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Re: Sky's Sunday football, the last word.
Posted by: "Colin Rowlands" crowlands@rim.com colinbbie
Tue Oct 5, 2010 8:14 am (PDT)

>
> Yes Sol, but we are not the settled side, with the same manager and
> tactics as last season, as Chelsea or Arsenal. If you keep comparing
> apples with oranges you still won't get the same taste! We are not
> Chelsea or Arsenal, so why expect the same results. We are in a
> different moment. I was hoping we'd thump Blackpool 3-0, 4-0 but I was
> not expecting it. I'm baffled that some of you guys waffle on about
how
> useless we are and what a mess we are and how rubbish Hodgson is, then
> expect us to go out and play like Chelsea or Arsenal and beat
Blackpool
> convincingly? We are off form and struggling for confidence. If you
> really think we are rubbish, how could you expect us to repeat
> Chelsea's tonking of Blackpool?
>

If we are going with fruit analogies then our current team would be a
lemon. :-)

While not expecting us to clobber them, it isn't unreasonable to expect
the team we have to not lose quite so convincingly as they did at the
weekend.>

Very reasonable. Expecting us to play like Chelsea or Arsenal at the moment, not so.

Keith

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