Didn't 'Arry Do Well!!!
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Time for me to make a dick of myself as we look back...
1st Manchester United (predicted 2nd)
– Saints 2 United 3, United 2 Saints 1
Sir Taggart’s last season was another triumphant one as they
won the league at a canter. Everyone
thought they needed a midfielder to challenge and they doubtlessly do,
especially to challenge in Europe but all they
needed to win the Premier League was Robin Van Persie. Many would have shied away from paying
millions for a 29 year old but that outlay won them the title, pure and simple,
though they would probably have found another way to win it if RVP had decided
to remain at Arsenal and help in their quest for 4th place. Elsewhere in the side, nothing much
changed. De Gea is still a bit dodgy and
Rio is still a bell end with “I wanna play for England
/ I withdraw from the England
squad / I retire from international
football”. It was also nice to see Wayne
Rooney throw his toys out of the pram again and demand a transfer. The last time he did this was a couple of
years ago in protest at a lack of quality signings – so they sign RVP and
Rooney finds himself playing less which triggers him throwing his toys out again. It’s all me, me, me the hateful little squirrel
headed twat. We played really well in
both matches against United this season but ended up with nothing which goes towards
explaining why they won the league. 2-1
up with 10 minutes to go at SMS ended up as a 3-2 defeat with RVP scoring all 3
and at Old Trafford we lost 2-1 and were labelled “the best team to play there
all season” by Sir Alex. I can’t see the
appointment of David Moyes slowing them down too much either, the only problem
could be if Howard Webb leaves them in protest.
2nd Manchester City
I thought they’d build on last season’s title triumph and
buy some more top notch players and win the League again and make a better fist
of the Champions League. As it is they
did nothing and won nothing as a number of the players appeared not to be
bothered and everyone involved in the club except the fans seemed to lay the
blame at Roberto Mancini’s door, a door which he was unsurprisingly shoved out
of straight after losing to Wigan in the FA Cup Final. An average first half of the season including
a disastrous Champions League campaign was followed by the walking headline
that was Mario Balotelli being sold to AC Milan in January and not replaced and
though City played well until April, they fell apart when it mattered,
culminating in an abysmal performance in the Cup Final when some players just
confirmed they needed to be got rid of.
They’re turning into the Northern Chelsea and one can only hope that
their fans who have always been excellent with humour and humility, can retain
that and not follow the Chelsea
model of becoming wankers. Assuming they
get a decent manager in place, one who recognizes Nasri and Clichy are questionable of attitude and
Milner and Barry are questionable of ability, they can be strong next
season. We played well but naively in
our opening Premier League game when we got beaten 3-2 at City but we turned
that round with an excellent performance and 3-1 win at St.Mary’s, the
highlight of which was a great finish into his own net by Gareth Barry. Deadly.
3rd Chelsea
(predicted 4th) – Saints 2 Chelsea 1, Chelsea 2 Saints 2
A bewildering club with a bewildering owner. The timeline was roughly – won the Champions
League with di Matteo as the caretaker manager, give him the job permanently
even though Abramovich obviously never wanted to, sacked him after 10 or so
games at a cost of millions, see Pep Guardiola decide to become manager of a
stable club who won’t treat him like shit, appoint Rafa Benitez as Interim
manager and see him get slaughtered by the fans and see this gradually tail off
as he wins the Europa League and qualifies for the Champions League again. Totally mad and totally classless (see
treatment of Lampard until he became their new top scorer of all time) at every
turn but you can’t argue with their success.
They need no stability and no clear plan, just Roman’s chequebook. Now it appears they’re getting Jose Mourinho
back and whilst Chelsea
fans will see this as a dream appointment, I’d say it has at least an even
chance of going horribly wrong. Some
fabulous players like Cech, Mata, Luiz, Hazard and Lampard and some serious
potential in Oscar and even in the much maligned Fernando Torres who seems to
have finally awoken from his three year slumber. In Nigel Adkins last game we came back from
2-0 down to grab a draw at Stamford
Bridge
4th Arsenal (predicted 3rd) – Arsenal
6 Saints 1, Saints 1 Arsenal 1
Arsenal achieved their seasons’ aim which was to win the
trophy of 4th place. All they
appear to care about is qualifying for the Champions League cash cow every year
and that’ll do. Forget actually winning
everything. In a year where Van Persie
joined Nasri , Clichy and Fabregas in winning whatever League they were in
immediately after leaving Arsenal, Arsenal struggled like mad at the start but
when it mattered, when their 4th place was under threat, strung the
results together at the of the season to sneak in ahead of Gareth Bale. Celebrating like mad after clinching 4th
must make the pantheon of Arsenal greats from the George Graham and early
Wenger squads feel like throwing up.
