Location: This is the general shape of a soccer field.

This is a 4-4-2 formation which is the simplest formation a team can use. It has a goalie, four defenders, four midfielders and two strikers.

Observation 1 Sunday, January 26 1:30-2:15 Monday, January 27 5:30-6:15

Figured World: A figured world is a large social enviroment complete with its own conventions of approriate behavior, manners and community-specific discourse Rules and Conventions: I am observing the Barclays Premier League for my figured world. It is a soccer league in England. It is considered the best league in the world by many. People all around the world watch these games every week because they love soccer. Soccer is a huge part of many different cultures. Children all around the world can just grab a ball and start kicking it around with friends.
The games take place on a soccer field inside of a stadium. The fields look massive on television. The players need to be in shape to run such long distances. With every sport there are rules. The basic rules are: Scoring: each team tries to kick the ball into the opposing teams net Fouls: Fouls are unacceptable during the game, but the problem is that it is up to the referee of how strict he wants to enforce the rules. Two footed slide tackles are always a bad thing, but a full arm extension is not always considered a foul. If a foul is bad enough the ref will show a card. Yellow is a dangerous tackle and red is for a very dangerous foul. Red cards can also be given for fouling on an open

run that could result in a goal, or hand balling, hitting the ball with your arm from slightly above the elbow to the fingers, to stop a goal. Two yellow cards equals a red card. Offside: A player is offside when he receives the ball or makes a play on the ball when he is behind the last defender. The player may run offside to receive a pass, but he may not go offside until the ball has left the passers feet. Out of Bounds: The teams must stay inside the outer white lines on the field Defense: Each team can defend the opposing team by kick or stealing the ball away as long as they do not foul. There are a few discourse communities in the game. First there are the teams. These are the most important ones. The fans are the second community on the list. They cheer their teams on to try to motivate them to win. The coaching staffs try to prepare the teams for the games and try a make decisions during the game to help their team gain an advantage. Each team has a goal keeper, a defense, a midfield, and an offense. The keeper is the last line of defense for the goal. The defense is the main protection of the goal. The midfield is transition from defense to offense. Offense is the main goal scoring position. Instead of a play off style championship like most other sports, soccer usually is played by league title. Each win is 3 points, a tie is 1 point, and a loss is 0 points. Whoever has the most points at the end of the season is the title winner. If there is a tie, goal differential, the ratio of goals scored against to the goals other team scored against you, is the tie breaker. Here is a list of the positions most commonly played: GK: the goalkeeper is a very important part of any team. Without a good keeper who is going to protect your goal when your defense gives way. Defense: this is divided into left back(LB) , right back(RB), and center back(CB). The center backs are the heart of the defense. There are usually two, but sometimes three. Their job is to stop any apposing players from attacking thourgh the middle. The left and right backs are faster defenders. They need their speed to stop the wings from attacking down the sides. Midfield: there are quite a few positions in the midfield. You have center mids(CM) who are very important to controlling possession with their passing. This position has two variants in center attacking mids(CAM) and center defensive mids(CDM). The names say it all. CAMs attack while CDMs defend. The outside midfield players are left(LM) and right mids(RM). They help spread the play to the outside and they help on the attack. They also have a variant, but it is associsated with the forwards. Forwards: left(LW) and right wings(RW) are the attacking versions of LM and RM. They are usually fast and very skilled dribblers. They attack and cross,chipped pass to the middle, the ball in for strikers. They do not play much possession except in the attacking third. Striker(ST) are the most important part of scoring. These are generally the best scorers on the team, not always though. Their only job is to score. It too has a veriant. The center forward(CF) is slightly positioned different. A CF plays in between a CAM and a ST. its like a middle ground for each. Not quite a possession position, but more so than a ST.

Post Game Stats: After each game I include stats for the game. Shots is the number of sots a team too during the match. This helps with understanding how dominate a team is on offense. Corner kicks is when the defender or goalie kicks the ball over his own base line out of bounds. This helps determine how much pressure one team is applying on offense. Fouls is the number of fouls and tells how aggressive each team is playing.

