So the first defeat of the blog came in the most annoying circumstances. But I still have a home game to post about before I get to that.
Two weekends ago (oops!) Bohemians hosted Most, the team that got relegated with them and with whom they had shared an epic 2-4 encounter at Most's place late last season, a result that ended their hopes but offered a glimmer of hope to us Kangaroos fans. Alas, it turned out to be false hope and we got relegated too.
And with recent Bohemka form, it is not hard to see why. Against Most, they feel behind early to an easy tap-in and spent the next 70 minutes huffing and puffing. They were hindered by some cyncial Most fouling which unsurprisingly given all the yellow cards that were flying round, resulted in one player being told to do one round about the 75 minute mark. And suddenly Bohemians were flying. Two quick goals and we could start the party.
But we started it too soon and in the dying minutes, Most broke away for 2-2. A definite two points dropped that would have put us back on level terms with league leaders Caslav who dropped their first points of the season with a draw that weekend.
Of course, a week later, and there was no reason for concern. We were away at Vitkovice, miles away in Ostrava, on a Friday night. Six games in and Vitkovice's record read six defeats. Yeah, you can see what's gonna happen here, can't you? Well, you should be able to since I already told you in the first line.
An embarrassing 1-0 defeat to the bottom club which is a big dent in the promotion push and of particular irritation to any Bohemians fans who took a day off work to cross the country to watch it, even if the ticket to the game was only 20Kc (about 66p). Thankfully I am immensely lazy so I wasn't one of them.
This weekend is a home derby that I am particularly unenthralled by - Sparta B at home. I have nothing but contempt for the pointlessness of B teams so I am not exactly jumping with excitement about this one. Still, we desperately need a return to winning ways after three consecutive games (four if you count the cup which I don't think anyone does) without one.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
A week is a long time
An opening day win followed by 4 draws is not the greatest start to the season. Yet when you remain unbeaten after the first 5 games, it's not a bad start. The latest draw was home to Bristol City. Nil nils are not known for being great entertainment but this one was actually very good. The least we deserved was a point, after Bothroyd had 2 great chances, but it wasn't to be. Bristol hit the crossbar so it could easily have gone the other way.
This Tuesday we were away to Barnsley and got our 2nd win of the season, 1-0 with a goal from Peter Whittingham. We now sit 6th in the league with 10 points, and noone is talking about us. Thats good, everyone is talking of Wolves, Reading, Birmingham....but not Cardiff. I think a play-off spot is achieveable, especially if Bothroyd can actually get his eye to foot co-ordination back!
The week prior to the Bristol City game started bizarrely with Cardiff's Paul Parry retiring from international football with Wales at the age of 28. For some reason it seems he believes that he isn't valued enough at Wales - a place on the bench against Azerbaijan, and what would've been a starting place against Russia wasn't enough. I don't know who he thinks he is. A few years back he was playing non league football for Hereford - international football a mile away - then he decides he's better than the current Welsh players, and the impressive kids coming through. Well screw you Parry. The arguement got out of hand when John Toshack (Wales) confronted Dave Jones (Cardiff) about comments made to the media about him. Not sure who my money's on to win that fight...
As this is the final season at Ninian Park I have decided to keep every ticket from every game played this season. Luckily I went to the Carling Cup game against MK Dons, so I have every ticket so far. Wales U21 play England U21 at Ninian next month so I will get to go to that too, and then frame all my tickets from the 08/09 season.......yes I'm that sad.
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