Footballonthebrain’s Weblog

Spent the night screaming at the television and especially that over-priced, over-weight ponce Mido. We can cry all we want that the penalty was unjust (the ball skipping off Young’s back onto his arm while he’s staring in the complete opposite direction) but those are the calls you expect to get when your battling relegation away from home. What you don’t expect is for your first choice striker’, and I use that term loosely, to miss an absolute sitter eight yards out from goal. Just when it seemed his laziness in not sprinting hard into the box was going to pay off, he decides to try and wrap his left foot around the ball instead of choosing the easier option and letting it run across his body on to his right. What a numpty!

All and all if someone was to offer me the point before the kick off I would have bitten their hand off and the team performance was much more promising than the display we witnessed on Sunday.

I also took in the Portsmouth – Birmingham match, Fratton park hasn’t been a home for many goals this season so you can imagine my surprise when I turned on the game 10 mins late to see I’d already missed 3 of them. The game was open with both sides having plenty of chances and in the end Portsmouth ran out deserved winners.

Haven’t seen the highlights from the Chelsea – Derby match but I heard Lampard put on quite the show. This result really doesn’t do anything for the league and shouldn’t have come much as much of a shock to anyone. I’m still hoping Derby can pick up enough points from their remaining 9 games to at least beat Sunderland’s record low from two seasons ago.