Apr 22, 2012 Match Thoughts
Result: Won 1-0
Thoughts: Karma comes to the kop
Didn’t look like we were up for it for 70 mins, not much closing down and far far too many mistakes. Left side of the defence torn to shreds time and time again.
What shone though all the trip passing from both sides was the two forwards were having cracking games Suarez for Liverpool and Long for Albion. Not that Long saw that much of the ball but when he did he was impressive. Liverpool could have and should have had four at least, at time the ball was pinging around our box like a rat looking for a drain pope. Yet Albion had some good chances to with Raina pulling of at least two fine saves.
You just knew if the was going to be a goal it was going to be a mistake. I thought it might be the ref at first because in the first ten minutes he missed a number of things but he pulled his game around and in the it was Johnson who was too relaxed trying to cut the back inside while Mulumbu was fighting him for it. Out bounced the ball to Odemwingie who races inside the box on his won and faint to place at the left side but hit the ball inside the near post leaving Raina looking a bit sad really.
Joy for Roy and Karma for the Kop who hounded the bloke out his job.
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Apr 22, 2012 Football On Trial
What is the to calibrate in 20 years of Premiership football ? 20 years when a handful of teams won anything. A period when the majority of fans of premiership teams endured seasons full of fear a trepidation, not only for their clubs top flight place but also for the future of their clubs. 20 years when job security for managers hit an all-time low year on year. Personality of a manager became more impotent then proven skills and the skill of finding players was moved to director of football or some other development title.
The premiership is now mostly a “richman’s hobby” and I’m not just talking about clubs owners. The price of a season ticket back in 1991 ? well for the top clubs maybe £150 but for most about £100 would get you a seat at all the home game. In the ten years up to 1992 season ticket prices perhaps went up 50% and that was a large increase on years before that. The first ten years of the premiership saw season ticket prices jump 300-400%. Since then clubs have made efforts to keep these costs down mainly because the income from other sources has increased so much. But the days when your average working man didn’t really have to think about the expense of his football now it’s very much priced out of his easy reach. The family a trip to the match is very much a luxury.
But why moan about the cost if the quality has gone up ? nice safe seats in bright new stadiums and the worlds best players. Well lets examine that, what value are people getting today ? are we seeing better players, better football ? well perhaps for those supporters who are happy to support a “richman’s hobby”. Certainly the was a time when premiership football looked exciting and inventive with new foreign players mostly providing that excitement. But in more recent years what’s taken over has been gamesmanship & outright cheating at every opportunity. Don’t get me wrong I am old enough to remember the likes of Denis Law who could fool most referees into a decision but perhaps any team or match can afford one or two of these players just to increase the talking points of the game but now it’s every player. Honest, I did stop to think on one player in any club who I could say for certain that they wouldn’t try to con the ref in a game but couldn’t think of one. Plain fact is it’s not football is it.
I’m not saying football 1970 to 1990 was great, well to be honest that period of early 1970s was perhaps the best I have known, we even had the best England side ever for the 1970 world cup finals in my opinion and it started to fall apart after we lost those finals. Somehow we need to get back to playing tradition football and upholding the traditional values of sportsmanship. My biggest fear is for the future of football, what we are seeing now is mainly from players who are old enough to still no the rights and wrongs of what they are doing. But what about those born in the premiership years and those in their teens now and all they have seen is this type of behaviour from our footballers. It will be no good showing them reruns of how players like Bobby Moore, as far as they know this is football.
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