Beef Bagel

Sure I said there were transfer twitterings to discuss but how can I start any post in any way planned when quotes like these turn up from our beloved new striker after the weekend’s drubbing at Craven Cottage:

“The fans are awesome. During the whole game I felt like we were in our own ground, not on Fulham’s. You could hear our fans miles away.”

Ahh it takes me back, all that way to three days ago. You could hear us miles away. You could hear us all the way down the Fulham Palace Road. That’s the beauty of Fulham fans. They wouldn’t even kick you in if you sang in their faces, spat on their scarves and burnt Chris Coleman in front of them. In fact they’d probably take you back to theirs for cakes and tea and a delightful discussion of just how fantastic Keano’s goals were. Love those Fulham fans but not as much as I love Berbatov and it makes me beam (I’m beaming) to know he loves us too.

So rather gutted I’m stuck in beautiful down town Harlow for the day. The only plus side is that there is a Spurs store here and should I need to recharge my crumbs, all I have to do is walk in and finger a few of the t-shirts and DVD’s and perhaps one of the shopgirls as well. What’ll do if I’ve got a minute is give the Goodison tickets away to some lucky street Spur. I’d hate to see them go to waste.

So yes, those players under the bagel spotlight. Like Wenger, let’s start with the youngest and today that’s Shrewsbury’s Dave Edwards. Dave’s been playing for the Wales U21 side as well as doing his bread and butter over at the gayest of meadows. Do they really say,

We are Shrewsbury, we are Shrewsbury, super Shrewsbury from Gay Meadow, we are super Shrewsbury, we are Shrewsbury, from Gay Meadow?’

I just can’t help picturing them training in fields filled with butterflies and rabbits on those last hazy sunny days of a summer time, skipping about as they pass the ball to and fro. Just doesn’t really conjure the idea of a hard working football unit but maybe it gives them that Dennis Wise kind of little man with big chip on shoulder angle. ‘Don’t call me gay!’

However it works, it seems they’ve produced a 21 year old attacking midfielder that’s caught the attention of Damien Comolli and hopefully MJ as well. He’s no push over at 5′11″ and 11 stone 1 except just with his head just here…

…appearing to have been caught playing ‘I’ll crush your head’ while he should’ve been concentrating on the game.

Little else is known about this kid, except that he’s good enough to have been selected for Wales at U21 level (Not quite sure how good that makes him) and he is rather injury prone having picked up one or two issues with both thigh and ankle but he seems to have been fine now for the bets part of a year, so no need to start thinking he’s another Sicknote.

Hard to tell how genuine all this is and he’s a little old now to still be undiscovered by a Premiership club but then he is nearly out of contract and he could well be worth a punt at a cut price deal of Bosman pounds.

Stay tuned for Part 3.

Another bagel bite.

The Bagel.

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