http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23777368-watford-are-on-the-brink-of-administration-after-pound-1m-loan.do
Concerning story in tonight's Evening Standard. Usually I'd expect the club to quickly put out a denial but the fact this has been announced to the stock market must mean its true. It seems we are keeping out of administration only due to the depth of the Russo's pockets and that can't last forever.
I guess the best hope is they throw another million in to tide us over 'til the transfer window opens. Then we try to make some serious money in January by securing an unlikely money spinning replay against Chelsea and selling Loach and Jenkins. Can't believe I'm looking at that as the best hope but what are the alternatives? Unless the threat of administration might finally stir Elton into making a financial return to the club. Pleaseeeeeee.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Another Pointless Afternoon- Crystal Palace 3 Watford 0
"Why do we do it" I texted to my mate Loz as I stood cold and dejected on a Southern train coming back from a miserable afternoon at Selhurst Park.
"Because this is a moment you are unlikely to forget" he replied. "You remember the crap losses more than the humdrum wins".
I think this is probably true as I can already recall the awfulness of going up to The Hawthorns more quickly than the 2-0 win over Preston that followed it. In my mind Shrewsbury in the FA Cup 3rd Round back in 1991 was memorable because it was the most bitterly cold I've ever been at a football match. The real reason I probably remember it is because we lost 4-1 against a lower league side. Had it been a 1-0 win or 0-0 draw it would've long since been discarded into my memory's trash.
This game will go down in my mind as one that I nearly avoided completely. On Friday afternoon I suddenly realised my ticket, which I'd definitely seen delivered a couple of days ago, was nowhere to be seen. I searched for three hours with no luck at all and began to think that I'd accidentally recycled it. Although I knew tickets were still available I didn't really fancy the prospect of lining Simon Jordan's pockets by another £25. So I started to make plans that didn't involve trekking to the twilight zone of South London where all journeys take at least twice as long as they should. However my wife then came home and found the ticket within 30 seconds of being told it was lost.
Therefore I went but within six minutes of the kick off regretted it as we gave away two soft goals. This wasn't West Brom all over again as we did put some nice moves together and looked as if we felt we could get back into the game, but when Graham's penalty was saved it was clear it wasn't going to be our day.
The game was killed off for us early in the second half when, having been on the attack, we gave the ball away and Palace broke quickly. Mariappa, who was at fault for at least two of the goals, had an excellent chance to put a decisive tackle in but hesitated and seconds later the ball was in the back of the net.
We continued to play the attractive passing game that has reaped so many rewards recently but it was pointless because our shooting was so wayward. Cathcart came closest with a header that Sperroni tipped over, and Cleverley hit the post late on. To quote the Palace fans obvious chant we spent the entire afternoon looking like we couldn't score in a brothel.
On another day, some of those chances would've gone in and maybe our defending would've been tighter and we might have got something out of it. It wouldn't be so memorable but it would have meant a point or three. And then there are those diamond days, the ones that come along more rarely than these dire ones, that are magical and make you remember why you do it. We've had one at Palace fairly recently by the same scoreline and once Loz put today in context I very much enjoyed the memory of it during the two hour slog back across London.
"Because this is a moment you are unlikely to forget" he replied. "You remember the crap losses more than the humdrum wins".
I think this is probably true as I can already recall the awfulness of going up to The Hawthorns more quickly than the 2-0 win over Preston that followed it. In my mind Shrewsbury in the FA Cup 3rd Round back in 1991 was memorable because it was the most bitterly cold I've ever been at a football match. The real reason I probably remember it is because we lost 4-1 against a lower league side. Had it been a 1-0 win or 0-0 draw it would've long since been discarded into my memory's trash.
This game will go down in my mind as one that I nearly avoided completely. On Friday afternoon I suddenly realised my ticket, which I'd definitely seen delivered a couple of days ago, was nowhere to be seen. I searched for three hours with no luck at all and began to think that I'd accidentally recycled it. Although I knew tickets were still available I didn't really fancy the prospect of lining Simon Jordan's pockets by another £25. So I started to make plans that didn't involve trekking to the twilight zone of South London where all journeys take at least twice as long as they should. However my wife then came home and found the ticket within 30 seconds of being told it was lost.
