
Happy hump day! Here’s Andrew with part 3 of another step back/forward in time
Welcome back to Lancashire! It’s been going pretty well, so well I just can’t understand why this team was taken apart. You can catch up on last week here.
SAS are straight back on it as we get going at home to Barnsley. It should have been more given we had 18 shots by half-time. Dave ‘the wall’ Watson keeping us from running riot.
Its another two for Alan as Coventry are brushed aside, not without that ever expected Viorel Moldovan goal.
The FA Cup rewards us with a chance to help SAS up the scoring charts. And how!
Tim Flowers though, its like having a ‘keeper with flowers for hands at times. The next round surely sets us on course for more goals.
Graeme the sock is injured, and he’s closely followed by our main left back Kenna.
Kenna believe it? Brilliant!
To ease their pain they think they can have Sutton. I’m not sure what Fergie is thinking when he has Scholes on the bench having scored 20 in 25.
Alan Sheareeeeeeerrrrrrr…misses from the spot.
Thankfully, Sutton is there to drag him out the s***. Seven shots, no goals. Howay man.
And again, who is this Alan Shearer?
Ah, he’s found his level.
Sutton had two disallowed making it advantage Shearer. It’s Spurs in the 5th round and Alan will miss it. And the 1st of the League Cup semis against Coventry.
It’s a two-game rest from getting crocked, I guess. Alan misses another pelanty against Derby. I won’t take them off him as everyone else is pure guff.
Have them apples Fergie.
Warhurst steps in admirably for big Al. You can call him Betty.
Wilcox picks up a two-game ban and Sherwood picks up a two week layoff. Joy. Spurs still can’t find a response.
To Stuart Ripley. It’s Chelsea in the quarters of another cup. A tough tie. We finally lose a game, but thankfully its still enough to get through.
The curse of Moldovan. Never troubles the top scorers, always scores against human players. Its Arsenal in the final. I like the warmup. We sub off Flowers and go ‘keeperless when Arsenal lose both theirs and hammer them.
Shearer misses a third pen and Witschge breaks his ribs again from laughing so hard. It’s a bit more difficult at Chelsea as our green fingered ‘keeper puts in a top performance.
It seems to be silly season as there are more reds. This time its Stuart.
He’ll miss three games for violent conduct. Surely against the Dons that’s standard conduct? Anyway, another game, another red.
Shearer bags two and breaks his penalty hoodoo. Thank god for that. It leaves the goal scorers charts looking rather healthy.
And the league table is okay too!
Well, we’ve made a small gap to United, but there’s a long way to go. Can we keep Shearer and Sutton banging them in to drive us to the title? I’m sure we’ll lose when we face United, hopefully we’ve built a better lead by then or it will go to the wire like the last tussle these two had.
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