Connor Wickham
Keep it quiet, but Connor Wickham is getting better and better!
I have just watched the goals he scored made and scored in Ipswich’s three-one win at Derby. Just watch the clip in this page and you’ll see he’s mentioned all the time.
Note his long throw that nearly results in a second goal. If he can throw like that at just seventeen, is he the next Rory Delap? He might be, but he’s certainly got an amazing all round game.
Dynamite Comes in Small Parcels
What I like about football is that it is a game where all sorts and sizes can be poor, good, brilliant or truly great. I have just watched Arsenal be trounced by Lionel Messi. Lionel is two centimetres shorter than me at 1.69 metres!
Even as a one-time Spurs supporter in my youth, I had hoped that Arsenal had won this one. But they couldn’t!
BBC Norwich Get It Wrong
On the evening news the BBC in Norwich said that Ipswich had won 2-0, whereas in fact they had won 3-1!
But then they are just jealous that Ipswich are a league above.
They didn’t give any video clips either.
Water Football
I’m just watching Burnley entertain Manchester City to a game of water football. As it’s at the start of the second half and Burnley are five-nil down, I suspect they hope the rain continues to deluge and we get an abandonment.
I can remember an Ipswich against Manchester City match that was called off in similar circumstances at Maine Road.
Football Therapy
I went to the football at Portman Road yesterday.
I did feel better as Ipswich beat Barnsley, but my face seemed to free up, when I laughed so much at the only goal. Stuart Hall would have said it was straight out of the Theatre of Base Comedy. Ipswich then hung on for 87 minutes.
I don’t what would have happened, if Ipswich had lost.
Beckham Makes The Times Leader
Yesterday, David Beckham made a leader in The Times.
This illustrates the power of the man and the respect most of us feel for him.
I saw it most in Belarus, when I went to support England. The amazing cheer when he came on, was not just from the England supporters but also from those of Belarus.
I sometimes wonder how we’ll all see Beckham in say twenty years time. He will surprise us all.
The Special One
They say what goes around comes around.
It certainly did last night, as a couple of years after he was sacked by Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, Jose Mourinho returned to triumph. Not a bad result for a man, who used to be ridiculed as Booby Robson’s translator. Perhaps, he learned a lot from the master.
Of the four major clubs of the past few years in England, Chelsea and Liverpool are the ones that seem to be showing the strain. Could it be because they are the two who’ve tried to buy success more than Arsenal and Manchester United? Or could it be that Chelsea are the two clubs with smaller stadia and hence a reduced cash flow?
We’ve not seen the last of Chelsea this season, but I’d be putting my money elsewhere if I was a betting man.
Mud Moor not Turf Moor
Just watching Match of the Day on BBC1 and it would appear that Turf is in short supply at Turf Moor.
Portsmouth Go Bust
Well actually they are going into administration, but I suspect in their case it will mean the same thing. As I said earlier, who would buy a club, that doesn’t own the ground, the land around the ground, doesn’t have enough capacity and hasn’t really got any decent players or even a youth policy.
Where clubs have been bought without the ground, they have rarely succeeded.
So this looks to me like another stay of execution for a once proud club.
The Anonymous Widower 