How would you see the fixture panning out? Vote to decide who goes through to the next round. The Thick as pig **** XI lines up thus; --------------------------Dorus De Vries----------------------------------- -------------------Mark Lawrenson------Tony Adams--------------------- Jason McCateer-------------------------------------------Leighton James ----------------------------------Robbie Savage--------------------------- -------------------Paul Gascoigne------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Suarez---------------------------------------------------Paul Merson -----------------Mario Balotelli------John Carew--------------------------
The Ginger XI lines up (in red, sponsored by Duracell); ------------------------ Kahn-------------------------------- --------------------Effenberg (sweeper)-------------------- Nicol--------------------Lalas-------------------------Riise ------------------------------Bremner------------------------ ------------------Strachan----------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Ball-----------------------Scholes-------------Bo Andersen -------------------------Dennis Law-------------------------
Pheew - a hard call 2-1, Think i must go for attacking football. Thick as pig **** XI get my vote, after a very well matched game: the ginger team pushing forward, and the pig team defending well; waiting for their counter attacking chance. Ginger score a goal "out-of-nothing" in 34# minute, after being under a lot of pressure: Kahn making a few solid saves. Effenberg coms forward on a counter after a freekick and makes a crazy looking assist (attempting a long shot), but the ball hits Savage in the head (no damage done here) and Red Romario puts it away... But in 2# half Pig team put things straight: Suarez and Balotelli both Score (in the same minute 67), and get in an argument about who is the matchwinner and eventually both get sent off!! This lead to a very intense finish to the match, but in spite of pushing forward - hitting the post twice in a triple chance in the dying minutes of overtime, (ball hacked off the line by Adams - with huge aruments "was it in"). Pig team manage to scape victory after an unconvincing performance.
