It was quite a good game last night – ok, we didn’t smash Fenerbahce – but it was nice to see a competitive match... well – 70 minutes of competition before the team ran out of puff and settled on a point (much to Wenger’s disapproval). They had a charmed goal last night and I have to say that they defended well and their keeper had a great game. Robin van Persie had a great game too... although he didn’t score – he did everything but.
Although, in the last 20 minutes I felt the game was smothered by the ref somewhat and we missed out on a couple of goal scoring opportunities because of it, would it have made a difference?
Probably not.
I opted for club level in the end as the view is better and the beer available and free. Tamzin Outhwaite sat behind me with Tom Ellis (I think), they have been at every game that I’ve sat up there (and there have been some obscure ones) - they are among the few that make any noise, so I guess that they are ok for *celebrities*. Oh - It was her birthday apparently. Another ‘face’ that is always there is Dara O'Briain – you should see him inhale a pie at half time – 3 bites and the fecker is gone... being Irish - I wonder why he supports Arsenal? I'm not saying that there are no Irish gooners - but its rare (we have more Malaysian and Nigerian gooners than Scottish or Irish) as the is no sectarian history with the club... perhaps that, in itself, is reason enough - or maybe it's just his local team.
*UPDATE*
In a pub conversation; dhjackal (resident Irishman) informs me that 'there are loads' of Irish gooners due to the days of Brady, O'Leary and Stapleton... but 'any fecker wid any sense followed United'.
*END UPDATE*
While I was watching last night; I kept thinking that Roberto Carlos looked fat and past it... I checked his stats in the programme and found out he was actually 1 day younger than me – man; that hurt!
The only negatives last night I could find were that Bendtner and Nasri were having very bad games – it looked like they were stoned half the time or had been out on a massive bender the night before – I don’t think they have got any excuses for not being sharp especially considering the game we have on Saturday.
So all in all last night was frustrating and ultimately a little disappointing but for a laugh click here:
http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/spurs08/detail.php?productid=ST39060&proddesc=Arsenal+4+-+4+Spurs
Or here:
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/grabapieceofderbyhistory041108.html
Sad fuckers… apparently they need the money to buy some new headphones or something. I’m tempted to go for the shirt and get Harry to sign it in a creative manner.
“Tottenham are shit” – Harry Redknapp
If the price was right - I bet he would do it too!
*WENGER WATCH*
Arsene Wenger has come out and stated the obvious i.e. the refs are bent:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/7712255.stm
Although this story was quickly smothered by the manager of Shitkicker FC, Tony Pulis, stating that he was really worried that his nice bunch of brave and plucky lads might get ‘unfair treatment’ because of the nasty Mr Wenger putting a hex on them...
The man is taking the piss:
“People in general can be swayed if they're not watching you play and what you are trying to achieve. They read the papers and unfortunately a lot of people believe what they read. Sometimes the truth is a long, long way away from what people are actually saying.”
One wonders what he sees when he looks in the mirror...
Pulis, you should have laid off Walcott – it will come back to haunt you as now Delap (your 1 trick pony) can be red carded at will with the commentators smoothing over any cracks in the decision with the opiate words:
“the man who [intentionally] injured Theo Walcott”
To the sage nodding of the watching populous... whether it be fair or, indeed, foul. Get used to this chant:
“What’s that coming over the hill? It’s relegation! It’s relegation!”
Oh and while you are doing that; check your match schedule boys and have a look at just who will be sending you down and pounding the final nail in your coffin in the final 'nail biting', 'to the wire' game of the season.
...Hmmm...
Of course this story was then smothered by the bigger story of Alex Ferguson being charged for pointing out to Mike Dean that he is in fact a bell end... one has to wonder at the timing of this. A recent conversation in a ASI discussion thread got me thinking:
ASI_EuroGooner wrote 3 hours ago
"I think arsenal are at their best when people write them off, when they're not expected to win or do well or whatever.Cause then they play without pressure as everyone expects them to lose anyways...it happened last season, even before the season started, we were written off, we all know how that went 4 pts off the leaders and robbed in the champions league. It happened when we played AC milan, people thought kaka,gattuso etc. etc. would give our young guns a lesson in football...of course that didn't happen either. what I'm trying to say here is we play well when we have no weight of expectation on our backs so go ahead...write off THE ARSENAL cause that's how they like it best.but don't be surprised if we pull of an upset against the mancs and make the likes of rooney, berbatov, ronaldo, giggs etc."
