Craven Cottage Newsround

January 19, 2009

Highlights and things

Filed under: General — weltmeisterclaude @ 10:49 pm

From Virgin.  I meant to have linked to these before but they were offering the incentive of a day’s sky diving for whoever sent them the most visitors so I kept well away just in case.

Good quality highlights.  Were the goals not so obviously bad I could use them for more tactical fiddling.

Instead, some pictures, also from Virgin:

positions

Look at our defenders’ positioning here.   There’s not much West Ham can do that we can’t stop.   It’s why the team places so much emphasis on being set, why the team is so careful in possession, and why I was banging on about Bullard’s mistake at Portsmouth (which Etuhu matched on Sunday).  If you’re set like this then you’re generally going to be alright.   Anyway, Paintsil lost his man here but it’s a lovely picture of what our back eight players are doing when we haven’t got the ball.  Can’t go over, through, round, nothing.  Except…

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Ah, what was I saying about moments?  Here’s one.  Brought me to my feet it did.

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The home-made reverse angle.

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Yay!

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But alas, life is hard, and down goes Carlton Cole.

Still.

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Yay again!

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And one more!

Pffft

Filed under: General — weltmeisterclaude @ 8:41 pm

Robert Funt spent all his early years in a boys’ reform school in upstate New York, where his father was an administrator and was given a house on the grounds.

Excellent.  This is the start of Robert Funt’s author bio. in Caldecott, his collection of poetry that ranges in subject matter from deodourants to school.  It’s not really my bag, for the most part, but as with all these things you only need one ‘moment’ to make reading the whole thing worthwhile.  Just as a smile can light up a morning, and a bald man scoring a header on the South Coast can make a terrible season feel like the best thing ever.  Moments.  Where are all the moments at the moment?

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