...seconds out, round 6, of the FA Cup that is, and the LillieWhites take on the lillywhites but I doubt it will be a lilly-livered affair!
At least we will see one master tactician, a decent man of morals and education who has proven his worth on the international stage - as well as the spurs manager.
Spurs will have to worry about the X-Men leaving their mark, that is Murphy, Davies and Zamora, and 'The Thames Barrier' (just for you HD) no matter how high the tide gets. We will have to worry about, well the spurs team, especially Pavlyuchenko (what did the Roman ever do for us?) who seems to be on fire at the moment!
A chilly but bright day beside the flowing lifeblood of London beckons, and despite the club offering up to 8 extra tickets to ST holders I suspect it will be a near full house, the fans stretching their earnings to the limit of their financial endurance to bask in the glory.
Those delightfully cheerful, modest and endearing spurs fans will have the whole of the Putney End, (shame, it gives them an advantage) as well as a fair few new 'members' scattered around the rest of the stadium, thus neutralising and breaking down our pockets of vocal support.
My Guess: 25,479 (+VAT)
The Prize: The contract to supply brown envelopes to Mr H. Redkrapp, Sandbanks, Dorset for a whole year - that should make a millionaire of someone..!
Here goes fella: 24,743
I'm now setting my sights on a nice new Sunseeker to cruise to the Cottage in.. from the other side of the river. I may be better off getting a dinghy!
25,123
ahm goin' fa the big one, Hughie... 25214
Now all I have to do is find a English bar up in the Alps (Flaine) where I'm spending the weekend (eat ya heart out, Eq).
25,502
dropping to 21,312 by half time after BZ gets a hat trick in the first 20 minutes and the result us put within doubt.
24333
fulham for the cups
24,895
25,076
25,001
23,233
Sorry to shout
25,000
25,057 and a 2-0 win for Fulham
25,350. Its got it written all over it.
24,899 - 10 because some are bound to get thrown out of our end
23850 please Bob.
24,999
Can I go with full capicty for the match, whatever it is?!?
25, 422. And I've still got to get my housemate to add Setanta to our satellite TV package so I can get up at 3am for the match. Can't see myself dragging myself out of bed for Gentleman Jim's always entertaining commentary but never say never...
24878 still a lot of S/T holders who won't pay the extra, so I expect a few gaps
if the prize committee have sobered up enough to find their shoes, could one of them declare a winner?
Though I await official recognition it would appear that my oh so brief barren spell seems to have come to a abrupt halt.
Happy days and fulham for the cups
according to ESPN's SOCCERNET, here's the skinny:
Stadium: Craven Cottage, England
Attendance: 24,533
Match Time: 12:20 ET
Official(s):
M Clattenburg (Referee)
...well despite his fears, Barney Travers wins yet again :54:
The official attendance as HD says, was shown as 24,533, Barney's guess was 24,333 and only 200 out. Equalizer failed the win by 10 fans with 210 out.
So BT wins the contract to supply an exclusive 'Sandbanks' address with brown envelopes for a year, that should get him a holiday in Manilla...