GLF 54: Blackpool Rock
Blackpool Rock
MOTHERWELL Anyone get the feeling we’re just too nice now.We’ve gone from the extreme of picking up a load of bookings, mainly through reputation, to a team that hardly seems to pick up any. You know what happens next though, don’t you.Next game we’ll get about five booked and two sent off.Scott Leitch is our main sinner, and so he should be as our midfield ballwinner, but I’d like to see everyone get stuck in that little bit more.Perhaps we should bring back hothead Faddy.
BLACKPOOL On that subject if there’s one thing I really love it’s a dirty game with loads of controversy and a bit more than handbags.I’ve waited a while for one at Blackpool, ever since Gary Brabin left in fact.So imagine my disgust when I sneak away for a weekend in Cologne (and I don’t mean swimming in gentleman’s perfume) and Blackpool go and have exactly that against Colchester. If only Colchester had put the ball out of play to allow treatment to a Pool player instead of scoring then we just might not have had a 17 man punch up and both teams charged by the FA.My mate was at the Pool game and, because I wasn’t there to drive him, he had to leave early to catch a train and he missed the fight too !!And I missed it all to watch…....
FC KOLN Apart from spending most of my money on important things like alcohol I also took a trip to see the local team.Relegated last season to Bundesliga 2, Cologne still provide an excellent day out.Don’t forget to not bother paying on the tram but instead take loads of bottles of beer on board.21 Euros for a decent seat but as cheap as 14, that’s the footy price not the tram that no-one pays on.PLUS drink IN the ground, although I did have a spillage problem, when Koln’s winner went in, all over a not very happy looking German in a leather jacket.I did attempt to lick it off, much to his absolute disgust.But he didn’t argue with a rabid drunken Scotsman.The Rhein Energie Stadion is well worth a visit, the only downside being that Motherwell versus Rangers was on in many a Cologne pub but I’d already committed to the live action.
WILLIE KWonder how Willie feels ?( insert own punchline ).A mainstay in a defence that was fairly solid he didn’t do a lot wrong against Livingston, a game we won, yet found himself dropped and David Partridge returning and looking set to stay.Willie looks on from the bench knowing that his only chance of a return is an injury.Terry may well be protecting him for his own good but results since he went out of the team hardly suggest it’s been to Well’s benefit.
MUTUJust a seven month ban and a piddling fine for Mutu who admitted to taking cocaine.Rio Ferdinand got more for missing a test. Mutu must be laughing all the way to his nearest dealer. In seven months time he can sign for anyone he likes and they don’t have to pay a transfer fee so he can command a bigger wage.
TOMMY BURNSNow that dear old Bertie has gone, with Scotland’s best wishes still dribbling down his face, we inherit Father Burns for at least one game.Sorry but I think he’s just as culpable as Berti and should have gone with him.If he disagreed with Berti then he should have had the decency to walk.As for Tommy’s comment that every time he’s seen Martyn Corrigan he’s been superb ! Well, why did he never make a squad ?Graham Alexander ?Pah !
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