Stumbled across this earlier. It was before my time, but given the stature of the player and the fact it was a World Cup qualifier at Highfield Road I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. Were there many other events like this from our past?
One of the weirdest things to me was when the US commentors passed over to their 'rules analyst' to dissect the 5 minutes added on time. I appreciate US audiences are probably less clued up on association football, but still found it rather odd.
Robins and Viveash are our Clough and Taylor. If by some miracle we make the cup final, then it pretty much nails on their legendary status at the club. What a duo.
I somehow managed to stay awake to watch the game, and Palmer visibly sighed with relief when he realised he'd have been offside. It was a stinker of a miss, one of the worst I've seen in a long time. Have to say though, I'm thrilled we had 3 players on the field in an international semi-final...
It has nothing to do with liking him or not. It's not like I'm going to marry him. He had no success in club football, and as of yet he's had no success in international football. The best thing he's done is instill some standards and pride in wearing the shirt, which is great to see, but hardly...
Southgate was poor at Middlesborough, and got the England job by default because Big Sam was indiscreet and they needed a stop-gap. In both of his 'successful' tournaments we got very favourable runs to the the latter stages, and I can't recall a game that we won where we'd have traditionally...
Agree with the Moyes comment. He's on a hiding to nothing if he goes there, but he's also a very ordinary manager being pulled along by a few good international players. I think we do well as a country despite him, not because of him.
I don't quite get the Torp love-in on here. He's clearly a decent player, but I'm not sure he's proved himself to be any better than Sheaf and Eccles so far. I suspect the argument will be that Torp is the more progressive player, but I'm not convinced he's actually better.
Based on minutes per goal, we have one hell of a goalscoring team. Pretty impressive all told:
Wright - better than 1 goal every 2 games
Simms - better than 1 goal every 2 games
O'Hare - better than 1 goal every 2 games
Godden - better than 1 goal every 3 games
Tatsu - better than 1 goal every...
I like Gary O'Neill, but this quote stinks of sour grapes:
"Coventry were able to capitalise on the fact they played us on a day when we were miles below our best with loads of players missing, and we weren’t able to get it done"
What an utterly pathetic interpretation of what I said. I framed it exactly how I meant it. It was wrong, it rightly got press attention, but it was a distraction from football. If you think that is racist then you've got a fucking screw loose.