Football

why West Ham and Millwall kicked off

Obvious really. The FA and the police should have seen the disorder at last night’s Carling Cup tie between West Ham and Millwall coming.

Nothing to do with East End rivalry. Nothing to do with Millwall’s notorious hooligan element.

The problems were started by lengthy queues at all cashpoints in the vicinity of Upton Park before kick-off. None of these professional Cockernees could decipher the rhyming slang.

Noel Gallagher on Citeh

‘I miss seeing Cockneys trying to get a taxi in Moss Side.’

Noel on Maine Road and the good old days.

the wit and wisdom of Darren Bent

A sheet of A4. Blank. Completely blank.

I don’t know which is worse. Being rejected by Darren Bent. Or hearing the news via Twitter.

‘“Do I wanna go Hull City NO. Do I wanna go stoke NO do I wanna go Sunderland YES’.

Unfortunately, Darren’s twitter account ‘db10thetruth’ has miraculously been closed.

Saint Michael of Chester

Can. Not. Parse. Input.

Does. Not. Compute.

Segmentation violation. Kernel panic.

Manchester City's title winning lineup

Exclusive - the Manchester City 2009-2010 Premiership winning lineup in full.

• Goalkeeper - Given
• Defence - Dunne, Richards
• Midfield - Barry, Ireland
• Attack - Tevez, Robinho, Adebayor, Santa Cruz, Wright-Phillips, Bellamy

Anyone spot the deliberate mistake ?

singalonga Shearer

Come on everybody. Sing along now.

A mole digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, relegation
Ashley and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can die
So low, relegation
Relegation Relegation Relegation

Arsenal vs MUFC - Champions League Semi Final

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a ticket to the Emirates on Tuesday night so here is my match report culled from my stream of inane drivel on identi.ca.

Preparing for the big game…

‘My wife just gave me the shock of my life. She said ‘We may have a big problem here.’ Thought TV was bust. Turned out son ’lost’ his PE bag.’

‘Saw a couple of Gooners on way to Emirates. Lowered car window and shouted ‘Manchester, Manchester, la, la, la’ at them. They waved back.’

why Ballack, Drogba and Terry need to look inwardly

A lot has been written about Chelsea’s recent exit from the Champions League to an injury time winner from Iniesta at Stamford Bridge that dumped Chelsea out of the competition on the away goals rule to Barcelona.

Inevitably, there has been much discussion about the controversial penalty incidents, the quality of the Norwegian referee, the behaviour of some Chelsea players during and after the match and even ridiculous talk of a UEFA conspiracy.

memories of Hillsborough

On Wednesday 11 January 1989, I went to Loftus Road to see Manchester United play QPR in an FA Cup 3rd round replay.

As usual, we went for a pint in our favourite pub, ‘The Greyhound’ (or similar), on Shepherd’s Bush Green before finally spurning one last beer and reluctantly making our way to the ground. Loftus Road was packed. The United section behind the goal was full. Stewards opened up another section along up to the half-way line to accommodate the large away support.

Fulham 2 MUFC 0

On Saturday, I was lucky enough to get a last minute invite to Craven Cottage to watch Fulham play Manchester United.

My unexpected treat came courtesy of a friend who works for a construction company who have 10 corporate tickets at Fulham. Ordinarily, he would have taken his son but, fortunately for me, the poor lad was serving the last day of a grounding as a result of a serious, undisclosed misdemeanour.