DogFace replied 3 hours ago
"More to the point - we are allowed to play well when the weight of gambling liquidity isn't on our backs...
Think about it."
So... with SAF safely bound and gagged and Arsenal written off in the media as 'injury ridden' and 'spineless' – I wonder where the money is going this w/e?
I’ll be watching the back pages very carefully over the next few days...
...I suggest you do the same.
And, as if by magic... as I was typing, look what just appeared:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7713259.stm
C'mon yous reds!
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
The game at the weekend pretty much went according to plan, although Reading were allowed to go in heavy on the challenge I saw this as just a personal bias from the Ref rather than anything more sinister - there wasn’t too much against us other than that in terms of key decisions, so pretty fair all things considered.
We won 2-0.
I gave up my seat to Adam, so he could sit next to his girlfriend – my brother couldn’t make it so she had that one – I sat somewhere behind the goal. Shit view – but it was a good game none the less. The atmosphere was not so good – there seemed to be a lot of first timers about... you know the ones who laugh, nudge each other and obligingly get to their feet when the now passé “Stand up if you hate Tottenham” chant goes round. Personally, I only sing it when we are playing Tottenham – other than that, who really cares?
I was sat with what seemed to be an Arsenal supporter family – two young lads and a mother. The young lad that was behind me had an incredibly loud voice and sang pretty much all game – to himself for the most part. In between chants he was continually on Gallas’ back for imagined misdemeanours in his playing and captaincy style... Adebayor also got berated when he scored as apparently he:
“Should have been doing that more a few weeks ago, too little too late Ade! Too late now to start playing well now!”.
I informed him that it wasn’t Adebayor’s fault that he was getting continually ruled offside, denied penalties and had perfectly good goals disallowed – we’ve been robbed, nothing to do with the teams performance as we were clearly the best team in the league... he said that I sounded like Adam and went into an ear splitting chant of:
“I’ve got a foreskin haven’t you dirty jew...”
What - we're playing Reading you fucking moron?!?! What slimy dark corner of your 'id' did that one crawl out of?
His brother then said:
"I would rather us play a rubbish, scrappy game of football and win something rather than this shit".
He cast me a nervous, accusatory look – was he testing me? I told him that season tickets are still for sale at Stamford Bridge... and, also, that it would be unlikely that we would win anything until we sold out to Usmanov – the mother chimed in:
"Yeah, that's what we should do – it's for the best init; we should sell out and start winning"
Shit kickers – I can’t believe they took hope from that statement?!? To quote Lydon (again): 'I think you'll find that empty vessels make the loudest noise' - never a truer word spoken - although he probably nicked it...
I left the match feeling like something like Winston Smith in the land of the proles but other than that it was enjoyable – RvP was stepping back up to his amazing form and Theo had an excellent game. I was really pleased that he had done so well from starting the match – he really got stuck into it. I was a happy fan.
I emailed The Joker on Monday with an idea about releasing a video on youtube detailing how matches can be fixed with examples of techniques... match fixing is an art form – I hate it but part of me admires the way it is done. It’s not just the officials either – the whole game is complicit. I might attempt to detail this in later posts but, at present, it’s too much of a mind-fuck to contemplate on a Wednesday morning. The Joker was positive about some of my ideas but maybe he’s just stringing me along and being polite – he’s a nice guy and he has got all the inside information on everything football, where he gets it from I don’t know but his research is amazing.
You should read his blog if you get the chance – he’s a professional gambler... I think?
He told me:
“A rather worrying sign is that Usmanov has got Schalke included in next season's Emirates Cup - this is a concern as Schalke are another Kremlin/Gazprom outfit. Fat boy has already got some clout.”
This looks bad for Arsenal and football in general – I can’t back this up as Google doesn’t bring anything back on the 2009 Emirates cup? As I said – inside info... is it true? Time will tell.
I’ve learned a lot about the game from him and yesterday I put this knowledge to good use and placed some bets based on the reasoning that:
Liverpool are shit, Liverpool will cheat, Chelsea have rested everyone and based their whole season on this game after buying an easy route to the semi's.
