Alan Swann: on Millwall up, Northampton down, Man Utd plus Swanny's fanmail
MILLWALL are my new second club. They've spared me another trip to the Elland Road slum and enabled me to avoid listening to the vile abuse of the most horrible supporters in the country.
MILLWALL are my new second club. They've spared me another trip to the Elland Road slum and enabled me to avoid listening to the vile abuse of the most horrible supporters in the country.And did you, like me, notice how quiet the Leeds fans were in the final 10 minutes of their play-off semi-final disaster when spending another season in League One became ever more certain?
Great fans my backside. They went missing when their team needed them most. All 36,000 of them. I might send them a tape of London Road when Posh were reduced to 10 men in the fifth minute against Northampton just to remind them what inspirational support can achieve.
Best squad in the division? I don't think so. The trouble-making top scorer bottled his big moment from the penalty spot and the boy wonder Fabian Delph was anonymous - I'd rather have Dean Keates.
Leeds a big club? Not any more I'm afraid. Marching On Together... all the way to the likes of Exeter and Brighton for a third successive season.
AND the season just finished must rank as one of the greatest in Posh history.
Posh went up, Northampton were relegated, Cambridge United are still a non-league club and MK Dons failed to go up because they entrusted Jude Stirling with a crucial penalty.
Life doesn't get much better for Posh fans.
THE latest selfish sportsman to put his own interests before that of his country, or in this case an entire continent, is young golf sensation Rory McIlroy, a man with one whole tournament win to his name in his professional career.
McIlroy announced last week that he is not bothered about making Europe's Ryder Cup team. To him it's just an exhibition match.
What a clown. The Ryder Cup is The Ashes of golf, the biggest golfing event in the world bar none, and playing it should be an ultimate honour.
But of course there is no money involved so therefore it's not as important as finishing in the top 10 of a nondescript event in Spain for these finance-obsessed fools.
Mind you at least McIlroy has been open and honest about his lack of patriotism.
Andy Murray appears fighting fit as he chases ranking points and cash on the clay court circuit - his next injury has no doubt been booked in for September when the Davis Cup resumes.
CONGRATULATIONS to Manchester United. I just hope the Premier League issue enough medals to honour everyone who helped them to their latest title.
It's about time the likes of Howard Webb, Rob Styles, Mike Riley and all the other one-eyed officials were given proper recognition for their contributions.
Webb has had such a great season, he's now started to influence the relegation battle by making ridiculous decisions to help Newcastle to drop down to The Championship.
Webb is allegedly the best referee in the country and will be taking charge of the FA Cup Final later this month. What chance is there of officials ever improving if their repeated failures are rewarded by glamour appointments?
FAIR play to rugby union officials for banning eye-gouging thug Alan Quinlan for long enough to make sure he misses the British Lions tour to South Africa this summer.
There are many cowards in rugby who attack opponents when they are weak and unable to defend themselves. What a shame the same disciplinary panel wasn't in operation when the despicable All Blacks spear-tackled Brian O'Driscoll out of the last Lions tour.
TAKING a Test match to Durham was another master stroke by the nutters who run international cricket in this country.
It's a mighty myth that sport is supported with passion in the North-East, whether you're measuring in numbers or decibels. The fact that Newcastle football fans often take their shirts off is a sign of their state of inebriation and nothing else.
And cricket in Durham in May was always going to be a total turn-off in the cold. Especially against opposotion as poor as the West Indies, who boast a captain who couldn't have made it clearer he'd rather be somewhere else.
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WHAT a great time it is for football fans all over, not just those who support League One teams who have had to put up with Yorkshire folk all season saying: "I'll tell thee Leeds are a massive club who will get pre-motion this season."
I hope you are, like me, wearing a nice big smile after Leeds once again failed to deliver at the crucial moment. I must admit a lot of Millwall fans, myself included, thought it would be a tough ask to go and win at Elland Road.
So what can we draw from this result?
1) Leeds are a Div One club for another season.
2) Leeds fans now must realise that success in the past is no guide to the future and stop going on about it.
3) Beckford can't deliver in big games. He's the Eto'o of the lower Leagues.
4) Leeds fans must accept their position as a League One club for at least two more seasons and expect to be laughed at.
And what every other club must learn is to at all costs keep Peter Ridsdale, Ken Bates and David O'Loony away from your club!
I don't care if we lose in the play-off final to Scunthorpe, stopping Leeds is enough to keep most Millwall fans smiling for months.
Simon Kaminski
So you're enjoying the demise of Hull City. Clearly you don't buy into this whole breath of fresh air thing.
You don't enjoy seeing a club rise from the depths of the Football League, only to beat the likes of Arsenal, Spurs and Newcastle in their debut Premier League season?
No fun for you seeing Hull go 2-0 up at Anfield, or putting three past Man United at Old Trafford?
Do you turn on Peterborough each time they go on a bad run? Actually, you probably do.
I'm glad the Man City pitch talk gave you so much joy, but unfortunately for all you lazy ill-informed journalists (don't feel special, that applies to 90 per cent of journalists, not just those on local rags), it had absolutely nothing to do with the change in fortunes for Hull City.
In January, there's a thing called a transfer window and our management, thinking we were all sorted, decided to let two strikers go without replacing them and it is that and that alone, that has caused us to be where we are today.
I'm probably wasting my time with this, as you strike me as the sort who wouldn't let facts get in the way of his ill-informed drivel, but you never know.
Rob
Hull City fan
PS - A little tip for you, if you're absolutely pig ugly, don't put your picture on your website - people have less respect for the opinions of ugly people.
YOU have written the most arrogant piece of tosh I have ever read. You are so full of yourself.
Your abuse of John Terry and Andrew Flintoff is laughable.
Terry is amongst the best players in the world and as for him crying in the European Champions League final, I trust you remember Gazza and many others crying when they have suffered the taste of defeat.
As for the disrespect to Phil Brown. Grow up. it shows you have obviously been reading too much of the national papers and don't have a view of your own.
If you were to look properly into the slide of Hull City, you would find it started in the first half at Liverpool when we were 2-0 up (should have been 3-0 but for a woeful penalty decision not going our way) and since then the belief of the players has been that we will not get any decisions in our favour.
This has been shown time and time again by the number of offside goals we have conceded and the number of penalty appeals which have been turned down. It is easy to blame Brown for the slide of the Tigers, but I think the players have been demoralised by the disgustingly poor refereeing they have seen this season.
As for Jamie Redknapp and Andy Gray, they might be biased towards the top sides, but at least they have better analytical abilities than the lot from Setanta and ITV, and especially Alan "shocking defending" Hansen.
Also can you remind everyone what level of football you played. And what are your qualifications as a football pundit? None, I suspect just like most of the other muppet press who know very little and show it in the drivel they spout week in week out, bowing down to idiots like Ferguson and Wenger, who are both blatantly as arrogant and obnoxious as you are.
Phil Hunter
Tigers fan
No trips to Elland Road for at least a season then?
Oh dear, what a shame.
Dan Brown
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