By Walter Broeckx

What could have been a banana skin game turned out to be a very comfortable win. Arsenal started the game well on top and we took our early chances. Before we realised it the game was well won and we hadn't even played 15 minutes.

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It was a game that potentially could have been a banana skin. In the end we took the skin off the banana, ate the banana, then put the skin under Wolves who seemed unaware of the danger of a banana skin, thinking that oranges were the only fruit.

It was over as a contest in the first 11 minutes.

Down one goes and out the other goes

Ok, that's a lame title. Well, they are Wolves and we didn't lose, you get my drift. In essence, that's what it was. Wolves were a side low on confidence and the slightest change completely offset them. The red card ended the game as a contest and Arsenal strolled to a 5 point lead over the 4th place team.

Down one goes and out the other goes

Ok, that's a lame title. Well, they are Wolves and we didn't lose, you get my drift. In essence, that's what it was. Wolves were a side low on confidence and the slightest change completely offset them. The red card ended the game as a contest and Arsenal strolled to a 5 point lead over the 4th place team.

Alan Pardew revealed at his press conference for the Arsenal game this week that his players were upbeat in training. Shola Ameobi - after scoring vital equalizer last Sunday And the Newcastle manager believes this was because the lads have put the Sunderland game behind them, and that was always going to be a potential banana skin, and Pardew was pleased Newcastle came out of the game with a draw, and [.

Last night, Real Madrid were given the most glorious opportunity to go to bed with a 13-point lead over Barcelona. It was an opportunity that was as clear as day: against a bottom team who were on a freefall (Racing Santander), at home and on the back of what has largely been a sweet Valentine's Month for Real Madrid.

So finally we've gotten this game out of the way. After Madrid's Burger King Boys (Getafe) knocked the wind off the sails of Barcelona, opening up a SIX (6!) point lead between us and them, the trolling from Cule trash talkers seems to have gone on overdrive (check out the last few posts at RMFB) – pushing the pre-clasico fever a couple of days too early.

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew keeps ambitions in check ahead of our game against Everton on the weekend. What exactly is a 'potential banana skin'? I ask because my local shopkeeper and I were having our daily discussion about life, the universe and everything and he left me with the comment "Everton are a potential [.

Now then, now then, as a wise old scholar once said. Well, I say wise. You have to wonder about the cunning of a man whose favourite indulgences include highly-flammable daywear and smoking cigars the size of bicycle pumps. He could probably choose his photo ops better, too. Yes, that's Frank Bruno.

Goals:
Bellamy 7'
Kuyt 81'
Barnes 90' (pen)
We'll preface this with "any win after two losses is a good result" and "this was an archetypal banana skin cup tie and Liverpool advanced." Just in case.
All the arrows in the above formation don't do the team justice.

Not entirely surprisingly, Hutton was nowhere.Well, technically, we're at their door, what with it being an away game and all. But I digress.
Our zero-points-two-games Premier League campaign gets back underway tomorrow with a visit to the Midlands. Wolves away has held nowt but frustration for us since their readmission to the PL.

Jordan Henderson admits he was correctly booked for simulation during Liverpool's Carling Cup win at Exeter but insists he did not cheat.
Henderson went down inside the box in the second half, with referee Tony Bates waving away penalty appeals before brandishing the yellow card.
"I think the referee got it right, to be fair," Henderson told the Daily Mirror.

Kenny on Raul, Andy and Exeter

Kenny Dalglish hailed the attitude of his players as they overcame a potential banana skin to beat Exeter City 3-1 and progress to round three of the Carling Cup.

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A day of many distractions with the country apparently up in arms and rioting for, erm, well, no particular reason that any of the ill-educated scrotes who've been asked can articulate and for Forest fans certainly the circus of the Wesley Verhoek transfer. Despite the attempts by the local media this wasn't 'Derby day' it was, for me at least, a banana skin fixture that for local peace of mind at least we could really do with not losing [.

Manchester City are still some way from being able to predict whether their captain Carlos Tevez will be available for selection for their FA Cup final on May 14th. The Argentinean striker suffered a hamstring injury last month and will face a real race against time to recover in time to lead his team out at Wembley for the season's showpiece final.

Liverpool will be hoping there are no beach balls on the pitch when they visit the Stadium of Light on Sunday.
The last time they faced the Black Cats at the Wearside venue, the now departed Darren Bent's winning goal famously deflected into the net off such a piece of beach equipment.
But even if there aren't any beach balls, boss Kenny Dalglish knows there is a potential banana skin to avoid, given the Reds have lost all three of their Premier League away games directly following a Europa League matchday this season.

There have only been a handful of games this season which I thought were going to be easy. The home game against WBA was one of those. Such experience can make one respect a sentence like – there are no easy games in the Premiership – instead of ignoring it as a cliché. So Arsenal travel to the Hawthorns in what is another potential banana skin against a side battling relegation.

Interesting.

Mixed feelings towards Wolves. On the one hand, they were a disgrace at the Cottage earlier in the season. On other they've been quite good fun this season, the Premiership's banana-skin surprise, capable of causing slip-ups when least expected.

Also, their 1950s sides were seriously good.

At what point does something become cliché? How long does a set of sayings or commonly held beliefs have to be around before you grow tired of hearing the same old platitudes over and over again to the point that they are rendered meaningless?

That is the fate of the FA Cup in modern football.

Premier League giants did not quite slip on the Crawley Town banana skin but they certainly had a few stumbles. The non league minnows put up a brave performance going down to the lone Wes Brown 28...
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PARIS, France — Fifth division amateurs Chambery continued their dream French Cup run on Wednesday, a 2-1 victory over Sochaux seeing them progress into the quarter-finals. Sochaux became Chambery's third first division scalp after they had previously knocked out Monaco and Brest. It is the first time a club as lowly as the Savoyards has [.

Scary rumour No1. First of a series.Come out Gareth. I'ts all right, he'll be on our side. Against Charlton we avoided an obvious banana skin without too much trouble, although it needed the creativity of Modric to light our path. The pairing of Sandro and Palacios seemed a bit heavy handed for the likes of Charlton but once the little maestro came on for Palacios we scored three within 15

As the third round of the FA Cup kicked off yesterday I wondered to myself if it was as special as it used to be. Many people have said over the last 15 years or so that the FA Cup has lost some of the magic it once had and I can't really argue with that. When I was younger, this time of year was as exciting as the final itself, the beginning of what you hope would end with your team at Wembley in the final game of the season lifting the most famous club cup trophy of them all.