Did you see the match? Hilarious – Chelsea got nothing from the ref all game where as Liverpool had it handed to them on a platter... how I laughed at the end, much as I dislike Chelsea – justice was done. It’s going to be a thriller of a 0-0 second leg!
Champions League football seems to get duller as we near the yawn-fest of the final – BTW, dhjackal – you should have taken my advice:
[22/04/2008 13:36:23] DogFace says: well... yes - Chelsea are shit but Abramovic will have the cash out on this one any way he can - Liverpool are tier 1 G14 and that also goes a long way in the CL decisions wise.
[22/04/2008 13:37:03] DogFace says: Liverpool are at home...
[22/04/2008 13:37:21] DogFace says: ...hmm
[22/04/2008 14:42:02] DogFace says: Draw I reckon. I'm going heavy
[22/04/2008 14:47:04] DogFace says: Chelsea to get the away goal due to a ‘Reina howler’.
[22/04/2008 14:49:56] dhjackal says: sounds plasiable
[22/04/2008 14:50:13] DogFace says: might look into the spread betting...
[22/04/2008 14:50:33] DogFace says: I can't see anyone walking away with this one - it'll be 1-1 or 1-0
[22/04/2008 15:07:47] DogFace says: Where's your money going?
[22/04/2008 15:07:56] dhjackal says: not betting
[22/04/2008 15:07:58] dhjackal says: broke
[22/04/2008 15:08:05] DogFace says: thought you had £100?
[22/04/2008 15:08:06] dhjackal says: might have to withdraw that
[22/04/2008 15:08:14] dhjackal says: cos i'm skint
[22/04/2008 15:08:33] DogFace says: if you put it all on 1-1 you'll make £700
[22/04/2008 15:08:43] DogFace says: FREE MONEY
[22/04/2008 15:08:46] DogFace says: (chuckle)
[22/04/2008 15:10:33] DogFace says: I'm going on: 1-1 @ 7 and HT/FT - Liverpool/Draw @17.5 - Speculative bets - but I'll keep the stakes low-ish.
Quids in!
We won 2-0.
I gave up my seat to Adam, so he could sit next to his girlfriend – my brother couldn’t make it so she had that one – I sat somewhere behind the goal. Shit view – but it was a good game none the less. The atmosphere was not so good – there seemed to be a lot of first timers about... you know the ones who laugh, nudge each other and obligingly get to their feet when the now passé “Stand up if you hate Tottenham” chant goes round. Personally, I only sing it when we are playing Tottenham – other than that, who really cares?
I was sat with what seemed to be an Arsenal supporter family – two young lads and a mother. The young lad that was behind me had an incredibly loud voice and sang pretty much all game – to himself for the most part. In between chants he was continually on Gallas’ back for imagined misdemeanours in his playing and captaincy style... Adebayor also got berated when he scored as apparently he:
“Should have been doing that more a few weeks ago, too little too late Ade! Too late now to start playing well now!”.
I informed him that it wasn’t Adebayor’s fault that he was getting continually ruled offside, denied penalties and had perfectly good goals disallowed – we’ve been robbed, nothing to do with the teams performance as we were clearly the best team in the league... he said that I sounded like Adam and went into an ear splitting chant of:
“I’ve got a foreskin haven’t you dirty jew...”
What - we're playing Reading you fucking moron?!?! What slimy dark corner of your 'id' did that one crawl out of?
His brother then said:
"I would rather us play a rubbish, scrappy game of football and win something rather than this shit".
He cast me a nervous, accusatory look – was he testing me? I told him that season tickets are still for sale at Stamford Bridge... and, also, that it would be unlikely that we would win anything until we sold out to Usmanov – the mother chimed in:
"Yeah, that's what we should do – it's for the best init; we should sell out and start winning"
Shit kickers – I can’t believe they took hope from that statement?!? To quote Lydon (again): 'I think you'll find that empty vessels make the loudest noise' - never a truer word spoken - although he probably nicked it...
I left the match feeling like something like Winston Smith in the land of the proles but other than that it was enjoyable – RvP was stepping back up to his amazing form and Theo had an excellent game. I was really pleased that he had done so well from starting the match – he really got stuck into it. I was a happy fan.
