Feb

27

Boro v Sheffield United an absolute stormer

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Five minutes into the second half and this is the minute by minute text commentary on the BBC. Looks like quite a game. Click for big…

Feb

18

Weekend thoughts

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Arsenal weren’t interested in the FA Cup game on Saturday. United deserved the win but Arsenal fans deserved more from their team. While people talk about psychological advantages and all that, the extra game or games that United have to play might be telling.
Sheffield United v Boro was worse than Chelsea v Liverpool last week. [...]

Feb

16

FA Cup Weekend is here!

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The FA Cup 5th round has a fantastic glow to it in 2008 with no less than ten of the 16 clubs who have made it this far coming from the Coca-Cola league and, if the draw is kind to those who are left standing, it is not totally inconceivable that one of the ‘minnows’ [...]

Jan

28

FA Cup review

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‘The magic of the cup’ is as much a football cliché as ’sick as a parrot’ or ‘it’s a game of two halves’, but it holds true in some cases.
Havant and Waterlooville had the day of their lives against Liverpool, taking the lead twice before the Premier League team’s extra class showed through. That they [...]

Jan

6

“Ronnie Radford has been rested today, in preparation for next week’s game at Preston…”

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I remember eight or nine years ago when Manchester United declared their intentions to not compete in that season’s F.A Cup, and the percentage of the country that weren’t shrugging their shoulders and telling their friends to ask the bar staff if they had any taxi numbers were high five-ing one another and gleefully contemplating [...]

Jan

5

The Magic Of The Cup…?

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I still think that Third Round day is a bit special, regardless of what Dave Kitson says. In a time where it’s all Premiership and Champions League, there’s always room for an upset and bit of tradition in the Cup.
Don’t see too many shocks this year; maybe Oldham will repeat their previous feat against Everton, [...]

May

30

Graham Poll in talking sense shocker

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Regular readers will know Left Back is no fan of Graham Poll but he makes sense here.

May

19

Well that was crap

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Worst FA Cup final ever?
Chelsea played with all the ambition of a non-league team playing Real Madrid. They were lucky that United’s so-called big players went missing in a big game again.
Giggs - appalling. Rooney - not bad in fairness but once or twice his control let him down when he was in very good [...]

May

17

Does Mourinho ever listen to himself?

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From today’ Sun:
Ronaldo is a big player. But if he wants to be a bigger one, he must be fair with his opponents. The final should be played with happiness. I’ll be disappointed if some players are diving and trying to get the opposition red cards on Saturday.
I know he’s trying to make the ref [...]

Apr

17

The hug

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So, it would appear the ongoing Mourinho-Abramovich feud has now entered into a period of détente, as the two Masters of the Universe engaged in a little man-hugging following Chelsea’s last-gasp victory against Blackburn the weekend.  Good on them, I suppose.  I enjoy a manly cinch every now and then myself, and it doesn’t even have [...]

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