Location: Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London, England Actors: Actors are people who play a significant roles within a figured world. The referees play a part by keeping the players in line and judging boundaries. The coaches determine strategy for the game: Jose Mourinho is the coach of Chelsea and he is one of the best coaches in the world right now. He has never lost a game at Stamford Bridge. The players ultimately win or lose the game: Czech is one of the best goalie in the world. He is a big part of Chelseas defense. Manchester United has two of the best strikers in the world in Rooney and Van Persie, but both of them are hurt Artifacts: These are physical items and emotions/feelings, which are importat to the soccer games. The soccer ball: it is what they use to play the worlds most recognized sport. Who doesnt know what a soccer ball is? You go anywhere in Europe and you're bound to find kids playing soccer. When you love the game like many people do, you just cant resist not playing with a soccer ball when you see one. The jerseys: Each team has their own jersey design that signifies which team the players are on. They signify home or away sometimes. A team might be known for a certain color so they may wear their home jersey on the road as long as the other team is not wearing the same color. Numbers: Some numbers are not just their to signify a player. Some numbers have a tradition of being worn by the best players. Lionel Messi wears #10. he is the best player now and possibly ever, that is up for debate. Juan Mata used to wear 10, Rooney still does, and my favorite player Landon Donovan wears 10. Donovan is not considered great,but he is an incredible play maker and he is just smart. He knows what to do during games at any time. He is the best American player ever. He is not recoginized as much on a global scale because he plays in the American soccer league instead of anywhere else. He wants to promote our league as apposed to the world's leagues. He has sacrificed a lot just to support the United States.

Discourse Communities: These are groups with shared interest and way of communicating within the figure world. The two main communities are the teams: Each team plays a different style with a different formation. Coaching staffs: Each club has their coaching staff. They try to outwit each other throughout the game with formations and substitutes. The fans: the fans are there to cheer their teams on and try to motivate them to win. Teams are the most important discourse commnity. They determine the outcome of the games. Refferees are another community. They are there to make sure games do not get out of hand. They also determine if a ball has crossed the line either in the goal or out of bounds.

Literacy Practices: Things that are done by discourse communities that are spoken, written, or gestured that helps them to communicate. Passing: This being a high level teams, ball possession is usually a very important part of their games. They work the ball around and try to find a point in the defense to attack. Shooting: Shooting is required for a team to win unless something crazy happens where the ball just roll into the goal. Shooting is one of the most awesome displays of soccer you will see. They can use pure power or finesse to beat the keeper and score. Stoppage time: This is played because soccer clocks never stop. If there is an injury they just add time on the end of halfs. Half time: after 45 minutes and stopagge time, both teams get a 15 minute break to rest and reevaluate their strategies. Not all of the players are known by their actual names. Some of the names will contain there first name only, and nickname, or a first name and middle name. Rosters Chelsea GK Petr Cech LB Cesear Azpilicueta CB John Terry CB Gary Cahill RB Branislav Ivanovic Manchester United GK David DeGea LB Patrice Evra CB Jonathan Evans CB Nemanja Vidic RB Rafael

CDM David Luiz CM Oscar CM Ramires LW Eden Hazard RW Willian ST Samuel Eto'o

CM Michael Carrick CM Phil Jones LM Adnan Januzaj RM Antonio Valencia ST Danny Welbeck ST Ashley Young

Below are the subs along with who they replaced and at what minute they came in. Subs: Mikel-comes on for Oscar -68' Fernando Torres- comes on for Eto'o- 79' Nemanja Matic- comes on for Willian- 86' Chris Smalling comes on for Evra 51' Chicharito comes on for Young- 56'

The Observation: Manchester United vs Chelsea. Manchester United, Man u for short, starts off with the ball and is passing the ball around trying to keep position and find a way to get a shot on goal. They finally get their shot but it is saved by Petre Czech. Willian ends up with the ball but he is dispossessed. 4 minutes through man u is controlling the ball much more than Chelsea. Man u push forward but john terry hits the ball out for a throw-in of the left side of the field. After the throw the ball is kicked out for a corner, but the corner kick is kicked too far. 6 minutes: Chelsea have finally started working the ball around. Man u get the ball and after passing the ball around the middle of the field Ramieres fouls Ashley Cole. Man u gets a throw and work it down the right side. Januzaj pass is deflected and Oscar of Chelsea gets the ball and runs it up the file d, but has is taken away by jones. Jones runs up the field and has the ball taken away by Hazard. Jones runs into Luiz while going after Hazard and commits a foul. After some scramble for the ball Chelsea gets possession and works the ball around. It lands in the feet of Ramieres and he is able to get a shot off but De Gea blocks the shot. Man u breaks on the counter attack down the left side and Januzaj is fouled. They get a shot off but it is blocked by a defender. Chelsea goes on a counter attack up the right side and hazard passes to Willian. Willian shoots but his shot is blocked by a defender.

