‘League Cup’ Archives
Carling Cup Final
Aston Villa 1 - 2 Manchester United Young Wayne Rooney came off the bench to score the winning goal, but Sir Alex Ferguson revealed that Rooney is struggling with a knee injury after the striker's match-winning contribution. Manchester United 2 - Aston Villa 1- Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod.
League Cup action: 19th – 20th January
Sam Allardyce has criticised the referee as Aston Villa came from 2-0 down to reach the final, probably complaining that he allowed Villa to be much better than his team. Blackburn bagged the first two goals of the night to go ahead on aggregate after their 1-0 loss at home, but after the home side had made it 2-2 by half time (thanks in part to [...]
Carling Cup delight, 1st and 2nd December
Man Utd 2 - 0 Tottenham Young Darron Gibson scored twice in the first half as the holders knocked out last season's finalists at Old Trafford. Manchester United 2 - Tottenham 0- Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Portsmouth 2 - 4 Aston Villa Another game, another four goals conceded. Oops. Portsmouth 2 - Aston [...]
Carling Cup delight, 27th October
Barnsley have called in the police to investigate allegations of vandalism and theft against Man Utd fans who were clearly unhappy about the state of the Yorkshire pies. There was also a match, apparently. Barnsley 0 - 2 Manchester United Tottenham 2 - 0 Everton Do I care? What do you think? Manchester City 5 - 1 Scunthorpe [...]
Carling Cup, September 23rd
Manchester United 1 - 0 Wolves The most fun part of the evening came right at the end, when the fourth official raised his board to indicate there would be a minimum of three minutes' stoppage time. 'We want six,' the Wolves supporters hilariously responded. The evening was made a little tough for the red peril after young Fabio da Silva [...]
The delight of the Carling Cup
The Carling Cup started to heat up last night. Well, this is about as good as it's likely to get. Leeds 0 - 1 Liverpool Simon Grayson's impressive League One side turned back the clock a few years, forcing a consistently high tempo while passing neatly throughout this tie. They could consider themselves unfortunate to bow out to David [...]
This weekend in the Premier League as it happened in the past
Here, in what may become a regular thing on the blog if I can be arsed, is a walk down memory lane 'Prem League' style, which may prove particularly painful for them there Goonerz: 2001: Man Utd 6 - 1 Arsenal The game is bound to be seen as a test of Arsenal's credentials for their bid for the Premier League title. It must also be regarded, [...]
Post-hooligans Carling Cup highlights
Who can stop the boys from White Hart lane? Not the lads from Wigan, that's for sure, although maybe Newcastle might be getting a chance sooner than I thought. Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Manchester City The team that cost 200 million quid needed second half goals from Shaun Wright-Phillips and Carlos Tevez to put them into the next round of the [...]
West Ham and Millwall
If you're a hooligan, you're crap. Please feel free to fight and kill each other, but for the love of God do it away from football. I started going to footy in the 1980s and had enough of this crap then. Everybody, just bloody well calm down and, rather than fighting, download and listen to this. Dancehall Reggae Part 1 (of 4) 01 The Bunny [...]
Who’d be a Norwich fan this season?
Well, I've a few friends who are Ipswich fans who'd say the question should be 'who'd ever be a fan of the Norfolk scum' but I'm more level-headed than that. This is already gearing up to be one hell of a season for the Anglian boys. Last Saturday, they suffered their worst ever home defeat, going down 7-1 to Colchester. After Colchester went [...]
