Indeed, as a spectacle, they arguably outweigh the final itself: a chilly, early spring trip to Wembley is always a bit weird, and the game tends to take place on the same weekend as a
full league programme.
And the Hammers now travel to the toughest match on the Premier
League programme with a real defensive crisis.
Today there is a fairly extensive Vanarama
National League programme (the old Conference) and some teams have started the season particularly well.
«But we can wake up tomorrow and reflect on what we've come through and look forward to
the league programme.
The 23
league programmes were 68 pages, packed with a wide variety of news, features and information.
The league programme was a standard 84 pages although the Bristol City game was a bumper 132 pages.
The league programmes all contained a large fold - out player poster.
In addition to
the league programmes, the League Cup, Johnstone's Paint Trophy and FA Cup added six to the total, including the memorable night when Manchester City were sent packing at the Withdean Stadium.
I hope Gazidis, Kroenke (senior and junior) and Keswick do not let progress in the Europa, even if we win it, blind them to big lessons from
the league programme.
The 23
league programmes were joined by two Johnstone's Paint Trophy games, a Carling Cup fixture and two in the FA Cup.
Total crap back passing for fun instead of going for the kill.Against a decent team we will get hammered To think we scrapped
our league programme for this dross.Southgate learned nothing from this pointless friendy against a very poor side.Dutch football really has gone to the dogs.It shows how low...