Don't you just love Sports Report on Radio Five Live? Firstly, there's the theme music (see here) which is legendary especially when interspersed with the right headlines:
Dur-dur
dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur-dur-dur-dur dur-duuuuuuuuuur,
diddley-dur-dur-dur, diddley-dur-dur-dur "Neville breaks leg as United
lose to Hull" Dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur-dur-dur-dur dur-duuuuuuuuuur, diddley-dur-dur-dur, diddley-dur-dur-dur "Cahill arrested for punching fan he mistakes for a corner flag" Dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur-dur-dur-dur dur-duuuuuuuuuur, diddley-dur-dur-dur, diddley-dur-dur-dur "Liverpool smash 7 past Bolton at the Reebok"
Well,
we can all dream can't we? Then it's over to James Alexander Gordon to
read out the classified results and his inability to say the word
"Wanderers", hence the title to this post.
Anyway onto
tomorrows match. A home banker for Bolton seeing as Rafa has just been
named "Manager of the Month" for October. Is the award still a curse? I
can't remember if it's been banished by now. Well let's ignore
superstition and fallacy and concentrate on the football. We need a
serious improvement from Wednesday night but seeing as probably only
Dan Agger will be starting on Saturday from the XI that started on
Wednesday that seems a bit irrelevant. So the Spurs game is irrelevant,
superstition is irrelevant, what is relevant? Will Torres start? That's
relevant, I reckon he'll start on the bench with Mascherano replacing
Benayoun from the last league game against West Brom. We have a problem
at right back with Arbeloa suspended and Degan out injured... that goes
without saying really. Carragher could shift over with Hyypia coming in
or a league debut for Stephen Darby could be on the cards. I'd opt for
the youngster after Sami's midweek performance.
Bolton have
shot up the league after stringing a couple of results together and for
us this would be a great opportunity to put Chelsea under pressure by
winning before they play. It's nicely poised and on a personal level a
Liverpool win is a necessity, I can't have Bolton Ed; Magic Mick,
lording it over me in the World of Catflap!
All together now: "Dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur dur-dur-dur-dur-dur dur-duuuuuuuuuur, diddley-dur-dur-dur, diddley-dur-dur-dur..."