In a message dated 12/6/2006 12:00:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Only fucked up by a free weekend in January due to our friends over the pennines being in that ridiculous world club championship jolly, and Woodgate getting his pals over for a weekend out... True. Although three other factors were: -- The atrocious, long-running injury crisis, which forced us to keep spending money on players to cover holes in the squad (Ferdinand for Radebe and Woodgate, whatshisname from Blackburn for Kewell, etc.) -- Ridsdale's insane financial dealings. While many pundits have attributed our relative success in the C. League etc. to "spending money we didn't have," I'd argue we could have signed a lot of those players for less than they cost us, if Ridsdale had been better at driving hard bargains. What he succeeded in doing was getting us in far, far over our head. -- That bloody ref in the home game against Man U, who failed to send off the Man U goalie for kicking, then ruled out a perfectly good own-goal that would have taken us into the Champions League and given the entire club the huge confidence boost that would have come from beating Man U for the first time under O'Leary. Cheers! Sean _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist 'I am in shock,' said Ferguson.