13 minutes and Chelsea have possession working the ball around the field. They work it to the right side and Oscar is fouled by Ashley young. Hazards free kick is too powerful and Etoo is not able the settle it. On the goal kick luiz fight and gains possession, but after a clearance man u gets possession back. Chelsea take the ball back but Welbeck fouls luiz. They keep possession on the free kick and work it back to the goalie, Czech. He kicks it up the field and after ball bounces back in forth between both teams, but Chelsea is finally able to gain possession. The ball is working to Etoo on the right side and he makes a beautiful off-ball juke and makes the defender jump. He dribble slightly closer to the goal, but shoots outside the box on the right corner of the goalie box with his weak foot and he nets a fantastic goal far post out of the reach of de Gea. After the restart luiz gets a yellow card for a dangerous tackle when he hits Danny Welbeck after the ball was passed away. Neither team keeps much possession until 21 minutes in when Chelsea works it around the field and eventually to hazard on the left wing who dribbles by his defender and crosses the ball in to what would have been a goal until it took a deflection off the defense. The corner kick is too hard and soars over the players. Chelsea take another shot it once again it is deflected for a corner. It comes to nothing and de Gea takes the goal kick. Januzaj ends up with the ball and he is fouled by terry. After the free kick man u work the ball around but hazard is able to take the ball and Chelsea go on a counter attack. Chelsea seems to be a much faster team, but Ivanovic messes up the attack with what was either a bad shot or a bad cross that goes out of bounds. De Gea takes the goal kick and the work it up the field. Welbeck gets the ball on the right wing and he crosses it in and Ivanovic barely heads it out of bound for a throw on the left side. Evra gets the ball to Januzaj and he crosses the ball into the middle along the ground, but luiz clears it easily. Man u work the ball through Chelseas midfield and Evra makes a run on the outside and gets the ball for a wide open shot, but at a bad angle. It goes out for a goal kick. After some back and forth play Chelsea finally gets control of the ball and makes their way up the field. Oscar gets the ball and is indecisive. He ends up shooting and missing on the opposite side of the goal. Man u quickly moves the ball up field and they get another cross in, but no Chelsea defender is there to clear it. Unfortunately for man u none of their players were there to score. Chelsea works the ball up field and Willian gets the ball. He makes a bad pass. He has not played well all game. Hazard tries to regain possession, but he fouls Valencia in the process. Man u slowly takes the ball up field, Evra gets it on the left side, but Oscar take it from him and Evra fouls him. Possession switches back and forth until the 37th minutes where man u finally find a way to get through Chelseas defense. The cross coms in for Welbeck, but he cant finish. His shot was blocked by Czech. Man u gains possession in the 40th and they get a cross into the middle but its cleared out to Willian. He dribbles past the defender and passes in the middle to hazard. Hazard takes it

to the right side and cuts back and chips it to Etoo, and he manages to cross it into Oscar who almost get a shot on target with and bicycle kick. 44th minute Willian is fouled by Jones. The free kick is about 25 yds. out. Luiz takes the shot but it is deflected out for a Chelsea corner. Willian crosses it in but its deflected out to Ramieres 30 yrds out. He throw balls to Gary Cahill and he crosses along the ground to Samuel Etoo who finishes far post. Chelsea are up 2-0 with Etoo scoring both goals just before half time. They have 2 minutes of stoppage time and Chelsea is taking their time trying to make it to half time without man u responding to their goal. 49 minutes: Samuel Etoo scores and easy shot of a deflection from de Gea after Gary Cahill heads the ball towards goal. Next Evra comes off injured and Smalling comes in. Chelsea keep possession and just work the ball around slowly. Since they are up by three there is no need to pressure up as much. Man u have to play with more urgency if they want to salvage something from this game. They give the ball away and Chelsea works it around to Willian on the right wing where he is fouled by Ashley young. Chelsea take their kick and work it around. Ramieres gets the ball, but he gives it away. 54 minutes: man u have possession, but Valencia gives the ball away and then he gets a yellow card for a dangerous tackle. Both teams are working hard to keep the ball. The ball goes out for a man u goal kick. Chicharito comes in for Ashley young. Chelseas defense is trying hard to keep a clean sheet so they are just booting the ball out if necessary and not caring whether they keep the ball. 59 minutes: ramieres takes a shot from about 23 yards, but he shoots it way over the goal. Man U takes their goal kick and start their way up the field. Valencia receives the ball on the right wing and crosses it in, but it takes a deflection and goes out for a man u throw. Chelsea move up field and Willian makes a bad pass. The ball bounces back to Chelsea, but they cant hold on to it. Man U is remaining very patient and they are trying to find a way through Chelseas hard working defense. 65 minutes: Mikel is getting ready to come on for Chelsea. Neither team is keeping possession because the ball is being hit out of bounds. Man U finally gain possession and try to get through Chelseas defense, but yet again Chelsea play good defense and stop them. In the 69th minute Mikel replaces Oscar. 69 minutes: Gary Cahill gets pressured and makes a risky pass back to Czech and Czech has to switch feet to clear the ball with his strong foot, but he gets rushed by Chicharito and he barely turn in time to keep the ball from being knocked into his own goal. He clears it out and both teams work for possession. 73 minutes: Chelsea move up field down the left side and Willian crosses into Ramieres but Vidic clears the ball before it reaches Ramieres. Man u pushes for a counter-attack but it comes to nothing after they commit a foul.

