Monday, 13 December 2004
West Brom away. What was the score? 1-0
I have a couple of memories of The Hawthorns. One was driving up there like a lunatic in lashing rain (we made a late decision to go to the game when we found it was on) in 1990 to see us lose 1-0 in the 4th Round of the FA Cup. Walshie missed a penalty in front of the Charlton fans massed behind one goal - the pitch was totally unplayable and the game should never had been played.
Then my brother and I went up there for a Sunday live TV match in '95. Garry Nelson scored the winner, again at our end. The ground was almost unrecognisable from my previous visit and it was the first time we had won in front of live TV camera's since 1947.
I wasn't as close to the action on Saturday but it sounded like we won comfortably - we never finish teams off as we should but according to reports the defence held comfortably. As the official site says "although this performance was hardly reminiscent of Brazil it was a comprehensive win." Now as I don't support Brazil I will take that thank you very much.
The general concensus was that the slimmed down Danny Murphy was outstanding in midfield plus we saw another improved performance from Holland and a goal of course. Jerome Thomas was again adjudged to be Man of the Match - what a bargain this boy was. And I for one was pleased that Romm was pissed off when he got substituted. It shows he cares and he will get another go next week.
Theres been a lot written about our formation but if we maximise the pace and creativity of Thomas and Rommedahl and the middle three can support the defence and the striker in equal measures then I can see that the 4-5-1 could run and run. We shouldn't be afraid to tinkle with this however, particularly at home. My only question is - would Jeffers have missed the 'sitter' that Bartlett did? Correct, we will never know but let's find out eh, Curbs?
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I have a couple of memories of The Hawthorns. One was driving up there like a lunatic in lashing rain (we made a late decision to go to the game when we found it was on) in 1990 to see us lose 1-0 in the 4th Round of the FA Cup. Walshie missed a penalty in front of the Charlton fans massed behind one goal - the pitch was totally unplayable and the game should never had been played.
Then my brother and I went up there for a Sunday live TV match in '95. Garry Nelson scored the winner, again at our end. The ground was almost unrecognisable from my previous visit and it was the first time we had won in front of live TV camera's since 1947.
I wasn't as close to the action on Saturday but it sounded like we won comfortably - we never finish teams off as we should but according to reports the defence held comfortably. As the official site says "although this performance was hardly reminiscent of Brazil it was a comprehensive win." Now as I don't support Brazil I will take that thank you very much.
The general concensus was that the slimmed down Danny Murphy was outstanding in midfield plus we saw another improved performance from Holland and a goal of course. Jerome Thomas was again adjudged to be Man of the Match - what a bargain this boy was. And I for one was pleased that Romm was pissed off when he got substituted. It shows he cares and he will get another go next week.
Theres been a lot written about our formation but if we maximise the pace and creativity of Thomas and Rommedahl and the middle three can support the defence and the striker in equal measures then I can see that the 4-5-1 could run and run. We shouldn't be afraid to tinkle with this however, particularly at home. My only question is - would Jeffers have missed the 'sitter' that Bartlett did? Correct, we will never know but let's find out eh, Curbs?
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