They pissed me off this year with the lack of game time for Alex
Oxlade-Chamberlain who appears to be going down the Walcott route of going
backwards and having his confidence destroyed for 3 years before getting
another chance. Walcott himself has had
his best season this year as has been playing up front more. Strikers signed after RVP left were Podolski
and Giroud who have been a qualified success and they still lack that Vieira
type in midfield. Needless to say,
they’ve been linked with our young players again with Shaw and Schneiderlin
tiresomely being about to sign allegedly.
They played us at a good time (for them) last season and hammered us 6-1
when we defended like a blind team with no rattle in the ball in a game which
was the beginning of the end of Kelvin Davis as our first choice keeper. A much better performance at home saw us grab
a decent 1-1 draw.
5th Tottenham (predicted 7th) – Saints
1 Spurs 2, Spurs 1 Saints 0
Gareth Bale – that is all.
With him playing like he did they finished 5th, without him
they’d have been about 12th.
He was that good and the rest of the Spurs side were that average. I believe he’ll stay next year so Andre
Villas Boas has one more attempt to get it right and that means buying a decent
striker. Even if they do that, it’s hard
to believe Bale will be that good again next season. Villas-Boas did better than I expected as
when he was at Chelsea
he seemed like a boy who’d been bought the most expensive train set and he
seemed to be lacking both in temperament and in the art of being a
manager. Maybe there is something about Chelsea that brings out
the worst in people (actually, there’s no ‘maybe’ about it). There have been flashes from the likes of
Adebayor, Huddlestone, Lennon and Defoe and a mention must go to the excellent
Jan Vertonghen in defence. Spurs did the
double over us this season with a 2-1 win at SMS when we only turned up for the
second half and a sickening game at White Hart Lane when we were the better
side but got done by a Bale wonder goal with 5 minutes to go. I was hoping they’d nick the last Champions
League spot just to shake things up a bit but even yet another Bale wonder goal
in the last minute of the last game wasn’t quite enough for them to overhaul
Arsenal, for the 10th season running. The safest bet of all is for them to finish 5th
again next year.
6th Everton (predicted 6th) – Everton
3 Saints 1, Saints 0 Everton 0
Not only did I predict their correct finishing position, I
also predicted in August 2012 that David Moyes would not go to Spurs but would
wait for the Man United job to come up.
Have it!!! It was an excellent 6th
place finish for The Toffees who added some flair to their traditional ‘hard to
beat’. Now Moyes has moved on I fear for
them a bit as in a perfect world they would keep their good players like
Baines, Fellaini, Mirallas etc but I can see them losing a couple. Managed to finish 6th without a
genuine success at centre-forward with both Jelavic and Anichebe sharing the
burden and mainly struggling. The
impetus was provided by the 3 players mentioned earlier with Fellaini in
particular being on fire in the first half of the season, even though he
commits a foul every single time an opposition player is near him,a bit like a
new, updated afro-headed version of Kevin davies in that regard. The new manager choice is obviously massive
for them next season and some of the names being banded about would worry me – Martinez ? Benitez? It was Men v Boys when we played them at
Goodison as they recovered from us taking an early lead to score 3 goals in ten
minutes before half time and then coast through the 2nd half. The
SMS game was Mauricio’s first game in charge and was significant because even
though it was 0-0, we adapted to the required pressing game very quickly and
the players showed that they weren’t going to capitulate because Nigel Adkins
was no longer on the bus. Also, it
showed that Saints fans have a bit about them and in a most un-Chelsea way, didn’t
slaughter the incoming manager for replacing a popular ex-manager.
7th Liverpool (predicted 8th) – Liverpool 1 Saints 0, Saints 3 Liverpool 1
At time marvellous and at times woeful. They seem to be on the right lines with
Brendan Rodgers though and this is annoying because I really don’t like
him. He seems to be such a smug twat. He’s fallen into the Liverpool Way which is to pay way over
the odds for average players so joining Carroll, Henderson and Downing, we had
Borini and Joe Allen. In January he did
a bit better with the purchase of Daniel Sturridge and Phillipe Coutinho but
now he has to get the defence right – however, expect them to pay stupid money
for Callum McManaman from Wigan – I’m not in the know on this but I just reckon
it’ll happen. Through it all they’ve had
Luis Suarez who is a brilliant player, in addition to being a cheating, diving,
stamp-tackling, biting, brainless, horrible little shit. It’s been remarkable how many games they’ve
got out of Steven Gerrard this season as well.
