The Weekend Football
[Moozik: Manic Street Preachers - Repeat (U.K)]
I'm liking the fact that I can watch live Premier League games while eating my breakfast and sipping coffee first thing in the morning here.
Yesterday I watched my boys dispose of Watford 3-1. Well, should have been 3-0 if Chimbonda had pretended to defend properly for 5 seconds. Grr. But you know what, any game in which your goalkeeper scores is ok with me. Paul Robinson sir, you rock. Shame it's not on YouTube yet.
Pat Jennings admitted he couldn't help but raise a smile as he witnessed Paul Robinson join him on the list of Spurs' goalscoring goalkeepers.Then this morning I watched Everton beat Arsenal. It was a really good game and I was in two minds about the result. Usually anytime Arsenal lose I have a teeny grin because, well, I'm a Spurs fan, we're supposed to smile when Arsenal lose. But, the fact that Everton got 3 points means they've leapfrogged over us in the table and pushed us down to 7th place. Bugger.Almost 40 years after Big Pat heaved his huge kick over the head of Alex Stepney in the Charity Shield at Old Trafford, Robbo struck a free-kick from deep inside our half that Watford defender Danny Shittu ducked under and left keeper Ben Foster stranded, the ball boucing over him and home.
It was very similar to Pat's goal in the 1967 Charity Shield against Manchester United, the only difference that Pat kicked the ball out of his hands before it bounced up and deceived Stepney.
Still, tomorrow we play Chelsea in the FA cup replay which, yay, is also being shown over here.
Update: Bugger. Well, there's always next year.
The clips are on now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PFmFnSPqGI
Theres nothing quite like the beautiful game is there?
A quick update for you, if its a Chelsea v Man Utd FA Cup final then the UEFA Cup spots will go down to 7th place as 5th automatically get in, and the 2 cup winners, Chelsea have already won the League Cup so the league gets another UEFA Cup spot, and with Chelsea and Man Utd going into the Champions League, 7th place could clinch the final UEFA Cup spot....got that???!!?!?!!
Watching him score that goal never gets boring. I could watch that over and over. I like the look on Ben Foster's face and a bit later he tries to shrug it off as being no big deal. Classic.
Phew, thanks for that explanation about UEFA spots. So as long as we can keep 7th and the planets are in alignment, we'll be ok ;-)