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A game with late drama including an injury-time goal and a red card brandished in the direction of Steven Reid, you say? There can’t have been a football fan paying attention to goings-on at the City Ground on Saturday who wasn’t immediately transported back to Bolton in August 2003. In a Premier League game featuring such blasts-from-the-past as Jay-Jay Okocha, Matt Jansen, Corrado Grabbi and Tugay ended with Dwight Yorke heading past Jussi Jaaskelainan to snatch a point for 10-man Blackburn, shortly after Reid had been dismissed for a late lunge on Stelios Giannakopoulos. Referee Andy D’Urso showed Reid the red card on his Blackburn debut and little could the midfielder have known that it would be over two decades before he would have another waved in his direction.
Tomas Soucek’s uninhibited, twirling celebration of his match-winning goal for West Ham at Everton was the most genuine rain-soaked expression of joy since Gene Kelly’s legendary street scene in Singin’ in the Rain. It was certainly an uplifting day for areolas. Not only did Soucek rip his shirt off in his wet delirium, but his teammate Alphonse Areola saved a penalty and made numerous brilliant saves to keep the Toffees at bay” – Peter Oh.
May I be the first of many pedants to point out that in your introduction to the story about Eddie Howe’s piano fixation, that you left out a ‘never’? Of course I’m referring to the original by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, not that junk cover by Simply Red” – Joe Pearson (and no others).
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Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!A game with late drama including an injury-time goal and a red card brandished in the direction of Steven Reid, you say? There can’t have been a football fan paying attention to goings-on at the City Ground on Saturday who wasn’t immediately transported back to Bolton in August 2003. In a Premier League game featuring such blasts-from-the-past as Jay-Jay Okocha, Matt Jansen, Corrado Grabbi and Tugay ended with Dwight Yorke heading past Jussi Jaaskelainan to snatch a point for 10-man Blackburn, shortly after Reid had been dismissed for a late lunge on Stelios Giannakopoulos. Referee Andy D’Urso showed Reid the red card on his Blackburn debut and little could the midfielder have known that it would be over two decades before he would have another waved in his direction.Tomas Soucek’s uninhibited, twirling celebration of his match-winning goal for West Ham at Everton was the most genuine rain-soaked expression of joy since Gene Kelly’s legendary street scene in Singin’ in the Rain. It was certainly an uplifting day for areolas. Not only did Soucek rip his shirt off in his wet delirium, but his teammate Alphonse Areola saved a penalty and made numerous brilliant saves to keep the Toffees at bay” – Peter Oh.May I be the first of many pedants to point out that in your introduction to the story about Eddie Howe’s piano fixation, that you left out a ‘never’? Of course I’m referring to the original by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, not that junk cover by Simply Red” – Joe Pearson (and no others).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…
