by Ade » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:12 pm
What the ****** is going on? I am so ****** angry at this it's untrue. What was rafa thinking of putting that side out tonight?
This is the FA Cup for fux sake. The FA Cup. Not the Spanish Cup, or the Italian Cup that no one cares about. The FA Cup, and we're on an away tie against a mid-table Div 1 team on a tricky pitch and he's put out that shower of a side.
For ****** sake, we've got no chance of winning the Prem, no realistic chance of winning the Champs League, and now we're out of the FA Cup. What have we got to play for for the next four months – fourth place, the Carling Cup and an outside chance in the CL.
This is unbelievable. We've got Morientes, Gerrard, Carra, Kewell and Alonso looking on tonight knowing they've got next to no chance of winning anything this season. And we knew that if we won tonight we had a home tie against Bournemouth in the next round.
What was Rafa thinking of? And don't give me that ****** that the team was good enough - Villa and City were turfed out by lower league clubs, this was always a banana skin tie and he ballsed it up big time. Players like Traore aren't even good enough in a team packed with first choice players - it's OK to pick a side like this in the Carling Cup, but the FA Cup - wise up Rafa.
Shankly would be turning in his ****** grave tonight.