A steaming pile of Hotspur #
Ian Symes - September 17, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Oh hai. Yeah, we sort of missed the boat with the Liverpool match report. In short: the best opportunity we’ve had of beating them for ages, sod’s law that our firepower goes missing just as our defence starts to gel, but we’d have been happy with a draw before the game.
Moving on to the Spurs match, this was our finest performance of the season by far. OK, Spurs were hilariously shit (and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team), but we’ve got to take the credit for an excellent team performance. Gareth Barry is no doubt back to his best, and the likes of Shorey, L. Young and Friedel are most definitely big parts of the team after that game. In the end, the 2-1 scoreline is a bit of a disappointment, considering we could have had four before half-time, but after last season’s corresponding fixture, I’ll take that. And being fourth in the league? I’ll take that too.
The only real downside was John Carew Carew picking up a knock, especially considering the attack is the only area of the pitch where we don’t have adequate cover. And I think Marlon Harewood’s miss late on against Spurs proves that he doesn’t count as “adequate cover”. Hopefully, he’ll only miss the Litex Lovech game - Spurs kicked off a ludicrous run of 7 games in 21 days, and we can’t go through that many games without our talisman.
Speaking of the Litex Lovech game, how annoying that the kick-off is at 3:20 on a Thursday afternoon? Stupid Bulgarians.
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My Two Brads #
Ian Symes - August 1, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
Young American keeper Brad Guzan was today granted his work permit, and joins fellow American keeper Brad Friedel to become our fourth signing of the summer.
I don’t actually have much to say about this. I just wanted to use the headline.
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It’s Your Round-Up, My Lord - 27/07/08 #
Ian Symes - July 27, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
It’s been a long time. There’s been some actual news. We’ve been lazy. So here’s the first of a hopefully-not-too-regular feature, It’s Your Round-Up, My Lord. We’ve got Intertoto Cup action to look back on, a cup draw to look forward to, some signings to cheer us up and an injury to depress us. Oh, and that Gareth Barry chap.