When we played them at Anfield we seemed to have a large dose of
‘overawed’ and we allowed them to stroll to a 1-0 win but we put it right at
SMS when Pochettino’s tactics of pressing and getting in their faces worked
like a dream and they clearly didn’t fancy it at all and weren’t good enough to
deal with it as we cantered to a 3-1 win.
8th West Brom
(predicted 18th) – WBA 2 Saints 0, Saints 0 WBA 3
I got this one wrong, big time.... and here’s why. Ah, the loan system. Big club buys striker who is never going to
play for them and loans him to another club in the same division, where he’s
brilliant and his club finish miles above where they would usually be…. Can I
hear you say ‘distorts the competition’.
I’m repeating myself here but the rules are crap. Romelu Lukaku is his name and what a player
and where would West Brom have finished if
they’d been reliant on Marc Antoine Fortune and Shane Long for all their
goals. That said, they had a great
season with what they had and that included Steve Clarke in his first season. Lukaku was obviously big part of it but the
rest of the teams was set up very well and they were particularly formidable at
home. Their fans always deserve a
mention as well as in my opinion they are always one of the best in the league,
loud and good humoured. As a club they
dealt with the Odemwingie issue very well and basically said “you’ve been a
knob, now go and rot in the reserves” and they confound me by having Liam
Ridgewell in the side and still doing well.
We are the team that they want to play every week as they annihilated us
twice with the game at The Hawthorns being a particularly painful one where our
performance warranted an 8-0 defeat. We
managed to lose 3-0 at home which I feel was a bit of a freak result and
everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
They deserved to win though so fair enough.
9th Swansea
(predicted 17th) – Saints 1 Swansea 1, Swansea 0 Saints 0
I thought they’d struggle this year and in my first draft of
predictions, I had them to go down but then I remembered that my brother-in-law
would give me hard time so I moved them up.
I reckoned without two things... one, that a having a new manager would
have no negative effect on them... and two, Michu. They have a club wide philosophy and a way of
playing which means that if the manager changes, the style of play doesn’t
majorly change. Michael Laudrup was of
course, a fabulous player and he’s translated that into being so far, a very
good manager. Even if they’d paid £20m,
Michu would have been a fantastic buy with 18 goals but he cost a tenth of
that. Doesn’t matter how well you do
though – if you play for Swansea
you won’t get nominated for Player of the Year.
Laudrup may well not be there next year as he’s sure to attract offers
from other clubs but Swansea
won’t struggle as they wouldn’t appoint a Mark Hughes or a Harry Redknapp. Won the Carling Cup this year of course and
fell away in the league somewhat after that.
Without the Carling Cup win they could well have been challenging for
the Europa League places through the league.
I don’t think I’m being too biased in saying we should have got at least
4 points against them but we got two, thanks to a Gazzaniga shocker at
St.Mary’s when his casual clearance put Yoshida in the shit and handbag thief
Nathan Dyer nicked the ball and scored.
At the Liberty ,
Adam Lallana had a perfectly good goal disallowed by Stevie Wonder on the line
whose view was obviously impeded by his guide dog.
10th West Ham (predicted 16th) – West
Ham 4 Saints 1, Saints 1 West Ham 1
Hoooooooooof!!! I know it’s predictable and some would say
childish but there you go. To be honest
they’ve had a great season and managed to sneak into the top 10. I don’t like Fat Sam but you can’t argue with
the results. Their opening fixtures were
the polar opposite of ours in that they had winnable home games which they took
advantage of which got them settled into the league and they never looked like
getting relegated at any point. Like
with West Brom they signed a striker on loan
from a big club in Andy Carroll and though he’s derided as a donkey, he’s
central to the way they play. Put it
this way, if they’d had to rely on Carlton Cole they’d have been in the mixer
with the other bottom half clubs so again, the loan system distorts the
competition. Kevin Nolan didn’t surprise
me by being a moaning bastard but he did surprise me in playing well and
contributing a fair number of goals.
Tomkins and Collins at the back were on the whole decent as well and Fat
Sam favourite Jaaskeleinen should be good for another few years. The decision was made to gift them the
Olympic Stadium for £1m rent a year which is a big boost to them. It’s easy to be annoyed but if we were
offered a 70,000 capacity stadium in Eastleigh
for next to nothing – would we take it?
