He’s gone too far this time I’m not even calling him by his nickname, Samantha speaks, Sam Ricketts should stay in defence and Michael Ricketts fights crime.
Afternoon all. As promised, I hate Arsenal twice as much as yesterday.
Having said that, just what the hell is Paul Robinson on? Because someone should get a good hold of him and shake him until snot comes out of his nose and he starts screaming for his mummy.
‘An Arsenal player gets hurt and all of a sudden it`s all made public. I`ve seen the tackle and I don`t think it`s bad – it`s a good, hard tackle. When you`re sliding in, sometimes it`s impossible to get out of the way. Are we going to ban tackling? It`s ridiculous.’
I know that Mr Vinegar may talk a bit too much about tackling, but I am with him when it comes to the tackles that put his players out of the game for months. And the Paul Robinson tackle was one of those.
Allow me to break it down:
“?.all of a sudden it`s all made public.” No Paul, I think you`ll find that the game that was shown live around the world pretty much made it public.
“I`ve seen the tackle and I don`t think it`s bad – it`s a good hard tackle.” The only thing that is right about this sentence is the word “tackle” and then only in the sense that the ball was there and his foot connected with something. Just not the ball. It was a bad tackle, the only thing good about it was that Diaby managed to walk away without his lower leg hanging off.
“When you`re sliding in, sometimes it`s impossible to get out of the way.” This is true if you are Gary Cahill, who slid in, two feet off the ground. As Phil Thompson said on Soccer Saturday, it was easier for Robinson to get the ball, but he went over the ball and caught Diaby. Diaby didn`t get the ball. It was a wild lunge from a limited player who is committed to the cause but sometimes finds himself out of his depth.
“Are we going to ban tackling? It`s ridiculous.” No we are not going to ban tackling. Asking that question is ridiculous.
Now, we can all laugh and joke about Arsenal not liking it up them, but if Robinson had done that tackle on any player from any team then they would have been up in arms. That it is Mr Vinegar saying it doesn`t make the tackle any better. It was a bad, poorly timed challenged and Robinson was lucky to get away with nothing more than a bruise on his own shin. What he should have been given was an extra large elastoplast to stick over his gob as he has done himself, and us, no favours.
And if you don`t think I can`t see the irony about someone called Paul Robinson complaining about someone complaining about him kicking someone in the lower leg, you are very wrong my friend. (One for our non-Aussie soap opera watching friends there).
I`m a Bolton fan and will defend our players and out tactics to the hilt if it is warranted. I do not apologise when I say that someone should take Paul Robinson out behind the back of the souvenir shop and hit him with a an oversized Lofty toy until he submits.
Apparently, Robinson`s kid goes to the same school as Roberto Di Matteo`s. I wonder what happens in the playground when Di Matteo Jnr. nutmegs Little Robinson only to be taken down with a haymaker?
Anyway, Robinson has been talking about the game on Saturday, but as what comes out of his mouth isn`t worthy of reading, I`m not going to link to it and you`ll have to find it yourself.
Others looking forward to the game include Samantha who has talked to the former BEN about his views on The Baggies win at The Emirates on The Saturday:
“I`m sure everyone will agree that it was a fantastic result, because not many teams go to the Emirates and get anything. They will be using that as momentum now, so we`ll need to make sure we apply ourselves as we have since the start of the season. It wouldn`t just be me who was surprised by the result, it would be the whole country. I don`t think it was the Arsenal that we played a few weeks ago. They looked off the pace.”
So basically it was a freak result and we shouldn`t really read a lot into it.
Of the defensive situation, Sam Ricketts certainly appears to expect to play tomorrow and has revealed that he has form when it comes to playing in the position:
‘I played in the central a couple of times at youth level and when I was with Telford in the Conference. I like it. Naturally I am a defensive-minded player so it suits me well.”
From yesterday, I haven`t changed my mind. The Ricketts/Knight partnership has worked well in the past two league games (we`ll sweep Burnley under the carpet) and the link together well. There is no point in changing a team that is playing well bar, of course, the goalkeeper. I`m sure Cahill will play well if called upon, but there is simply no need at this point.
Finally, news on two of our former players. Danny “The” Shittu, who still hasn`t managed to find a new club yet due to him being a) over confident in his own ability and b) as to football as the official club website is to being award winning, has told Sky that he is ready to play football again. Which would beg the question when he played it last.
And Senior Constable Fat Boy, taking time off finding a new club and a new diet, needs your help in finding who torched some machinery in Cootamundra, New South Wales. Talking, no doubt, through a mouthful of doughnuts he said:
‘We would like to hear from anyone who may have any information regarding this incident.’
Michael Ricketts, crime fighter.
If you have had a sighting of our erstwhile striker, please, keep it to yourself. And don`t have nightmares.
It`s one of those template thingies tomorrow, where I basically rip into the opposition. Unless Paul Robinson opens his useless cakehole again.
Too-de?roo.