Nope. Tis the 19th - http://wembleystadium.com/Events/2012/Championship-Play-Off-Final/npower-Championship-Play-Off-Final-2012
Right, my mistake then. Was sure I had read that it was this Saturday. Cheers
The two stoppage time goals at Blackburn were canny great. My internet was struggling like fuck that night, tried to listen to it on NUFCTV and following it on here the best I could. Knew my dad was only following via texts from me, and I didn't even have time to type and send the first goal before the second went in.
Appreciate what he did for us, but I saying I love him is far from the truth, never even liked him the way I like some of our current players. Despise West Ham though, don't wish them any fortunes at all.
He was 25 years old at the time - been in England for 4 years. Had shown the potential to be 1 of the best players in his position in the league but was at a club he had only ever known as a mid table side at best and they seemed intent on selling all their best players (most supporters were aiming the same criticisms at the board as he was).
With one year left on his contract he had a choice:
commit a few more of the best years of his career to a mid table side seemingly destined for more chaos and tipped by some pundits for a relegation battle.
head to a side showing a lot more ambition - throwing a lot of money around and talking about a title challlenge.
He just made the same choice that anyone who came to this country to play football would make. It just so happened that his judgment in believing the pre-season hype around Liverpool (and ourselves) was terrible. I'd hardly blame him for that
He should have seen that the likes of Ba, Hatem and Cabaye were fucking class in training and perfectly good replacements for Carroll, Nolan and Barton.
I might bet on Everton to win, they are my bogey team bar none. Though I'm not sure that would work against us, and a draw gets us nowhere, so it'd be a nailed on draw