Of course we would. Mind you, we
wouldn’t have billboard adverts for Super Intruder Dildo’s and Open Legs
Monthly. How’s that for the Olympic
Legacy? We got stuffed at Upton Park by
4-1 in the second of our seasons low points when we were absolutely shocking
and got bullied and then drew 1-1 at SMS in a game we really should have won
but a deflected Carroll free kick nicked a point for them.
11th Norwich
(predicted 19th) – Saints 1 Norwich 1, Norwich 0 Saints 0
I thought Chris Hughton would struggle and that they’d go
down but even though Hughton did struggle, they stayed up. An 11th place finish highlights
the small margins between finishing 11th and finishing 17th
as in truth, Norwich were pretty poor, especially in 2013. They looked to be in
freefall and a real possibility for the 3rd relegation spot but
thrashed an ‘on the beach’ West Brom side and then turned over a similarly
demotivated Man City Norwich
did well this season considering the momentum of back to back promotions and a
solid first season was undermined somewhat when the manager cleared off in the
summer. Chris Hughton never seems a big
enough character to be a Premier League manager but he’s done well to keep them
in there. They also have Robert
Snodgrass who has the kind of face you’d never tire of hitting with a big stick. We should really have won both games against Norwich this season but
ended up drawing both. The away game was
particularly galling as Lallana produced miss of the season and then Grant Holt
took a dive and Twattenburg bought it in an attention seeking moment. Luckily, Boruc saved it but we still saw fit
to give Twattenburg some treatment for a scandalous decision and we got fined
£20 grand for the kind of thing that Sir Alex does every single week.
12th Fulham (predicted 13th) – Saints
2 Fulham 2, Fulham 1 Saints 1
My prediction on Fulham at the start of the season played on
the fact that they are very very boring and uninspiring and basically, just
deathly dull. They have a statue of
Michael Jackson but they’re still dull.
They had a dull season and were probably in 12th or 13th
place all season, never threatening the top 10, nor ever looking like they
might get sucked into the scrap at the bottom.
What highlights there were, were provided by Berbatov who is brilliant
when he can be bothered but he plays with the demeanour of a guy who can’t
believe that he’s now playing for Fulham.
“Keep Calm and Pass Me the Ball” as the T-shirt says. On the back it said
“as all the others are fucking useless”.
After that there was only Martin Jol’s interviews when he speaks in that
low voice which registers on the Richter scale.
We had two draws against the this season with a 2-2 at SMS when Jose
Fonte scored in the first and last minutes and there was a 1-1 at Craven
Cottage in yet another away game that we really should have won.
13th Stoke (predicted 10th) – Stoke 2
Saints 3, Saints 1 Stoke 1
For the 5th year in a row they survived and for
the 5th year in a row they did it the same way under Tony Pulis, by
playing rugby. The difference is that this year the Stoke fans seemed to tire
of the direct approach and want to move on.
Hence the Chairman decided to dispense with Pulis after the last
game. Started the season very well
especially at home but it all died after Christmas and for a couple of weeks
they looked in real danger. Hoofball is
tolerated if it gets results but if it doesn’t then fans think that you may as
well be getting beat trying to play the right way. Squad will need a major overhaul if they are
going to start playing differently next season and it could well be a case of
‘careful what you wish for’. You can’t
imagine them playing tika-taka football upto the feet of 6 foot 8 Peter Crouch
and 6 foot 4 Kenwyne Jones. They did
provide one of the more bizarre incidents of this season though with Kenwyne
and the pigs head in his locker. What
happened to Rory Delap this season as well?
Unless he’s dislocated his shoulders or something there’s no reason why
he can’t play as all he ever did was take throw-ins. He could take those if he was in a
wheelchair. When Stoke were good at home
we put in a very decent performance and drew 3-3 in a game that will be
remembered equally for Guly’s open goal shocker which would have put us 4-1 up
and Cameron Jerome scoring an incredible goal against us in the 95th
minute when he hit the top corner from 30 yards. At SMS – well it was boring and end-of-season
and we should have won but ended up drawing 1-1. As I write they’re looking at Mark Hughes to replace
Pulis. If you want a man to rebuild a
squad then Hughes is your man, just look what he did at QPR.
