When he's level with the area, he slides a low cross into the centre. Lampard hits a hopeless free kick straight at the wall.ġ2 min: After Lampard's free kick shame, Walcott tears Cole a new one down the right. Mata is clipped to the floor in the middle of the park, 35 yards from goal. Chelsea enjoying most of the possession at the moment, but doing very little with it.ġ1 min: Arsenal can't get much of the ball at the moment. How we're still goalless, I'll never know. Torres is in the middle screaming for the pass, a tap-in a certainty should the ball get to him, but the low cross is too near Szczesny.Ĩ min: The game's settled down a bit now. Cole is in acres yet again down the left his pull back into the centre is aimless, though, and hacked clear.ĥ min: Arsenal are playing a 2-0-8 formation. Clear of the back line, he draws Cech and pulls the ball back, but only Cole is there, and after a fashion the defender clears.Ĥ min: The right backs clearly cannot be bothered today. Van Persie is allowed to skidaddle down the left and reaches the byline. Arsenal's travelling support are giving it plenty too.ġ min 20 sec: Chelsea so nearly take the lead, Cole steaming clear down the inside-left channel and sliding the ball into the middle for Torres, who sees the ball taken off his toe before he can sidefoot home, but only just.ģ min: Well, this is an open start. A rare old atmosphere at Stamford Bridge, but then there often is. The last time he wore that look was ahead of the Wayne Bridge Dignity Match, and look what happened there.Īnd we're off! Chelsea get the ball rolling, kicking towards Fulham Broadway tube, sort of. John Terry leads Chelsea onto the Stamford Bridge pitch. The other ties: Manchester United take on Crystal Palace at Old Trafford, while Cardiff City play host to Blackburn Rovers. Chelsea are at home to Liverpool, while Arsenal entertain Manchester City. The Carling Cup quarter-final draw's just been made, by the way. Subs: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Vermaelen, Frimprong, Park, Rosicky, Arshavin. Subs: TOPICAL SATIRE ALERT!!! Blackman, Bertrand, Luiz, Romeu, Meireles, Malouda, Lukaku.Īrsenal: Szczesny, Djourou, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Santos, Ramsey, Song, Arteta, Walcott, Van Persie, Gervinho. Written by Jim Dale from the Carry On movies, incidentally.Ĭhelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Mikel, Lampard, Sturridge, Torres, Mata Technically about the King's Road (pronounced "King's Raaahd") but it does mention Piccadilly, so it'll do. Arsenal captain Robin van Persie is back, after starting last week's win over Stoke on the bench. The spectacularly useless David Luiz is on the bench. Team news: John Terry, from off of TV's The News, returns to the Chelsea side, along with Fernando Torres, who has been missing for the last three league games due to suspension. The bottom half of the internet would catch fire. Newsrooms would be sent into a flat spin. Having said all that: It'd be quite funny if this ends up eight men apiece after a massive brawl, a cartoon cloud with boots and fists sticking out of it. It'd be nice to think, for so many reasons, that this weekend's big showdown in the capital will pass off without any grim incident. The unacceptable face of London: This fiasco. (Casual slacks, presumably he's already kitted out for the big day, unless he's not invited.) Anyway, they're both smiling, out and about in the city for the day. She kind of wants to get on with looking for a hat for some wedding or other. Maybe she'll just have a cup of coffee for the minute. He knows a place they can eat down the Piccadilly Circus end, so it depends whether she's peckish now or not. Shall we get off at Piccadilly Circus, he says, and walk up Regent Street, or alight at Oxford Circus, and walk down the other way? She's not sure. The acceptable face of London: The Bakerloo Line, 11am, this morning.
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