Monthly Archives: February 2013

The Run-In: Leicester City

February 26, 2013 · by · in Run-In 2013 · 1 Comment

ITWM is joined by Leicester City fan James Knight (@MFoxx2) to assess the club’s chances of promotion. Here it is – the business end of the season. With only two months plus change of league football to play, the online predictors are coming out, fixture lists are being scoured and prayers are being logged with […]

A Response to Ian Holloway

February 9, 2013 · by · in Matches, Playing Staff · 27 Comments

Clearly envisaging a defeat against the division’s form team last night, Ian Holloway, an experienced media manipulator in the mould of ‘dear old’ Harry Redknapp, got his excuses in early with a pre-match rant to the Sky cameras about the loanees in Watford’s squad. ‘They’ve got nine loans from Udinese. I’ve been looking to get […]

Crystal Palace (H) 08/02/13 – Sky’s the limit for tired Hornets

February 9, 2013 · by · in Matches · 2 Comments

Let’s not beat around the bush. Not winning when 2-0 up after 13 minutes is poor. Not winning when 2-0 up at half time is criminal. Putting aside Palace’s strengths and their considerable second-half improvement for one moment, a team of our quality should be closing games like that out. This was two points dropped […]

Internationals – Ready for Palace?

February 7, 2013 · by · in Playing Staff · Leave a comment

Two offences have seen us in this week’s predicament. The crime is success, as we are both victims and perpetrators. First, the schedulers at Sky, scouring the post-Christmas fixture list saw the most wonderfulest team in all the land coming up against the most lauded young player outside the Premier League and licked their lips. […]