It's been a while since we've done one on Pies, but let's hear it for Kevin Phillips the grand old man of the English goal poachers' union.
While a certain 39-year-old was soaking up the golf applause on his 1,000th career appearance at Old Trafford, another 39-year-old was busy elsewhere banging away a hat-trick last night with Kevin Phillips scoring thrice (including two goals in the space of two minutes) as Crystal Palace beat Hull City 4-2 to move to within a single point of their play-off rivals in the Championship table.
Celebrities from A-List to Z-List were crammed into the hallowed stands of Old Trafford like
superstar sardines on Sunday night as the well-meaning yet quite bizarre Soccer Aid came to
town.
England, captained by Robbie Williams' full-time professional mate, Jonathan Wilkes, could call
upon the likes of Teddy Sheringham, Graeme Le Saux, Paddy McGuinness and a few chaps from JLS.
Jordan Rhodes has certainly got the Premier League's attention. As many as eight top flight
clubs were represented at Huddersfield Town's game against Wycombe Wanderers last week. And they
are likely to have been impressed – the striker bagged five goals in a remarkable display.
Match just over at Bloomfield Road English League Championship Home Team Blackpool Goals & Scorers
90′: Nouha Dicko;62′: Craig Cathcart;58′: Thomas Ince;49′: Thomas Ince;45′: Gary
Taylor-Fletcher;13′:Own Aaron Cresswell; Keeper Matthew Gilks Midfield Tiago Filipe Gomes; Isaiah
Osbourne; Angel Martinez Cervera; Forwards Gary Taylor-Fletcher; Kevin Phillips; Thomas Ince;
Defense [.
Match just over at Bloomfield Road English League Championship Home Team Blackpool Goals & Scorers
80′: Matthew Phillips;75′: Nouha Dicko; Keeper Matthew Gilks Midfield Tiago Filipe Gomes; Angel
Martinez Cervera; Gary Taylor-Fletcher; Isaiah Osbourne; Forwards Kevin Phillips; Thomas Ince;
Defense Craig Cathcart; Alex Baptiste; Stephen Crainey; Neal [.
With that much-vaunted Indian Premier League payday postponed for the moment (it was meant to be
starting towards the end of the month), that international man of mystery, Robbie Fowler, is back
in Blighty and looks set to join Championship side Blackpool until the end of the season.
West Ham hauled themselves back to the top of the Championship last night with a resounding win
over Blackpool at Bloomfield Road, despite having to play for more than half-an-hour with
midfielder Henri Lansbury betwixt the sticks.
With West Ham already 2-1 up through James Tomkins and Nicky Maynard, Rob Green was dismissed in
the 53rd minute for chopping down Roman Bednar outside his area and, with no reserve 'keeper named,
Lansbury was left to take up the gloves for the rest of the match.
West Ham hauled themselves back to the top of the Championship last night with a resounding win
over Blackpool at Bloomfield Road, despite having to play for more than half-an-hour with
midfielder Henri Lansbury betwixt the sticks.
With West Ham already 2-1 up through James Tomkins and Nicky Maynard, Rob Green was dismissed in
the 53rd minute for chopping down Roman Bednar outside his area and, with no reserve 'keeper named,
Lansbury was left to take up the gloves for the rest of the match.
Everton cruised into into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup on Saturday, after a comfortable
victory over Championship side Blackpool.
The Toffees got off to the best possible start when Royston Drenthe curled home a fine effort
after just 49 seconds of play and only five minutes later the home side were two up, courtesy of
Denis Stracqualursi.
LONDON, England Manchester City lost ground to local rivals Manchester United in the Premier League
title race after twice giving up the lead in a 2-2 draw away to Birmingham on Tuesday. A share of
the spoils at St Andrew's left Roberto Mancini's men eight points behind leaders United, having
played a game more [.
Robin van Persie's on an English Premier League record-setting pace this season as his hat trick
against a woeful Blackburn team on Feb. 4 upped his league total to 22 goals in 24 games. He's
already eclipsed last year's Golden Boot scoring record of 20 which was shared by Manchester City's
Carlos Tevez and Dmitar Berbatov of Manchester United and his own mark of 18 EPL goals.
Luis Suarez made his Liverpool debut as a substitute in a 2-0 win over Stoke, while Manchester
City slipped eight points behind Premier League leader Manchester United after a 2-2 draw at
Birmingham.
City went ahead on the fouth-minute when Carlos Tevez took a pass from David Silva and put City
ahead with an angled shot that took a slight deflection off Birmingham's Martin Jiranek on its way
into the far corner.
Turn the clock back to 2010 in the match at St Andrews against Birmingham City. Samir Nasri had
just netted what looked to be the winner in the match. Just seconds from time, on their last
attack, Birmingham found a half decent ball for Kevin Phillips. The veteran came up with a scuffed,
poor effort [.
Birmingham City fans reached the highs of winning their first trophy in over 40 years last
season and then suffered the lows of relegation from the Premier League.
Then this summer, the manager who won them that trophy left the club in their hour of need to
join their city rivals Aston Villa.
This week, Birmingham City striker Kevin Phillips described his side's upcoming clash with
Tottenham Hotspur as being "a £90 million game" when he equated it to the value of the
Championship play-off final. A club coming up into the Premier League can expect significant
increases in revenue, and by the same token, a club being relegated from the country's top tier of
football can expect to lose out on a similar amount.
