Cup fever hits Tyneside for the first time in the new decade, as Newcastle visit Plymouth in
today's FA Cup 2rd Round tie at Home Park! As the last few have been relatively successful, here's
another link you can just use for the match banter.Unfortunately, my better half changed our
holiday plans, so as we're [.
The second Soccerlens Podcast of the new decade sees Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg hit the spot
with more topical football banter and debate.
As well as dissecting all the hottest topics in football, the duo nominate some of their own
favourite writers, experts and websites in light of the upcoming Soccerlens Awards.
Last time I commented about Harry Redknapp's tax problems and shady past I was told in no
uncertain terms I was in the wrong. Last time I commented on Sol Campbell I was accused of being
all kinds of prejudice. Therefore, I thought why not get them both involved today and you can
really go to town on me!
But the Carling Cup has been pretty damn interesting recently.
Normally the tournament is like on the fourth rung.
1. Premiership
2. UCL/Europa League
3. FA Cup
4. Carling Cup
But with a Manchester derby with Tevez revenge and Neville middle-fingers, tournament officials
have to be beaming.
With the World Cup less than 6 months away, we have decided to start the build up early doors
with an A to Z list of our favourite players who set the World Cup alight. Some are recent stars,
some are relics from the days of black and white TV but all were mustard. The thing is, each week
we will be using just stars whose surname was that week's letter, eg: this week it is letter A
which gives us Ardilles, Aguas, Aldier etc etc.
Watching the Manchester derby Wednesday night I was appalled to see Craig Bellamy get hit by an
object and to see other objects thrown at him as he went to take a corner for Manchester City.
Bellamy was struck by a coin that knocked him to the ground and saw a beer bottle narrowly miss
his head.
