Blue Sunday

J. & I went to see Forest @ Chelsea on Sunday, and from the Forest point of view it was somewhat depressing, but a good experience nonetheless. J. enjoyed taking pictuires of the stadium and players, and we savoured the atmosphere. Forest played too deep and too defensively, and never really hassled or harried Chelsea - they seemed completely overawed. Not as cold as the previous week at Swansea.

Dodgy

Of course, Chelsea season ticket holders, and Members get first go at the Forest tickets, and not only that, but both can buy up to four tickets each, before the remainder go on sale to the general public. Am not too hopeful of procuring any. Presumably a fair number of these batches of four will go on eBay at inflated prices, which seems somewhat dodgy to say the least....

FA Cup 2007

Forest drawn at Chelsea in the fourth round, after giantkilling exploits against Charlton. J. very excited and keen to get tickets, which I suspect will be both in short supply, and v. expensive, but am monitoring the Chelsea website. One of their callcentre persons told me that non -members can buy tickets when they go on general sale, 14 days before the match, but am doubtful as to whether any will remain at this point. We shall see

forest 4 da prem by jfj

forest 4 da prem by jfj

Reading Between The Lines

Typically, after failing to beat several of the crap teams in their division, Forest summoned up the collective will to beat Reading, one of the better teams in The Championship, and haul themselves one place up the league table. Another win or two, and Forest will be comfortably mid-table, seeking crumbs from the top.

It will be interesting to see if Joe Kinnear attends the post-match press conference - he's avoided several during the course of Forest's six match winless run. I guess he will be looking over his shoulder now Ray Harford has arrived as manager-in-waiting.

America eh?

Just recovering from the triple blow of Forest failing to beat Rotherham (and nearly losing), that idiot George Bush somehow getting back in, and then Forest losing again to Wolves. Pah.

As regards Bush winning, just complete bemusement here in Wales - which according to research, most Americans wouldn't have any idea where it was, just as they couldn't mark on a map, where London is - this is part of the problem I think - the majority of Americans have no idea about the rest of the world, don't know where places are, never mind have any insight into why the rest of the world feels like it does about America under Bush.

From what I read, the majority of Americans don't even own a passport, and never visit other countries, so they don't have a clue how people in the UK and Europe feel about what America is doing around the world, and are quite happy with Jesus, so long as all is well with the flag and the family. America is the world to them - even the baseball finals are The World Series, and how many countries play in this competition...

So we can look forward to more of the same from Bush, now he's got a mandate to invade countries at will, ignore Europe and the UN, line the pockets of his friends in the oil business, increase unemployment and poverty, and be generally in thrall to the religious right in America - these people are really scary.

Let it lie

As Vic Reeves might have said in his heyday, Sir Alex seems unable to let it lie - reading the news on various websites this morning, it seems he's still wittering on about the Man U - Arsenal match last weekend, now apparently trying to get Henry in trouble for an alleged knee to the head of Heinz - clearly trying to get some sort of redress for the punishment of Van Nistelroy for what was a clear, and typical piece of nastiness by an unpleasant individual.

Sir Alex needs to just let it go, and accept that Man Utd are past it, and that whether he likes it or not, the title is probably going to London this season - unless West Brom put together a late run...