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| Proud To Be A Brummie; Watto's report !! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 20 2011, 12:13 PM (324 Views) | |
| Oby | Aug 20 2011, 12:13 PM Post #1 |
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Mikael Forssell
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I enjoyed reading this, thought i would share it, It's from Bluesnet It’s not often that Blues fans get the chance to be really proud of their club and of themselves. 600-700 paid a ridiculous amount of money to watch their clubs first European tie for 50 years. As someone who saw the last one (Blues 1 Espanyol 0) I was amused by the comment that we were now on an unbeaten European run which stretched over 50 years! With a o-o draw under the belt and no European side ever lowering our colours at St Andrews the Blues fans can look forward to a few more pilgrimages. The home of Fc Deportivo Nacional is situated 2000 feet above sea level and takes an hour to reach by car. There is only one road in and it’s about as wide as our living room. The economic sense of the stadium’s position is inexplicable but the feeling was that they could have put it on the moon and the wonderful Blues fans would have found a way to get there. The Nacional team were chock full of young Brazilians whom played a pretty style of football and for about twenty minutes nipped the ball around nicely and occasionally opening up gaps. On twenty five minutes Blues looked certain to go a goal down as this football opened the Blues up. Curtis Davies made a world class tackle to deny the home side. From that point Blues grew in confidence and dominated the game with a very unfamiliar format. Blues put four Centre halves on the field while Dann sat in the stand. Added to that they had three wingers. Ridgewell played in front of the back four with Spector and Beausejour in the central midfield roles. Redmond came in on the left and Woods ploughed a lone furrow up front. Had big Eck come up with this kind of systems he would have been given pelters. Chris Hughton who is a wonderful gentlemanly no –nonsense kinda guy seems to have won over the Blue noses and no-one seemed to question the formation. Blues first big chance came after half an hour when a corner headed back by Davies found Caldwell. The Scot should have netted and the ball hit the inside of the post and was scrambled away. Just before half time another corned fell to Woods who blasted the ball from eight yards against the cross bar. Woods was causing problems continually and the home side resorted to crude tactics to stop him. Woods did break clear and fire the ball just wide. Redmond who was mesmerising the opponents brought a good save from the home keeper and Burke fired the ball back and Woods headed against the post. Blues should have left Madeira with a comfortable lead. They will be big favourites to progress but have an injury doubt of two. The whole set up is starting to come together but equally the injury count is starting to rise. Get some players in Mr Pannu those magnificent 600 deserve it. By Alan Watton http://www.blues-net.com/2011/08/20/wattos...o-be-a-brummie/? |
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| MikaelForssell | Aug 20 2011, 12:45 PM Post #2 |
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Jeff Hall
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Only pet peeve is its Chris WOOD not WOODS but other than that, spot on. |
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