Finally found a pub in Bangkok showing Championship football (via a South African channel.) Owner was an Owls fan , though, so I'm not sure he'll have it on every time Leeds are on.
My view: A pretty atrocious performance, Leeds barely deserving a win in a match of depressingly low skill level. Seemed to me that Blackwell was trying to ape (geddit?) Watford's gameplan [I feared this would happen..........I caught a shot of Blackie looking pensive towards the end of the playoff final debacle, and thought to myself "Oh-oh..........he's thinking about something."] Anyway, the plan, in case you didn't know, was; 1. Launch the ball into the oppo third as soon as you get it, or 2. Pass it around a little triangle then ditto, then 3. Win a corner or freekick 4. Execute meticulously and exhaustively rehearsed deadball routine. Parts 1,2 & 3 all went like clockwork, but Part 4 was woeful. Even with 2 midget strikers, we somehow managed to get about 99 corners and almost as many freekicks, but then when we threw the big lads up from the back.............nada. Lewis alone must have taken at least 10 corners from the left. A couple of them were struck a bit thinly, but otherwise, his delivery was good, honing in to a spot about 10 yards in front of the near post.......and Wednesday won EVERY header. [Note to chief scout: that Boulaouane guy at the back for them looks like a diamond.....let's snap him up at xmas when Wensday are in the relegation zone.] Hopefully, these tactics were a response to the absence of key players Stone & Crestfallen, and when they return in about 2010 we might hope for a bit more football to be played. On the reasons to be cheerful front, I notice that we have already played all of the teams who are currently in the top 3. V. impressive penalty from Healy. A Tottenham fan in the pub's analysis of the incident was............offside, outside, dive, but apart from that, the ref got it spot on. I beg to differ. He wasn't offside (although he would have been if Lewis (?) had got a touch on his attempted header.) Jones missed him with his hand, but somehow got his feet round and caught Healey's ankles (just at the point where he had tattoed OPPO KEEPER PLEASE CONTACT ME HERE IF I'M THROUGH ONE-ON-ONE), and it was just inside the box. After all that delay of changing the keeper, a very cool spotkick. OK...........gotta "work." Rob Heath Bangkok Khow _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist oh alright then :-)
