Tuesday/Wednesday night (November 8th/9th ) games of interest

[ragingpup]

I notice tonight a certain Mr. Warne is taking his team to Liverpool in the League Cup. Coincidentally it is one day short of the 40th anniversary of our trip there where we gave a good account of ourselves in the 1-0 defeat against a lineup of:-

Bruce Grobbelaar
Alan Hansen
Mark Lawrenson
Phil Neal
Phil Thompson
Alan Kennedy
Sammy Lee
Graeme Souness
Craig Johnston
David Hodgson
Ian Rush

Not a bad team that. 20,412 were in attendance, I was one of them.

Yes I was there for that. Didn't Moore hit the post before their late winner?

[CAMiller]

Yes I was there for that. Didn't Moore hit the post before their late winner?

Yes I think he did.

Derby out on penalties which they deserved to do really if only for the antics of their GK.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Yes I think he did.

Derby out on penalties which they deserved to do really if only for the antics of their GK.

What did he do?

[CAMiller]

What did he do?

Just general dancing and jumping around when the players were running up. He was way off his line for the first penalty he saved but no VAR to check (however the assistant referee must have been blind not to see it). I suppose in retrospect he should be allowed to do whatever he likes as the penalty takers all seem to have enrolled in the Ministry of Silly Walks themselves these days.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Just general dancing and jumping around when the players were running up. He was way off his line for the first penalty he saved but no VAR to check (however the assistant referee must have been blind not to see it). I suppose in retrospect he should be allowed to do whatever he likes as the penalty takers all seem to have enrolled in the Ministry of Silly Walks themselves these days.

Odd is that, considering you mentioned Grobbelaar earlier

[Duncang]

I notice tonight a certain Mr. Warne is taking his team to Liverpool in the League Cup. Coincidentally it is one day short of the 40th anniversary of our trip there where we gave a good account of ourselves in the 1-0 defeat against a lineup of:-

Bruce Grobbelaar
Alan Hansen
Mark Lawrenson
Phil Neal
Phil Thompson
Alan Kennedy
Sammy Lee
Graeme Souness
Craig Johnston
David Hodgson
Ian Rush

Not a bad team that. 20,412 were in attendance, I was one of them.

So was I, a great night!

[clarkey1974]

Not sure how many but looked quite a few penalties were saved by keepers well off the line tonight…thought the derby keeper was going to pounce on the ball while it was still on spot in one of them…

[CAMiller]

Not sure how many but looked quite a few penalties were saved by keepers well off the line tonight…thought the derby keeper was going to pounce on the ball while it was still on spot in one of them…

I find penalty shootouts to be very strange beasts. Sometimes it seems like the goal must be 50' wide and 10' high and players can't miss (like the West Ham v Blackburn one tonight where the first penalty missed was the 20th to be taken). Other times the goal must be 10' wide and 2' high because no matter what the players do they can't seem to score like the Liverpool v Derby game and Newcastle v Palace game where 5 of 10 were missed in each game.