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The Tom Grumble column

Aug 24 2004

 

Tom Grumble

You may or not have noticed, but I have been away for a while.

I had business in Honolulu and stayed longer than expected.

Nice enough place but I will just say this… grass skirts, local beauties and coconut cocktails are all well and good, but when you stare at a bikini-clad beauty on a sun kissed beach and start imagining what she'd look like in a Wolves strip, you know it's time to come home.

My first stop was The Hawthorns, the home of a team that might just stay in the top-flight this time around.

The Baggies are back and Villa stood in the way as a potentially early wake-up call.

But if Villa were an alarm clock then they were one with cotton wool over the two clanger-things (you know what I mean).

The Baggies looked solid. And Kanu… what a player! More tricks than Paul Daniels. Actually most people have more tricks than him these days. He has probably retired to somewhere like Honolulu with the ‘lovely’ Debbie McGhee’.

Anyway I digress. The Baggies should have won. Villa looked pretty stale. It’s fair to say that they don’t really have a midfield. Again!

Someone tell David O’Leary that Gareth Barry is to the world of the left-winger what Rik Waller is to the world of ballet. And that if Steve McClaren is daft enough to pay £5m for him he should Sell! Sell! Sell! I would. And I know best.

So a draw… ball over the line? Mellberg unlucky? My mate Old Ernie from The Dog and Fox reckons the ref was dodgy. Nah, Villa should be sewing teams like Albion up all day long. Unfortunately Villa have delusions of grandeur. The Premiership is improving – Villa are going backwards. Mark my words.

Blues lost to irritating mega-money superteam Chelski. They should have won (according to all Bluenoses) and the game was marred by controversy when Robbie Savage elbowed Mateja Kezman in the head.

Emile Heskey defended Robbie Savage and claimed he wasn’t ‘that kind of player’.

Hmm… no comment from the Grumble. All I do know is that Savage played out of his skin. He is still the player every fan wants in their team.

And that about does it. Oh Wolves, they drew away to Burnley. There is little ambition at the Molineux and even less players. You live by the sword and you die by the sword. Wolves look like having their throats cut by their own stupidity.

Grumble and out!

P.S. Update from the Coca-Cola ‘nobody cares it’s a league for farmers and postmen’ league. Walsall drew.



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