We Will Pull Off Great Escape Says Rafa; We Need A Miracle Now Says Rafa; Rafa Believes In Miracles, Apparently
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It's FA Cup or nothing now.
There is something deeply satisfying about injury time reversals, it is the extremities of emotions in a short time space.
And before anybody starts bemoaning the 'quality' that the Champions League is losing with the exit of Liverpool, the most fouliest teams in the midweek matches were Liverpool and FC Zurich with 24 apiece.
Still, it is good to see Rafa sticking to the FACTS as ever, that would be Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and Sunderland.
What Is A Great Penalty, When It Is At Home?
Richard Keys said it and I heard it in the pub the other night - "And Ronaldinho scored a great penalty."
Did he take a Bob Willis-length run up before diving head first and flicking the ball into the top corner via a vicious whiplash with a loose dreadlock?
Or did he just hammer the ball into the goal from 12 yards?
What Is Our Great Leader Up To? Not Much!
It would be nice to think that when Our Great Leader is lying low, that he is taking it really horizontally somewhere, recharging the ol' batteries, thinking of new ways to refer to excessive debt and criminal ownership in glowing terms.
We would have to hope that Scudamore was indeed on a beach somewhere when he made the following announcement to the PR industry: "Scottish football is Scottish football. For a traditionalist like me, that's where the Old Firm should play."
Wowowowoooooo...
"... a traditionalist?"
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Who was it that pushed Scottish football over the edge, anyway?
Sky.
It matters more when there's money on it.
Public Schoolboys Attempt To Sound Human, Repeated Failure Results In Project Being Scapped
Those establishment sorts at Betfair, when not sniggering openly about the amount of commission that they charge their dutiful clients, don't really get the football thing.
The recent advertising campaign is proof.
The PR people are trying to market the "Fan versus Fan" message and the home page consequently offered a banner highlighting the major betting event of the day...
"We did the double on you last year" versus "What did you win? Champions, champions..." - Liverpool v Man Utd.
"We'll play our kids and we'll knock you out" versus "Now to start our season after United win" - Arsenal v Liverpool.
"Winning last week will kickstart our season" versus "These are the games we have to win" - Birmingham v Man City.
Thankfully the clipped accents have dropped the campaign for the Champions League Qualifiers.
Although we would have to ask why?
"Red Army! Red Army!" versus "Tak zyt' nielzia*" - Man Utd v CSKA Moscow [* "one cannot live like this."]
And, anyway, we don't speak like that, if I might very very briefly represent everyone north of Watford Gap.
"Oy! Scouser!! Are you on remand?" versus "Munich! Munich!"
Because that is how we all speak...
...all the time.
Accrington Stanley Avoid A Winding Up Order, And Good For Them Too; It Will Allow Them To Undertake A Little More Insider Betting Before Stanley Are Eventually Cremated
Southend United have until Friday to pay £2.135 million.
Otherwise, another one bites the dust, or at least starts the journey that results in dust eventually being taken in by the mouthful.
Luton, Rotherham, Stockport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Leeds, Chester City, Bradford City, Accrington Stanley and not forgetting Portsmouth, Hull City, West Ham United, Newcastle United etc etc...
And anyway...
What is a winding up order?
And who gives them out?
This sounds like my sort of job...
Proper Football #275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPW2jC_URY
Dragan Stojkovic showing that he still has the class...
"What Shall We Do Today, Dad?" "Why Don't We Go To The Sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium To Watch The Lads?!"
Some people do not have the decency to die soon enough - Mike Ashley is one such man.
There are three types of capitalism - shareholder, stakeholder and Essex capitalism.
By some distance, the latter is the worst, and you don't have to come from Essex as vast swathes of Cheshire will testify.
The only value he sees in brands and products is their financial value.
Nothing else matters.
A better name for the stadium?
The Fraudulent Fat Fucker's Footie Ground@St James' Park?
Let's Talk Rubbish With Local Politics For Local People
The odious leader of Leeds City Council, in his hilarious justification for creating the binmen's strike in the city, came up with a Scudamorism all of his own design: "We used outside consultants to tell us what we think is involved."
As you had evidently already determined the outcome, sir, we think that you are robbing the public purse.
Meanwhile, in suburbia, the Manchester Evening News tells us that there is "rebellion against the new bins" which conjures up all sorts of sci-fi and late capitalist visions of trauma and strife.
If you are going to rebel, good people of albion, then take on the environmental bins rather than the system.
How revolting is that?
Exactly?
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