Saturday mornings in Singapore aren’t the best moments to prepare for the weekend’s game; sans 5 Live, sans morning paper peruse. Heck, match days and match previews are perverted simply by being written from the other side of the world.
Match days no longer exist here in the virtual world. In its stead is an extended, [...]
Entries from February 2006
February 27, 2006
Wigan, Cardiff
February 27, 2006
Is Ricardo Scimeca a good “pro”?
There are pros and cons to everything.
Chris Eagles played another solid 90 minutes for the Hornets over the weekend as Watford squeaked past Cardiff with a last minute goal. The defeat hampered Cardiff’s chances of reaching the play-offs.
A peculiar thing happened after the game. The BBC reports that Scimeca apologises for back-pass:
I went straight in [...]
February 22, 2006
Boom Boom
With no games this mid-week thanks to one dubious tactic (4-5-1), 2 sendings-off and 3 goals (2 bungled in, and the other a deflected Giggs free kick) in 6 Champions League matches, we focus on the media.
James Richardson’s column in The Guardian is always a good read (link). His latest column is Italians worried by [...]
February 19, 2006
Smithy
A terrible day for Alan Smith yesterday.
Part of Sir Alex’s post-match interview:
He has broken his leg and dislocatred his ankle joint. It’s a bad one. It looks a very long term one. It’s one of the worst I’ve seen. He’s such a brave lad and I’m sure he will be back
Ruud van Nistelrooy approached his [...]
February 17, 2006
Pascal
You wonder how Mr. and Mrs. Cygan decided on their child’s name all those years ago. Blaise Pascal, after all, was one of France’s foremost thinkers of the 17th century, a true cultural and intellectual icon. Arsenal’s Pascal, alas, does not live up to the genius of mathematics, although his status as comic genius appears [...]
February 15, 2006
The Big Match
Last night’s big match ended Manchester United Reserves 4, Birmingham City Reserves 0. Rossi grabbed another hat-trick, his third of the season.
In other news, the race for second place in the Premiership looks set to be between Manchester United and Liverpool as the latter narrowly stole the points defeated Arsene’s Gooners last night. It seems [...]
February 14, 2006
player of the year
My player of the season vote always goes to Paul Scholes, even last year when he suffered playing in the 4-5-1 formation. This year saw a marked improvement in form once United ditched Carlos reverted to a more attacking, traditional 4-4-2 formation – unfortunately, only after we went out of the Champions League. Cruelly, his [...]
February 13, 2006
Best opening to a match report
Carlsberg don’t do a match-day experience for Middlesbrough supporters, but if they did it would probably be something like this.
That’s how Jason Mellor began his piece in The Independent the Monday morning after The Special One was given a much needed kick up his Arsene.
February 13, 2006
Eric Cantona
when asked who he would pay to watch replied:
Before I answer, I must say for who I would never pay a ticket for… Paolo Di Canio. He is not a great player and is not a great man.
Eric 1, di Canio 0.
For those of you who missed it, di Canio gave a fascist salute to [...]
February 12, 2006
more gossip
This from the Sunday Mirror:
“MANCHESTER UNITED are on the verge of landing Argentina hardman Aldo Duscher in a £7m deal”.
A little further down:
“United have also made an enquiry for another Argentine – Inter Milan’s Esteban Cambiasso”.
All I have to say is: Argentinians (Veron, Heinze) – good; Brazilians (Kleberson) – bad.
Mind you, this is the same [...]