Therefore I went but within six minutes of the kick off regretted it as we gave away two soft goals. This wasn't West Brom all over again as we did put some nice moves together and looked as if we felt we could get back into the game, but when Graham's penalty was saved it was clear it wasn't going to be our day.
The game was killed off for us early in the second half when, having been on the attack, we gave the ball away and Palace broke quickly. Mariappa, who was at fault for at least two of the goals, had an excellent chance to put a decisive tackle in but hesitated and seconds later the ball was in the back of the net.
We continued to play the attractive passing game that has reaped so many rewards recently but it was pointless because our shooting was so wayward. Cathcart came closest with a header that Sperroni tipped over, and Cleverley hit the post late on. To quote the Palace fans obvious chant we spent the entire afternoon looking like we couldn't score in a brothel.
On another day, some of those chances would've gone in and maybe our defending would've been tighter and we might have got something out of it. It wouldn't be so memorable but it would have meant a point or three. And then there are those diamond days, the ones that come along more rarely than these dire ones, that are magical and make you remember why you do it. We've had one at Palace fairly recently by the same scoreline and once Loz put today in context I very much enjoyed the memory of it during the two hour slog back across London.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Crystal Palace v Watford- Previously...
Our first league meetings with Palace were in 1921 in the inaugural season of Division 3. Both games were draws, 2-2 at the Nest which was their home before Selhurst and 1-1 at Cassio Road where we resided before moving to the Vic.
We've met 101 times with us winning 38 drawing 24 and losing 39, scoring 138 and conceding 156. Our biggest win was 7-1 at the Vic in Sept 1954 in Division 3 (S), with our biggest loss five years later at Selhurst when we went down 8-1 in the same division.
In South London we've played the Eagles 50 times, winning 14 drawing 11 and losing 25, scoring 51 and conceding 85. A couple of the more notable victories we've had there include the fantastic 3-0 first leg playoff win in 2006, and a win by the same score back in April 1982 that put us just four points away from promotion to the top flight for the first time.
Last season, in an opening day battle of the playoff semi finals losers, we earned a creditable 0-0 drew at Selhurst. For the second season running we put them out of the FA Cup at the Vic winning 4-3, and a month later beat them 2-0 in the League with Don Cowie and a Fonte own goal earning us the points.
Like ourselves, after failing to progress in the 2008 playoffs, Palace haven't really troubled the top six since. This season they are draw specialists having managed 8, a record beaten only by Ipswich and Donnie. Four of their last five games have ended 1-1, the only one that didn't was the most recent game played at Selhurst when they beat Boro 1-0. They are currently 13th with 23 points.
One very notable absentee from tomorrows game will be Jobi McAnnufff. He always seemed to relish the abuse given to him by the Palace fans and would raise his game a hundred fold whenever we met them. It won't be quite the same without the two sets of supporters trying to out sing each other with the different versions of his song. Oh well, maybe we could all join in with their version this time round.
We've met 101 times with us winning 38 drawing 24 and losing 39, scoring 138 and conceding 156. Our biggest win was 7-1 at the Vic in Sept 1954 in Division 3 (S), with our biggest loss five years later at Selhurst when we went down 8-1 in the same division.
In South London we've played the Eagles 50 times, winning 14 drawing 11 and losing 25, scoring 51 and conceding 85. A couple of the more notable victories we've had there include the fantastic 3-0 first leg playoff win in 2006, and a win by the same score back in April 1982 that put us just four points away from promotion to the top flight for the first time.
Last season, in an opening day battle of the playoff semi finals losers, we earned a creditable 0-0 drew at Selhurst. For the second season running we put them out of the FA Cup at the Vic winning 4-3, and a month later beat them 2-0 in the League with Don Cowie and a Fonte own goal earning us the points.
Like ourselves, after failing to progress in the 2008 playoffs, Palace haven't really troubled the top six since. This season they are draw specialists having managed 8, a record beaten only by Ipswich and Donnie. Four of their last five games have ended 1-1, the only one that didn't was the most recent game played at Selhurst when they beat Boro 1-0. They are currently 13th with 23 points.
