Ngog

I suppose that's the sound one makes when caught between a cough, a hiccup and a sneeze.

Not only is an Ngog rather painful, a certain Lee Carsley claims an Ngog could be rather embarassing as well. How could one look one's family in the eye, when an Ngog cheats, dives and wins a conned penalty? I'm not going to say anything further about diving, cheating, etc etc. Let's just see how far this goes. My bet is it'll die soon enough, as quick as one can do an Ngog.

Score-wise, looks like my prediction was slightly off, but at least I got the general drift right - that Pool would suck. That said, it was still adequate entertainment for a Monday night. To see Pool dominate play but go in at half time 2-1 down, and despite all their efforts on goal, to depend on an Ngog moment in the second half. I suspect when ref Peter Walton watched the replays with his post-match cup of tea in hand, he had a rather painful Ngog as well.

It's getting to be really sad times to be a Pool fan. Now it's injuries to Benayoun and Rieira. Very soon, they're gonna have to make Voronin captain. But worry not, Benitez will surely get into the transfer market in January for yet another astute buy.

Arse-wise, the news is that Bent Nick will have to be out for at least a month as he goes for surgery on his groin. That's not too bad. Give the boy his month, some rest, and he should be back and raring to go in time for the ties I talked about yesterday.

Finally, I had to have a word on this. Since the Wolves game, there's been a stream of rather silly journalistic talk going on about our scoring record, breaking records, etc etc etc. All rather ignorable bollocks with the unstated and inadvertent aim of distracting the boys in front of goal. All fine and dandy.

But to see it on our very own website is a bit of a disgrace. Have we nothing else to talk about? Gee whiz. What utterly stupid and irrelevant stats. Just as useless, but potentially more distracting than stats on the average volume and direction of spit and snot Andrei Arshavin expunges in the course of 90 minutes.

Pfft.