Craven Cottage Newsround

Weekend action

weltmeisterclaude — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:04:33 +0000

USSR 3-4 Belgium, 1986.

And what about the second goal in this game, Dynamo Kiev v Atletico Madrid. About two minutes into the tape, the players make this goal through pure instinct. Incredible:

You learn something every day

weltmeisterclaude — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:28:26 +0000

New kit out. In a bid to prove that our £40 is being well spent (kits have been £40 for a long time haven’t they? Does that mean they’re inflation busters, and very good value?), we learn the following:

Made from Nike Sphere Dry fabric it keeps you dry by drawing sweat away from the skin. The Dri-Fit mesh side panels allow for optimum ventilation and also helps moves moisture away from the body. A new heat pressed Lextra crest badge finalises the most technically advanced replica jersey available from Nike.

What is Lextra, I hear you ask, and why are they telling us this?

So now we know. Lextra have “the dimension of life” (as opposed to…?), are “beyond flat” (convex?), “invite touch” (opponents feeling our players’ badges in admiration?) and add drama (oh no).

Thumb twiddling

weltmeisterclaude — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:27 +0000

Well, what is there to say? Most of the players are back in training, Harry Kewell’s signed for someone else, we’ve a new Chief Executive*, and we don’t appear to have sold any of last year’s massive squad.

Rumours are scarce, with the national press seemingly scouring message boards and their own back issues for ideas. Dave Kitson? Bobby Zamora? Not under Roy, surely? No, they, and we, know nothing. The Swedish right-back seems plausible, mainly because Rosenberg said we’d made an offer, but what else do we have?

Ho hum. They say that things only get going once everyone’s back at the club, so I suppose we shouldn’t expect much. But the season seems so close…

This is the first time in ages that we’ve really had nothing to talk about.

*about whom we know little, really, just as we knew little, really about David McNally, despite all the negativity towards him from some fans.

Arsenal home game to be on a Monday night?

weltmeisterclaude — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:20:50 +0000

Video of David Healy here. He rambles on in a footballery way for a minute, but in the middle says “we’ve Hull away to start with and then Arsenal on Monday night and Man Utd second or and third game”. So maybe he knows something we don’t.

Panic over. I misheard. Sorry about that.