Forget about Leeds: a teacher, a taxi driver, and a janitor take on Liverpool
By: Matthew | January 25th, 2008Nothing to do with Leeds, but frankly, theirs isn’t the biggest game tomorrow: it’s non-league Havant and Waterlooville’s FA Cup match against Premier League Liverpool. The BBC just posted Havant and Waterlooville’s first-choice team and it makes fascinating reading. It also makes it even more ludicrous (not to mention offensive, blinkered, shameful, and against the spirit of the FA Cup) that the BBC will not be broadcasting the game live:
Kevin Scriven
On the pitch: Goalkeeper
Real life: Builder
Justin Gregory
On the pitch: Right-back
Real life: College student
Gregory, sadly, won’t get to play at Anfield: he picked up 5 yellow-cards and is due to serve a one-match suspension during the Liverpool game. The FA, being made up of aging, insensitive incompetents, refused to allow him to serve the suspension at a different time and refused to allow him to sit out on another, rescheduled game instead.
Jay Smith
On the pitch: Centre-back
Real life: “Works in planning”
Phil Warner
On the pitch: Centre-back
Real life: Drives a van
Tony Taggart
On the pitch: Right-back
Real life: Bin man (Garbage man for Americans)
Mo Harkin
On the pitch: Right-winger
Real life: Used to play for Wycombe
Jamie Collins
On the pitch: Central Midfielder & Captain
Real life: Primary School Teacher (Elementary School for Americans)
Charlie Oatway
On the pitch: Central Midfielder
Real life: “I work for Brighton and Hove Albion on a scheme called, ‘Albion in the Community’.”
Alfie Potter
On the pitch: Left-winger
Real life: Youth player at Peterborough United - currently on loan at Havant and Waterlooville
Rocky Baptiste
On the pitch: Striker
Real life: Training to be a taxi driver in London
Richard Pacquette
On the pitch: Striker
Real life: School Caretaker (Janitor for Americans)
The hell with Leeds - and with the dull, Premier League-only FA Cup matches the BBC will be showing this weekend - I’m slapping the radio on and listening to Havant and Waterlooville have the night of their lives.
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Shame on the BBC for not putting the game on live. That will be something those guys never forget, but they won’t even give them a fair shake by putting it on live.
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Nice one Matt. Joe Jordan’s son is due to be involved in this game, but during the week he said he wanted to leave to join near rivals Eastleigh who play in the same league (NCS).
Most of the H&W have been treated like the footballing superstars ‘they are,’ and I wish them well too.
Off to Wigan for the 5.15pm Saturday game. Thanks BBC but thanks also to Chelsea for the £10 return train ticket to get us there and back home.
KTBFFH
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2-2 at halftime
exciting stuff
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Eh well, the dream’s over. 5-2 is a pretty respectable result for H&W, especially considering that they had Liverpool on the back foot for a lot of the first half.
I just wish I could have seen it - I can’t imagine for a second that Chelsea v Wigan will be remotely entertaining.
BBC match report is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/7197712.stm
Guardian match report: http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2247455,00.html
I have to take back my earlier claim about the most interesting game today, though: Derby lost to Preston. And not just marginally: they were utterly annihilated in a 4-1 defeat. Is the pain ever going to end for Derby County? Does anyone have enough money to transform them from a punching bag into a football team?
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Yawn.
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