retired_rubbia

Exactly what poolies said.

It's like you've got into the mind of an alcoholic and are writing this exactly the same as he would. Top job and good luck. :thup:

retired_vbrazon

Cheers folks.
Feedback is extremely welcome.

I'll try to keep it going for as long as pos. I just fancied doing one season for just now but i admire the effort that goes in from the guys who have done 4 or 5 seasons and i might try that when i finish this season.

Cheers again.

retired_vbrazon

4th Nov 09

Howdy,

Well folks, you may have heard on the radio today that i picked up a knock whilst watching the boys train today but don't worry i'm fine. I just tripped over the 8 cans of lager that i'd bought for the trip up to Blackburn.

I enjoy th away games, a nice trip on the bus witha few beers and taking some of the players kudos off them in the card games n that.

When we got up to Blackburn some nonce of a reporter tried to accuse me of not taking Blackburn seriously because i'd brought my reserve 11 as he called it. I told him to get to **** and to get a real job.

I take every game seriously, well as seriously as i take anything and it is the league cup if you know what i mean. It's not as if the sponsors give me anything and even the fans think it's a bit crap. Anyway blackburn are bottom of division 1 so i'd hope my under 19's would beat them, never mind my reserves.

Anywway to the game.

My line up was a bit weaker than the guys i put out for an EPL or CL game but that's up to me.

Murray
Bardsley-Huddlestone-Hofland-Kleber
Ono-Gardener-Jimenez
D'Alessandro
Love-Adu

The 1st half was a bit of a sluggish affair with nothing really happening and i thanked go that i'd kept 2 cans in my pockets because it was a bit chilly. Just as i cracked open my 1st can about 25mins in and was eyeing up any totty that might be around i noticed that everyone started cheering. Nicolas Jensen had scored, i'm not sure how but he did, probably offside. Anyway i gave a wee shout to Ono and got him to switch positions with Anderson. It seemed to work a bit better with Ono starting to run the show as such. The 1st half ended 1-0 to Blackburn but i wasn't overly worried.

The 2nd half was a lot better for us with us managing to turn the game round and start beating these huddies like we should have been doing from the off. After 49 mins Jimenez played a one-two with Ono and then hit a inch perfect paas on to Adu who curled it round the goalie and into the onion bag. Time for another beer and o get the feet up i thought and i was right when in the 54th minute Love beat Jensen not once, not twice but three times and then pulled the ball back for Adu who cracked the ball in to the net. Luuuvelly stuff. I then went upstairs to watch the rest of the game because they bench was making my butt go numb. The game then died gracefully and we walked away 2-1 winners. Nice!

I don't remember the journey home because i had a kip but i just got a text to say Aruna is injured, ligament strain or something so he's out for 2/3 weeks but Kamara is due back within the next 10 days so it's not all bad.

Anyway i'm off to my kip.

Hugo

retired_vbrazon

18th Nov 09

Good morning, It's 3am and i'm shattered. Just got in from tonights game and a trip to the pub and the late night bakers. They do crackin sausage rolls and cheese and onion pasties.

Before i cut to tonights game i'll bring you up to speed with other goings on at the club.

In the cup we got Raeding at home, a good draw i think as they are 16th in div 1 at the moment.

Secondly Diomansy Kamara and Wright-Phillips have both returned from long term injuries.

Righteo, tonights game or yesterdays game if you want to be picky.

Valencia in the Cl at home.

I fancied our chances before the game because there form has been patchy all season 2 points in the CL group stages and 10th in the Spanish league.

I put out a strong team with a attacking formation.

Line up:

Robinson
Mabizela-King-Upson-Kleber
Prutton
Kallon-D'Alessandro-Bierkofa
Keane-Ewerthon

The first half was pretty good with end to end stuff but thankfully we got the lead after just 5 mins through Keane. Bierkofa beat Angulo to the ball in midfield and put Robbie clean through and as Robbie normally does, he put it in the onion bag. Valencia then went close through a vicente shot that just went past Robbo's left hand post. Keane then replied instantly with a nice feint, fooling his marker before he battered a 20 yarder of the bar. It was proving to be a good game. The main talking point of the game will probably be the penalty we got on 27mins. Ewerthon was bearing down on goal and Radoiput out a leg and tripped him. The alencia staff were shouting at me but i ain't got a scooby what they were greetin about.
Thankfully Kallon stepped up and blasted it home. The first half didn't go totally our way, Upson made a poor clearance which fell staright to Jankulovski who blasted home from 20 yards.
HALF TIME 2-1.
I told the boys at half time just to keep it up and i also told Upson that if in doubt, punt it out.
The second half was pretty much the same as the first, end to end. Both teams had good chances and squandered them with the main numpty being Vicente of Valencia. He should have scored from 6 yards but screwed his shot wide, which was lucky for us. Then we got another bit of luck when Stead who had come on for Keane with 15mins to go, won a header which left Ewerthon one on one with the goalie and he just calmly rounded him before cheeckly back heeling the ball into the net.
Full Time 3-1

After the game i took the boys down the pub for a few jars to celebrate us being through to the next stage with a game to spare, hence the gettin in late.

