january 9th
08.55 – Well, Sky’s attempts to blackmail Farnborough into staging their 4th round FA Cup tie against Arsenal at their home ground have failed. The conference side asked for permission for the game to played at Highbury and the FA have agreed to the switch. There’s a nice quote from the Farnborough boss who says “This is a classic David v Goliath battle. Why stage it in a toilet when the Coliseum is available?”
So the match will not be shown live on TV now, and while this won’t affect Farnborough financially (they’ll get 45% of the Highbury gate receipts), it does deprive people of seeing the most interesting tie of the round. Literally David vs Goliath, well, it would be literally David vs Goliath if Arsenal changed their name to Goliath and Farnborough changed their name to David, but you know what I mean. The BBC have passed up the chance to do something worthy of their licence fee and Sky are set to show Gillingham vs Leeds in an attempt to create some kind of big club v small club magic, but who gives a fuck about Leeds or Gillingham? Anyway, they’re both at about the same level if you ask me…
Old boggly eyes is at it again. He complains about Sheffield United, but still doesn’t see anything wrong with this? He says about Michael Brown’s tackle on Chris Kirkland “I’m just pleased Chris hasn’t had his leg broken.” Oh, I didn’t hear David Moyes say “I’m just pleased Gary Naysmith hasn’t had his testicles mashed” after Steven Gerrard’s lunge. If your players want to dish it out Gerrard, they have to be prepared to take a little in return. Not that I’m condoning Brown’s challenge you understand, I’m just shocked at the sheer hypocrisy of Hoofier. Actually, I’m not shocked at all. The wanker. Thanks to Jonathan for the link via the forum.
Arsenal are after Boavista goalkeeper Ricardo according to the ever reliable Soccerage, Thierry Henry has vowed to stay a Gooner for life, and bad news for the ladies is that he has ‘found his soulmate’ as we find out in today’s Sun.
Finally, in relation to yesterday’s question about whether you’d prefer Upson or Cygan, Upson got 100% of the votes. However, it has to be said that if we did the same thing about Cygan and Stepanovs or Cygan and an inanimate carbon rod, I’d put my money of the baldy. But not all my money.
