble on the scoresheet… for Sunderland. Yup, own goal.
● Everton beat Stoke City 3-2.
● Tottenham Hotspur remain rooted to the foot of the table with a 1-2 home loss against Aston Villa.
● Manchester City were brought back to earth with a 1-3 humbling by Chelsea.
A quick look at the table:
Team standings after Week 4 of the Barclays Premier League 2008-09
So, Chelsea reminded the noveau-rich Manchester City that ‘one swallow does not a summer make’ and that it takes a ‘team’ to actually do the business on the pitch. The win was however marred by a stupid red card to John Terry, which has now been rescinded.
That’s it, then. Champions League updates shall follow after all groups have completed their first round of matches.
Well, well, well! What a day it’s been. Not only did I post some of my old creations here, I also started and completed another wallpaper! Normally I take a long time to come up with an idea, and even longer to actually start working on it. But today everything fell into its place effortlessly and the result is here for all to see.
© Abhishek Pancholi
The photograph shows Frank Lampard celebrating his goal in the UEFA Champions League final in May 2008. Initially I had planned to write ‘Frank Lampard’ in the image, but forgot all about it during the actual Photoshopping.
So, what do you think? Not bad for a lazy sloth, eh? 
Yesterday I dug up an old sketch from my hard drive. Today I present to you, two wallpapers I created nearly a year ago using Photoshop. If you’re a Chelsea fan like me, you’ll love ‘em!
The first one has been made using the pictures from Chelsea’s FA Cup victory over Manchester United in 2007.
© Abhishek Pancholi
The second one shows fans’ favourite, Joe Cole.
© Abhishek Pancholi
That’s it for now! You lot enjoy these and in the meantime I’ll see if I can find some other interesting stuff hidden away in some corner of my hard disk!
I’ve been an automobile afficionado since birth. All forms of 2-wheelers, 4-wheelers and more-wheelers fascinate me. I also used do a bit of sketching and mostly the things I drew were on hot wheels rather than high heels. Sadly, I haven’t bothered to wake up my artistic side in ages. Here’s a little blast from the past, something I made a long time ago. It’s been scanned and resized because the full-size image is just too heavy. Click the thumbnail below to see it in full.
©Abhishek Pancholi, 2007
Okay, now I can’t think of anything else to say about this. Just take a look, admire it or scoff at it. Either way, if you’re reading this, do spend a few seconds to comment on how good/bad you think it is.
Thanks!
Juliano Belletti celebrates his goal against Tottenham
Okay, so I haven’t been able to post anything in midweek, not even about Paul Scholes’ shocking but utterly hilarious handball incident in the UEFA Super Cup. Call it my lack of interest or my laziness, but I just coud not get myself to post anything meaningful here. All that is about to change though, because the 3rd week of the Barclays Premier League has just ended. This weekend, 18 teams were in action while Manchester United were busy embarassing themselves in Monaco and hence their fixture has been moved to a later date.
A short and sweet wrap-up is right here:
● A stylish Arsenal team swept aside Newcastle United 3-0. Robin Van Persie scored 2 goals before he hobbled off, injured again.
● West Ham United thumped Blackburn Rovers 4-1.
● Yet another own-goal scored by a Middlesbrough player almost cost them two points, but Tuncay Sanli saved their skins with a late goal, as Boro beat Stoke City 2-1.
● Hull City were hammered 0-5 by… Wigan Athletic!!! Wigan’s new Egyptian recruit Zaki scored a brace in that one.
● Everton crashed to a 0-3 defeat at the hands of Portsmouth.
● Bolton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion played out a drab 0-0 draw.
● Aston Villa and Liverpool were also involved in a 0-0 borefest.
● The prodigal son returns… That’s what they’ll be thinking at Manchester City, as Shaun Wright-Philips returned from his misery at Chelsea and scored 2 goals to inflict a 3-0 defeat on Sunderland.
● Finally, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur drew 1-1, with both goals coming from defensive errors and mistakes.
A look at the table then:
Team standings after Week 3 of the Barclays Premier League 2008-09
So that’s about it, then. No change at the top, with Chelsea leading Liverpool on goal difference. Spurs get their first point of the season, so do West Brom. There’s an international break coming up for the World Cup qualifiers, so there’ll be some time before the next update.
Till then, I’ll be hoping to post something useful over here!