EnglandWe'll start with the Wolves game. What a result. Not what a game, just what a result. Well.... I guess winning in front of just less than 6,000 fans at Layer Road in Colchester isn't much of a great accomplishment. But hey. We'll take them as we can get them.
| 0 - 1 | |
Date: 01/03/2008 | Venue: Layer Road |
Attendance: 5989 | Referee: Iain Williamson |
Colchester United 0
Wolves 1 (Ebanks-Blake 30)
(courtesy of www.wolves.co.uk)
The game plan was a 4-5-1 to start as this was how we beat Palace last weekend so Mick decided to start with the same team and lineup. This was changed slightly when Craddock (one of our central defenders found himself with an ankle sprain), but the idea was to leave our star striker up front by himself to work it out.
The goal was set up by some nice footwork outside our own box allowed Stephen Elliot to find himself some space and take a couple of steps before he launched a wonderful ball forward. What happened next is one of the main reasons why I love the English game and everything that's wrong with it at the same time.
After finding himself the aforementioned space and launching the "prototypical heave it forward type of pass" dominant in all rungs of the English game. Our rather barrel-chested forward Sylvain Ebanks-Blake, ran past while muscling his way around (if that's possible) their center-half who was attempting to retreat but couldn't make up his mind. Mr. Blake used his rather bulbous belly to steady the ball into his path and soon made no mistake cooly slotting it home past the keeper just inside the near post.
With the wind blowing rather fiercely all night this game really had the look of one goal in it, and the first team to score was most likely going to be the last.
We got three deserved points and are just a little bit closer to the promotion places....
But to be realistic I don't want to pull a Derby, so I'd rather stay down if we're not prepared.
One season out of the last twenty in the Premiership, we want to stay up a little longer next time don't you think?
With Southampton on Tuesday at Molineux and the Derby against Albishite after that postponed our next game will be Preston after Southampton. Our future is in our hands and if we want it all we have to do is go get it.
Here's some quick opinions on the rest of England this weekend.
Arsenal-Villa game was a good one to watch and when Gareth Barry came in with that crunching tackle and the first twenty rows stood up and collectively gasped I thought it was a red card for sure. It wasn't a red card tackle per se, but with the Eduardo incident still fresh in the minds of the Emirates faithful, I could've seen a red there.
Birmingham beat down Tottenham and Chelsea beat down West Ham. What the hell does that say about what happened at the cup final last weekend.
Chelsea crapped there pants thats what happened.
Newcastle lose again. This is starting to get fun. I think that King Kev as they won't soon be calling him, has till the end of the season till he walks out again.
Just like in 1973 when Man U got relegate, 2008 could be the year Newcastle get relegated. I can hope can't I.......
In terms of relegation whose joining Derby for the walk of shame. Bolton, Reading, Fulham, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Sunderland and Wigan are all primed and ready to fall apart.
Whose getting promoted? Stoke, WBA, Watford, Ipswich, Bristol City, Plymouth, Us, who knows? I sure have no idea and it's coming down to the end soon.
Argentina (really River Plate)*The River Plate-San Martin game today was suspended in the second half with 36 minutes on the clock. That means that we'll have to replay the last 9 minutes sometime in the future. River Plate is winning 3-2 at the moment at least.