14th Southampton
(predicted 15th)
That’s us... well we started like Blackpool from a couple of
years back, playing great entertaining football and losing in the face of a
horrendous fixture list but we didn’t help themselves with naive tactics and
too much loyalty to players who clearly weren’t good enough like Kelvin Davis
and Danny Fox who to be fair, we did try and replace. Chastening defeats at West Ham and West Brom probably sealed Nigel Adkins fate but not
before he turned it around, helped by a change of formation, Maya Yoshida
bedding in, Jack Cork being fit and Luke Shaw emerging. Once Saints started picking up points and
settled on Artur Boruc in goal, we were heading upwards when Mauricio
Pochettino came in to replaced Adkins and he media universally spoke as one to
declare that Saints were a horrific club and Nicola Cortese was a horrific
chairman – all because he makes unpopular decisions – the fact that he gets
them right is ignored pretty much.
Pochettino carried on the good work and some top notch wins against Man
City, Chelsea and Liverpool meant that Saints never really looked in danger
(unless you are a bedwetter) until a little wobble at the end where in the
main, the performances were still good but the points gained didn’t reflect
that. It was odd in a way, we started off
not being able to defend, then sorted that out and everything was good for a
few month and at the end we forgot how to attack. An exciting summer with a
clear out of deadwood and the recruiting of new players follows which will
hopefully see us convert a few more of those good performances into wins and a
crack at the Top 10 next season.
15th Aston Villa (predicted 14th) –
Saints 4 Villa 1, Villa 0 Saints 1
Aston Villa are a massive club who should be competing
around where Liverpool , Everton and Spurs are,
just below the Champions League places.
The fact that they’re not is down to them cutting their cloth
accordingly and bringing in youngsters and lower league players (Lowton, Baker,
Bennett, Westwood) which has to be applauded.
Paul Lambert looked like he was about to commit suicide at several
points this season (losing 8-0 at Chelsea can’t have been great) and they
looked doomed in about February but they turned it round and fair play to
them. Christian Benteke is to Villa what
Gareth Bale is to Spurs in that he single handedly made the difference between
finishing where they did and finishing considerably lower. I hope they hang onto him but I bet they
don’t as someone will lob £20 million at it (probably Spurs) and prize him
away. What is it about Belgian players
at the moment – can you imagine playing against Benteke and Lukaku? At the end of the season it was Gabby
Agbonlahor who was doing the business but a star all the way through was Brad
Guzan in goal who replaced has-been Shay Given early on and got better and
better. It’s hard to see Villa improving
though as they still seem to be short of cash so don’t expect too much more
next season. We hammered them 4-1 at SMS
when we were brilliant and we nicked a 1-0 win at Villa Park when J-Rod earned
himself a lifetime of getting booed at Villa with a crap dive that Gareth Bale
would have been proud of, which won us a penalty.
16th Newcastle
(predicted 5th) – Saints 2 Newcastle 0, Newcastle
4 Saints 2
They came 5th last year which was a surprise but
I thought they could do it again as they would build on the squad and
improve. However, what they did was sell
their main goalscorer to Chelsea
in January, had a bad trot with injuries, didn’t have a big enough squad to
compete in Europe
and panic bought every Frenchman who could kick a ball that they could find in
January. It remains to be seen whether
Pards will be there next season as despite having an 8 year contract, this
season will not have been good enough for Fat Cockney Mike and Derek
Llamasass. In Pardew’s defence, the
spine of Krul, Coloccini, Cabaye and Ba all spent time injured or in Ba’s case
were sold. Papiss Cisse had his moments
but wasn’t half as good as he was at the tail end of last season, except for of
course against us at St James’s when he scored from three miles out (yes, he
was still offside). We got whupped 4-2
at their place in a game that was pretty close until we brought Danny Fox on
and he gave a penalty away and then smashed a ball at Big Jos which flew into
our own net whilst at home we easily beat them 2-0 with Gaston having a superb
game and Newcastle playing like Stoke and just launching it up to Ba and Cisse
up front.
17th Sunderland (predicted 9th) –
Saints 0 Sunderland 1, Sunderland
1 Saints 1
Dreadful season for the Mackems as I felt quite confident in
my 9th place prediction for them.