One very notable absentee from tomorrows game will be Jobi McAnnufff. He always seemed to relish the abuse given to him by the Palace fans and would raise his game a hundred fold whenever we met them. It won't be quite the same without the two sets of supporters trying to out sing each other with the different versions of his song. Oh well, maybe we could all join in with their version this time round.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Video Refs- Watford 3 Scunthorpe United 0
Its a fairly obvious topical theme but there were several inexplicable decisions this afternoon that could've easily been corrected if only we had a video ref in football. I really can't see any good reason against it. The entire television audience of France-Ireland had seen Henry's handball several times before Ireland kicked off again on Wednesday night so the argument of 'it would disrupt the game' is nonsense. I think another great benefit is it would show every-one in the stadium what had happened as there would no longer be a reason not to show contentious decisions on a big screen, because the decision would eventually be got right. This would also be good as the man behind me wouldn't bellow in my earhole after every referring error. By the time I left the Vic my ears felt like they'd been to a particularly raucous Sex Pistols concert.
Today a video ref could have ruled that Graham was fouled when he was the last man through and, shortly afterwards, that we should've had a penalty for a handball. These were only the tips of the iceberg of decisions that the ref and his assistants got wrong. They didn't look like they knew half the rules and could've been bad contestants on Faking It. We really do always get shit refs.
Aside from the ref the game had some other things in common with the last one against Preston. Some breathtaking Watford moves involving the entire side, not just Tom and Angela, great goalscoring instincts from H and Danny Graham, super saves from Scott Loach, a near miss by Lloyd and, quietly going about his work with no fuss whatsoever, another superb performance from Lee Hodson.
Scunny were fairly awful and look like relegation candidates. It was good that we didn't let them get a goal which might have galvenised them into an unlikely comeback, but its frustrating that we can be so on top in a game and only score three. That might sound churlish but today's performance was worthy of a 5-0 tonking like the kind West Brom gave to us a few weeks ago. H was unlucky not to have a hat-trick of headers, whilst Nathan Ellington's near misses get closer every week.
On the way home it was shock to hear us included in the list of Championship leaders on 5Live, as our points total now puts us level with QPR and Cardiff in the playoffs. Malky seems to know what his doing. I just hope Scotland don't start to look too closely at how well he is doing in getting this team to punch above their weight.
Today a video ref could have ruled that Graham was fouled when he was the last man through and, shortly afterwards, that we should've had a penalty for a handball. These were only the tips of the iceberg of decisions that the ref and his assistants got wrong. They didn't look like they knew half the rules and could've been bad contestants on Faking It. We really do always get shit refs.
Aside from the ref the game had some other things in common with the last one against Preston. Some breathtaking Watford moves involving the entire side, not just Tom and Angela, great goalscoring instincts from H and Danny Graham, super saves from Scott Loach, a near miss by Lloyd and, quietly going about his work with no fuss whatsoever, another superb performance from Lee Hodson.
Scunny were fairly awful and look like relegation candidates. It was good that we didn't let them get a goal which might have galvenised them into an unlikely comeback, but its frustrating that we can be so on top in a game and only score three. That might sound churlish but today's performance was worthy of a 5-0 tonking like the kind West Brom gave to us a few weeks ago. H was unlucky not to have a hat-trick of headers, whilst Nathan Ellington's near misses get closer every week.
On the way home it was shock to hear us included in the list of Championship leaders on 5Live, as our points total now puts us level with QPR and Cardiff in the playoffs. Malky seems to know what his doing. I just hope Scotland don't start to look too closely at how well he is doing in getting this team to punch above their weight.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Watford v Scunthorpe United- Previously...
We've only played Scunny 20 times, the first time being way back in December 1938 when we won 2-1 away in the FA Cup Second Round. The first league meeting was in the Old Division 3 in 1965 when we beat them twice in four days. The first game was our biggest win, 5-0 at the Vic and then we won 2-1 at the Old Showground, where they played before moving to Glanford Park.
Our record against them is favourable with us winning 13, drawing 3 and losing 4, scoring 35 goals to their 12. At the Vic we've played 10 times, winning 8 and losing 2, scoring 24 and conceding 6. The last meeting was earlier this year in the Third Round of the FA Cup when, accompanied by the band that would perform at Barack Obama's inauguration, a Raziak goal gave us a 1-0 win. The last time we met in the League was the season before last when we won 3-1 up at Glanford, but lost 1-0 at the Vic in one of the really awful displays of Aidy's reign.
