Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Cracking edition of FourFourTwo this month... largely because there is a big article on the Essex derby. Jamie Forsyth is to be commended on some particularly choice quotes about our bucolic rivals from the north of the county:
<span style='color:blue'>"Col******r is a footballing backwater," retorts Forsyth. "...they're more East Anglian than Essex, really. They're carrot-crunching inbreds, farmers married to their sisters and all that."</span>
<span style='color:red'>"We're now expecting to beat teams like Col******r. We're a bigger club than them by some distance"</span>
Top stuff, Jai.
There's also a superb article on the 30 worst ever reffing decisions - my fave line is about "The Russian Linesman" (itself a great phrase, in that even though it happened before I was born, I still know who the Russian Linesman was). Anyhow, the line is as follows:
<span style='color:blue'>Bakhramov, meanwhile, is forever remembered as 'the Russian Linesman', despite the fact that he was Azerbaijani. Asked on his death-bed how he could be sure that Hurst's shot had crossed the line, he is said to have replied with a single word:
"Stalingrad"</span>
<span style='color:blue'>"Col******r is a footballing backwater," retorts Forsyth. "...they're more East Anglian than Essex, really. They're carrot-crunching inbreds, farmers married to their sisters and all that."</span>
<span style='color:red'>"We're now expecting to beat teams like Col******r. We're a bigger club than them by some distance"</span>
Top stuff, Jai.
There's also a superb article on the 30 worst ever reffing decisions - my fave line is about "The Russian Linesman" (itself a great phrase, in that even though it happened before I was born, I still know who the Russian Linesman was). Anyhow, the line is as follows:
<span style='color:blue'>Bakhramov, meanwhile, is forever remembered as 'the Russian Linesman', despite the fact that he was Azerbaijani. Asked on his death-bed how he could be sure that Hurst's shot had crossed the line, he is said to have replied with a single word:
"Stalingrad"</span>