Since the first week of January when the transfer window opened Sky Sports have been working us all up into a frenzy about transfer deadline day. For weeks we have been shown clips of Jim White getting ready for the big day putting on his yellow tie.
The truth is Sky built all this up and fuck all happened.
Manchester United were not going to do any business nor were Liverpool. Arsenal had got their South American defender plenty of time before the window closed. Moneybags Chelsea and Manchester City identified who they wanted and done their business and bought the players they wanted with no fuss, so it left on the final day was the bottom clubs to do some business. A bit of excitement their you would think, surely 'Arry and QPR will do some business. Alas no, not even a famous wound down window from the most famous deadline day manager of all just a 2 minute interview about how poor 'Arry had been working on bringing players in all day and found it too difficult.
After all the swearing and dildo wielding from the last transfer deadline day in August there were no supporters hanging about with the Sky reporters this time round so no excitement there either.
Not even the late night shenanigans of Adebayor will he wont he join West Ham or the story of Carlton Cole pen in hand ready to sign for West Brom only to have it colliboshed at the last minute could save the day, nor could West Ham's chairman David Gold's tweet that had urged hammers fans not to go to bed, insinuating that there would be some big deadline day business for the East London club. As it topped up a later tweet was read out saying that West Ham had failed in attempts to sign no fewer than 8 players.
Instead Sky tried to make a big thing about two players who had made their loan deals permanent.
Big fucking whoop!!
So in the end all the fuss and all the big hoo ha ended up being a big noise about nothing.
What a load of old bollocks!!
I suppose the whole thing was aptly brought to an end when the following day Mr deadline day Harry Redknapp resigned as QPR manager. 'Arry put his decision down to medical reasons put lets be honest the writing had been on the wall for some time and after such a shit deadline day were his club failed to bring in a single player, whether a knee operation was the real reason or not, you can't blame the fella for walking away.
After what had to be the most uneventful transfer deadline day in living history its back to the football this weekend and two massive Derbies.
Saturday afternoon sees Liverpool travel to Goodison Park to take on their Merseyside rivals Everton.
Liverpool come into this game off the back of a late FA cup win against Bolton in midweek. The Reds will no doubt in confident mood and looking to continue their recent form with a massive derby win against their old enemies.
There have been many memorable games between the two teams including a 5-0 drubbing for the Toffees in November 1982.
http://youtu.be/dwyN9__not4
This was back in the day when Liverpool where the best football team around, they tore teams to pieces for fun.
The Reds team that day was packed full of quality, from Grobbelaar in goal through Hansen in defence, Souness in midfield and Dalglish and Rush up front.
Although tomorrow's game should be a great game I doubt it will be as good as this one was, for Liverpool at least.
Four goals for Ian Rush in this game ensured he became the first player to score a hat trick in this fixture since 1935, Mark Lawrenson scored the other Liverpool goal in his famous number 10 shirt???
On Sunday afternoon Arsenal travel to White Hart Lane to face their North London foes Tottenham.
In April 1983 an Arsenal team boosting the talents of such players as Alan Sunderland, Tony Woodcock, Graham Rix, David O'leary and Kenny Sansom visited the Lane and left the victims of a 5-0 drubbing.
A brace each from Mark Falco and defender Chris Hughton and a strike from former Ipswich man Alan Brazil was enough to put the Gunneras to the sword.
http://youtu.be/vtZIYjhNCCU
Here is Alan brazil's opening goal from that game.
http://youtu.be/bRVxw9mfZR4
And here is a sweet volley from Mark Falco from the same game.
Two great derbies this weekend which are bound to be full of incident and hopefully full of goals.
If Aaron Lennon starts for Everton against Liverpool this Saturday he will be yet another player in quite a long list who have played in both these major derbies.
Here is a 1 to 11 of some of the best who have so far.
1. Ray Clemence Goalkeeper
Played for both Liverpool and Spurs making 710 appearances in all between the two clubs.
Played for both Liverpool and Spurs. I needed a right back but considering he only played 16 times for the Reds and only 47 times for Spurs he may not have played in any of the derbies.
3. Pat Van Den Hauwe. LB
Welsh left back who played 135 times for Everton and 116 times for Tottenham.
4. Martin Keown CB
Played 96 games for Everton from 1989-1993 before his move to Arsenal where he made 311 appearances.
5. Ray Kennedy RM
Ray Kennedy played for Arsenal from 1968 to 1974 before moving to Liverpool he made 158 appearances for the Gunners mostly as a striker and 275 for Liverpool. Kennedy played mainly as a midfielder for the Reds.
6. Kolo Toure CB.
Central defender who played for Arsenal for 7 seasons racking up 225 appearances. Kolo joined Liverpool from Manchester City in 2013. He is a current Ivory Coast international who has played 112 times for his country.
7. Mikel Arteta. CDM
Arteta played 174 times for Everton before making the move to North London in 2011. He is now Arsenal's club captain. Arteta has played in Merseyside derbies, North London derbies and the Glasgow derby. He made 50 appearances for Rangers between 2002 and 2004.
8. Paul Gascoigne CAM
Gazza moved to Spurs from Newcastle in 1988, he spent 4 years at White Hart Lane and played 92 times. He left Spurs in 1992 and joined Lazio where he appeared in another local derby against Roma. Gazza joined Everton in 2000 he was at Goodison for 2 seasons playing 32 times.
9. Nicholas Anelka ST
Anelka has scored in the Merseyside derby, North London derby, Manchester derby, Madrid derby and even in a Midlands derby. Anelka signed for Arsenal as an 18 year old in 1997 he scored 23 goals in 65 games before moving to Real Madrid in 1999. Anelka spent a year on loan at Liverpool from Paris St Germain in 2001 scoring 4 goals in 20 games.
10. Gary Lineker ST
Lineker scored an amazing 30 goals in just 41 appearances for Everton in the 1985/86 season. His prolific strike rate got him a move to Barcelona where he played for 3 seasons before returning back to England 1989 where he signed for Spurs and scored 67 goals in 105 games. Lineker has the honour of scoring for Spurs against Arsenal in a FA Cup semi final and scoring the opening goal for Everton against Liverpool in the 1986 FA cup final. Liverpool won the game 3-1.
11. Anders Limpar LM
Swedish winger Limpar signed for Arsenal in 1990 and spent 4 years at Highbury before moving to Everton in 1994. Limpar made 96 appearances for the Gunners and played 66 times for the Toffeesbetween 94 and 1997. He played 58 times for Sweden scoring 6 times.
Substitutes
12. Kevin Richardson Midfielder Played for both Everton and Arsenal.
14. Nicky Barmby Midfielder Played for both Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool.
15. Bobby Mimms Goalkeeper Played for both Everton and Spurs.
16. Alan Ball Midfielder Played for both Everton and Arsenal.
17. Paul Konchesky Defender Played for both Spurs and Liverpool.
18. Paul Walsh Striker Played for both Spurs and Liverpool.
19. Yossi Benayoun Midfielder Played for Arsenal and Liverpool.
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