Anyway i'm going to have another beer and my sausage roll and pastie.

Night all

Hugo

retired_vbrazon

21st Nov 09

Hi di ho,

Hows everyone doing? That's dandy.

I'm cutting straight to the chasetonight folks as i'm in a stinking mood because my microwave is knackered, flippin piece of crap.

Todays Line Up against Sunderland(A):

Robinson
Stalteri-King-Hofland-Kleber
Guarin
Ono-Buffel-Nolan
Stead-Adu

This game was horrendous, absolute crap just like my microwave.

The 1st half was more like a rugby match with more shots going over the bar than a johnny wilkinson practise session. The only upside came after 42 mins when Guarin played a short free kick to Hofland who hit a low shot that took a deflection before nestling into the centre of the net.
The 2nd half produced more goals but they all came through sloppy play. Sunderland equalised through Hayward who basically walked through my crap excuse for a defence a sloteed past Robbo. Then to make matters worse Whitehead put Sunderland in front after 66 mins when he was given all the space in the world to nod home a cross from Hayward. Old Gauston looked like he was going to explode and i was still waiting for the repair folk to phone me back. The usless good for nothing ****. Then finally we got something right, Love who came on for Stead, won a free kick 22 yards out and then picked himself up to curl a beautiful shot into the top corner with just 4 mins left.

The game ended 2-2. Gauston who is normally very easy going went menatl when the players came back in while i was going mental at that numpty from Curry's who said i can't get my microwave repaired until Monday.

Anyway i need to go now because i need to get some take away.

Have a good weekend.

Hugo

retired_vbrazon

25th Nov 09

Arggggggggggggh,

sorry but that numpty still hasn't been and fixed my microwave and to top that the local offy has been shut for 3 days because the guy who does the night shift has been sick, thje useless pillocks can't get any other staff. Arghhhhhhhhh.

Anyway to tonights game against Reading in the League Cup.

The stadium wasn't all that busy and a £45 a ticket i wonder why

Anyway i decided during the week after consultation with Old Gauston and Paul Conroy that i'd let some of the Younger boys have a go tonight to see if they were up to much.

The guys that we brought in were:
DC-Lee Dennis - England U21 regular and captain of the reserve team.
AML-Helvio - 21 year old Guinea international who joined on a free at the start of the season.
ST-Leandro - Brazilian U21 who has a cracking left peg and is faster than...... well just really fast.
ST-Raulin - French U21 who has a similar playing style to guys like Defoe and Gilardino.
AMR-Grosbahs - Latvian U21 who can also play in the AMC role, tricky little so and so and has a good eye for a pass.

The team line up:
Murray
Mabizela - Dennis - Upson - Stalteri
Landzaat
Wright-Phillips - Geremi - Helvio
Love - Leandro

Reading started off the better team in the 1st half, going close on 3 occasions and showing that they weren't going to be pushed about by the young guns. Then late in the first half Matt Murray fouled Zola in the box, thankfully he made up for it by saving the panalty from Gareth Lee.

The 2nd half was played at a better tempo by ourselves and the young guys started to show a bit more class. Especially Helvio ho was giving the Reading defence a torrid time by beating his man and whipping crosses in. It was fom one of those wicked crosses that we gained the corner that lead to our goal. Wright-Phillips took the corner and flighted it deep into the penalty box , Upson rose like a salmon and thundered a unstopable header past Ben Williams to make it 1-0.
I then brought on Raulin and Grosbahs for Love and Wright-Phillips. Leandro and Grosbahs both went close during the last 10mins and Geremoi hit a wonderful shot that clipped the bar and went over.
The game ended 1-0 with all the younger guys having good solid performances. Although i thin the main man out of them all was Helvio who stepped up in the 2nd half and showed that he can start pushing the guys like Bierkofa and Trochowski for a 1st team slot.

Anyway i'm off to phone yet another take away, that's if i can find a decent one taht also delivers beer as well.

Have a good un folks and my next diary will be up after the game against Watford(A) on the 28th Nov.

Bye

Hugo

PS - If anyone has any tips on good take aways that deliver beer, levae me a msg on here, Cheers.

retired_vbrazon

28th Nov 09

Oh, my go what a belter of a hangover. I've always liked the odd pint but i got friendly with some bar staff and ended up in a lock in last night that wnet on til 6am this morning.

Anyway i just looked at my last diary and we weren't playing Watford today. We had Man City at home.

