I think, as last year there are at least 3 worse sides.
That said, they are shocking and that was at home.
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I think, as last year there are at least 3 worse sides.
That said, they are shocking and that was at home.
We have to hope they dont, I'm afraid. They always take points off City :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I would settle for seeing them celebrating staying up on the last day :-)
Home and away - against us - Wolves are better than Sperz.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
and a nice 6 points for us as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I don't know why I could enjoy them this year. Maybe the Easy story helped? But I remember some I went to that were torture. At the new gaff, I remember being 3-0 up with 50 mins played and we were in absolute control. But I just worried that we'd give them a goal and then it would be nervy and even though we were the better side, and I knew we'd win, I was worried they'd then score a late 2nd to make a really nervy finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The fact that we just kept control didn't stop me worrying. Only in injury time with it still at 3-0 did I begin to relax. I hated that second half of football. Almost more than that one when we were 2-0 at HT and lost 3-2 with our skipper, Cesc giving away a pen for handball in the wall. Or that one when they scored twice in the last 5 mins to make it 4-4 and I missed both our goals after HT still waiting for my ****ing coffee. Silvestre's only goal, I think. {God we used to buy rejects like him, not world class youngsters like Triphop and Hinchappy.}
Though Cesc picking their pockets at the post-goal kick off and waltzing through them to score while we were still watching the replays of RvP's goal was something special. Only hearing the sound change in the Clock End drew our eyes from the screens to the pitch.
But obviously the best was Titi's cos I was in the Norf Bank upper a bit to the right of centre. And he dribbled up the left {our right} and cut inside and looked to shoot. Then he thought, actually, I'm not directly in front of GG and his brother, so I better skip across the edge of the box a bit more, beat another Sperzer or two and then, when I'm directly in front of GG's seats*, only then will I whack it in the net and run down the Clock End to give it to the Spuds.
*I'm sure karmically, our old man chose those seats somehow knowing what would happen a decade or more later.
I was at the 4-4, bloody :furious:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Me too, Frimmers went ape **** in the Woodbine afterwards when Harry was on Sky saying they were unluckyQuote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Bouncer had to calm him down :hehe:
I missed both goals after HT. Our seats were in the middle of a row, so would be one of the last to the bar. Was still queueing up when we scored just after HT. I stayed to complain, saying it wasn't on when we pay all this money that they don't have enough staff to serve everyone at HT. While I was complaining we scored again to go 4-2 up. I was fuming now. They gave me the coffee for free. Into which I put about a dozen sugars before nipping to the bogs to put in about 3 double brandies. Horrible game.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Were you at the 5-4?
I listened to that on the radio, at some mate's house where we'd been sleeping on the sofa for a month going to India either that very night or the next day.
No, watched the 5-4 at a mate's in Clapham. Enjoyed that one, my mate's were all supporting spurs to wind me up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I remember that, most amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
I watched that with a mate who supports Spurs. We were both furious:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
The won the infuriated me despite my elation was the 2-2 at their place when we clinched in 04.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Not sure I ever forgave Jens for that pen. :furious:
Imagine that, screaming 'f*ck off you slopey faced c*nt' twice, as loud as you can, in a small London pub brought a word from the bouncer :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Yup. Sperz celebrating a last minute equaliser after we'd just won the league, undefeated, on their ground, as Titi had to point out to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
The thing Jens did that was unforgivable was getting sent off in the CL final so we had to take Bobby P off. Especially after that save at home vs Real. He backhanded it onto the post, like a batsman who takes his glove off the bat, but deliberately. Genius. Never seen anything like it.
He really was, as Bobby P said, a mad German *******.
We really have been blessed with some 'keepers down the years. Which is why AW's Almunia obsession and then sacking Sir Chez to get that girly-hatted Chav reject was so unforgivable. Never spent more than ?1m on a 'keeper before him. GG spent ?1.3m on Spunky in 1990.
The thing with the Jens vs spurs one, I'm a bit conflicted, on the one hand we should have won and on the other was spurs fans & players thinking they stopped us winning it at theirs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
The ref ****ed up vs should have let play go as the ball ran straight to the Barca player who scored. 1-0 down 11 vs 11
Yup. That would have been the sensible thing. Play advantage. Goal stands so no clear goal scoring opportunity denied. Could have been a great final if you remember what we did against them at ours from 1-0 down all those years later.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
That AA23 winner - my best buzz at the new gaff.
I'm in the minority here, and I didnt watch that game because I was flying to Malaysia, but.... I love Jens for that :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Little **** was winding him up, league was won, sod it. Deck the ****er :-)
A very human moment.
100% agreed. I'd have taken 1-0 and 11 v 11. Think Barcelona would have as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Yeah but beating the filth at their place to win the league would have been that bit more special. Not to mention that for a brief period it raised the possibility of them scoring a 3rd, lord I didn't want to think about that :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Yeah, i didnt have to go through that live, so I take your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
But Jens was Jens. You have to accept the man and the keeper, they come as one :-)
Yeah, but we'd already done that and went on to do the double.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Yes, beating them would have been better but getting a draw to win the league unbeaten so they all celebrate the equaliser before they realise what we'd done on their pitch. A double, a cup and Invincible in the 3 seasons since Sol signed for free.
Btw, I was just checking the 2002-3 season as I was away for much of it. Couple of questions.
In the cup final, we played Oleg at CH. Says Pascal was injured and that Sol was suspended for a straight red vs ManU. But there were more than 3 games until the cup final so I don't get that.
Forgot to add, what was the CL like with this 2nd group phase. Looked really tight with 4 draws. {I remember the Henry hat-trick in Rome so must have been in Blighty for that.}
Didn't realise that if we'd scored a winner in our penultimate game or an equaliser in the last one, we'd have qualified for the semis. That must have been gutting but I have no memory of this. If I'd been in India I'd have had a tv in the room so I think I was in a truck in Spain somewhere. Maybe Barca or maybe the Dragon festival down south {Orgiva.}
Glad I missed that, but maybe if I'd watched Titi would have scored more hat-tricks.
Dunno. It was a decent contest before the sending off but being a man up pretty much guaranteed that they wouldn't lose. I haven't watched it again, of course, but I do remember being extremely proud of the way we played, the way we kept going forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The thing had been pretty much settled beforehand though, with the kerfuffle over the referee; the replacement had carte blanche to punish us. You don't normally get away with publicly calling their impartiality into question, even though "we" didn't :-\
I don't remember about the ref thing - can you explain please?Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I remember the SF - we only one 1-0 despite playing them off the park and the Squirrel Goddess sending us an Incarnation of herself to make sure we won and kept a clean sheet.
In the 2nd leg, they were all over us and when they got the pelanty I was fuming. I told the glw we'd blown it. They'd score and with the momentum they had, would score the winner in extra time.
She looked at Mad Jens on the screen and said "He's got long arms and big hands. He'll save it." And I looked across the room at her toy King Louis {from the Jungle Book} that she'd nicked from Eurodisney when there with her family before we'd got together. {We still have him.} He has long arms and big hands and is orange, the colour Jens wore when we were Invincible. And I suddenly had a flickering of faith.
Earlier in the campaign, she'd watched the second half of the game at Real with me. When Titi scored, she watched the replay and said "Henry was like a bird with big tits barging her way to the bar" which I thought was a better description than the commentators came up with or any of the match reports in the paper the following day.
I was sat with Nikos for that game and definitely went to The Woodbine before the game. I sulked off home at the end though. Served us right for ripping it out of Gomes so much that game.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES