A blazing start
“This is not real football; this is PlayStation!” an elated Carlo Ancelotti said after watching his side in another emphatic victory over Wigan at the DW Stadium.
On the second weekend of action in the English Premier League (EPL), Chelsea scored six goals for the second successive game and thoroughly thumped their opponents. Two goals from Nicolas Anelka and Saloman Kalou sandwiched in between goals from Florent Malouda and Yossi Benayoun’s first for Chelsea wrapped up a comprehensive performance by the Blues.
The defending champions made a blistering start to the new Premier League season by scoring 12 goals in their first two matches – identical 6-0 scorelines – and the Italian has been hugely satisfied with his side’s start.
“We have started well this season, scoring a lot of goals, playing good football,” Ancelotti said.
Reality check
A week later, Chelsea continued their excellent start to the season but in a somewhat subdued performance as they beat Stoke City 2-0 at Stamford Bridge. And though they maintain their record as the only side in the Premier League with a 100 percent record, Ancelotti knows that sooner or later, it will come to an end.
“It is impossible to think we have to score six goals in a game all the time because this is not real football, this is PlayStation football,” he said.
The EPL and PlayStation
Established in 1992, the EPL comprises 20 clubs, and superseded the first division of the Football League as the top level of football in England. Created to maximize the economic potential of English football, the new league improved the comfort and safety of stadiums, signed lucrative broadcast and sponsorship deals, and began attracting many of the world’s top players and managers.
But we know what PlayStation is.
It is video game, one of a new generation of 32-bit consoles released in 1994 by Sony Computer Entertainment. Beginning as the PS One, the PlayStation used compact discs (CDs), heralding the video game industry’s move away from cartridges. Sony dominated the console market after 1995, selling more than 90 million PlayStations worldwide by 2002, while the PlayStation 2, released in 2000, continued the dominance.
In 2006 Sony introduced PlayStation 3 with the ability to play Blu-ray discs that have five times the memory storage of a DVD. The high-end version of PlayStation 3 also featured built-in Wi-Fi and a 60-gigabyte hard drive.
However, we know that PlayStation offers nothing but imaginary characters. Mr Ancelotti knows that the EPL is composed of real people and not PlayStation “people.”
