For those happy few who do not find my ramblings self-indulgent, I offer, belatedly, a person look back over the nutty 2011-12 season: http://thisismyengland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/here-finally-is-much-delayed-this-is-my.html
Great article. I thought it was just me that had a thing about Swansea looking fantastic going sideways! They were well and truly found out at loftus Road, I thought they looked clueless.
Thanks TIME, it has to have been the most momentus season in our history for all the reasons you have summed up so well. Onwards and upwards U Rrrrrssss...
Excellent as usual. My feelings about Swansea exactly, not going anywhere at no particular speed. Not even a poorman's Spain or Barcelona...at least they have speed and penetration at the end of their tippy-tappy clever play
"The slow, tedious wannabe tika-taka of the division’s Welsh interlopers was applauded by many commentators. This, we were told, was how the game is meant to be played. Well, those of us who schlepped our Christmas hangovers up to the architecturally sterile and curiously small (why build a brand new ground with a capacity of only 20,000?) Liberty Stadium would beg to differ. Swansea seemed a dull side. What’s so interesting about watching the ball move around between the goalie, the fullbacks, the centre halves and a holding midfielder? Over and over and over again? Until all of the oxygen is sucked out of the occasion?" ========================================= Great piece, especially this para
