The latest Canary Classic takes place back in the 1993/94 season (when we were still good).
After going 3-0 down goals from Mark Bowen, Efan Ekoku and Chris Sutton sent the travelling supporters home happy with a point following a truly remarkable game.
PS keep your eye out for former City boss Nigel Worthington during the Wednesday celebrations.
It has been a weekend of confirmations if anything, so we’ll look at “what we have confirmed this weekend” instead:
Derby are rubbish. Not much to argue there I think. The fact that the BBC website has an article up asking if they are the worse Premier League side in history says it all.
Andy D’Urso is absolutely useless. Fact.
The Championship relegation battle is going to the wire. It’s squeaky-bum time at the bottom of the Championship, and there seems no doubt that the relegation places will be decided on the final day of the season – I just hope we’re clear by then.
Liverpool will finish fourth in the Premier League. After coming out on top in the Merseyside derby only a very brave soul would put money on Liverpool finishing anywhere other than fourth.
Newcastle are…weird. They don’t win a game for ages, and after beating Fulham last week gave Spurs an almighty tonking at White Hart Lane today. What’s that all about?
Glenn Roeder scrubs Andy D’Urso’s name from his Christmas list:
I’ve got the fourth official screaming in my ear: ‘Glenn, the Bristol City player has handled the ball. I can clearly see that…’ And that’s before the free-kick’s taken.
He (D’Urso) even actually came over before the free-kick was taken. And the fourth official told him: ‘It was a Bristol City player that handled the ball…’ But he had gone by then. His lights had gone out. He wouldn’t listen and the ball ends up in the back of the net.
It’s not acceptable. If a referee got that wrong on a Sunday morning pitch, he’d be cried down. If D’Urso can’t get those simple decisions right, my God, where’s he going?
And reveals his shock at the money Stoke have “paid” for Shola Ameobi:
I have to take him for his word, I know Dennis (Wise) reasonably well and that’s what he was telling me. I am not obliged to say what Stoke’s business is with Newcastle, but it is mind boggling, the amount of money he has told me that Stoke have gambled for Shola to get them in the Premiership because, I believe, if they don’t do it, there isn’t any way that Stoke are going to carry through paying £5m for a striker while they are still in the Championship.
Darren Huckerby has his targets for the end of the season:
I need to chip in with a few more goals before the end of the season – I’m four away now from 50, so if I could get anywhere near that I’d be very happy. I was hoping to get to 50 before 200 games, to be honest. Because then it’s one in four and for a left-winger, that’s pretty good. But we’ll have to see what happens.
Matty Gilks reveals he could have left the club:
A couple of clubs came in for me, trying to get me on loan but obviously with the situation with goalkeepers at the club he can’t afford to let me go, or he’s not looking to let me go. Which is a bit unfortunate for me but then again it’s up to the manager and I’m sure if there was a chance I could have gone, he wouldn’t have stopped me from getting first-team football.
Sven rules out selling Ched Evans:
We do not have any plans to sell him. A little bit depends on him and he’s doing well at the moment for Norwich and his country. If I had to make a plan today, it’s to take him back for pre-season, look at him and decide from there. That will be his big chance.
Living in Bedford my nearest football league club is MK Dons, who are going to Wembley today to play Grimsby Town in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Final.
Their average home attendance this season is somewhere between 8,000-9,000 I believe which is quite impressive for a League Two side without any ‘traditional’ support, but for their big day out were given an allocation of around 30,000 tickets.
Cue loads of locals who don’t particularly follow Franchise FC, but want to have a nice day out at Wembley. People like me (hello!).
I left it pretty late (as is my way), but on Sunday I went on the Dons website to see if there were any tickets left and what do you know there were – priced at £20, £30 and £50 each.
So I selected the “find me the best seats available” option (as they were all out of £20 tickets), and I was presented with two Club Wembley tickets (RRP £50), marked as -£1 each. Yes that’s right, I could get two £50 tickets for the rather cheaper price of -£2.
How could I turn that down? So I ordered them, and after postage and packing etc the final price was £3.80, which made me smile.
Rather naively I thought I might actually get away with it, and thought I had right up until the dreaded phone-call arrived on Wednesday afternoon to say that there was a “mix-up” with their online booking system so the tickets hadn’t actually been allocated to me – and nor would they at at -£1 each. I had a simple choice – pay the additional £104.20 and bag the tickets, or get a refund.
Contrary to what some northern observers have stated in the passed (I’m looking at you Randall), I’m not that tight, but I’m not paying £50 to go and watch the Dons. No chance.
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