Monday, May 14, 2007

Time After Time (Annelise)

Just how much of his career does Lulu "Lawrie" Sanchez owe to Liverpool FC? The gloom-filled tactician has benefitted from the Merseyside club over and over again and frankly I am sick of it.

1988 - "Sanch" nods a goal in for Milton Keynes against Liverpool and milks it so dry that even the molten surface of the sun has a higher humidity level.

2001 - Wycombe fight their way into the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool. Cue Sanchez saying he "doesn't want to talk about 1988" more than 5,258 times and even going on Match of the Day to DEFINITELY NOT TALK ABOUT THAT GOAL. (They showed it twice, as Sanchez talked it through).

2005 - England draft in Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher for the away game in Northern Ireland and are left stunned when Sanchez's team dump them 1-0. Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has a dire game and is substituted with 15 minutes to go. Sanchez demands that the media talk about his players, not him, but refuses to leave the room.

2007 - With Lulu installed as temporary Fulham boss, Liverpool roll up at Craven Cottage with a team made up of local cub scouts, three milkmen and a triallist from Canal+ who Rafa Benitez knows from Spain. Fulham somehow scrape a 1-0 win and stay up, fooling Mohammed Al Fayed into hiring Super Sanchez permanently.

We all know it will go horribly wrong in the end but I have little stomach for the surly, preening interim.