77 minutes: things seem to be slowing down. Man U have a throw in on the right corner of Chelseas side. After passing the ball around they find a hole. Jones receives the ball and he makes a perfect pass to Chicharito who slides along the ground and reaches the ball and scores. Chelsea 3, Manchester United 1. Etoo comes off and Torres comes on for Chelsea. The game has livened up a bit after that goal and Manchester want more goals. With a loss, Man U go further behind the top 4 and have almost no chance of making up the ground in the league table. 81 minutes: Man U free kick just outside the box. They take it quick and work it around the box. A cross comes in but Czech is there to catch the ball. 85 minutes: Matic makes his second debut for Chelsea after transferring back from Benfica. He comes on for Willian. Chelsea is working hard to keep the ball away from Manchester. 88 minutes: Torres is down with what might be a cramp. He may just be wasting time. 90 minutes: There is 4 minutes of stoppage time. Hazard get the ball a runs up the field. He makes a cut in where Vidic makes a two-footed slide tackle and twists and bring Hazard to the ground. He is now suspended for the rest of the match and the next match. Man U now play with 10 men. Now Chelsea are just taking their time in everything that they do. They just want the game to end so they can win. Just before the clock expires Rafael slid tackles Cahill with two feet. He gets a yellow card since it was dangerous but not as bad as Vidic. 95 minute: Game ends 3-1 Chelsea
Chelsea Stats 13 Shots 10 15 Fouls 21 5 Corner Kicks 4 44% Possession 56% Manchester United

Rosters: Tottenham GK Hugo Lloris LB Danny Rose CB Michael Dawson CB Vlad Chiriches RB Kyle Walkers Manchester City GK Joe Hart LB Gael Clichy CB Martin Demichelis CB Vincent Kompany RB Pablo Zableta

CM Christian Eriksen CM Mousa Dembele LM Gylfi Sigurdsson RM Aaron Lennon ST Nabil Bentaleb ST Emmanuel Adebayor Subs Etienne Capou for Dembele- 45' Kyle Naughton for Sigurdsso- 55' Lewis Holtby for Eriksen- 83' Observation 2

CM Yaya Toure CM Fernandinho LW David Silva RW Jesus Navas ST Sergio Aguero ST Edin Dzecko

Stevan Jovetic for Aguero- 45' Matija Nastasic for Toure- 64' Aleksandar Kolarov for Silva- 80'

The same rules apply and the artifacts remain the same even though the jersey styles differ and the stadium was different. The location was in Tottenham Location: Tottenham

Actors: Lloris is a key player for Tottenham. He is their goalie and hes one of the best. Aguerro is one of the best strikers in the world and he is a key part of the offense for Man City. Silva is a midfielder for Man City and he is an incredible dribbler and passer.

1minute: Tottenham starts off with the ball. Man City quickly take the ball and move down the field, but Spurs stop them. They fail to attack and man city take the ball up the left side. The ball is moved to the middle where Fernandinho loses the ball to Eriksen. Man City relentlously take the ball back looking for an early goal with the pressure they are putting on Tottenham. Man city work down the left side and the attack stalls and they have to work the ball around to the other side. Aguerro cuts to the middle where he gets a pass and runs past two defenders and then shoots and hits the cross bar of the goal. 5 minutes: man City keep the pressure up and almost get another Aguerro shot, but Tottenham play good defense. Tottenham is just playing desperate defense right now. They have not gotten any rhythm yet. Dzecko receives and beautiful pass across field but passes the ball right back to Tottenhams midfield. Man City has the best offense in the league. They are attacking so much. Tottenham finally get the ball inside of Man Citys box. They lose the ball but regain possession and start working the ball around. Man City gain the ball back and start making a lot of fancy passes and then Dzecko passes to Aguerro who passes it back to him and Dzecko takes the ball down the field where he shoots high over the goal.

