Showing posts with label Plymouth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plymouth. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Happy Drugs


I'm very proud to announce that we are a team that can now string together 2 wins in a row! The first time for 16 months!

We beat Stockport 1 - 0 Tuesday night in the League Cup. On Saturday we play ... er ... Stockport again in the League. At their gaff this time.

And good old Luton beat Plymouth 2 - 0 in the same competition. Fair play to them I say. They deserve some good fortune.

One person who isn't celebrating today however is Adrian Mutu, who has been ordered to pay Chel$ea £13.68m for breach of contract after he was sacked for testing positive for cocaine.

Which just goes to show that happy drugs are not where it is at. There is no greater high than simply winning.

Wednesday, 2 April 2008

Waterloo


Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I didn't get home until the early hours of this morning after watching this lot and this lot live. Of course my lover and I had made arrangements to have the Man U/Roma score text to us as it happened.

I thought I would do a quick entry this morning, however, to tell you about a lunchtime conversation I had at a meeting during the day. I was talking to - lets call him Brian (a good name since it is actually his real one). Brian, I discovered, is a Yeovil fan and goes to most away matches. He is a Bristolian by origin, although he now lives in Somerset, and you'll never guess who he knew a few years ago.

None other than our own Ian Holloway!

It was at the time when Ollie was managing Bristol Rovers, where he is not deemed to have done terribly well. He then moved to QPR where - er - he is not deemed to have done very well either. His time at Plymouth seems to be regarded as more successful, however, and of course the verdict is still out at Leicester.

I don't want that to sound as if I am losing my faith in him. I think he is a great personality and as I have said before there is evidence that he has improved the standard of play by the Foxes since his arrival, albeit still inconsistently.

He does have what I call the 'ouch' factor though. I love his sense of humour but there have been times when I would have looked for a little more gravitas. It is difficult to find much to laugh about when you are hovering around, or worse still in, the relegation zone. At such times the use of humour needs to be measured and subtle.

Brian also shared a rumour that Ollie's Bristolian accent is not entirely authentic in that it is somewhat 'embellished'. I couldn't possible comment of course.

Ollie and the boys can look forward to a hard fought battle this Saturday against Sheffield United I am sure. Reminiscent of the battle I fought at the gig last night against against some dreadful French woman who came and stood directly in front of me then tried to invade my space. Unfortunately for her I have quite bony elbows which I strategically placed either side of me as I bopped. Within 10 minutes the space between us had opened up and it was Waterloo all over again.

Friday, 31 August 2007

My Precious


We are orphans. Abandoned fox cubs. How sad is that?

Not so Plymouth, our opponents tomorrow. They have Ian Holloway to look after them.

3 fairly interesting things about Ian Holloway are:
  • His nickname is Olly or Gollum
  • He featured in a BBC Documentary "Stress Test" where he publicly addressed his anger management problems
  • When he was manager of Bristol Rover FC he refused to sit in a red chair because it was the colour of their arch rivals, Bristol City
3 fairly strange things Olly has said are:

  • Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi."
  • "If is a big word. If I had long hair, I could be a rock star"
  • "I feel so unlucky at the moment. If I fell into a barrow of boobs I'd come out sucking on my thumb"
We can only hope he doesn't get to do a post match interview tomorrow. With such a poetic style he will dazzle the viewers and put our win into the shade.

Did I say win? I think I did.

Come on you blues!!!

See you at the match. Row T.