I emailed The Joker on Monday with an idea about releasing a video on youtube detailing how matches can be fixed with examples of techniques... match fixing is an art form – I hate it but part of me admires the way it is done. It’s not just the officials either – the whole game is complicit. I might attempt to detail this in later posts but, at present, it’s too much of a mind-fuck to contemplate on a Wednesday morning. The Joker was positive about some of my ideas but maybe he’s just stringing me along and being polite – he’s a nice guy and he has got all the inside information on everything football, where he gets it from I don’t know but his research is amazing.
You should read his blog if you get the chance – he’s a professional gambler... I think?
He told me:
“A rather worrying sign is that Usmanov has got Schalke included in next season's Emirates Cup - this is a concern as Schalke are another Kremlin/Gazprom outfit. Fat boy has already got some clout.”
This looks bad for Arsenal and football in general – I can’t back this up as Google doesn’t bring anything back on the 2009 Emirates cup? As I said – inside info... is it true? Time will tell.
I’ve learned a lot about the game from him and yesterday I put this knowledge to good use and placed some bets based on the reasoning that:
Liverpool are shit, Liverpool will cheat, Chelsea have rested everyone and based their whole season on this game after buying an easy route to the semi's.
Did you see the match? Hilarious – Chelsea got nothing from the ref all game where as Liverpool had it handed to them on a platter... how I laughed at the end, much as I dislike Chelsea – justice was done. It’s going to be a thriller of a 0-0 second leg!
Champions League football seems to get duller as we near the yawn-fest of the final – BTW, dhjackal – you should have taken my advice:
[22/04/2008 13:36:23] DogFace says: well... yes - Chelsea are shit but Abramovic will have the cash out on this one any way he can - Liverpool are tier 1 G14 and that also goes a long way in the CL decisions wise.
[22/04/2008 13:37:03] DogFace says: Liverpool are at home...
[22/04/2008 13:37:21] DogFace says: ...hmm
[22/04/2008 14:42:02] DogFace says: Draw I reckon. I'm going heavy
[22/04/2008 14:47:04] DogFace says: Chelsea to get the away goal due to a ‘Reina howler’.
[22/04/2008 14:49:56] dhjackal says: sounds plasiable
[22/04/2008 14:50:13] DogFace says: might look into the spread betting...
[22/04/2008 14:50:33] DogFace says: I can't see anyone walking away with this one - it'll be 1-1 or 1-0
[22/04/2008 15:07:47] DogFace says: Where's your money going?
[22/04/2008 15:07:56] dhjackal says: not betting
[22/04/2008 15:07:58] dhjackal says: broke
[22/04/2008 15:08:05] DogFace says: thought you had £100?
[22/04/2008 15:08:06] dhjackal says: might have to withdraw that
[22/04/2008 15:08:14] dhjackal says: cos i'm skint
[22/04/2008 15:08:33] DogFace says: if you put it all on 1-1 you'll make £700
[22/04/2008 15:08:43] DogFace says: FREE MONEY
[22/04/2008 15:08:46] DogFace says: (chuckle)
[22/04/2008 15:10:33] DogFace says: I'm going on: 1-1 @ 7 and HT/FT - Liverpool/Draw @17.5 - Speculative bets - but I'll keep the stakes low-ish.
Quids in!
Friday, 18 April 2008
Greetings to the new brunette...
Well – what can I say about football? This season has been the best of times and the worst of times for me. As a football fan in my second year of holding a season ticket I am learning the game fast.
I used to think I knew it all from watching the game in the pubs, MOTD and dodgy internet streams but I was wrong. You have to watch the games live to appreciate exactly what is going on out there.
Let me state this now and clearly as I possibly can:
The pundits lie.
The papers lie.
The media in general is full of shit.
Next time you watch a match, turn the volume down and make you own decisions – remember them and do not allow them to be swayed by anyone – no matter how much of a self proclaimed ‘expert’ they are. Watch the games, believe your eyes, trust your instincts - that is all.
Last season I had niggling doubts as to some of the decisions that were going on - on the field of play... but now I am in no doubt that Premier League football is crooked. I support Arsenal and right now we are out of every competition. I am NOT a sore loser. We HAVE been robbed.
Let me step back a few months - the game that finally woke me up was the Birmingham Vs Arsenal match in February (2-2). I had just got home from taking the kids out (swimming I think) and I was in the kitchen sorting out a beer so I could settle down for the game when I got a phone call from my brother PieFace. His voice was shaky – he said:
“Are you watching?”
