The reserves got their season off to a low key start with a somewhat disappointing 0-0 draw with Wigan Athletic at the Academy this afternoon. John McMahon's side possibly shaded it in terms of possession, but the visitors came closest to scoring when they hit the bar from a 1st half free-kick, whilst reds' skipper Steve Irwin had earlier been forced to clear off his own goal-line following a scramble.
Martin Keown in his pink shirt. Jesus, all kinds of wrong right there. I mean, really wrong. That caveman looking fucker looks wrong no matter what he wears - unless it’s a Fred Flintstone style animal skin number complete with club - but that pink shirt took it to a new level of wrongness. Like a Hippo in a pair of speedo's kind of wrong.
Well we just about did enough to pick up our first league win of the season, but it wasn't exactly convincing and we've a long way to go. On the plus side, Torres got himself off the mark and we've got some re-enforcements coming in to give us a lift. Not only that, but Spurs and City both lost, so all in all not a bad couple of days. The first half was awful, nothing positive at all to take from it. Every first half we've played this season has been poor, and... [Read More]
When the fixtures were announced, our opening two games were always going to be difficult but we would all have been hoping for more than just the one solitary point from them. But those fixtures were difficult to call, and there was as much chance we’d end up with six points as none. Our third fixture however should be yielding nothing other than maximum points, but as Wigan showed at Spurs yesterday you can never be completely sure.
Good result in the end. I was worried at half time though, after yet another disappointing opening half had left us ’staring down the barrel’ in the words of the manager. Thankfully, our second half display was much improved, as it has been in every game except the Man City debacle, and although we left it late we were good value for the win.
Soul destroying. I really felt we had a great chance of going to City and picking up the three points, but that was just dreadful. All over the park, dreadful. We were second best everywhere, and the most galling part is I don’t think City played that well either. We handed them the three points, and some will say we did it before the game even started with the switch to 442.
