Wednesday, March 02, 2005

LOL!
Poor Cheryl, I shall try to explain for you what that last post meant.
You already know that I support Charlton (The worlds greatest team) and Flash Leeds. (A bit crap (We especially have problems with Leeds cos they beat Charlton 6-1 once. Grrr.))
Incidently a lot of people don't like Leeds cos they're a bit.... rough shall we say? and sing songs about them being "Leeds scum" (Explains the link to him on the side!)

Last night was an FA cup replay between Arsenal (Last season's League Champions, one of the top three teams in the league) and Sheffield United who are in the division below Arsenal and about 25 places below Arsenal.
As this was a replay someone had to win, they played 90 minutes and the score was 0-0, so they played an extra half an hour but no one scored.
So it came to penalties, one on one with the goalkeeper to try and score a goal and its best out of 5.
Arsenal won.
Now Sheffield United are called the Blades cos on their club badge is two swords. (I've also heard them called the Blunts - hehe! and the Pigs (as their shirts are red and white stripes - like bacon Hehe. )
There's also another team in Sheffield called Sheffield Wednesday which are a lot older than United. They're known as the Owls as they have an Owl on their badge and I think originally played in a place called Owlerton (I'm not fully sure on this.)
And there's a Hell of a lot of rivalary between the two, Lots and Lots and Lots.
You can't support both, its one or the other, and lots of stories are told of games between the two. The Boxing Day Massacre, the All Sheffield Cup game (Biggest evacuation of Sheffield since the War, A used to tell me when he was drunk) and as I know more Owls than Blades and been to a few Wednesday games, I'm quite fond of them.

(Oh and Spurs? Another London Team - Tottenham Hotspur - My dad was a season ticket holder for ages in his youth. They're playing Nottingham Forest tonight in another cup replay and are winning 2-0 at the time!)

2 comments:

Flash said...

Very well explained missy!
Lord only knows what our Cheryl will make of my Moriss dancing footy idea!!

Charby said...

Ok fair enough!
See Cheryl! They're both as bad as each other!
I was always told that The Blades are the pigs!