Scunthorpe have done far better at home this season than on their travels. They've only won once away, a stunning 4-0 win at Pal-arse and drawn once, 1-1 at Bristol City. The highlight of their season was the 2-1 home win over Newcastle. In their last game they lost 4-1 at Blackpool.
Henri Lansbury spent the end of last season on loan at Scunny playing 16 times and scoring 4 goals. Mutual friends include Neil Cox who started his played career there, and Graham Taylor who never played or managed the Iron, but did grow up in the town and regularly attended their home games with his Dad who worked as journalist for the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph.
Our record against them is favourable with us winning 13, drawing 3 and losing 4, scoring 35 goals to their 12. At the Vic we've played 10 times, winning 8 and losing 2, scoring 24 and conceding 6. The last meeting was earlier this year in the Third Round of the FA Cup when, accompanied by the band that would perform at Barack Obama's inauguration, a Raziak goal gave us a 1-0 win. The last time we met in the League was the season before last when we won 3-1 up at Glanford, but lost 1-0 at the Vic in one of the really awful displays of Aidy's reign.
Scunthorpe have done far better at home this season than on their travels. They've only won once away, a stunning 4-0 win at Pal-arse and drawn once, 1-1 at Bristol City. The highlight of their season was the 2-1 home win over Newcastle. In their last game they lost 4-1 at Blackpool.
Henri Lansbury spent the end of last season on loan at Scunny playing 16 times and scoring 4 goals. Mutual friends include Neil Cox who started his played career there, and Graham Taylor who never played or managed the Iron, but did grow up in the town and regularly attended their home games with his Dad who worked as journalist for the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Yet Another New Scoreboard
Since the wonderful scoreboard that graces the masthead of this blog was retired due to the construction of the Vicarage Road Stand we've had some fairly ropey efforts inflicted upon us.
When Sarries moved in we had one attached to the portacabin that sat on the old Family Terrace. It was a luminous green affair but did the job adequately keeping score and time in a functional sort of way.
It got replaced by the Disabled Enclosure scoreboard which must be one of the most shy and retiring scoreboards in the country. Its not really apparent that its anything at all until you realise the bit in the middle is keeping the time. I quite liked it really as it seemed such a low tech affair. I wondered if someone was actually turning a dial in the enclosure to make it change. Presumably not as if that had been the case it wouldn't have started going wrong so frequently. So we purchased two new bright clocks with a 1980's digital watch type font to compensate for its mistakes. We must have got these very cheaply as they only seemed to work for one or two games before their light was permanently extinguished.
We gave up on the disabled enclosure keeping the score around the same time although the Home and Away signs can still be seen. On Saturday we unveiled a new sponsored scoreboard with scrolling text but there were several immediate problems, the major one being you needed fantastic eyesight to read the score. But even if you could it kept getting it wrong. For a while we were 2 up when officially we'd only scored 1. When Cleverley did make it two the scoreboard seemed to optimistically think we'd scored 20. After a while it seemed to give up completely on keeping the score but managed to do the time okay.
Today, I can exclusively reveal that we have purchased another scoreboard and it should be in place for the Scunny game. Here it is just before being packaged up to be shipped off to the Vic.
Jimmy and Vince must have typed keyword 'scoreboard' into eBay without quite realising that in this particular case size really does matter. At least its unlikely to go wrong, and the only problem will be if either side manages to score 10 or more...
When Sarries moved in we had one attached to the portacabin that sat on the old Family Terrace. It was a luminous green affair but did the job adequately keeping score and time in a functional sort of way.
It got replaced by the Disabled Enclosure scoreboard which must be one of the most shy and retiring scoreboards in the country. Its not really apparent that its anything at all until you realise the bit in the middle is keeping the time. I quite liked it really as it seemed such a low tech affair. I wondered if someone was actually turning a dial in the enclosure to make it change. Presumably not as if that had been the case it wouldn't have started going wrong so frequently. So we purchased two new bright clocks with a 1980's digital watch type font to compensate for its mistakes. We must have got these very cheaply as they only seemed to work for one or two games before their light was permanently extinguished.
We gave up on the disabled enclosure keeping the score around the same time although the Home and Away signs can still be seen. On Saturday we unveiled a new sponsored scoreboard with scrolling text but there were several immediate problems, the major one being you needed fantastic eyesight to read the score. But even if you could it kept getting it wrong. For a while we were 2 up when officially we'd only scored 1. When Cleverley did make it two the scoreboard seemed to optimistically think we'd scored 20. After a while it seemed to give up completely on keeping the score but managed to do the time okay.