12 minutes: Man city has the ball and is patiently waiting to find an opening. Once they see any opening they attack but fail. They ball is kicked out for a Man City throw. A bad pass leads to a Tottenham interception and a Man City fouled by Zableta. Man city quickly take the ball back and cut straight up the middle with a through ball to Aguerro who puts the ball back post out of the goalies reach. Thats his 15th goal of league competition. Man City quickly rake the ball back from the Spurs and attack, but miss another shot. They keep attacking so much that they are bound to score more goals. 17 minutes: Spurs get a throw in in a dangerous territory. Rose gets the ball and gets a 1, 2 pass from Eriksen and crosses the ball in but its cleared out by Man Citys defense. Tottenham is trying to get something going on offense, but Man City is keeping them out. Spurs finally find a break in the defense and Adebeyor shoots but is deflected out for a corner. Eriksen takes the corner but the goalie comes up with the ball. Man City is such a fast team. They move straight up the field and get a cross in to Aguerro. Aguerro heads the ball perfectly towards goal but Hugo Lloris makes an absolute remarkable save. He reacts with such little time, and dives in the opposite direction of his movement ad cleanly blocks the ball out. 22 minutes: Man City on the attack again. Aguerro with another shot which just goes over the bar. I dont remember another team being able to attack so much so fast. With a win here Man City would go to the top of the table. They keep attacking trying to seal a win and not give Tottenham any chance to get up field. Tottenham is keeping possession trying to find something. Rose gets the ball and knocks it past the defender but falls very easily the ref doesnt buy the flop and he lets play continue. Man City gets the ball and goes on the attack. They pass the ball around trying to find a hole in the defense. They try a chip, but its defended well, but Man City get it back and try attacking the other side. Rose kicks it out. Man City take the throw and gradually works the ball closer and closer until David Silva takes a shot with no room and gets a corner. 28 minutes: Man City tries another attack but the ball rolls right to Lloris. Man City take the ball back immediately and go up field and Dzecko takes the ball to the base line where the defender slides and kicks it out. Man Citys corner comes to nothing. Tottenham get another attack. The cross is in from Rose but is deflected out for a corner. Man City covers the corner and its out of bounds. Tottenham regain possession and then give it away again. 32 minutes: YaYa Toure comes in with a late tackle on Dembele and gets a yellow card. Eriksen takes the free kick, but barely kicks it too far. Man City still attacking very quickly. The Spurs are holding on but just barely. Tottenham gets a break and a throw ball to Adebeyor but Man Citys center backs converge on him to stop him. Eriksen takes the free kick and makes an amazing cross back post where its deflected in by Dawson who scores. The goal is called off because he was offside. 38 minutes: Tottenham gets a goal kick. The ball is kicked back and forth until Tottenham gain possession and move up on the attack. The ball is loose and Adebeyor jumps in to get it and Di Micheles slides in and trips him and gets a yellow card. The free kick comes to nothing but Dembele comes up with the ball and shot just wide of the goal. 42 minutes: Tottenham has picked up the pace and trying to score a goal before the half. They get the ball down, but they keep failing to do anything with it. Aguerro is down with a possible injury. He is coming off ad Jovetic is coming on. Man City is pushing up and working to score. They are getting dangerously close to a goal

45 minutes: 3 minutes of stoppage time. Both teams are pushing for a goal. Nothing special happened and its half time.

45 minutes: City start off with the ball. Silva goes down. His foot got stepped on. Tottenham starts off pushing up. They need a goal not only for a tie, but to regain some momentum and then maybe win. They fail on the attack but they are very active in the midfield trying to steal the ball. Man City get a through ball into Dzecko and Rose slides from being and barley kicks Dzecko before getting the ball and that results in a penalty for Man City and a red card for rose. Toure takes the penalty and score. 2-0. 51 minutes: Man City have all the momentum being up 2 goals, and they are just playing possession ball. They just hold the ball and pass it around. Nothing too special until they get a ball into David Silva who jukes his defender and shoots the ball off the posts and then rebounds off a defender to Dzecko who scores far post. Man City is running away with this game. Tottenham is down by 3 and playing with 10 men. There seems to be no hope for the Spurs. Some of Tottenhams players are looking to score, but most of them look like theyve given up on winning and just trying to prevent more goals. 56 minutes: Man City still out Possessing Tottenham a lot. Tottenham actually gets an attack together. Maybe theres still hope for a goal. They get a corner from a deflection. The corner is taken and it is unfortunately deflected by Zableta who is falling and it lands right in the path a Capou who scores.