I said no.. was just going to switch on.
“It looks bad – Eduardo been injured.. it looks bad.”
How bad?
“I think he’s out for the season... it’s very bad, broken leg.”
Jesus man – I’m going to watch it now – I’ll get back to you…
...it was bad – I switched on to see Ade looking scared and sick, Fabregas was in clear distress, nobody knew what to do – Gary was fussing about and waving for backup and oxygen and that shit-kicker Taylor was just sitting there.
Taylor got sent off – it was the only correct decision that the Ref (Mike Dean) made that day. The rest of the first half was a disjointed affair, the players clearly had their minds on what state Eduardo was in and not on the match.
Birmingham scored from a free kick which wasn’t a free kick... or was it? I don’t know – it seems that Arsenal can’t get a free kick for love or money (unless we are breaking in a dangerous position and the boy in black blows his whistle to give the other team a chance to get the whole fucking squad behind the ball before play continues) – where as our competitors get free kicks and penalties for tripping over their own shoe laces... I say ‘love or money’ but I suspect that ‘money’ is more important in getting referee decisions these days than the increasingly irrelevant emotion in this league for the ‘love’ of the game.
The experts at half time reckoned that Taylor must be in a terrible state, imagine how poor Taylor must feel – it wasn’t a ‘bad’ tackle apparently. Bullshit – he went in hard and straight legged with the shit-kicker tactic of the shit-kicker teams that play us: “hoof Arsenal off the ball for the first 10 minutes as the ref won’t even card you for it” – well done Fergie for giving the premier league that gem of “footballing genius” – I guess that’s what you call progressive football, all good for the game eh?
Taylor ruined Eduardo – and Arsene has been saying that this would happen for years... Arsene was proved correct. Nobody cared as Eduardo was just a foreigner and played for Arsenal – if that had happed to Rooney then effigies of Martin Taylor would still be swinging from lamp posts. Eduardo is quality and class. Eduardo is a gentleman. Eduardo loves football. Eduardo is a foreigner. Eduardo is all the things Martin Taylor isn’t.
I don’t feel sorry for Taylor – Wenger was correct, he should never play football again… what was he even doing on the field? If you go out on national television and destroy something beautiful then you should not expect any sympathy for it.
The second half was better, Theo scored 2 and we were up – Gallas and Wenger had clearly got focus back in the dressing room as we were flying. They wanted to win this one for their colleague and friend and they got on with it despite the best efforts of Dean and his henchmen – we were going to win. Then – Ade got fouled in the area – it was a clear penalty under the eyes of Dean – 1-3 to us. Good. Fuck you very much Birmingham and fuck you very much Taylor.
What happened next destroyed any faith that I had in this league as a fair competition. The penalty was not awarded... instead in the last minute of extra time Birmingham hoofed it up field and Clichy let it drift before clearing it under a speculative challenge from McFadden. A giddy with joy Dean could not wait to whip his whistle out and award a penalty – McFadden scored and Birmingham equalised.
Well done McFadden you cheated twice and got your rewards as a shit-kicking lackey in a bent league... tell your grandkids about it why don’t you?
Alas – the cameras didn’t focus on your smug face for long... the cameras moved to William Gallas. Our captain.
Gallas knew the score, he knew as captain his team, our team, had been cheated not only out of 3 points but out of a result that might have made some sense of that tragic fucking bloody day – you could see it in his eyes as he cried - it had dawned on him too:
Football has broken.
Since then we have been robbed game after game after game after game.
Tomorrow I’ll go to watch us play Reading at Ashburton Grove – as we have been removed from every major competition and we are no longer a threat to Man United’s title (that was in my opinion bought and paid for last summer) then I have high hopes that we might see a match worth watching... not that it means anything in terms of trophies – but, saying that, trophies these days don’t actually mean anything in terms of football.
I used to think I knew it all from watching the game in the pubs, MOTD and dodgy internet streams but I was wrong. You have to watch the games live to appreciate exactly what is going on out there.
Let me state this now and clearly as I possibly can:
The pundits lie.
The papers lie.
The media in general is full of shit.
Next time you watch a match, turn the volume down and make you own decisions – remember them and do not allow them to be swayed by anyone – no matter how much of a self proclaimed ‘expert’ they are. Watch the games, believe your eyes, trust your instincts - that is all.
