Featured: That was the week that was (Jan 26 - Feb 1 2019)

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Saturday Jan 26:

 

The u18s are knocked out of the PL Cup by the Macs. Real heartbreaker this. The lads were 2-0 up but then had a defender sent off. They were pegged back to 2-2 and then lost in extra time. Duncan and Glatzel both scored. I’m trying to remember the last time we had two goalscorers like that in the same youth team. 

 

We’ve usually had one prolific striker and then a sidekick. The last time we had two like this was back in the early 00’s when John Miles and Ian Armstrong were tearing it up. Armstrong had the big reputation and the England youth pedigree, while Miles didn’t have much hype but matched Armstrong goal for goal. 

 

The mad thing is that neither made the grade here and both were eclipsed by an unheralded kid who came up a year behind them. At that time no-one would have predicted Neil Mellor was going to be better than Miles and Armstrong, but that’s how it turned out. Duncan and Glatzel both look really promising, but you just never can tell with these things.

 

Also today, the Blues were knocked out of the FA Cup thanks to a stoppage time winner from Millwall. So so funny this. Millwall’s equaliser was a blatant handball that was missed by Michael Oliver, but I thought we had VAR in the FA Cup? What happened there?

The goal was shown on the big screen, prompting Marco Silva to go nuts and call for the referee to use it as VAR and overturn his decision, while Millwall boss Neil Harris was yelling up at the guy in the control room to “facking turn it off”.

 

It’s always funny seeing the Blues lose, especially like this, but fuck Millwall the absolute shower of pricks. Racist chanting, fights, an Everton fan getting his face slashed (although he was far from an innocent bystander), and the saddest part is everyone fully expected it as these prehistoric fucks don’t belong in the modern game. I’d say they don’t belong in society, but sadly they actually represent a big part of today’s society. 

 

Millwall might be the only club in England that hate Everton more than they hate Liverpool. It’s a beef that goes back to the early 70s. When that draw was made, everyone knew there’d be chaos but the TV companies still moved it to a 5.30 kick off. Reckless and irresponsible.

 

Hopefully Millwall are drawn away in the next round (just to spare anyone else from having to make that trip) and they get dicked. I keep reading how no club has done more to rid itself of the undesirable element and that might be true. Not all Millwall fans are pricks and every club has it’s knob head element. It’s just Millwall have far more than anyone else and I’m not sure how they can change it. 

 

Because of their reputation, it's only natural that the dregs of society are drawn to them. The likes of Palace and Charlton are in the same catchment area but they don’t have all these weirdos following them. They are proper weirdos by the way. A few of us went to watch Dulwich Hamlet play once and we got the tube there. Millwall were at home and a load of their fans got on. There wasn’t any trouble but it certainly was an experience. 

 

They were communicating with each other using weird yelping sounds. It was like being surrounded by a tribe of Comanche or Apache. One of them would screech something from another carriage, and someone would respond from the other end of the train with a similar noise. Like I say, they’re fucking weirdos.

Sunday Jan 27:

 

Spurs are knocked out of a cup for the second time in four days. Pochettino says finishing in the top four is more important than winning trophies, which causes much hand wringing about how “the games gone”. 

 

His exact quote was: “We are going to create a debate that to win a trophy is going to help the club. I don’t agree with that. That only builds your ego. In reality the most important thing is being consistently in the top four and playing in the Champions League.”

 

I see his point but the most important thing isn’t ‘being in’ the top four and Champions League, it’s being in contention to win them. If you aren’t coming close to winning either then you can’t be turning your nose up at cups. It’s not about ego, it’s about the fans.

I reckon in ten years time most people will see it the same way he does though. There’s already been a softening of a lot of people’s stance towards the cups, mine included to a degree.  

 

The cups are becoming less important with each passing year but it’s not just because of the big clubs prioritising the Champions League. Loads of top flight clubs field weakened sides in the cups, and almost all of them play their back up keepers. Spurs have an excuse for resting players (especially with the injuries and heavy fixture load they’ve had), but most other PL Clubs don’t. Teams like Leicester, Wolves, Palace, Everton etc should be going balls out to win the cups, even it means resting players for league games.

 

 

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Someone should have told Kyle Walker his team got beat by Newcastle, the brainddead twot.