Right, so, that’s that. That’s the season drawn to a close with a Maurice Edu header in the 92nd minute.
They are 13 points clear, haven’t lost a game in 4 months and we cannot pull our fingers out. Despite Robbie Keane. Keano rocked up on loan, and has been scoring regularly for us, but I don’t think a 6 month stint would have been enough to see us through. Maybe if he’d taken the Spurs boys to Dublin in the summer, we’d have gotten him all year, and he’d have made a Larsson-esque contribution to the season.
As it is, we’ve got Mogga, and his particularly dour brand of football. After spending the first half of the season bedding in (forgiveable) and trying to get a set of comparative cloggers to play sexy football, he’ll be spending the second half trying to persuade Keane to stay and apologising for flogging half the squad to Middlesborough. (more…)