Reply To: Ryan Babel: "I was badly coached by Rafa Benitez"

#1262001
Red Herring
Red Herring
Participant
  • :

Ian, that’s one of those games/ties that still gives me the Heebie-Jeebies when I’m reminded of it. Not so much the 2nd leg, but JAR’s 90th minute own goal that effectively settled the tie overall. We were coasting in that game and should have been more than one up; but 1::0 was OK and would have given us the platform to progress to the Final as it turned out. You’d have hoped that in the 28 years that he’d been on the planet, he may have realised that his right leg may be able to do something a bit more than support the rest of his body. But, no, Kalou’s tame cross came in and Ginge decides “no, this ball is only 2 feet off the floor, but rather than dispatch it into any stand that my right foot can find, I’ll try and head it instead!!”

That was his “Taxi to Rome for Mr Riise” moment.