Woolnough was back in the hot seat (following Neil Ashton's impressive debut last week), with Paul Hayward, Pat Barclay & John Cross offering the opinions & general bollocks.
Today's agenda was dominated mainly by THFC's championship credentials, following a week of positive press for Spurs & Redknapp. Van der Vaart had commented in full-page interview that MCFC were 'cracking under the pressure' being exacted by Spurs, who would go level on points with a win against WWFC, leading the panel to make some first-class excuses on their behalf:
"Tottenham looked leggy, tired" according to John Cross
"they were under too much pressure with the possibility of going top"
Pat Barclay commented about the unfairness of the loan system, specifically in regard to Adebayor's move to Tottenham which:
"...hurts Manchester City's competitors, but not them".
Then onto Roberto Mancini who, after a couple of cup defeats within a week, is 'cracking'.
Paul Hayward repeated the latest press myth that:
"Mancini had tried to get Glenn Johnson sent off"
after he pointed out the inconsistency of refereeing decisions in a post match interview midweek.
Paul made a comment about Mancini's grasp of English with respect to a single word used in the interview, before treating us to his own interpretation of the rest of the interview, which was perfectly understandable to most English speaking folk anyway, and bore no relation to the 'story' he was purporting.
John Cross then moved on to Mancini's 'moaning' in the press about fixture congestion, which apparently adds further weight to the 'cracking' story. This follows a double page interview in the week given by Arsene Wenger, moaning about (you guessed it) fixture congestion, and bizarrely, TV companies colluding with 'certain clubs' to give them more favourable fixture dates. The irony gave me chronic heartburn.
The tackling issue was covered further, but this doesn't really require any further comment as anyone with the gift of sight could see the disparity between a couple of refereeing decisions given within a few days of each other... but it's worthy of a mention for fans of bullshit bingo alone, with old nuggets like '...not that sort of player' and 'we all know Scholes can't tackle
Here's a random quote from Scholseh's book:
"I was just getting people back, if someone got me early in the game, it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to get them back. I didn't always do it on purpose. Some of it was just bad timing, I suppose."
Anyway, with it being off the agenda due to legal constraints, let me remind you all that Harry Redknapp is due in court on the 23rd of January on tax evasion charges - couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.
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