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My heart, my heart!

May 15, 2006 on 2:39 pm | In The Mighty Reds |

Well done to the Reds for winning the FA Cup on Saturday. It was probably a great match to watch if you were a neutral, but it wasn’t good for my health, that’s for certain! What is it about us and cup finals in recent years? We sure like to make life hard for ourselves. That’s the third final we’ve won after extra time and penalties since 2001.

Credit must go to the Hammers for putting us under pressure and taking advantage of our mistakes, although I don’t agree with those saying that they deserved to win the game. Sure, they were well-organised and certainly caused us problems, but let’s be clear: they profited from an own-goal, a goalkeeping howler and a fluke scored as the result of a mishit cross. Other than that, I don’t remember them having too many efforts on target.

Thank God for Stevie Gerrard, that’s all I can say. The man was immense. His second goal in particular was one of the best I’ve seen him score, and saved us when we looked dead and buried. Alan Hansen was right when he said the best signing we made at the start of the season was getting Gerrard to reject Chelsea’s advances. Let’s just hope he has the same sort of impact in the World Cup.

Just one more thing: I wonder who our fifth penalty taker was going to be?