You know when you’ve arrived.
Not when you emerge from your chaffeured motor and a kindly man in livery takes your decanter from you and says softly, ‘The girls are in the American bar for you, sir…’ No. It’s when you have the radio on after the results on a Saturday teatime and the voice says,’Next week they have Everton, but after that, they face a tough run against Spurs, Arsenal and Manchester United.’
We are – or at least very certainly on the brink of being – one of those sides you don’t fancy playing.
This is historic. Not just just because some johnny on the radiogram said it, because it’s actually ringing true and as a supporter I’ve only felt like this once before and that was in the early 80’s.
The game was good. By this I mean that at half time, I genuinely felt we’d given a good account of ourselves. Perhaps having recently sat through so many Horror Movies watching us as the slashed up and slain victim come back to life and vanquish the Killer Zombie, I was almost quietly confident we weren’t done quite yet.
The injuries are becoming a chore. But then who wouldn’t want Christmas off? It’s daft to go away even with the deals. You can’t beat being indoors, fire on whilst slowly overdosing on posh mince pies being ploughed into brandy cream. Running around in the cold with nothing to protect you from Jack Frost but a £1.99 pair of mittens from the Megastore? No ta, mush.
Liverpool are getting better. They haven’t recovered, definitely still trying to shake it off, whatever it was that they caught. 3-0 against East London’s finest was a false remission alright. Torres in particular ha that look about him that Berbatov had when he first went to Yanited. The eyes appear closer set, the chest thinner and lots of brief glimpses over the shoulder seems to be the body language of the down at heel sniper.
And so to the ratings. I know you want ’em.
Gomes – 6 Alright, unconvinced about some of his passing, mind.
Hutton – 6 Another alright. Loved his penalty dive. Proper Torville & Dean stuff.
Gallas – 8 By jove I think he’s got it!
Kaboul – 7 Can someone spin round the pubs and get King ready? Cheers.
A&E – 6 A real A&E performance. Wish he’d just be consistently good.
Azza Blud – 7 Is this a wing heeled wonder I see before me? Improving.
Palacios – 4 (Which includes 3 points for putting his shirt on the right way round)
Modders – 8 MOTM but lots of errant passes, particularly early on.
Bale – 7.68 On the end of some abysmal ‘tackles’, we seem to getting kicked by everyone.
3MP – 6.82 Won lots of headers. Yet to win my heart.
VdV – Huge loss.
Defoe – 0 (Which includes a 5 point deduction for seriously winding me up on the day of rest)
Bassong – 7.58 Steeped in and caught the eye. Good stuff.
Steeped vb
To step in, but with an air of sneakiness.
‘He steeped into the kitchen, filled his pockets with sausage rolls and steeped out again without being spotted.’
Ahh ha ha. You really steeped in with that one you sneaky boy! I intend to do a lot of steeping this week. Where were those sausage rolls again?
They is now merely cwumbs :shifty:
Modderation Man and Master Azzabrow stepped up as the refuse-to-lose players yesterday. It’s becoming contagious, and it’s the result of Rafa bringing a new feeling of confidence to the team. First it infected Bale and Billy G., and now Luka and Lennon have contracted a raging case as well. The Obi-Wan mind trick that Luka used on Skrtel to orchestrate the own goal was priceless. The ‘Poo played better than expected, and they brought out the grit that’s been missing in our team. Because we stayed on our feet while defending, they got five cards and we had none. We could run at them at will and created many good chances in the 2nd half. We were unlucky not to have scored more, but in the end the job was done. I thought that Wilson didn’t deserve the boos yesterday, but the ironic cheers were fair game.
Now that’s the sort of prose we’re after Harry. Yesterday was a proper challenge, especially at the 45. And how we delivered.
The marks are right on as well. Wilson has dropped off so far,, it’s hard to watch. And plenty of us were singing to him after he 1 or 2 of the 36k had a word with him. That’s how it should be while he has the shirt on. But it’s time,, with what we’re up to,, to pass it on.
Modric does doze off.. but he’s the most intelligent guy we have. The Octo pulled off 2 world-class saves but if we could sort his distribution AND stop giving the ball away.. ’11 might be one for the kids.
Yeah N7. IT ENDS IN ONE.
COYS
Christ, Barca over Real 5-0. We defo need to win our group so our meeting with them comes later in the competition. When we’ll stuff them after spotting them 3 :daumen:
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