Can't remember what game it was, think it was a terrible footy game on the Gamecube but i finally
got to mimic the Japanese sounding commentator... "Joh-Coh-Gohlll!" ... After recent fixtures
against the Midlands side it was looking as though this one could be tough for Liverpool. The
refreshing resurgence since the arrival of manager Kenny Dalglish has still seen us falter on a few
occasions and
Of course I mean Birmingham City. With Arsenal and Chelsea the marquee teams playing two this game
week, it's easy to overlook the "other" Blues. But they have a good home match against Sunderland
at the weekend before travelling to a less than rampart Chelsea. It's at least worth a closer
look at their squad as there may be some bargains - and some pitfalls - from the Second City
Players.
Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers are heading to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals after
defeating Arsenal and Birmingham City respectively.
Sir Alex Ferguson selected seven defenders in his starting XI at Old Trafford and one of them,
Fabio, broke the deadlock after a superb counterattack in the 28th minute.
Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers are heading to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals after
defeating Arsenal and Birmingham City respectively.
Sir Alex Ferguson selected seven defenders in his starting XI at Old Trafford and one of them,
Fabio, broke the deadlock after a superb counterattack in the 28th minute.
During Birmingham City's nerve-jangling 2-2 draw with Manchester City last week, Nikola Zigic's
23rd minute equaliser was the first time a Birmingham striker has netted in the Premier League
since November. That's a staggering 937 minutes of action without one of their marksmen beating a
keeper.
Luis Suarez made his Liverpool debut as a substitute in a 2-0 win over Stoke, while Manchester
City slipped eight points behind Premier League leader Manchester United after a 2-2 draw at
Birmingham.
City went ahead on the fouth-minute when Carlos Tevez took a pass from David Silva and put City
ahead with an angled shot that took a slight deflection off Birmingham's Martin Jiranek on its way
into the far corner.
Manchester United were made to work hard for a 2-1 FA Cup fourth round win at Southampton on a
day when holders Chelsea were grateful to an equaliser from Salomon Kalou to stay in the
competition.
Michael Owen equalised for United with a close-range header early in the second half and then
before Javier Hernández scored the decisive goal 15 minutes from time after being played in by a
great Ryan Giggs' pass.
Manchester United were made to work hard for a 2-1 FA Cup fourth round win at Southampton on a
day when holders Chelsea were grateful to an equaliser from Salomon Kalou to stay in the
competition.
Michael Owen equalised for United with a close-range header early in the second half and then
before Javier Hernández scored the decisive goal 15 minutes from time after being played in by a
great Ryan Giggs' pass.
In a departure from what some may have expected, this FA Cup tie between Birmingham City and
Coventry City turned into a goal fest. The home side clawed back from a two-goal deficit to end up
the victors, 3-2.
Starting Formations
BIRMINGHAM FORM: For a side who has been busy in both the League as well as making the Carling
Cup final, it wasn't surprising to see them rest some starters.
LONDON, England Arsenal succeeded where Manchester United failed days earlier to become only the
second team to win at St Andrew's in 30 games with a 3-0 victory over Birmingham City on Saturday.
Their success saw Arsenal stay within two points of both Premier League leaders Manchester United,
top on goal difference, and Manchester [.
No it's not a misspelling, but I will take the opportunity to wish all Arsenal supporters
everywhere a Very Happy New Year. And to all those of you who
Yearn for silverware and titles, I offer these words of comfort.......
The season is half over. We've done well; we're 2 points off the top of the table in 3rd
place.
News last night that Blackpool will sign Newcastle's 20 year-old England U20 striker Nile Ranger on
loan. Nile Ranger on loan to Blackpool Blackpool manager Ian Holloway has already signed former
Sunderland striker, 37 year-old Kevin Phillips, and they are ready to sell their top striker, DJ
Campbell.
Kevin Phillips to make Blackpool switch Blackpool FC Blackpool Gazette.
Encouraging news this morning from my old stomping ground on the NorthWest coast of
England that former England international Kevin Phillips today signed a one year deal that takes
him to Bloomfield Rd for the upcoming season.
Tonight's game has never been too far away in every gooner's minds eye since the draw was made
last December in Nyon, Switzerland.
There is no point in making far reaching rally calls..... my take is to sit back and hopefully
enjoy a festival of Total Football, played out by the two purest footballing sides on earth.
Tonight's game has never been too far away in every gooner's minds eye since the draw was made
last December in Nyon, Switzerland.
There is no point in making far reaching rally calls..... my take is to sit back and hopefully
enjoy a festival of Total Football, played out by the two purest footballing sides on earth.
That was painful. Fulham were excellent, but so bad were Birmingham that the victory seemed
almost cruel.
Why should I care? I think it's that about a year ago Birmingham and Fulham seemed so similar:
defensively very sound, occasionally prone to lack of invention, but good enough to win enough
games to stay in the league.
This morning on talkSport, Kevin Phillips, speaking to their breakfast show added his voice to the
many on the situation at Chelsea regarding Fernando Torres and his current run of games without
scoring. Although he says he feels for him at the moment, he also states that he wouldn't want to
be in Torres' shoes.
You may have heard that Ajax, who once trialed Charlie Davies, is coming to play D.C. United on May
22nd. NSC pal Brian Zygo told me that he'd heard they may also come to Houston on the trip. We
shall see...Let's begin with Birmingham's Kevin Phillips, who makes the grade with a no-look
rainbow.szólj hozzá: ---We once dipped into CONMEBOL Under-20 action to feature Sergio Herrera,
and now he's up
The much awaited January transfer window opened 17 days ago and up to now only one arrival has
been made whilst 3 of Boro's Conference winning side have moved on to pastures new. Let's have a
closer look at the business done so far...
Byron Harrison arrived on New Year's day in time for the trip to Gillingham.
