assortments today - mid-Nov

1.       Liverpool still in top form

It was an impressive 2-0 away win against Bolton on Saturday, particularly first half. Alonso again central in maintaining possession and spreading play, wide players creating havoc and Kuyt finishing impressively. Having said that, a few weaknesses remain – Keane isn’t a fully dependable finisher in the Owen mould needing a few chances to put one away, once opposition presses us, taking a cue from what we do to them, no doubt, we have problems ala last 20mins at league match against Spurs, without Skrtle central defence looks a bit wobbly under pressure. But having ridden the storm, once the redmen reasserted their superiority, it was again pretty impressive.

 

Short term looks good – over the full season I still have Chelski as the overwhelming favourites. A 100% 7 straight away wins with big wins all over so far shows how they can do a number over lesser opposition, even of freak results at Burnley or Roma happen, the former with a couple of second-stringers and after what was reportedly total domination of the match. If they win a vast majority of games over smaller sides, and drop points against big 4, points-wise they will still win hands down. And look at that defence – only 4 conceded in 13 games, 2 against LFC and MU combined. Heck, they’d need a whole lot of stopping. My hope is for LFC to sustain a strong challenge to the wire, and push even harder next year – tho again there are no guarantees.

 

2.       What to do next?

Wouldn’t it be nice if I have a clear plan in the next 4 years that enables me to have a net worth of RM20m, which allows me to spend on building a nice school, modeled after Concord with a progressive Islamic agenda, have the trappings of life for my mum, my wife, my children, in-laws, relatives and friends – able to use up that resource to fund priority projects for the muslim community locally, who would then create network effects worldwide. I can enjoy studying the Deen, tafseer and perhaps giving a talk or two to others, and once in a while take my children go up Malaysian mountains, and maybe even learn to ride a bike.

 

Everything starts with a dream. Make it happen.