Now my report of the game will be short beacuse my head is bangin.

Oh and while i remember anything, we got Birmingham away in the semis of the league cup.

Todays game then:

Team Sheet:

Robinson
Mabizela-King-Hofland-Kleber
Prutton
Grosbahs-D'Alessandro-Bierkofa
Keane-Ewerthon

The game started off well for us with us going close twice in the first 5mins through Keane and Kleber but close doesn't get you goals does it. The first half carried on along the same lines and by half time we should have been 3 or 4 up instead of 0-0. I checked with the gauston and we reckon that we had 9 decent efforts to Man City's one.

Anyway we got the boys in at half time and told them to carry on the same way but to work the goalie a lot more. We also told Ewerthon to try and drag his marker out into wide areas to leave more gaps.

The second half was a lot better and finally we got a goal. D'Alessandro, the guy is as skillful a player as i've ever seen. He controlled a long pass from Mabizela on his chest before turning, beating his man and unleashing a absolute belter of a shot from 25 yards which beat the goalie all ends up. Flippin beautiful stuff. He then made the game safe for us on 65mins after getting on the end of a nice cross from Bierkofa to just tap home from 8 yards.

The game ended 2-0 with D'Alessandro getting a well earned bottle of Champers for his MOTM performance.

Anyway that's enough from me, i'm off to my kip with a bucket and some sort of head ache crap.

Night all

Hungover Hugo

retired_vbrazon

1st Dec 09

Only 24 sleeps til Crimbo, yipppeeee.
I love crimbo, the food at ma's is good and the beers always on flow so lets get the next few weeks out the way and look forward to a nice day off.

I suppose i better buy some prezzies while i'm here in Turin.

Anyway enough babbling by me, you lot want footie news.

FA Cup draw for the 3rd ound so us drawn away to Fulham. Tough tie but it could have been worse.

Anyway tonights game against Juve, what can i say i'm delighted.

Winning 1-0 away, brilliant.

The Line Up:
Westerveld
Stalteri-Alex-Upson-Kleber
Guarin
W.Phillips-Geremi-Nolan-Kallon
Aruna

I figured i'd rest a few players because we were through anyway and we have some important league games coming up.

The game as a whole was a scrappy affair that was played in midfield for 78mins of the game with both teams only having 2 efforts on goal.
Then with a absolute master stroke by me and old gauston we chucked on Ewerthon and Bierkofa in place of Wright-Phillips and Aruna. In 87mins Juve won a corner which Alex cleared and Bierkofa caught just before it rolled out on the left hand side. He then beat Fabian Ernst and played a lovely pass that sent Ewerthon bearing down on Buffon. Ewerthon should the skill which made me bring him here 3 years ago by rolling the ball past Buffon and running round the other side to tap the ball home. Sweet as a nut baby.

Juve's players didn't even mount a decnt fightback in the last 4 minsand we walked away with a 1-0 win. Flippin Superb.

I've sent the boys out for a quick beer before we head home because they deserve it.

I have to give a special mention to Alex and Kevin Nolan who haven't played to many games this season but they were both superb tonight.

Anyway i'm off to the bar to join my boys.

Cheers folks

Happy Hugo

retired_vbrazon

Oh and i forgot to mention the win tonight let us top of the group. Superb

Happy Hugo

retired_vbrazon

5th Dec 09

Howdy folks,

Firstly my micro has finally been fixed. Yahooooooo! food at long last and secondly i have a date tonight with a young hotty called Holly who was on our flight back from Turin. NICE!

I'll get my thoughts etc about todays game out of the way and then i'll go and press my lime green suit, it's the absolute damage. She'll be eating out of the palm of my hand when she see's this baby.

Anyway, Leeds away.

I've always found Leeds to be a nice trip but i've never got a clue what these yorkshire folk are saying. Ach well, they were probably abusing me anyway so who cares.

Starting 11 today were:
Robinson
Mabizela-King-Hofland-Kleber
Ono-Prutton-Hitzelsperger
D'Alessandro
Keane-Ewerthon

The scouts who had seen Leeds before had said that they struggled against pace and we have a fair bit of that in our front 3.

The game went as planned, 18mins in we were 1-0 up with Ewerthon latching on to a Robbie Keane pass and rounding the goalie to make it 1-0.

Now this is where my problem is at the moment, we don't kill teams off and sooner or later we'll get caught out whilst holding a 1-0 lead.

Anyway the game was all one way traffic and after 79min the 2 subbies linked together to score the second goal of the game. Love and Kamara played a neat one, two before love slotted the ball under the goalie and into the net.

2-0 at Full Time and another 3 points in the bag.

Anyway, I'm off out to meet Holly. I'll let you all know how i got on later in the week.

Cheers folks and wish me good luck.

Hugo