Brum just signed Pandiani on loan. That's quite the coup...
He's virtually assured a game with us, rather than spotty appearances in the Tinpot Cup with Chelsea or ManUre and he knows that our young players are in the eye of the bigger teams - see Dyer, Bramble, Ambrose... (ok, when I say bigger teams I mean Newcastle). Darren Bent and, to a lesser extent, Dean Bowditch are doing the same - eschewing an early move to a bigger team because they know they can play often and play well at the level they're at. Plus we have a connection with Canada, with former Town player Frank Yallop managing the national team, Jason de Vos in our current side and Craig Forrest, errr, on TV. By the time he gets to us we may be a premiership side anyway.
Thank God you said "may be" Mr Bismarck. In these parts we still laugh at Wolves fans and their 11-point bottlers who blew it to of all people The Baggies. I can't say I've ever seen Walter "The Rifle" Pandiani play, but all the reports I've heard sound good, and we pipped those bastards Blackburn to the signing, so everyone's happy. The deal sounds rather stressful though.
Looks like Pennant might go to jail. His performances will still be better than Emile Heskey's though.
Neiiiiiiighhhhh!
"Thank God you said "may be" Mr Bismarck. In these parts we still laugh at Wolves fans and their 11-point bottlers who blew it to of all people The Baggies." Oh aye, I'm not saying anything's done and dusted until we have a four point lead over third place with one game to play. I remember well, the big money boys of Blackburn bottling it after christmas and ending up in the playoffs while a fine team, filled with 11 good men and true strode manfully into the spot they vacated. Of course, those were the days, Jason Dozzell was good.
(o.t.) Meanwhile... those loveable rogues Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira have been at it again - having a full scale argument before the game kicked off at Highbury. Vieira may have shut Keane up though, (please God), as he's just scored to put the Gunners 1-0 up, before Shrek passes to Gollum, who equalises for the northerners. I imagine that, whatever happens tonight, Jos's smiling.
Guardian calls it the match to decide who's second-best. Ha. btw, Giggsy's tied it.
Calmy, you must be thinking of the Liverpool Heskey because the man this year is scoring more than any players (except maybe Baros) on the team he left behind.
wonder who gets sent off first. Heinze and Pires already have yellows in the first half hour. They're top of the list I guess. But Rooney, Vieira and Keano could easily go too.
Aye - I mention that in the guise of Shrek and Gollum above. A draw would suit Jos perfectly, I imagine. Especially if they pull out another three points tomorrow at Ewood.
Bergkamp makes it 2-1!
And Ronaldo equalises for 2-2... then scores again for 3-2 Utd.
And Silvestre wins the wc2k2 sweepstakes, being sent off for headbutting Freddie Ljungberg. No doubt if Utd win, we'll have to listen to Arsene complaining about how the Devils don't play to the spirit of the game, or some such nonsense. At least with Chelsea up there we have a new flavour to the soap opera now.
Bye bye Arsenal. Even with Henry getting points for assists, I'm wondering if I'm not better off selling him and buying two scoring scorers - like Johnson and Bergkamp or Defoe. Man.
That has to be the best game I've seen in the last few years. Though the funniest part to me is that aside from the two goals Carroll was barely challenged the entire 100 minutes; does four scores mean Lehmann gets another shot? I totally loved ManU's last two scores--where the fuck were Arsenal's defenders when O'Shea scored? Oh yeah, Campbell went off injured again and Wenger was so arrogant he put in another fullback to try and press the man advantage. One of the few times I feel really happy to see a ManU win, no doubt.
Almunia sucks... I hated Lehmann, but he's a "cracking" keeper.
