Last ball out of the bag again to get the trip we just can’t make. If Twatter and Prattini hadn’t been under careful scrutiny I’d have been shouting “Fix!” It’ll be freezing anyway, better going to the following game somewhere in a Spring we can recognise and we can save our hard-earned until then too. […]

And that team had just beaten Bayern Munich 3-1. With the failure in Europe of the rags I feared that England might lose the fourth spot qualification to Germany but not now, not after our exhilarating come-back. I know it’s the pantomime season but watching the full 90 minutes on TV the commentators mentioned Stoke […]

Disappointed? Stoke scored two very good goals and it’s so easy to blame the defence singling out a certain absentee as the cause but for me, well, we didn’t score and never looked likely to. Caused by another absentee? Shouldn’t be the case and our defence starts with the forward line, that’s where we need […]

Capital One Cup; so we got the Scousers but missed the Scouse gits. After the routine demolition of the mighty Hull a slightly stiffer task awaits but at least we avoided our next premiership contestants Stoke City. Managed by Mark Hughes who whilst manager at City, bless him, recruited Vincent Kompany and Pablo Zabaleta bought […]

Although I’ll never have the ref fitting carpets in my house it was nice to have the routine back against Southampton, 3-1 and a return to the top of the league will do for me. Quote of the weekend by Gary Lineker: “Massive point that for Manchester U****d. Hanging on like that against Leicester shows […]