Today, I can exclusively reveal that we have purchased another scoreboard and it should be in place for the Scunny game. Here it is just before being packaged up to be shipped off to the Vic.Jimmy and Vince must have typed keyword 'scoreboard' into eBay without quite realising that in this particular case size really does matter. At least its unlikely to go wrong, and the only problem will be if either side manages to score 10 or more...
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Believe- Watford 2 Preston North End 0
As everything that the club does at the moment has to remind you that Elt is playing a concert next year and the tickets go on sale on Monday I hope they appreciate I managed to wangle one of his lesser known hits into the blog title.
But I make no apologies for it because today we truly did believe, in a way that, as Malky correctly pointed out, exactly a week ago at the Hawthorns we really didn't. The very obvious difference today was Heidar who just gives us that extra bit of Mooney-esque bite, and by us I don't just mean the team but all of us. His presence lifts the whole place and when he scored after 9 minutes we all believed that we could beat an average looking Preston side, and it was very satisfying that we did.
We played some lovely passing football that a year ago it would've been impossible for us to pull off. The second goal was made by a wonderful bit of skill from Lansbury and finished off by Cleverley. It was as good as anything seen during the Judas era.
What was really great about today though was the second half. Preston were much much better than they were in the first half. They'd obviously had a bit of a rollicking at half time and came out looking determined to try and nick a goal that would then give them a way back in. But our back four held very firm and didn't let Preston through, even though they had Jon 'Giant Haystacks' Parkin leading the line. Scott Loach was brilliant and made a fine save from Parkin in injury time to ensure we didn't have a nervy finale.
An often sung song last week at West Brom was 'We always get shit refs'. I'm surprised we'd didn't have a reprise this afternoon as Mr K Wright was woeful. He was overly fussy at times when he didn't need to be, but ridiculously lenient when action was required. His complete lack of authority really showed when we had a free kick just outside the Preston box in the second half. He asked the wall to move back from its position of about seven yards from the ball and when they didn't respond he just walked away. He was rubbish and should be sent back to ref kids and get their respect before being unleashed on the Championship again. If Elton wants to add some chants into his set for May I reckon this is should be top of the list because, frustratingly, its so true.
But I make no apologies for it because today we truly did believe, in a way that, as Malky correctly pointed out, exactly a week ago at the Hawthorns we really didn't. The very obvious difference today was Heidar who just gives us that extra bit of Mooney-esque bite, and by us I don't just mean the team but all of us. His presence lifts the whole place and when he scored after 9 minutes we all believed that we could beat an average looking Preston side, and it was very satisfying that we did.
We played some lovely passing football that a year ago it would've been impossible for us to pull off. The second goal was made by a wonderful bit of skill from Lansbury and finished off by Cleverley. It was as good as anything seen during the Judas era.
What was really great about today though was the second half. Preston were much much better than they were in the first half. They'd obviously had a bit of a rollicking at half time and came out looking determined to try and nick a goal that would then give them a way back in. But our back four held very firm and didn't let Preston through, even though they had Jon 'Giant Haystacks' Parkin leading the line. Scott Loach was brilliant and made a fine save from Parkin in injury time to ensure we didn't have a nervy finale.
An often sung song last week at West Brom was 'We always get shit refs'. I'm surprised we'd didn't have a reprise this afternoon as Mr K Wright was woeful. He was overly fussy at times when he didn't need to be, but ridiculously lenient when action was required. His complete lack of authority really showed when we had a free kick just outside the Preston box in the second half. He asked the wall to move back from its position of about seven yards from the ball and when they didn't respond he just walked away. He was rubbish and should be sent back to ref kids and get their respect before being unleashed on the Championship again. If Elton wants to add some chants into his set for May I reckon this is should be top of the list because, frustratingly, its so true.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Watford v Preston North End- Previously...
It was in our first season as a Football League club that we met the first ever League Champions. We went up to Deepdale in the Second Round of the 1921 FA Cup where we were beaten 4-1. Four more FA Cup meetings followed before we met them for the first time in the League in 1969 when we were both in the Old Division Two. We were beaten 3-0 in Lancashire and drew 0-0 at the Vic.
