Celta Vigo
Last night saw me attend my first non semi final/final cup match since before the kids were born and good value it was as well. Okay, it wasn't spectacular, but we were playing against a side who have won their last 2 away games against Real Madrid and Deportivo.
Roeder started with Antoine the man upfront in his own, contrary to some reports with Milner and Luque wide and Nobby at right back. This ploy paid off all night with Milner and Luque always available and Nobby in particular spreading some lovely 60yd balls onto the Spaniards boot. Okay, Charlie and Luque looked rusty in the first half but they grew into the game and Charlie in particular seemed to benefit from not being subbed in the second half.
the crowd was still disappointing at 25,000 but this is still more than other English clubs on a cold windy night for a televised game during a ridiculous league stage of a knockout cup competition.
The club deserve some credit as they had obviously given some tickets to an organisation who work with disabled adults and we had a dozen or so around us who appeared to have the night of their lives. Well done.
And, I can say I was there when Steven Taylor scored his first goal and witnessed first hand the celebrations that will go down in folk lore. Taylor looked confident and assured throughout and had another accomplished game. If you read some reports he is blamed for the goal but make no mistake, if Emre had either tackled or stood his ground instead of trying to drag the ball away from the attacker the chance would never have materialised.
On a sourer note, switching to 5 live on the way home to listen to the phone in we had to listen to lawro praise Rangers for being the first British club through to the knock out stages and lament us for our poor attendance. No mention of us being the only club in the competition with 3 wins from 3. No mention of us having the universally accepted hardest group, no request for us to call in and give our view, just Rangers this and how good are Spurs in Europe. Sad.
Last night saw me attend my first non semi final/final cup match since before the kids were born and good value it was as well. Okay, it wasn't spectacular, but we were playing against a side who have won their last 2 away games against Real Madrid and Deportivo.
Roeder started with Antoine the man upfront in his own, contrary to some reports with Milner and Luque wide and Nobby at right back. This ploy paid off all night with Milner and Luque always available and Nobby in particular spreading some lovely 60yd balls onto the Spaniards boot. Okay, Charlie and Luque looked rusty in the first half but they grew into the game and Charlie in particular seemed to benefit from not being subbed in the second half.
the crowd was still disappointing at 25,000 but this is still more than other English clubs on a cold windy night for a televised game during a ridiculous league stage of a knockout cup competition.
The club deserve some credit as they had obviously given some tickets to an organisation who work with disabled adults and we had a dozen or so around us who appeared to have the night of their lives. Well done.
And, I can say I was there when Steven Taylor scored his first goal and witnessed first hand the celebrations that will go down in folk lore. Taylor looked confident and assured throughout and had another accomplished game. If you read some reports he is blamed for the goal but make no mistake, if Emre had either tackled or stood his ground instead of trying to drag the ball away from the attacker the chance would never have materialised.
On a sourer note, switching to 5 live on the way home to listen to the phone in we had to listen to lawro praise Rangers for being the first British club through to the knock out stages and lament us for our poor attendance. No mention of us being the only club in the competition with 3 wins from 3. No mention of us having the universally accepted hardest group, no request for us to call in and give our view, just Rangers this and how good are Spurs in Europe. Sad.
posted by AnotherGeordie at
11:50
1 Comments:
Ive seen the celebrations thanks to Youtube - its sad to think tayls did more running there than ive seen some people do in thier whole career in a black and white shirt
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