In the end they were lucky to survive which they did, purely by being
slightly less shite than Wigan . Martin O’Neill had a mare this season and
they were heading for relegation until they sacked him with 7 games to go. The choice of Paolo di Canio caused
unsurprising controversy given his Fascist past (not Fascist present – yeah,
whatever) and the fact that Sunderland is not exactly a right wing town and the
fact that it had the shit bombed out of it during the war has not been
forgotten or I suspect, forgiven. Still,
on the pitch Sunderland managed a couple of wins including a great one at Newcastle
and managed to stay up. Di Canio dances
around like a gibbon and has declared that nearly all his players are pathetic
but he’s got to prove himself long term now and I just can’t see it carrying on
without some sort of blow up. Anyway,
for this season they relied on Steven Fletcher’s goals in the first half of the
season and main signing Adam Johnson continued his career downturn which
started when he left the Smoggies to go to Man City
18th Wigan (predicted 20th) – Saints 0
Wigan 2, Wigan
2 Saints 2
Wigan have survived relegation the last few years by winning
when it really mattered, usually in April and May which to me says they are a
side who can do it when they really have to but also that they can take
advantage of teams who are on the beach with nothing to play for. They proved the first theory by winning the
FA Cup which was a brilliant performace against Manchester City Newcastle player and Martinez and that arse Dave Whelan then
defending him. They won that game when
MacManaman should have walked after 20 minutes and compounded it with a last
minute winner from a blatant handball.
They did a 2-0 job on us at St.Mary’s as we were still acclimatising to
the league but in the game at the DW, we pissed all over them and managed to
snatch a 2-2 draw courtesy of two set pieces lobbed into our box. However,
their luck finally ran out.
19th Reading (predicted 12th)
– Saints 1 Reading 0, Reading 0 Saints 2
I’d like to know what on earth I was on when I predicted
that they’d finish 12th. I
think I assumed that the new owner would spend a bit of money and replace those
that obviously weren’t good enough but aside from buying Pogrebnyak, he never
really invested in anyone any good and consequently, their squad was woefully
equipped and you won’t find too many of them snapped up by Premier League sides
for next year. Their game plan in the
Championship was to sit deep, soak it up and then hit on the break which they
had the players to do but slow defenders like Pearce and Harte were always
going to get found out in the Prem and their quick wingers, Kebe and McAnuff
who tore up the Championship, just aren’t good enough. Also – they won the Championship with a
staggering run of form with Jason Roberts being the catalyst. He was never going to be good enough this
year and his replacement Pogrebnyak was a ridiculous buy for the amount he
cost. Brian McDermott got sacked a month
after winning Manager of the Month when they had a streak of 4 or 5 games where
they played abysmally for 85 minutes and then managed to rescue a point or win
a game with goals in the last 5 minutes.
Without that lucky spell they would have been relegated by early
March. Nigel Adkins is their manager now
and he’ll do fine next year but I can’t help but think he undersold
himself. We hammered them 1-0 at our
place and the 2-0 success as the Mad Stad was probably the easiest away win
Saints have ever had in the top flight.
20th QPR (predicted 11th) – QPR 1
Saints 3, Saints 1 QPR 2
Another shocking prediction from myself as I saw the amount
of money Mark Hughes was throwing about and assumed it would pay off. Instead it’s a lesson in how not to do
it. Give a poor manager millions to
spend and he buys two big money goalkeepers for starters. He signed Rob Green first and then signed
Julio Cesar a couple of weeks later because he could. Why?
He didn’t need him? Was it a
surprise to him that Rob Green was ..well, Rob Green. He’s been around the English game for 10
years so you knew how good he was / wasn’t.
Ridiculous. Bobby Zamora and Andy
Sicknote Johnson, Jose Bosingwa, Kieron Dyer !!!! It just gets worse and then
they sacked Hughes, brought n Redknapp who said he wouldn’t buy anyone and he
then spent about £20 million and £200k a week on wages for Loic Remy (good
player but arrested for gang-banging) and Chris Samba (big, slow,
injured). Not to forget Tal Ben Haim who
never played and was then loaned out – nothing funny going on there then. They got relegated and the players were laughing
as they went off. They have some
stalwarts like Clint Hill and Shaun Derry who are going to be needed if they
are to mount a challenge next year but they have the wrong manager in place and
he’ll be off as soon as any London or Southern Premier League club gets
desperate next season...”it’s a triffic club and fans but me ‘art wasn’t
innit”. Redknapp was a complete and
total failure as a manager at QPR. He
had the “no money” excuse when he got relegated with Saints but he can hardly
claim that this time. We beat them 3-1
at Subbuteo Road
which got Hughes the sack and had a mare against them at home in the only game
where Samba and Remy both played well.
That game was the start of this years “Harry Houdini” great escape but
it turned out to be bollocks, like their season and managers.
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