SHAMELESS
If one news story summed up everything that is wrong with modern top flight football it is the fight for the keys to the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games. It was another example of the Premier League trampling all over anything that stands in its way. The Olympic Park Legacy Committee have chosen West Ham as their preferred bidder. In truth, it became an obvious choice as Tottenhams idea to raise it to the ground after 4 weeks of use in the summer of 2012 has to go down as one of the most ridiculous ideas ever proposed. Tottenham might be the losers in the battle for the stadium, but the real losers in the whole saga come from two divisions below the Premier League, Leyton Orient. West Ham may as well be building a new stadium right on top of Brisbane Road (the home of Leyton Orient). Does anyone care? Certainly not the Premier League, now they have got a brand new sparkling stadium they can show off to the world. But the Premier League don't care about anything that doesn't affect them. Infact, they are contravening their own rules which state the Premier League Board shall only grant consent to a member Club to move to another ground which 'would not adversely affect Clubs having their registered grounds in the immediate vicinity of the proposed location'. Quite how what West Ham are doing doesn't fall into this category defies belief. West Ham can't fill Upton Park, which holds 25,000 LESS than the Olympic Stadium will. And how will they attract people to fill these 25,000 empty seats. Ah of course, they will steam roll right over Leyton Orient trying to tempt their fans into the "promise land" of the Premier League with reduced ticket prices and "community schemes". Best league in the world? Do me a favour.
Liverpool v Wigan
I hate international football. I hate international football friendlies even more. After the high of beating Chelsea, the majority of our players disappeared to every corner of the world. And for what? So Fabio Capello can try out Scott Parker and Ashley Young when I can guarantee come the next championship they will be nowhere near the starting 11. As a result the quality of football in the Premier League yesterday suffered. No more so than at Anfield. The players looked tired and too many of them were sloppy. Gerrard and Agger were badly missed and switching back to a 4-4-2 didn't really work for us. That said, Wigan deserved their point. Dalglish throwing Milan Jovanovic on for a rare cameo was strange, the Serb has got all the qualities of Igor Biscan minus the cult hero status. The words "headless chicken" spring to mind. Even on a free transfer he seems embarrassingly overpriced. I heard the result described a few times as one step forward, two steps back, it isnt. 13 points out of the last 15 is a great return considering the position we were in a month ago, when the Evertonians taunted us with "going down" chants when they were 2-1 up at Anfield (given their current plight there is a nice irony about that).
The lack of depth in the Liverpool squad was exposed yesterday, one transfer window would never be able to put right the asset stripping of the last couple of seasons, but after the double header against Sparta Prague it's West Ham where Gerrard and Agger will be back and potentially Andy Carroll now he's back in training. So we will be okay until the FA return in March and decide to whisk all our players off to Jupiter, or wherever their latest friendly happens to be.
Wolves
Can anybody explain how Wolves have beaten Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Sunderland, that's 5 of the top 7 in the league and still be rock bottom. Has this ever happened before? If that doesn't sum up how bizarre this season has been then nothing will.
Woy and West Bwom
If West Brom are throwing away 3 goal leads before Hodgson's got to work on the training ground I really fear for them! I assume old Pigeon face must of gone into the dressing room at half time and had a few words with the players. If you read nothing else this weekend, read this article from todays Independant. It says it better than I ever could......http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-last-word-hodgson-has-found-his-level-with-west-brom-2213246.html
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