Coventry City 1-1 Leeds United
Norwich City 2-1 Sheffield United
Leeds move another point towards automatic promotion.
We’re gonna get ya Neil Warnock!
I was out last night for St. Patrick’s Day, spent the evening in The Bell in town which was nice. Not your typical Stella serving pub with pool tables and juke boxes. Good place although does get very busy, luckily we got a seat by arriving early, right next to the billiard table.
We decided to have a game, I took on a friend who is a regular pool player, I am not. Needless to say I did get thrashed but somehow I scored a straight “200” by re-bounding the ball off the cushion – a feat which is impressive apparently and couldn’t be repeated by my opponent.
It seemed like some people were starting the celebrations a little too early yesterday – at midday! I was down at the local shops where I saw an old man/tramp on the floor, pissed out of his head and surrounded by paramedics and police. Makes you wonder why they do it.
While paying for my shopping I was also amused a couple of larger louts stocking up on beer for the evening – “Once I start drinking I never stop, you had better buy 48 cans. Oh man! They’re only 440ml, are there any pint cans?” – Anyone for pickled liver?
While I think St. Patrick’s day is a great excuse for a celebration and I do enjoy the Irish traditions and music I do feel it is sad living in England that people put more effort into an Irish holiday than St. Georges Day. This day should be acknowledged as a proper holiday in England, us English are all too ready to praise the lifestyle and traditions of other countries yet forget about our own.
Moving onto Leeds United. The Super Whites take on Coventry City this afternoon. Coventry have been unbeaten at home for ages (since October I think), they even beat Sheffield United last weekend (not too hard at the moment though!). It will be tough for Leeds but I still feel confident The Whites can beat them. Sheffield United are playing Norwich and Watford travel to Southampton. Hopefully these games will go Leeds’ way and move them one step closer to The Premiership.
In honour of Leeds United’s recent form I have made this remix of tunes played before every home game. It’s not up to the standards of DanInTheMix, however the mixing at Elland Road is pretty shit too so expect it to be authentic! I have entitled it “The Sounds of Elland Road”.
Finally, a new section for my blog, “Football Predictions”. Every weekend I will predict the scores of every Premiership match as well as the Leeds game.
Everton v Aston Villa – Everton 1-0
Arsenal v Charlton – Arsenal 2-0
Blackburn v Middlesbrough – Blackburn 2-1
Bolton v Sunderland – Bolton 2-0
Man City v Wigan – Man City 2-1
West Brom v Man Utd – Man Utd 2-1
West Ham v Portsmouth – Portsmouth 2-1
Birmingham v Tottenham – Draw 1-1
Newcastle v Liverpool – Newcastle 2-1
Fulham v Chelsea – Chelsea 2-0
Coventry v Leeds – Leeds 2-1
I have been off work all week on annual leave, I haven’t even been in my new job two weeks – how unprofessional (it’s OK, the holiday was booked long before my appointment).
It has been nice just to have a break after stressful two months, what with moving into the flat and starting a brand new job. I haven’t been up to anything major. I went to town the other day to do some shopping and also bought a few goodies from Ebay…
The walls of my room contain posters, framed pictures and even flags for some of my favourite things – Leeds United, Bond movies and X-Files. I have felt the walls have been lacking something for the hilarious television show Family Guy. This massive poster looks great above my bed.
I’m a big gadget fan, I used to have a cool little thermometer which measured the indoor and outdoor temperature. This broke recently, I don’t think the wire which connected the sensor to the main unit liked being trapped in the window! I got this new, far better weather station from Ebay. It’s wireless, the sensor sits in the garden, it also predicts the weather as well as temperature so is better than what I had before.
My PlayStation 2 died recently. I wasn’t too bothered as I now have a Xbox 360. There were three games I was missing though, Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City & San Andreas. I managed to get these for a very reasonable price on the Xbox from a well known video games shop in Bath. Luckily these games are three of a short list of titles backwards compatible on the 360 HOWEVER the re-release of San Andreas (in the “Classics” range) is NOT compatible! I had to take it back to exchange it for a pre-owned original version.
I was given some HMV vouchers when I left my old job. I bought Goal! on DVD, very good film which I watched yesterday afternoon. I also bought Guy Ritchie’s latest movie Revolver on DVD. I know it’s not meant to be as good as Lock, Stock & Snatch but I am a fan of his work so thought I would try it out. Will let you know what I think when I get round to watching it.
Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!
It’s my birthday today and I have reached the ripe old age of 24.
The birthday celebrations started last night, went out with a group of friends to Nandos in town (their chicken is just so tasty).
After that we all went back to a friend’s for a house party – very brave of him I thought. The party was still going strong when the taxi picked me up late on, I think it went on all night, hope the house is still standing!
Today was spent with family inside (it’s been snowing and is cold outside) while finding the time to watch a cracking football game between Arsenal and Liverpool.
Off tonight for a meal at Eastern Eye, a highly acclaimed curry house. I’m a big fan of Indian food and this place is meant to be one of the best places for it in the South West, never been before so am looking forward to it.
Congratulations to Arsenal for getting past Real Madrid and making it to the quarter finals of The Champions League. Commiserations though go to Liverpool who were dumped out of the competition tonight by Benfica, the same team who knocked out Man United in December. I wanted you to win Liverpool!
I was pleased to see Barca go through last night, not only are they my second team but I don’t like Chelsea very much! Predictably Chelsea manager José Mourinho was everything but graceful in defeat. According to José the best team lost. What is it with this moron? Why can’t he admit it that Chelsea were clearly outplayed and Barca deserve to be in the quarter finals?
The REAL special one!
It makes you wonder that if he spent less time moaning about the referee’s decisions in the first leg and more time on team building for the second leg, Chelsea may have done better last night – his mouth is a major floor in his managerial skill. Still there’s always next year José! Maybe you’ll need to spend another £300mill to beat Barca though!
The draw for the quarter and semi finals is on Friday, hopefully Barca will get drawn with Arsenal or AC Milan.
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