Does anybody remember John Bostock? If not, then it is likely the memory of anybody taking note of the Football league’s emergency loan deadline day this Thursday would be jogged by the winger’s re-emergence as a last-ditch Swindon loan signing.
Queens Park Rangers are in trouble. On a run of one win in sixteen games, the home win over basement club Wigan Athletic being the solitary victory by the side of Mark Hughes’ name since he took the Loftus Road post, opened up by the reactionary sacking of Neil Warnock.
This past Wednesday night, promotion-chasing Wrexham beat rivals Luton in a 2nd vs. 3rd match in the Blue Square Premier league. The 2-0 score-line put them on 80 points, five behind Fleetwood Town, on whom they have a game in hand.
In West Germany, north of the river Rhine, lies Borussia Park, a dauntingly built 54,057 seater stadium that was constructed in 2004 to the tune of £85 million, to host the fortunes of Borussia Monchengladbach, Germany’s sixth largest supported.
It was all a bit too easy in the end, Ezequiel Lavezzi carving his way through the crumbs of resistance that were remaining in a hap-hazard Fiorentina defence that had been exploited repeatedly on the break before-hand, so much so that Lavezzi’s curling effort to mark the conclusion of a lung-busting 40 yard run had a faint air of the apologetic about it.
It was another passing week in football where many things surprised, but not the fact that on Wednesday, the Barcelona behemoth managed to reach another final as their splendid emulation of the Harlem Globetrotters goes on.
On Tuesday night, Birmingham City hit their 15th goal in four league games as they stormed to a 4-1 win away at Leeds United, taking them up to fourth in the Championship table in what has been a remarkable achievement when it is compounded with the fact they are into the fifth round of the FA Cup, a marked turnaround in the weather when it is considered the stormier climbs that had threatened to destroy their season before it had even commenced.
Jimmy Smith’s close range finish ten minutes from time to seal a win for Leyton Orient away at Preston on Saturday was probably not the most significant goal in England throughout the weekend at face value, but it did mean that Graham Westley’s brand new era at Deepdale was to end in anti-climax after a week in which the young manager finally left Stevenage to become their 6th manager in 3 years.