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it’s impossible to get out of any lower league playing a lone striker, in my opinion, it cannot work. it’s o.k. for the top teams in the world to do it, they have the players who can back it up. in my many years of playing and watching football, strikers do best when they are in pairs, a tried and tested system , they are most of the time, no more than 10 yards off one another backing each other up. i’m pissed off watching other teams centre backs having a shagger of day when having one striker to contend with. one will be having a woodbine while the other kicks fuck out of our striker, then vice versa. until we change the system and stick to it, i fear the worst.
remember the quote from bill shankley, “if your not interfering with play, you shouldn’t be on the fekking pitch ” :)
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday with our overall performance. we played some good stuff at times, but for me more importantly, we didn’t fanny around, when in danger, the ball was dispatched into the stands. we looked a good outfit, thought it would take a while to gel, but it didn’t. we have the makings of a very, very good team. ok, people say “it was only Barnsley and they were poor” but you can only beat what’s in front of you. it ‘s looking good. :)
my first memories are hereford 1952 and then newcastle 1953, don’t remember much to be honest, but it set me on my way, i was hooked. many, many years later , i’m still hooked. thanks latics for a fantastic journey, a journey which will never be equalled by anybody. we should be all be priveledged to have been part of it. :cheer:
yes it does, stop being so pedantic, they do it at that time to get maximum exposure, they don’t give a shit about us ordinary fans.
as long as i can remember, the fa cup final has always been played at wembley, regardless how far you had to travel. the reason it’s at the time it is, is because it is now being watched by millions globaly, more so the east and far east where they are mad on our football, so the kick off time coincides with the best possible exposure to them. can you imagine our little club will be in the spotlight in front of millions and squillions worldwide :woohoo: :woohoo:
it was poor in my opinion inasmuch as there didn’t seem to be any urgency, far too slow and predictable in the build up. it appeared to me at times that it was us with ten men. when they attacked us they did it with pace, something we didn’t do. i just don’t get it with gomez, how slow is he ? why does he keep getting picked ? and what about our free kick from which they scored ? absolutely diabolical. any other team in that position would have shot for goal, not us , 3 players fannying around, not only that, we left just one man back, it was an accident waiting to happen. we had been warned previously how quick they were on the break, did we heed it ? no, we didn’t. all the years i played amateur football , i have never ever seen anybody arse about with a free kick like we did. it was crying out for somebody to just to twat it. it worked when maloney did it !!!
how much longer do we have to watch this shite. it is clear to everybody the system is not working. it’s no disgrace losing to arsenal, it’s just the manner in which we do it. we are not giving ourselves a cat in hell’s chance with the set up and tactics we use. this is not the latics i’ve come to love and hate through all the years i’ve watched them. i can forgive players not being good enough as long as they give everything, get in their faces, rough them up a bit as we used to do in the past. we are trying to play our way through teams instead of realizing we haven’t got the players or the system to do that. the sooner the spanish one comes down off his cloud , gets back to basics and stop all this theory bollocks about trying to match these teams, go 442, have a go at these teams, we can only lose as we are doing now, but at least go down fighting. we played 5 in midfield yesterday, you wouldn’t have thought so with the amount of room the arsenal midfield had.mcarthy had his worst game ever, and as for gomez, enough said. the lad mcarthy has gone backwards since martinez started filling his head with all sorts of shite. he dosen’t get forward anymore, passes square and back, does a lot of arm waving but very little else, the lad has been ruined by this clown. i feel sorry for sammon up front, he’s on his own, get’s no service whatsoever. it’s clear to everybody he needs a partner. as it stands, rooney or van persie would not score goals with the system we use, so what chance have we ? i never would have thought i would be saying this but i hate watching us, i don’t look forward going to matches anymore. i won’t stop going , even though we are a laughing stock. it pisses me off good style that one deluded, obstinate man can undo in such a short time all we have done, thanks a bundle.
ernie claxton and joe, he’s my uncle, were well known at the time, two rum buggers they were ! alas, ernie no longer with us, joe is still alive, no longer goes to matches. i have the photo of them with alec guinness, somewhere. the look on his face as if to say, what am i doing with these two , priceless !!!!