In all there have been 37 meetings between us and we’ve won 10, drawn 11 and lost 16 of those, scoring 40 goals but conceding 52. We have a much better record at home winning 8 of the 18 meetings, drawing 6 and losing 4 scoring 22 goals to their 17.
We’ve never beaten Preston by more than a couple of goals and have only managed to put three past them on two ocassions, both at home in 1974 and 1998. The two meetings in League and Cup that I’ve mentioned are Preston’s biggest victories over us. At the Vic their biggest margin of victory was 2-0 in 2005.
Because of one of the unnecessary quirks of the fixture list that the organisers love to throw in occasionally we last met Preston twice during October 2008. Goals from Jon Harley and Tommy Smith secured a 2-1 victory at Vicarage Road which was Aidy’s last home win. The 2-0 reverse later in the month at Deepdale was his last away match in charge.
Preston are currently in 9th place in the Championship with 24 points. They have won three of their eight away games with victories against Barnsley, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday. Their last two matches were both homes draws, 1-1 with Palace and 2-2 with Middlesbrough.
No current Preston player has appeared for the 'Orns. For our most notable mutual friend we have to go back over 100 years. John Goodall was one of Preston's 'Invincibles' in the inaugural season of the Football League in 1888. He was the leagues leading scorer with 20 goals in 21 games. He then made his way to us via Derby where he not only played for County but also for the Derbyshire Cricket Team, New Brighton Tower and Glossop North End. In 1903 he became our first ever player manager having instant success as we won the Southern League Second Division. He remained in charge until 1910 when he then took on the job of our groundsman! An option for Malky maybe, if this football manager business doesn't work out.
In all there have been 37 meetings between us and we’ve won 10, drawn 11 and lost 16 of those, scoring 40 goals but conceding 52. We have a much better record at home winning 8 of the 18 meetings, drawing 6 and losing 4 scoring 22 goals to their 17.
We’ve never beaten Preston by more than a couple of goals and have only managed to put three past them on two ocassions, both at home in 1974 and 1998. The two meetings in League and Cup that I’ve mentioned are Preston’s biggest victories over us. At the Vic their biggest margin of victory was 2-0 in 2005.
Because of one of the unnecessary quirks of the fixture list that the organisers love to throw in occasionally we last met Preston twice during October 2008. Goals from Jon Harley and Tommy Smith secured a 2-1 victory at Vicarage Road which was Aidy’s last home win. The 2-0 reverse later in the month at Deepdale was his last away match in charge.
Preston are currently in 9th place in the Championship with 24 points. They have won three of their eight away games with victories against Barnsley, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday. Their last two matches were both homes draws, 1-1 with Palace and 2-2 with Middlesbrough.
No current Preston player has appeared for the 'Orns. For our most notable mutual friend we have to go back over 100 years. John Goodall was one of Preston's 'Invincibles' in the inaugural season of the Football League in 1888. He was the leagues leading scorer with 20 goals in 21 games. He then made his way to us via Derby where he not only played for County but also for the Derbyshire Cricket Team, New Brighton Tower and Glossop North End. In 1903 he became our first ever player manager having instant success as we won the Southern League Second Division. He remained in charge until 1910 when he then took on the job of our groundsman! An option for Malky maybe, if this football manager business doesn't work out.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Cathcart
My friend Laurence texted today wondering if we've made a deal that to keep Tom Cleverley we have to play Craig Cathcart as well. CC certainly isn't the Mike 'Mr.Krabs' Williamson replacement we hoped for (nice to see him turning out so regularly for Pompey, hope he's enjoying the money). As I've said before I reckon Dale Bennett has done more to merit a place in the side than Cathcart.
He really should've dealt with the first goal yesterday afternoon. Yes, it was headed in by the tallest Albion player but Craig is no wallflower and was marking him. Unlike Tom C, he currently he looks like one of our academy kids who's struggling slightly at being made to step up so quickly, rather than a player who might one day grace the 'Theatre of Dreams'.
He really should've dealt with the first goal yesterday afternoon. Yes, it was headed in by the tallest Albion player but Craig is no wallflower and was marking him. Unlike Tom C, he currently he looks like one of our academy kids who's struggling slightly at being made to step up so quickly, rather than a player who might one day grace the 'Theatre of Dreams'.
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