Hello and welcome to part three of my weekly blog called Burrow's Babblings, (it's definitely starting to catch on).
This week I'll be reviewing all of the sporting action again from the week gone by, I'll be taking a look at another Premier League club in Liverpool and exploring their start to the season and the success 'mentality monster' Jurgen Klopp has brought to the club.
To add to that we'll have the round-up from Chepstow, a look back at the grand final, and be telling you how Fylde got on at the weekend so, are you sitting comfortably? I hope so, because let's begin.
Klopp and his crew
With no Premier League football taking part last week and International football taking centre stage, it gives me a chance to focus the football side of this blog around another one of those top division sides, with this week Liverpool being the centre of attention.
Jurgen Klopp came into the club in 2015, just after Brendan Rodgers had almost led the team to their first Premiership title since 1990, and he had instant success, reaching a Europa League final and a League Cup final in his first season in charge.
The squad he had inherited that season wasn't exactly the best, but he saw potential in some of the players, and in years to come they were pivotal to the team's success.
Jordan Henderson was a born leader for the side, and Klopp has brought out the best of him, but it wasn't like the club won trophies straight away though.
Champions League final defeat in 2018 to Real Madrid brought more heartbreak to the team, but you could see the club wasn't far away, and with the colossal Virgil Van Dijk being brought into the defence alongside other signings, it was a matter of when not if they were going to win something.
They didn't have to wait long either, as the following season Klopp won Liverpool their sixth Champions League trophy, with a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the final.
His man managing style is excellent, and you can see the passion he has for the club, and he has also created one of the most dangerous front three's in Europe with Salah, Mane and Firmino.
One thing was still evading them, the Premier League trophy.
That drought was soon ended as well though, and they won it in the 2019/2020 season with such a well rounded performance all year round.
Some people envy Klopp, some people like him, but one thing's for sure, what he has done at Liverpool will always go down in history because everything about his time at the club has been nothing short of exciting and breath-taking.
They have started in their usual form this season, and it looks as though the machine is still in full working order, so the question is can they win it again? We can only wait and see...
Under starters orders
The horse racing part of this blog this week is going to be the same as always, with the added bonus in for reviewing Chepstow and picking out the smart types and one to watch.
Friday started how I thought it would start, Knappers Hill winning and Pikar staying on strongly and definitely being better for the run, making him one to watch next time.
Race two was won by the Bass and Bailey combo with Does He Know, the favourite Threeunderthrufive not finding much in the finish, before Some Chaos won the Veteran's chase with a strong staying performance.
Camprond bounced back from his dissapointing defeat at Stratford last time out to land the Persian War Grade 2, Paso Doble making a mistake at a crucial time in the race at three out, before Nicky Henderson took the big handicap with Progressive.
Nina the Terrier then won the sixth with a well timed ride from Tom Bellamy allowing the horse to coast home, Runwiththetide shaping for the Skeltons like he needed the run, and the last race of the day was taken by the 28/1 shot On Call for the Grace Harris stable.
Saturday was an even bigger day of action, and we started again with another Nicholls winner, when Magistrato galloped Rocky Man into submission up the home straight to win by an impressive 12 lengths, pop that one down in the notebook that's for sure, in fact, put the front two down because even the 2nd horse was still 10 lengths clear of the 3rd horse.
Masters Legacy won the second with a superb ride for Tom O'Brien, Chirico Vallis took the third, before Tea Clipper put in a smart round of jumping to land the class one Novices' Chase over Fidelio Vallis.
The Silver Trophy was taken by the O'Brien/Hobbs partnership with Orbys Light, making it a double on the day for them, before Paint the Dream wrapped up the Handicap Chase in the hands of Connor Brace to give his dad who's the owner of the horse another winner.
Timeforatune narrowly won the bumper from Great Heart'jac, two more for the notebook once they start hurdling, before Bravemansgame lived up to his hype on Sunday afternoon, with a brilliant round of jumping around Newton Abbot to send out warning signs to the Novice Chase division.
Overall though, a great weekend of racing, and it was nice to finally get that opener out the road so now we can tackle some of the more exciting meetings coming up before Christmas.
Fylde get back to winning ways
Fylde bounced back from their away defeat at Rotherham to wrap up another win, and keep their unbeaten home league record going as well.
The first 40 minutes was far from their best, but a much improved second-half allowed for them to gain full control, and run out comfortable 48-18 winners in the end.
Tom Carleton was on fire as usual, and with a trip to table toppers Sedgley this weekend, they'll be hoping they can put in a much better first 40 to give them a chance of beating a side who are unbeaten so far in the league.
It'll be an interesting match for sure, so make sure you keep an eye out on their twitter feed which is being excellently ran by player Connor Wilkinson on matchdays at the minute so, you don't want to miss that!
Saints make it three in a row
My final bit of the blog this week is on the grand final, and how St Helens managed to make it three grand final wins in a row.
You could see why both these teams were here for with a brilliant 80 minutes of rugby, and it just shows how good of a side Catalans are, because not at any point did it look like the occasion was getting to them.
It couldn't have been a better advert for the game, and it shows that expansion definitely does work, because Toulouse wrapped up their place in Super League the next day with a win over Featherstone in the Million Pound game.
Saints' success didn't stop their either, their women's team won their grand final against Leeds and it meant they had won the treble, Challenge Cup, league leaders shield and the grand final.
What it shows is that the potential and talent is there for the sport, people just have to sit down and watch it more, because it can be breath-taking at times.
That's all for this blog piece again though, I'll catch you in it next week where the Premier League round-up will be back but we'll obviously lose the rugby league one so, I think we might have to fill that gap with something, but you'll have to wait and see!
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