60 Minutes: The Spurs are recharged and again are motivated to try to win this game. Man City is trying hard to keep their attacks silenced. The crowd is getting louder cheering them on. They keep pushing up but Man City keep stopping them. Adebeyor fouls Zableta and is getting a little frustrated pushing Zableta off of him. Man City push up but Dzecko fouls and they lose the ball. 63 minutes: Navas takes a hard hit from Naughton and Naughton gets a yellow card. Free kick taken and worked to the other side of the goal and its quickly dropped into the middle for Dzecko who shanks his shot over the goal. 67 minutes: Man City goes up the right side. Tottenham shuts them down and starts their own attack. Capou cuts throw the middle with the ball Man City regain possession and get the ball down the middle and chip it to Zableta who crosses to Dzecko. Dzecko misses again. 71 minutes: Tottenham have the ball but the give it away to Man City. Man City is just passing it around. Tottenham will tire out running after them with one man less. Clichy gets the ball and makes a bad pass and then Man City gets the rebound. They want to be careful and not let Tottenham score any more. 75 minutes: Zableta called for a foul on Adebeyor and then punts the ball away in anger and gets a yellow card for delaying the game Jovetic gets the ball and bend it far posts and it takes a deflection and goes in. Thats his first BPL goal. 4-1. 79 minutes: David Silva comes off and Kolarov comes on. Usually a left back but hes playing left mid. Man City is just playing possession. Theres no hope for the Spurs. Dzecko gets another shot and this one shanks worse than all the rest. He has a goal but not one of his best games.

83rd minute: Eriksen comes off and Holtby comes on. Man City is trying to push up more. Whether to score more or to waste time am not sure. 86 minutes: Man City do push up for another attack and Jovetic trying to score but Lloris saves it and Kolarov shoots off the rebound and misses. Another attack and another corner from Man City. The corner is taken and Dzecko shoots off the volley and its saved. The ball lands in the feet of Kompany who shoots on a wide open goal and scores. 5-1. 90 minutes: three minutes of stoppage. Man City still pushing forward. Zableta drives down the right side and crosses the ball in and Lloris makes a nice saves and keeps another goal from being scored. Game Over.

Stats Tottenham Manchester City 4 Shots 24 11 Fouls 10 3 Corner Kicks 5 34% possession 66%

Roster

Liverpool GK Simon Minolet LB Aly Cissokho CB Kolo Toure CB Martin Skrtel RB John Flanagan CM Steven Gerrard Garreth Barry CM Jordan Henderson CM Philippe Coutinho LW Daniel Sturridge

Everton GK Tim Howard LB Leighton Baines CB Antolin Alcaraz CB Phil Jagielka RB John Stones CDM CM Ross Barkley CM James McCarthy LW Steven Pienaar

RW Raheem Sterling ST Luis Suarez Subs: Victor Moses for Sturridge- 72' Martin Kelly for Flanagan- 73' 45' Luis Alberto for Coutinho- 79'

RW Kevin Mirallas ST Romelu Lukaku

Steven Naismith for Lukaku-25' Leon Osman for Steven PienaarAiden McGeady for Barkley- 76'

Observation 3 Liverpool vs Everton 4:11-5:59 2/4/2014

Actors: Tim Howard is the goalie for Everton. He is the American goal keeper and he is one of the top in the league. Romelu Lukaku is a striker for Everton. He has been in great form this year. Luis Suarez is a striker for Liverpool. He is leading the league in goals scored. Steven Gerrard is a center midfielder. He is a Liverpool legend and he is their captain. Artifacts: this is a big rivalry game. Not the biggest in the league, but still a game where players want to win by a lot.

