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Still Loves Emma Bunton. Roy McDonough is God!
Forget the referee, forget Darryl and let's focus on everything from last night that demonstrates why it's sometimes fantastic to be a Shrimper.
1) The performance. Dominated the first half until the sending off. A bit cagey for 10 minutes of the second half but after that were simply fantastic. A lot of backs to the wall last ditch efforts and aimless hoofs out of defence but we stood up to everything thrown at us and ended up with what we deserved.
2) The crowd. Apart from 15 minutes in the second half where everyone was crapping their pants expecting us to fall apart a brilliant atmosphere. Hopefully we've attracted a few more floating spectators after that.
3) The defence. Possibly the best game I've seen Prior play but awesome battling and great efforts from Jupp, Che and Barratt. Both full-backs also trying to get forward in the second half.
4) The midfield. To a man, battled their hearts out. Gower and Pettefer were like whippets chasing after everything, Maher was superb and Hunt (despite everyone's reservations about him in centre-mid) deserves special praise.
5) The forwards. Gray - WOW - shown us glimpses of what he is capable of before and had a great match. Brilliant work for our first goal and a well taken second. Perhaps not having the pressure of Drewe and Dudfield around helped. Fully deserved the standing ovation and looking around as he walked off I didn't see anybody sitting down. Brought a lump to my underpants. Bramble - everyone expects him to score and moans when he doesn't. Put in a strong 40 minutes.
6) Tesfaye Bramble - Tra LA f**king LA ! What a legend !
7) The players. The way they celebrated the win last night and acknowledged the crowd. They care ! I hope they get an extra day's rest because all of them thoroughly deserve it.
If there's any true measure of how great last night's performance was it comes from my children who I occassionally have to take to earn some brownie points. They usually endure it as a chore but didn't stop talking about it all the way home. When my wife woke up this morning expecting the usual "it was boring" comments from both of them she got the shock of her life.
1) The performance. Dominated the first half until the sending off. A bit cagey for 10 minutes of the second half but after that were simply fantastic. A lot of backs to the wall last ditch efforts and aimless hoofs out of defence but we stood up to everything thrown at us and ended up with what we deserved.
2) The crowd. Apart from 15 minutes in the second half where everyone was crapping their pants expecting us to fall apart a brilliant atmosphere. Hopefully we've attracted a few more floating spectators after that.
3) The defence. Possibly the best game I've seen Prior play but awesome battling and great efforts from Jupp, Che and Barratt. Both full-backs also trying to get forward in the second half.
4) The midfield. To a man, battled their hearts out. Gower and Pettefer were like whippets chasing after everything, Maher was superb and Hunt (despite everyone's reservations about him in centre-mid) deserves special praise.
5) The forwards. Gray - WOW - shown us glimpses of what he is capable of before and had a great match. Brilliant work for our first goal and a well taken second. Perhaps not having the pressure of Drewe and Dudfield around helped. Fully deserved the standing ovation and looking around as he walked off I didn't see anybody sitting down. Brought a lump to my underpants. Bramble - everyone expects him to score and moans when he doesn't. Put in a strong 40 minutes.
6) Tesfaye Bramble - Tra LA f**king LA ! What a legend !
7) The players. The way they celebrated the win last night and acknowledged the crowd. They care ! I hope they get an extra day's rest because all of them thoroughly deserve it.
If there's any true measure of how great last night's performance was it comes from my children who I occassionally have to take to earn some brownie points. They usually endure it as a chore but didn't stop talking about it all the way home. When my wife woke up this morning expecting the usual "it was boring" comments from both of them she got the shock of her life.
