Never took a punch in the rib cage sonny, but that Burnley game was about eight minutes from an outbreak of cats being volleyed all over the show in homes across Merseyside.
This is one of them glass full/half full instances, we took only five points out of nine over Christmas despite having absurb possession dominance and pressure on all the games but then sometimes it needs a spark from somewhere and Vaughan stepped up to show that having two strikers on the pitch, for more than three minutes, sometimes can yield results.
Thankfully this fits the photofit of what a pleasant FA Cup tie should look like, at home and against lower reaches of the league opposition, the type of game you'd expect to win easily but have succumbed to a bit too often in recent memory.
Carlisle sit 15th in the third division, I'm not going to pretend I know that much about them other than I sometimes get their accent confused with North Easterners, I pushed a local scal to the ground at one of their service stations on the M6 and they have some "firm" called the Border City Slashers or something tedious of the like. Be on alert for condensed groups of Burberry then. You'll know their youth crew by their heavy scent of Joop and Jazz.
Quite how the Gwladys Street Spartans will line up is beyond me. You'd think Moyes might be slightly cautious after our failed experiment with a B team against Oldham a couple of years ago, step forward Gravesen and Wessels, but then this might be an opportunity for the likes of Coleman (who must act all dead sound with Hibbert but secretly hope he gets swine flu), Vaughan, Neville, Osman and possibly Donovan to start.
This game is followed by Arsenal at home and those tw*ts with the fancy new Italian manager so it's important to keep some winning momentum, coupled with the clear as day fact that we're unlikely to do anything much in the league this year so European places are not to be sniffed at.
Anyway, we'll see won't we.
This is one of them glass full/half full instances, we took only five points out of nine over Christmas despite having absurb possession dominance and pressure on all the games but then sometimes it needs a spark from somewhere and Vaughan stepped up to show that having two strikers on the pitch, for more than three minutes, sometimes can yield results.
Thankfully this fits the photofit of what a pleasant FA Cup tie should look like, at home and against lower reaches of the league opposition, the type of game you'd expect to win easily but have succumbed to a bit too often in recent memory.
Carlisle sit 15th in the third division, I'm not going to pretend I know that much about them other than I sometimes get their accent confused with North Easterners, I pushed a local scal to the ground at one of their service stations on the M6 and they have some "firm" called the Border City Slashers or something tedious of the like. Be on alert for condensed groups of Burberry then. You'll know their youth crew by their heavy scent of Joop and Jazz.
Quite how the Gwladys Street Spartans will line up is beyond me. You'd think Moyes might be slightly cautious after our failed experiment with a B team against Oldham a couple of years ago, step forward Gravesen and Wessels, but then this might be an opportunity for the likes of Coleman (who must act all dead sound with Hibbert but secretly hope he gets swine flu), Vaughan, Neville, Osman and possibly Donovan to start.
This game is followed by Arsenal at home and those tw*ts with the fancy new Italian manager so it's important to keep some winning momentum, coupled with the clear as day fact that we're unlikely to do anything much in the league this year so European places are not to be sniffed at.
Anyway, we'll see won't we.
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