1 minute: Everton is working the ball around in the middle. Liverpool takes it and tries to counter-attack, but they are quickly stopped by the Everton defense. Everton has the ball in the attacking third but a crss goes wide and out for a goal kick. 5 minutes: Everton player is down. It is Pienaar. He took an arm to the face from a Liverpool player. He has to wait on the sideline until the ref allows him to come back on. Liverpool quicly takes the ball from the free kick and attacks quickly. Sturridge shoots but Tim Howard saves the shot and its out for a corner. The corner comes to nothing, but the get the ball attack again. Coutinho trow ball to his striker, but its behind him and into the hand of Tim Howard. Everton gets the ball up field, but they lose it and its kicked up field to Suarez and he settles it in Evertons box but he loses the ball. 10 minutes: Liverpool is attacking quite a bit. They have control of the game right now and its theirs to win or lose unless Everton can raise their energy level to match Liverpool. Everton is keeping possession, but Liverpool is all over them. Liverpool gains possession and the try another attack, but it is stolen and Everton is just trying to keep the ball.

15 minutes: Everton get the ball in the box a Pienaar takes a shot but it is blocked by a defender. Liverppol takes the blal into Evertons side of the field and Gerrard takes a shot but its very high over the goal. After fighting for the ball, Liverpool gains possession, but Barry of Everton fouls and gives them a free kick. Sturridge gets the ball off the free kick and he chips it to Sterling who shoots and it blocked by Tim Howard. Liverpool gains back possession and they are attacking non-stop. Shot after shot but nothing has gone in yet. 20 minutes: Suarez takes a corner. Its a good ball into the middle and Steven Gerrard runs through the middle and gets his head on it. Its a goal. 1-0 Liverpool. While Liverpool celebrates, Everton have a striker down. Lukaku is laying on the field injured. He is being helped off the field because he cant put any wait on his right foot. On the restart, Liverpool steals it immedietly and they get a pass up to Daniel Sturridge who is flagged offside. Liverpool has total control. Everton cannot match the intensity. 25 minutes: Everton is getting the ball up but they cant do anything with it. They lose it to Liverpool who attacks quickly. Ball is up to Coutinho, and then over to Suarez, and back to Sturrdge who shoots with his weak foot and barely misses over the bar. Liverpool gets the ball again and another attack in on. Everton does not look like a team who can win this game. They are barely surviving these attacks. Liverpool keeping possession, passes the ball all the way back to the defense. McCarthy is trying to give his team some energy by running up and trying to steal the ball from the defense. He does not steal the ball, but his team does gain possession. They are putting together a good attack. Miralles gets the ball and runs through the middle and almost shoots but he is hit and the ball lands in his teammates foot and he shoots. The ball is blocked by Liverpool keeper, Minolet, but Barry gets the deflection but he misses. 32 minutes: Liverpool gains control and Coutinho gets the ball and through balls it to Sturridge. Sturridge goes one on one with Howard and he scores. 2-0 and just 2 minutes later Liverpool gets the ball after a bad pass. Suarez is fouled by McCarthy. They take the kick and Sturridge gets the ball behind the defense and chips the keeper. 3-0. Liverpool is in total control. 36: Everton with possession and they almost get a shot off, but the passes arent always the most clean. Everton regains possession and gets the ball up but theres a foul. No card for the player who commited the foul, but for Pienaar who was nowhere near the play. He was arguing with the referee. Its very back and forth and sloppy right now. Both team are not keeping control very well until Everton finally gets it and Miralles is able to attack the right side and almost get a cross in. Its defelted for a corner. They conrer taken and is deflected for antoher corner which comes to nothing. 42 minutes: Everton had the ball in the attacking third, but they lose the ball and Pienaar commits a foul. Everton cant get anything going. They are defending Liverpool well at the moment, but their attack is sloppy. 45 minutes: 3 minutes of stoppage time. Everton has the ball on the attack, but it comes to nothing yet again. Both teams are playing sloppy and giving the ball away. Pienaar takes it down the left side and crosses the ball in to Barry who shoots but is block by a defender. 45 minutes: Everton comes out tryong to make up ground. Not working well so far with Liverpool pushing them back all the way to Howard in goal. They manage to get the ball up field, but this Liverpool defense is staying strong and keeping them out. Everton is shooting and crossing, but he defense is

