Season’s end descends on the Reebok
Posted by Ratbert in Birmingham, Bolton | 5 May 2006
Post match musings and match preview: Bolton v Birmingham City, Sunday 7 May, 3.00pm
Well, it’s all spluttering and quaking to a dull end, with little to play for but the Intertoto Cup spot, and even that’s dangling by a rapidly unravelling thread. We deserved more from the season, but that’s for next week (hints at season review).
The game against Middlesbrough’s under-seven reserve team was a total anti-climax, with an apparently disinterested Wanderers having the ineptitude to go behind to a wee bairn (cheers again, Nicky) before our own wobble-meister Vaz Te actually managed to get one on target for once minutes later. The rest of the game passed by in a blur, with a succession of poorly taken chances, the story of the season in many ways.
So we must now hope Newcastle slip up at home to Chelsea - most of whose players are already on holiday, looking for new clubs (Eidur? WHY?) or World Cup bound – and we try to pile a final creamy dollop of misery on already Championship-bound Birmingham City. Sam will surely issue a full strength team again, with Gardner and Diouf the only likely absentees.
If the rumours are true, then it could be bye-bye Bruno and possibly Campo, and who knows who else? We’ll see from the body language of the various players on the now traditional lap of honour at the end. We certainly need a good clear out and fresh faces next time, and most of all a bigger squad. Too few have been stretched too far, and come the denouement it’s made all the difference. I say: a 2-1 win.
Sam meanwhile, finally lost out on his “dream job” with the FA. And he STILL won’t shut his trap about it. Has his pleading made the Whites suffer? Who knows. Anyway, good luck to McClaren, with silverware and good international experience he deserves the post.
