Thursday, August 16, 2007
Gahhhhh
I won with Score! and that was the saddest, most frustrating money I've ever won. Can't believe I woke up early for the same stuff I saw over the weekend.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Don't park the bus there ...
Somebody actually used the words 'splendid rearguard action', and some pundits have lauded their display. I, quite simply, call it anti-football.
When you have a ten-man defence, and, more importantly, NO attacking ambition at all, you are saying that: You have no intention of winning the game. I don't know, isn't competition the cornerstone of sport? How about that, giving up all chances of winning before the game even begins.
Of course, some people will quote statistics, begging to differ. I will offer them, in return, a splendid digit of my own. Of couse, brandishing your middle finger isn't the best way to argue, but it is the quickest way to dismiss people who don't know what they're talking about. With the least energy expended.
Of course, some people will insist that they just defended really well! But of course those people have also missed the point, and really shouldn't open their mouths.
Well, I guess you have to take it as a sort of perverse compliment. You know, I can't really handle this team, I think they're gonna steamroller us if we played a real, two-sided, balanced game of football with them. So why don't we just put our backs to the wall so they don't poke our backsides. Like how Liverpool 'defeated' Barcelona en route to their Uefa Cup. (The year of their 'treble').
If I sound bitter that my team failed to win on the first day, then you are right! But everybody needs a good rant now and then.
Right?
Well Reading face Chelsea next. And should they adopt, shall we say, a more cavalier, less arse-to-the-wall style of play and Chelsea win in the process, wouldn't that be like the whole Leeds United-Kevin Keegan-Alex Ferguson thing all over again? Hope Jose does not break down as badly, though.
- "When you say things like that about a man like Stuart Pearce, and when you say things like that about a club like Leeds United (... ...) tell you what, I'd luv it if we beat them! LUV IT!"
