To this end, I attended the Chelsea-Rovers match on Saturday. Now, before the vitriol starts, the girlfriend's parents were in town and her dad wanted to catch a match and these were the only tickets I could buy online!
Anyway, the game started off great, with Desailly unbelievably keeping the ball from going out of bounds, only to leave the ball for Jansen to take down the wing to cross for a Cole volleyed goal 28 seconds in. That was just lovely. Watching the players, I thought Veron was quite good. Short passes, long passes, whatever, sprayed across the field and almost always right to the desired player. No tackling, but that's not what he does. His passing was quite nice and it made me miss him a bit more. Makelele will definitely help, as they had no holding presence in midfield, with Duff, Veron, Geremi and Lampard making up the choices, with Duff replaced by Petit at the start of the 2nd half, which helped their defense a bit. Mutu is a player. Real quality, but a bit of a moaner, always looking for calls. Hasselbaink looked poor, but capitalized on the spot kick, as any striker worth his salt should. Crespo got a run out, to a huge response from the Chelsea faithful, but didn't really do much. However, if this team starts to gel, they are going to be scary. I just wonder if it will be this year or next. They also have like 30 players, it seems, so some have to go somewhere. I wouldn't mind taking Gallas off their hands for some much-needed cover... Here's to hoping the week off will help us get some health back. Cheers, Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: snark^ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RedDevils] Sunday's result (spoiler) Veron's departure was the more disapointing for my money though: Seba copped a lot of flak for that first disappointing season but it's hard to look good in a team that isn't playing well and overall there were a lot of others who weren't playing at the level required either. In the middle of last season however the wheels were starting to come off again: we'd collected a few major long-term injuries, had not had a good start -- and all of a sudden Seba stepped it up (in tandem with Scholes) to win Utd through the Champions League group stages in a great deal of style. It was from those successes that the unbeaten run-in to the Premier title can be credited to. *************************************** Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe from the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
