Sports: Football/Soccer: Scotland's Celtic win 35th Scottish Cup vs. Motherwell

BBC News Sport Football (soccer) May22,2k11


Motherwell 0-3 Celtic 

By Martin Conaghan

Celtic claimed their 35th Scottish Cup with a comfortable victory against Motherwell at a rain-soaked Hampden.

Ki Sung-Yeung struck from distance in the 32nd minute for a sensational opener, then Gavin Gunning shook the Celtic crossbar moments later.

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Sports: Football/Soccer: England's Manchester United wins over Blackpool

byBBC Sports (May22,2k11)

Respect for the writer, Phil McNulty, one of the best in sports writing in the English-speaking language, the "Chief football writer at Old Traffor".

Old Trafford, I learned thru Google, is the name of a township within the Greater Manchester Area, where I presume the ManchUs have their stadium and headquarters.  Anyway, the brilliant McNulty has an unsigned photo to enhance his page, a photo of such brilliant composition, precisely the ball is centered in the painterly sense, with the goalie an off-weighing figure juxtaposed radiatingly to two leading figures, the goalie's figure being less distinct becawz it's chunked out of the zone of the main force.

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