The Joys of Boxing Day Football..

Saturday, 27 December 08, 10:16 AM · Comments(1)

So being down in the West country I found myself at the massive Championship game that was Plymouth versus Southampton yesterday. What can I say about the 2-0 win for the home side. Well as my friend said before the game, "It's two shit sides playing each other so a home win then". That's pretty much how the game panned out. Plymouth went 2-0 up with a decent header and a penalty, Southampton played pretty football but never looked like scoring and it got bloody cold. They do have an interesting player in Ryan Smith, who looks a little like Theo without being quite so quick but with more tricks.

Arsenal really shouldn't have anything to worry about from the Pilgrims but then having watched our Keystone Kops defending (yet again I hear you cry) last night you never know. I had predicted a 2-0 defeat last night as I just couldn't see us getting a result and so to be 2-0 up (even if it was "slightly" against the run of play!) was a major surprise. However, normal service was resumed with our inability to hold on to leads and though we would all have taken 2-2 before the game it's yet another sign of our frailties.

On the plus side though we did show character to score two and fight even though we were out played. The other point is that Villa when 2-0 down did not make a substitution and I think (though they got back level) it shows how weak their squad is. We played with numerous injuries and suspensions and got something out of the game so maybe we should appreciate that for a change.

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JamrockRover Wrote: | 20.42CET | Dec 27, 2008

Until we scored our first goal our performance was disasterous.

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