I grew up watching The Road to Wembley. I'm sure Khan too. Who can forget that unmistakable and catchy tune?
In the days of yore, that's the only decent live footy on telly besides Copa Mundial and the Euros.
Ohh Big League Soccer came earlier but aired a few weeks after the games were already played. Results known, goals highly anticipated by the purists.
No Premier League highlights and certainly no Nokia Football Crazy either.
Source of info would be The Malay Mail on Monday and it costs only RM0.50 then. A chunk of lunch budget gone to satisfy the other hunger.
That was then. This is now.
Tomorrow we'll visit Preston North End, a Championship side in the 3rd round. Championship? Yeah, they're in the same league as Barnsley which dumped us last year in injury time at Anfield of all places.
This is a potential banana skin. Playing at their territory, rapturous crowds rooting for team currently anchored at 7th in the Championship. Not bad huh? They're certainly not bad but this is FA Cup, everybody is gunning for an upset.
In the aftermath of Toon massacre, I dare not predict Rafa's team anymore. He is the Master, try to name his side at your peril. Chances are you'll be dumbfounded by his moves.
Pretty sure though there'll be rotation again. Maybe returning stars like Skrtel and Torres will be given playing time to regain match fitness. Maybe rested stars like Alonso and Keane too.
Rafa has the depth to tinker now but whoever is selected, hope they're up to the mark.
I do not want Premiership alone. I want Champions League. I want FA Cup as well. I grew up watching them. I want all of'em.
Time to be greedy.
1 comment:
Hehe I dunno whether to say it as the 'good old days'. Black and white TV was indeed something special but I am sure colour is much much better :-P
Good old days meant only one thing..LFC mostly kicked ass then!
Some quarters call for us to sacrifice everything else but the premiership 'holy grail'. That one trophy this season would outshine everything else. Benitez might be having the same idea, but as you put it, why not take it if the squad players could continue a fine run in the other cups for us too? I keep reading Benitez will play quite a number of reserves, but Torres and Gerrard will definitely play. If we keep on winning into the next rounds, it would mean more money for the club and more games for us supporters too. Perfect!
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