The Times today

[Shrimp in a Kilt]

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but some interesting stuff in todays Times:

Paul Connolly starts by being "mildy amused" at being approached by a tout offering to buy, or to sell him a ticket for £110 - anyone get a ticket from such a source?

Describes the crowd as "bellowing for all it was worth", and the game as "a nervy, mostly chance-free encounter between teams who have passed their sell-by dates this season. They are mostly running on adrenalin as they approach the last match of the season and Yeovil will be mightily relieved that Phil Jevons... snaffled his 28th goal of the season.."

This next bit I liked a lot:
"Southends admirable support only upped the bellowing levels...."

Steve Tilson is quoted as saying he is "bricking it, I'm not going to sleep from now until the Grimsby game."

Overall a fair, in fact flattering, report I think.

 

[sealion]

A favourable report considering most of the hacks are Hamas fans.

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (Shrimp in a Kilt @ May 02 2005,22:12)]...between teams who have passed their sell-by dates this season. They are mostly running on adrenalin as they approach the last match of the season

How correct, that is exactly Southend since the Leyton Orient game.

 

[sufcintheprem]

or Cardiff.

 

[Guest]

Didnt they give Gower as southends best Player?

 

[Shrimp in a Kilt]

Quote[/b] (Guest @ May 03 2005,07:55)]Didnt they give Gower as southends best Player?

No, didn't pick out any particular SUFC player for praise or condemnation.

 

[Guest]

Newspaper Link

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Quote[/b] (Guest @ May 03 2005,07:55)]Didnt they give Gower as southends best Player?

The Sunday Times did indeed carry a report, and Gower was their star man. He got a 7. I think Flahavan, Jupp, Wilson, Prior and Eastwood got 6s, the rest 5s, which sounds fair enough.

I think Gower's 7 was more on the basis that if anyone was going to create something it would have been him, as for all his promise and for the fact that we consistently looked for him to do so, he didn't actually create much.

can't find the Sunday Times report so here's the one from Monday's Times instead, without ratings

The Observer also had a report

here