Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Saturday 24 October 2020
Division 4
Grimsby Town 1 Pollock (25)
Carlisle United 1 McKeown (46 og)
Attendance: 0 (0 away fans)
The centre-backs had a tricky time dealing with the swirling wind and swivelling eyes of McKeown, so let us toss some succour towards the oft-maligned lump that is Luke Waterfall, who headed the ball a lot.
After acknowledging the televised total tripeness, the Pied Piper came up with his own variation of the Wenger Gambit, hoping to avoid a complete emotional breakdown in front of John Tonduer, the Paxman of the Pontoon:
"I missed the goal, I was trying to find my cap and I went to the toilet, so I came out, and instead of what I said at half-time helping them, it goes even worse."
At least we now know where he keeps his cap.
Waffle, wiffle, piffle, sniffle. Many words were spoken, all to be found in an English dictionary, and they were mostly in the right order. A man as stolid as his team but he wasn't one of them one-eyed whinny lunatics leaders. He's probably a very nice man who you'd trust to feed your cat when you go on holiday:
"I feel injustice for Grimsby, it's their turn to give it us, but no injustice in us taking advantage of that."
Well, so far this season we've had one good week. The rest of the time it's dour or dire. This was both.
All this chopping and changing is reminiscent of Holloway's final Queens Park Ranging: an ever-decreasing circle of hope from an ever-increasing rotation of discarded youngsters and creaking oldsters.
They are tired from too many games, yet tired from not having played enough to be "match fit".
These incoherent excusathons are testing patience.
Big, basic, boring.
Mundane mediocrity that no-one of moral integrity would waste any time analysing.
Mr C Pollard
A little too pleasant to the crumbling Cumbrians and outrageously ignored Hendrie's horrendous foul throw in the lead up to McKeown's footloose flapping. So how could any score above 6.999 be acceptable to the disenfranchised elite metropolitan yoghurt readers of the world?
Town: McKeown, Hendrie, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Clifton (Starbuck 60), Morton, Taylor, Tilley (Hanson 52), Williams (Green 72), Windsor
Subs not used: Battersby, Idehen, Mohsni, Gomis
Booked: Waterfall, Starbuck, Pollock
Carlisle United: Farman, Tanner, Anderton, Hayden, McDonald, Guy, Riley (Reilly 66), Mellish, Alessandra, Toure, Kayode
Subs not used: Dewhurst, Devine, Hunt, Charters, Furman, Malley
Booked: Anderton