Posted in match review on May 19th, 2013 385 Drinks »
Getting the tone of the piece is extremely difficult when results go against us. I am only just realising it is just as hard when things have gone gloriously, deliciously right. An hour of juvenile baiting of the neighbours on Twitter is all well and good (and huge fun too), but then that nervous energy [...]
Posted in match review on May 14th, 2013 411 Drinks »
It’s half past ten on a school night. With a tumbler of Scotland’s finest I am chilling, the blood pressure is returning to what passes for normal in this ever more frail frame. I have been witnessing end of season games with some meaning for more years than I would care to admit. Most of [...]
Posted in match review on May 5th, 2013 810 Drinks »
A family birthday dictated a strange two part viewing of the action from Loftus Road. I was in real time for the opening half and then had to wait some four hours to watch the second. It is evident now that watching the second half knowing the outcome was a lot less stressful than viewing [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 29th, 2013 311 Drinks »
More than twenty four hours after the event I can finally write what was impossible last night. A handful of you were, if not entirely responsible, significant contributors to my inability to focus on returning home from the match yesterday. It was a long day, and almost perfect, from brunch at Piebury Corner to the [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 20th, 2013 691 Drinks »
Finding the right words to cover that performance is an impossible task. Every journo and blogger will be called out by half of their casual readership for being too negative or bottling it. So where do I begin. “The three points are everything and how we get them doesn’t matter at this stage of the [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 16th, 2013 351 Drinks »
It is the emotions that make football the spectacle it is. The best games usually have goals involved, but every now and again a goal-less draw wraps a strong hand around your intestines and squeezes. Two massively committed sides served up a raw feast for a huge audience tonight. From the off it was clear [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 14th, 2013 221 Drinks »
It is the stage of the season where the points are far more important than the performance. That is just as well. This victory was highly amusing for a number of reasons, but Norwich came close to doing what other sides with limited ability and ambition have sometimes achieved at the Grove since we moved [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 6th, 2013 534 Drinks »
What a three points that was. Seventy minutes of very impressive and controlled football gave way to twenty minutes of sheer torture on what could prove to be a big afternoon in our season. It is only right that we should focus firstly on that opening phase. From the off it was the visitors who [...]
Posted in match review on Mar 31st, 2013 438 Drinks »
A long day came to a blissful end. Fair play to everybody who managed to get to the Grove eventually. It turned out that I wasn’t the only one experiencing travel chaos. A shorter than usual pre-match analysis sprung to life when the team news came through. “Gervinho’s in”. We didn’t get the full flavour [...]
Posted in match review on Mar 25th, 2013 157 Drinks »
Well, that was a different way to spend a Monday evening, and a thoroughly enjoyable one watching the U-19′s advance to the Finals weekend of their inaugural NextGen series campaign in Italy over the Easter weekend. The first-half saw both sides eager to close down their opponents and so the ball was moved around quickly, [...]
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