Colwill kind of hat trick takes City into last sixteen after end to end cup tie win.

3 Responses to Colwill kind of hat trick takes City into last sixteen after end to end cup tie win.

1. Dai Woosnam says:

   February 10, 2025 at 12:08 am

   So after a complete train-wreck at Elland Road, we get some partial regaining of self-respect at the Britannia. Vital, because every game will be a mini-Cup Final all the way to season’s end… starting with a real test at Fratton Park this week… on occasions a real graveyard for us. I once travelled there from Porth to see us drubbed 5-0, and even the Swans shipped four to no reply, this very season.

   Mentioning our closest rivals, I watched the whole game from Ashton Gate earlier today, and saw them comfortably see off the opposition in a way that we should have in the autumn… had Callum O’Dowda not dallied by the near touchline close to the end to help them get their equaliser.

   But THE game today was surely at Home Park. I saw every moment of that too. Plymouth were under the cosh, but amazingly ended up knocking The Reds out. And those two giant central defenders I wrote so approvingly of recently, were both absolutely immense. Like I think I said in my piece to you, it will be what saves them come May… and thus our acquisition of two lightweight central defenders in Daland and Chambers will come back to bite us.

   And more importantly, it will be this remarkable fellow Miron Musli? that shows himself to be from a different mould than our two managers this season.

   Sure, he can find his team slaughtered at home by Burnley, but gee, look at the cut of his gib, and listen to him use a foreign language*… quite remarkable how he speaks English so well since as far as I can see, he has never lived nor worked in an English-speaking country. And as a motivational speaker, whilst he may not quite be rugby’s Carwyn James or Sir Ian McGeechan, but by golly can recall any manager at our lot who could come up with anything to get even remotely close to Mr Miron Musli? here? Good stuff.
   https://tinyurl.com/yc66fkun

   Mind you Paul, just as we were somehow allowed to share our shameful 7 goal drubbing by fortunately finding that Brighton astonishingly crumbled to the same score that same weekend at Forest.

   And so it was that today, Liverpool can take some weird comfort in knowing that there was a possibly even greater one-nil defeat in this island of ours today… an extraordinary defeat that almost rivals the 1-0 1950 World Cup tie score from Belo Horizonte.

   Unlike the outstanding Dutch manager at Anfield, I genuinely fear for the future of the Belgian boss of the club losing 0-1 at home (and not away, as Liverpool lost) to even smaller minnows. Who do you think will be sacked first, Paul… him or Ange ‘Imposter-no-clue’?

   https://tinyurl.com/5hbs74me

   *Listen hard and you will note the way they mute about a dozen uses of the F-word… which he has presumably thrown in to show his command of colloquial English…!!
   Cleverly tweaked… you hardly notice the editing…

   And you have to laugh at Miron Muslic’s players mimicking his use of the English vernacular. Take for instance his signing of fellow Bosnian giant ex-Rangers stopper Nikola Katic. He was interviewed after the Liverpool game… incidentally how his services could have been done with north of the Border today… in contrast to the disgraceful non-defending of #22 Jefté for the goal.

   Regarding the Katic on field TV interview getting the Man of the Match award, he starts off with two F-bombs…!! I laughed fit to bust.

   And re that interview… I partly quote this from an online source…

   ‘…
   As of 9th February 2025, Liverpool FC was ranked by Opta as the #1 Club in the world. Whilst Plymouth Argyle was ranked #522. Early on during this match, Katic was seen to dislodge and lose a tooth with some blood loss, but recovered within minutes and continued to play. He then went on to become Man of the Match.
   He was seen in a post-match interview displaying a bump on his forehead. Due to the large amount of high powered defensive headers he made?
   …’

   Oh for a centre half who will give his eye-teeth (not to mention his front teeth) for the Bluebirds’ cause… and not just ‘do the Ayatollah’…
   TTFN,
   Dai.
2. Dai Woosnam says:

   February 10, 2025 at 9:46 pm

   Just a note to keen readers who may have read my contribution today while my ink was still not dry.
   The curious question marks replacing the last letters of the names of Bosnians Muslic and Katic, are due to the fact that whilst this blog’s software respects an acute accent over an E – as in Jefté – it gets confused by an acute accent over a C.
   Hopefully Paul will kindly amend the 4 bizarre examples in my previous text, and I promise not to test his patience in whatever future is there for me, by my exhibiting such bogus linguistic skills in future. Especially since I have not mastered ENGLISH yet, let alone made any steps to become a polyglot.
   DW
3. The other Bob Wilson says:

   February 11, 2025 at 9:28 am

   Thanks Dai, I’ve made the changes to your message you requested – the useless software (WordPress) that runs the blog cannot show your message as you intended it, but at least it makes more sense now.
   This is going to sound like a kind of sour grapes, but, when I saw Liverpool’s team for Sunday’s match, I thought Plymouth had a fair chance of pulling off a shock. Arne Slot hasn’t struck me as the type who’d make so many changes for a domestic cup tie and I think he learned a lesson on the weekend – that Liverpool team would not win the Championship in my opinion. That said, they would have turned over the pre January Plymouth team very easily, but their new centrebacks have made a big difference and I thought they defended superbly on Sunday – although they needed some heroics from their keeper in the closing minutes, they deserved their win and Manchester City, who might well have gone the same way as Liverpool at Leyton Orient, are now at a stage where they can take no game for granted.
   I give Plymouth a better chance of upsetting Man City than I do City of beating Villa. You gave your opinion of our defence about three weeks ago and since then we’ve conceded ten goals in the two games we’ve played – I thought all of Stoke’s goal were soft and avoidable and Saturday offered proof that the far from infallible Dimi Goutas and young Joel Bagan are the best pair of centrebacks we can pick at the moment, but Villa won’t need to play as well as they did in seeing off Spurs to enjoy a comfortable win over us.
   Watched highlights of the Rangers v Queens Park game and the visiting keeper had a stormer – his late penalty save was a relatively easy once he dived the right way, but some of his other saves late on were tremendous. It was hardly Berwick 1 Rangers 0 from our youth, but still a real embarrassment for them at the worst possible time for their manager – I don’t get how Rangers can be so competitive in European competition, yet, their fully deserved 3-0 win over Celtic apart, so insipid and ordinary in Scottish domestic competition this season.