Last season I had niggling doubts as to some of the decisions that were going on - on the field of play... but now I am in no doubt that Premier League football is crooked. I support Arsenal and right now we are out of every competition. I am NOT a sore loser. We HAVE been robbed.
Let me step back a few months - the game that finally woke me up was the Birmingham Vs Arsenal match in February (2-2). I had just got home from taking the kids out (swimming I think) and I was in the kitchen sorting out a beer so I could settle down for the game when I got a phone call from my brother PieFace. His voice was shaky – he said:
“Are you watching?”
I said no.. was just going to switch on.
“It looks bad – Eduardo been injured.. it looks bad.”
How bad?
“I think he’s out for the season... it’s very bad, broken leg.”
Jesus man – I’m going to watch it now – I’ll get back to you…
...it was bad – I switched on to see Ade looking scared and sick, Fabregas was in clear distress, nobody knew what to do – Gary was fussing about and waving for backup and oxygen and that shit-kicker Taylor was just sitting there.
Taylor got sent off – it was the only correct decision that the Ref (Mike Dean) made that day. The rest of the first half was a disjointed affair, the players clearly had their minds on what state Eduardo was in and not on the match.
Birmingham scored from a free kick which wasn’t a free kick... or was it? I don’t know – it seems that Arsenal can’t get a free kick for love or money (unless we are breaking in a dangerous position and the boy in black blows his whistle to give the other team a chance to get the whole fucking squad behind the ball before play continues) – where as our competitors get free kicks and penalties for tripping over their own shoe laces... I say ‘love or money’ but I suspect that ‘money’ is more important in getting referee decisions these days than the increasingly irrelevant emotion in this league for the ‘love’ of the game.
The experts at half time reckoned that Taylor must be in a terrible state, imagine how poor Taylor must feel – it wasn’t a ‘bad’ tackle apparently. Bullshit – he went in hard and straight legged with the shit-kicker tactic of the shit-kicker teams that play us: “hoof Arsenal off the ball for the first 10 minutes as the ref won’t even card you for it” – well done Fergie for giving the premier league that gem of “footballing genius” – I guess that’s what you call progressive football, all good for the game eh?
Taylor ruined Eduardo – and Arsene has been saying that this would happen for years... Arsene was proved correct. Nobody cared as Eduardo was just a foreigner and played for Arsenal – if that had happed to Rooney then effigies of Martin Taylor would still be swinging from lamp posts. Eduardo is quality and class. Eduardo is a gentleman. Eduardo loves football. Eduardo is a foreigner. Eduardo is all the things Martin Taylor isn’t.
I don’t feel sorry for Taylor – Wenger was correct, he should never play football again… what was he even doing on the field? If you go out on national television and destroy something beautiful then you should not expect any sympathy for it.
The second half was better, Theo scored 2 and we were up – Gallas and Wenger had clearly got focus back in the dressing room as we were flying. They wanted to win this one for their colleague and friend and they got on with it despite the best efforts of Dean and his henchmen – we were going to win. Then – Ade got fouled in the area – it was a clear penalty under the eyes of Dean – 1-3 to us. Good. Fuck you very much Birmingham and fuck you very much Taylor.
What happened next destroyed any faith that I had in this league as a fair competition. The penalty was not awarded... instead in the last minute of extra time Birmingham hoofed it up field and Clichy let it drift before clearing it under a speculative challenge from McFadden. A giddy with joy Dean could not wait to whip his whistle out and award a penalty – McFadden scored and Birmingham equalised.
Well done McFadden you cheated twice and got your rewards as a shit-kicking lackey in a bent league... tell your grandkids about it why don’t you?
Alas – the cameras didn’t focus on your smug face for long... the cameras moved to William Gallas. Our captain.
Gallas knew the score, he knew as captain his team, our team, had been cheated not only out of 3 points but out of a result that might have made some sense of that tragic fucking bloody day – you could see it in his eyes as he cried - it had dawned on him too:
Football has broken.
Since then we have been robbed game after game after game after game.
Tomorrow I’ll go to watch us play Reading at Ashburton Grove – as we have been removed from every major competition and we are no longer a threat to Man United’s title (that was in my opinion bought and paid for last summer) then I have high hopes that we might see a match worth watching... not that it means anything in terms of trophies – but, saying that, trophies these days don’t actually mean anything in terms of football.
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