Thursday Nights, Channel Five
Before we descend perilously into the abyss of mindless gossip, half-truths and hearsay that can only be the silly season, there’s the small matter of finishing the actual season this coming Sunday. Birmingham at home, folks, and a Europa League spot to peg down like an old weather-beaten tent. Or, not, as the case may be.
Through no-one’s fault but theirs, we enter this last day as bit-part players in a bloody relegation dogfight. Things are looking grim for the Blues, and, while I wish them no particular harm- in the same way I wouldn’t want to see a wounded cat drag itself onto my lawn and expire in front of me- I feel the best approach is to look after one’s own. All guns-a-blazing is the only way we can end this campaign. If only to emboss into the minds of our biggest stars that this is still the place to be. Where the future’s bright and the prospects oh so rosy.
And if not…we’ll lie.
Injuries are, as usual, rife. Gallas, Bale, Huddlestone, Palacios and Jenas (cross them off at your own leisure) all victims of various leg ailments. One man hoping for a start will be the Beckton Bomber himself, Jermain Defoe. In case we hadn’t noticed, Defoe’s not been playing much of late- despite being remarkably average since his homecoming off the treatment table- and it would seem this is just not on for the England striker:
“When you feel like you are training hard and being professional and then for some reason you are not playing, it is difficult.”
Some reason, eh? Yes, it really is a mystery.
Anyway, let’s be having them. Three-nil to the Tottenham or something awfully close. If you’d be so kind.
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