Mark on top form as ever, his books are also a good read!
I've seen him live a couple of times and he's always been very friendly. I remember him once playing in Brighton the same night as Paul Weller and he goes "Well I'm honoured you're here, if I had the chance I'd be seeing Paul Weller...
I'm waiting for tomorrow's Evening Standard to somehow implicate Ken Livingstone into all of it!
"LIVINGSTONE PLYED BOOZE TO PHONE PRANKERS"
You heard it here first:thud:
But surely we had a worse injury crisis(financially anyway) in 2003-04, when we signed Blackwell and Rodger up for the season and Blackwell got injured before he even signed the contract and Rodger was injured by mid September..
I seem to recall Oatway was also out for a few months meaning when...
Isn't that related to the injury he sustained that almost cost him his sight?
Criticise him by all means, but simply picking on him for that is a bit trivial..
That's a bit harsh Tom, we won alot of games in that run from February up till the horrible Port Vale game and by that point, the chickens had flown off..
It worked fine for them from 2004-7 though!
Infact when they first brought in Jol and Arnsen, it helped reverse the decline they'd had for the best part of ten years under Francis, Gross, Graham and Hoddle..