blocking it all. Everton finally gets a clean shot in, but it is blocked by Minolet. An amazing save, diving through the air and hitting the ball out of his box. 49 minutes: Suarez steals the ball and outruns the two defenders and shoots in along the ground and far post out of the reach of the keeper. 4-0. On the restart Everton tries to chip it up to Mirallas, but he fouls Cissikho while trying to get the ball. Everton is trying to stay positive and score, but they cant get it in. 53 minutes: Sterling gets a through ball and hits by Howard, but Howard is called for tripping him. Its a penalty, but I do not agree. Sterling appears to jump over Howard and then fall without making enough contact to have been a foul. Sturridge is taking the penalty to try to get a hat trick. He shoots it way over the goal. 57 minutes: Everton has the ball and is trying to do something with it. It gets knocked aroud between both team until Everton gains possession and is able to attack. Once again it comes to nothing. At this point the game is over. There is basically no use in the teams playing anymore. Liverpool has total control over the game. No matter what Everton does it is defended well by Liverpool. 62 minutes: Everton has the ball in Liverpools half, but it goes out for a goal kick. Liverpool is not passing as cleanly as they did in the first half, but they still keep the ball. Everton is trying to do something, but there is always one bad pass or one bad dribble or a defender blocks their pass. Everything is going bad for them. 67 minutes: Sterling almost gets to a ball that was kicked over the top of Evertons defense, but it is just too far away and goes to Howard. Everton gets the ball and takes it up the field. They are playing the possession and trying to patiently work the ball into the attacking area. McCarthy manages to get a shot but Minolet makes a save and it goes out for a corner. The corner comes to nothing except a Liverpool counter-attack. It is three on two. Suarez passes to Sturridge who tries to cut past the defender. He loses control and has to regain control. He dribbles down the side with the dfender all over him and he shoots and it misses badly. 72 minutes: the action has picke up a little. Liverpool want to rub the win in the face of their rival, and Everton wants to salvage some dignity from this game. The teams have been polar opposites in their play today. Liverpool gets in the box of Everton. Coutinho crosses to Sterling who shanks on the volley. 77 minutes: Liverpool gets a goal kick after Everton almost gets a goal. The ball was crossed in on the ground and it was just too far for the Everton striker. Evertin still pushing forward, moves the ball to the left side where they win a throw in. they retain possession but that comes to nothing. Liverpool trying to score again pushes forward. They lose the bll out of bounds for a goal kick. One good thing about this match is effort both teams are putting forth even though it is a blowout. If Everton had been passing better and played they might not be down so bad. 82 minutes: Everton tries to get a cross in but the cross is blocked out for a corner. The corner comes to nothing. Liverpool gets down field but hey lose the ball out for an Everton throw. Everton is trying to push up for a late goal. Once again, another bad pass ruins the attack. Fans are leaving the stadium. 86 minutes: Everton still tries to score. They push up looking for something, trying to not be shut out by their rival. Nothing comes out of the attack.

90 minutes: 3 minutes of stoppage time. Update on the Lukaku injury, ligament damage in his ankle. His absence in the game is a huge impact. He is the leading scorer for Everton so not having him costs Everton some goal threat. Liverpool gets a late corner. They dont push many forward as they are winning. Both teams have given up and they await the final whistle. Game ends. 4-0 Liverpool. Stats Liverpool Everton

20 Shots 19 11 Fouls 13 5 Corner Kicks 8 39% possession 61%

Interview with Austin Vandepoll at 5:41-5:55

2/5/2014

I have grown up with Austin my whole life. We have grown up playing soccer together mostly on the same team. We both have a passion for the game. The only problem is he is a Manchester United fan and I am a Chelsea fan. 1. What is your favorite team and why? My favorite team is Manchester United. My dads favorite player was ryan Giggs, and then Wayne Rooney starting doing really good and I bandwaggoned. Van Persie joined the team and he is my favorite player and he is Dutch. ( Austin is half Dutch)

2. What are your three favorite players and why? My three favorite players are Robin Van Persie, Wayne Rooney, and Ryan Giggs. Wayne Rooney scored a lot of goals and he was like the play maker I guess. Giggs was very loyal to the team because my dad has alwazys talked higly of him and he is a play maker. Van Persie is dutch and I am dutch and he is like the greatest playerin the world.

3. How can they change tactics to make themselves better? Um they can get a new coach cause their current coach is terrible. On the bright side their team is just behind and they just need a new coach.

4. Why are you a fan of the Barclays and how does it draw you in better than oter leagues? Well, I know more of the players because I watched them longer and theyre in England and I can understand the commentary better My favorite players are in that league and I like their polayering style. 5. How do you think the league could be better or make the games more exciting Gosh I dont know. I am plenty excited by it, but I wish the games wouldn't end in draws so you dont watch a 90 minute game and feel like it was a waste.