James Miller

 

Thursday, February 02, 2006

 

Newcastle United

Why do you go on and on about that basket case?

After all, here in Suffolk we have a little team, that has this knack of taking a few pigs ears and making them into silk purses. It’s also won much more than Newcastle in the last 50 years. Who’s got tradition? We’ve even lent some of them, including dear old Bobby to Newcastle and they can’t even make sense of it all.

Perhaps, the most significant football of the week, was the performance on Tuesday of one Danny Haynes. He has now played four times for Ipswich and scored two goals. He has the pace and skill that I’ve never seen in this country in an eighteen year old, with perhaps the exception of Wayne Rooney. Remember too, he came to Ipswich as a central defender and they converted him into a striker eighteen months ago.

He nearly scored the best goal I’ve ever seen. And that includes watching Jimmy Greaves in his prime, perhaps a hundred times.

He took a ball on the left side of the penalty area and then went completely round the outside, holding the ball with the outside of his right foot. i.e. The wrong way! He absolutely cooked Paul Butler for pace, in a way that was reminiscent of George Best. Unfortunately, he hit the bar.

If that goal had gone in a legend would have been born.

So who cares about Newcastle?

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