Good evening.
Curious ain’t the half of it. Only Professor Stephen Hawking and Margaret Thatcher pairinbg up on Strictly Come Dancing could have possibly dropped more points than the Premiership ‘big boys’ did today.
Fulham haven’t been playing convincing at all this season yet this lot are suddenly overachieving footballing warriors who can waltz into Second Hand Fridge and nick a point before tea time.
Manchester City up until this morning were a handing out jolly good hidings like Mario Balotelli was handing out twenty pound notes. Yet West Brom, possibly one of the dullest football teams ever devised by man – managed to successfully muffle them.
Liverpool have admittedly been carrying Andy Carroll about like a damp sack of cement in human form all season. But Blackburn are so godawful even they have fewer points/reasons to continue trading than Bolton Wanderers. Yet they too audaciously swooped into Afield and grab a point.
Meanwhile, the mighty Tottingham are still third and still with that increasingly valuable game in hand. Wow. And our next three fixtures in apple pie order are Norwich(A), Swansea (A) and West Brom (H).
To try and construct some comparative analysis between our next games and other team’s next three would be not just tricky but actually insane. However what we do know is that football form is self propelling beast. Just ask Owen Coyle.
If we can add another 9 points to ‘the haul’ so far – which we really ought to – then the momentum should keep us securely in the top four for a good while yet.
Happy Christmas so far, anyway.
In no particular order “words”, “last”, and “famous” spring to a cynically grizzled mind.
The filling of the Lennon shaped hole holds the answer.
I’ve been thinking about that. One solution would be to play Parker on the right of midfield which would allow Walker to attack more.
Big problem today could be at the back with Sir William and Bassong the only fit Central Defenders unless Raging makes a lightening recovery.
Expectancy is one thing, Complacency is another. We should expect to win our next 5 league games, if we are prepared properly,play from the first whistle to the last and believe we are winners.
However if we turn up like at Stoke and don`t start until the 46th min, that`s complacent, griping afterwards about bad reffing and Stokes tactics just masks our no-show in the first half.
Refs of course do not want to be seen to favour Top 4 Teams (except Man Utd,as per yesterdays penalty) this creates reverse bias and the players must be aware of this. If a situation occurs in our favour and the ref is 100% sure he will give it, but 95% he won`t.
However if the situation was reversed he would give the benefit of the doubt to the opposition.
We must not get easy yellows, giving refs the excuse to show their “Non-Bias” towards top top teams.
On that matter, we are currently leading the Fair Play League Table, and the impression I have is that we are not conceding too many silly Yellows.
Ade’s on 3, and PNB is on 4, so I think it likely we will lose both of them at some time before long. Let’s hope that Ade’s is when we are scheduled to play Shitty.
You’re correct, Mysterious Stranger, we had a poor showing against the two Manchesters right off, but then none of the other top clubs has really excelled against them this year. Look at the licking the Arse got, and Citeh shoved it in the face of the Manure… I still believe that in half a dozen years, when our new facilities are humming, our average attendance is 60,000 plus, our wage structure adjusted accordingly, and this blog is still cruising along [eh? HH], our chatter will be about the club’s positives because that will be the reality. In six years we could have established ourselves as the equivalent of Barcelona, permanently in orbit at or near the top of the PL.