Friday, January 02, 2009

Never Forget: Burnley

I'm gonna go ahead and say that we should leave Djimi Traore on the bench for tomorrow's game. Oh, I kid - we always seem to remember is his spectacular, Marseille Roulette O.G against Burnley, crashing us out of the competition, but forget that he was a starter in Istanbul. That game, one of the more embarrassing in recent years, serves as a reminder of the potential banana peels that FA Cup games are. Preston has been in good form

Stevie is set to get a start, Torres and the Skirt are available for selection, and I expect a few youngsters as well. El Zhar for the full 90, please.

Reina
Darby Skrtel Hyypia Dossena
Lucas El Director*
El Zhar Stevie MBE Babel
Keano

*special thanks to the Match Pricks at The Highbury for this nickname I had never heard before; I mean, El Maestro, while vastly appropriate for Xabi, is just played out, and I imagine that "string puller" is a little clunky in Spanish.

2 Comments:

Blogger Colin said...

hey, look at this...see what happens when you click on a profile? i didn't know you had one of your own.

cheers for reading Match Pricks. i'll look forward to keeping up with this.

4:52 PM  
Blogger Jim said...

Appreciate the nod for The Director.

Oh, and Traore was a massive donkey that drove me insane. Now, however, I kind of miss the guy. He was kind of like a screw-up brother who could never get anything right.

Easy for me to say now, right?

11:40 AM  

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