It could also have been 80-81, the year both teams were promoted. That was a West Ham win (1-3), which could explain why I felt it was a dull game! I was also at the Vetch when Swansea beat Liverpool 2-0 in 81-2, the season Swansea finished 6th in the league (only to be relegated in the following years, all the way down to the 4th division and almost beyond that). I only ever went to one away game, the following season, to see a disappointing 0-0 draw at Coventry. Those were the days of Swansea players like Alan Curtis, Bob Latchford, Leighton James, Robbie James, Dzemal Hadziabdic, Ante Rajkovic, Leighton Phillips, Wyndham Evans,Jeremy Charles, etc.
I remember going to the Vetch in 85. It was a league cup game. The Hammers won 3-2. I think it had been 3-0 at Upton Park in the first leg. I remember walking down some road called Oystermouth Road?
cycling is good because there is less impact on the knee joints which can lead to arthritis in the old age.
Game #1 -- Chicago Cubs - 1 St. Louis Cardinals - 6 Three run homer by Lance Berkman in the bottom of the first, and they never looked back. Albert Pujols connected for a two run homer in the fifth, his 100th home run in New Busch Stadium. Game #2 tomorrow on Fox - 3:10pm.
Yup - that would be right. It had (jointly with I think Halifax Town and Bristol Rovers) the smallest pitch size in the league. It was a ground with....um.... character, sqeezed into a tiny space between terraces of housing! Demolition has been only actually started this year. they are leaving the centre circle, aparently, because people have had their ashes scattered there. It's a bit sad to see in a way, but better than seeing it left to rot in the state it was in after the Swans moved: The new Liberty Stadium is much, much better, though:
Not sure whats wrong with England these days, seems everyone and their mother can beat you guys these days Atleast we made a 0-0 draw vs Brazil,
Capello is a football legend; the England team has over-rated players who rarely play together and are stuck in a rigid 'England' formation. Yep. Still don't know why Milner started. Yeah Netherlands! Even without Sneijder the Oranje were strong. Afellay had a good showing.
Game #2 -- Chicago Cubs - 4 St. Louis Cardinals - 5 Walk-off solo homerun by Albert Pujols in the bottom of the 12th! Redbirds go for the sweep tomorrow at 1:10pm.
I am not big on Italian managers and their general philosophy concerning how to play the game. England need to play more attacking football, which will require finding some quality attacking options. Milner is rubbish. Walcott, is there another player who has achieved so little, yet receives so much praise?
Capello is a talented manager, no doubt; and England plays good football. Milner is indeed rubbish; Walcott loses the ball every time he gets it— but English talent is so skewed in the market that it's hard to build a good team. Carroll goes for as much as Rossi or Villa! Hart, who I love, had a bad game; and is still growing— but would you rather Green or James? I don't know who England could hire that would be a better choice... Harry? He's a good guy and a great manager, but he's a club man.
Is watching on YouTube..... Bullies beating the crap out of Wimps a sport.? If it is, it's becomeing more and more very popular.
To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of overseas managers coming to coach international sides generally, until they have spent some time around the clubs in that country learning and understanding the natural elements to the way the players from there tend to play. There are natural characteristics in a kind of game each country plays (in football, as with other sports), and trying to coach that out of players to play some other style completely for a national team (when they aren't doing it week in week out with their clubs) is always likely to just make it harder for them to play well, in my opinion. It's trying to fight against their nature - much better to have someone who understands that basic nature well, and can develop it and allow it to used to its best advantage. In this case, English players don't play like Italians, or like Brazilians. They play a different kind of game. It could be a successful game, as it has been in the past, but there seems to be an obsession with making them play the games that other countries have had success with. I don't think it's ever going to work, to be honest. For as long as they try it I fully expect to enjoy watching major competitions where England fans are convinced that victory is assured (or at least possible, on the basis of the talent in the squad), only to see a team (of very talented individuals) that doesn't seem to have a clue what it's supposed to be doing, or what day it is (in football terms), and that ultimately exits at a disappointingly (for them - admittedly quite entertaining for us, of course! ) stage in the competition. Frankly, I think England would be far better off just picking a 4-3-3 side of the best players the have, not being coached at all, and just put on the field and told to get on with it - at least each player would naturally play to their own strengths and put in the effort to watch what their teammates are actually doing on the pitch, instead of trying to remember what the hell it was the manager had been talking about doing, and running around like headless chickens when the game doesn't go precisely to plan (as the other team have the cheek to try to actually play against them)! Let's face it, most footballers aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the box. Making them learn new things, and unlearn a lifetime's experience, just ain't going to be productive. Just let them get on with it the way they know how - they might actually have a chance of winning something doing that!
Game #3 -- Chicago Cubs - 2 St. Louis Cardinals - 3 For the second day in a row, Albert Pujols hits a walk-off home run in the 10th to give St. Louis a three game sweep of the Cubs! Now it's off to Houston, Milwaukee, and Washington on a nine game roadtrip.
ummm nope...just football, football and more football...although I got into hockey when my nj devils were in it...(o:
I watch the USA women do soccer...otherwise... it's just hockey with no ice. I might see a whole soccer game once,twice in a year. I am into Basketball,Baseball, Football. Less typical.. I like volleyball a lot. Individual? I do like wrestling.. the REAL kind (NCAA/Olympics) NOT on TV often.
Last month I attended the World Championships in Las Vegas and was lucky enough to see Kyle Snyder win his first world title. At only 19 years old, he's the youngest American to ever win gold. Hopefully he takes that momentum into the Olympics next summer.
