Anfield Banter: It’s Toulouse, God is the new Beckham but God’s got style, Bells to start fight club, & Hobbs to the rescue
By: Brian | August 3rd, 2007* Well, we drew Toulouse for the third round of Champions’ League qualifying. Though some are calling them ‘tricky’, Sam here at the Offside doesn’t really think much of them. With admittedly not knowing much about their squad, I’m going to guess they are going to play ten behind the ball and hope for a lucky goal or try to battle it out on penalties on the second leg. Why the hell do we get such early round difficult draws in Cups? Last year we drew Maccabi Haifa in the CL, and Arsenal in both the FA and League Cups. So ridiculous. Dates of the games have not been announced yet, but the first leg will be played either August 14th or 15th with part deuce being on the 28th or 29th.
* Robbie Fowler is the David Beckham of Wales. Apparently Cardiff City, God’s new team, has experienced a 40 percent increase in season ticket sales and have sold 6000 plus Fowler jerseys. Considering the population of Wales, roughly 3 million, to the population of the US, roughly 300 million, give or take a few illegal immigrants, that’s actually a better percentage on kits sold. Then again, no true fan of football would ever mistake the guy who bangs Victoria Beckham to the guy who is considered one of the greatest goal scorers the Premiership has ever seen. Fowler has also decided to remain living in Liverpool and fly by helicopter to Cardiff on training and match days. And the angels descended upon us…
* Yeah, I know, Bells no long plays for us, but the title of this article and the picture along with it gave me a good laugh. Bellamy looks like such a schmuck.
* Finally, the kids continue to impress with Jack Hobbs netting an injury time goal to lead the reserves past Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 and Paul Anderson adding another netter to his preseason tally for the Swans earlier this week. The reserves play Ajax Amsterdam on Sunday in the final of the Brucon Talents Cup.
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A Cardiff City Fowler jerseys would be a sweet get. It seems he’s really jazzing up the Cardiff fan base.
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I actually think they’re sort of ugly though.
I’m gonna post what they look like.
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Toulouse are a tricky club to play against. They won’t go far in a long campaign because they don’t have depth, but over a match, they are very capable. Especially since this match is at the beginning of their season, so they will be fresher and not worried about rotating manpower.
Their striker, Elmander, is one of those guys who actually plays well in big games and against big teams. It would be stupid of Rafa if he blew them off and used his second string. Toulouse defeated Lyon’s first string.
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Inara, if I had to guess, our ’second string’ contains Arbeloa, Hyypia, Xabi Alonso, Momo Sissoko, Yossi Benayoun, Ryan Babel, Andriy Voronin, Peter Crouch and if I had to guess two of the following: Emiliano Insua, Gabriel Paletta, or Stephen Darby. Not to mention Lucas and Leto will probably be on the bench. That’s a decent first team, if you ask me. Crouch is a beast in Europe and I have a feeling Voronin will be as well. We’re going to be playing 5 competitive matches in the first 18 days after the EPL Season starts, so Rafa’s gonna do what he’s got to. I wouldn’t say I’m not worried about Toulouse, but I think the team above should be able to at least get a draw away and bring it back to Anfield.
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