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It was a weekend in which we saw the very best and worst of FA Cup culture, from the plucky non-league minnows of Maidstone United slaying Ipswich Town in a classic upset, to crowd ugliness so unsavoury at the Hawthorns that not even the surreal, genuinely hilarious sight of a grown man dressed as a boiler making placatory gestures in an attempt to lower the temperature made them the kind of “scenes we want to see”.
Re: Klopp leaving Liverpool and history repeating (Friday’s Football Daily letters). Eight months after leaving Liverpool in February 1991, Kenny Dalglish took over at then-second-tier Blackburn, got them promoted and won the Premier League within four years. As a Rovers fan, I for one welcome the impending arrival of our new era of Klopp-fuelled dominance, starting around September” – Mark Rushton.
I’m grateful to Klopp for a lot of things but perhaps his biggest impact was that he made me believe in monsters. Mentality monsters” – Peter Oh.
You have to feel sorry for Xavi. Have we ever seen a football player change from joyful sprite to dead-eyed depressive so fast? He has a triumphant career with Barcelona – the old Barcelona, the magic one – disappears for a while into the desert sands, returns as the prodigal and is swiftly crushed. We know that management does that to a player over the years, but this was what, 18 months or so? Sic transit gloria, sure, but the transit looks indecently fast in this case. One more step down in Barcelona’s dismal spiral” – Charles Antaki.
This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It was a weekend in which we saw the very best and worst of FA Cup culture, from the plucky non-league minnows of Maidstone United slaying Ipswich Town in a classic upset, to crowd ugliness so unsavoury at the Hawthorns that not even the surreal, genuinely hilarious sight of a grown man dressed as a boiler making placatory gestures in an attempt to lower the temperature made them the kind of “scenes we want to see”.Re: Klopp leaving Liverpool and history repeating (Friday’s Football Daily letters). Eight months after leaving Liverpool in February 1991, Kenny Dalglish took over at then-second-tier Blackburn, got them promoted and won the Premier League within four years. As a Rovers fan, I for one welcome the impending arrival of our new era of Klopp-fuelled dominance, starting around September” – Mark Rushton.I’m grateful to Klopp for a lot of things but perhaps his biggest impact was that he made me believe in monsters. Mentality monsters” – Peter Oh.You have to feel sorry for Xavi. Have we ever seen a football player change from joyful sprite to dead-eyed depressive so fast? He has a triumphant career with Barcelona – the old Barcelona, the magic one – disappears for a while into the desert sands, returns as the prodigal and is swiftly crushed. We know that management does that to a player over the years, but this was what, 18 months or so? Sic transit gloria, sure, but the transit looks indecently fast in this case. One more step down in Barcelona’s dismal spiral” – Charles Antaki.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…
