The Carling Cup returned to the Ricoh, almost a year on from West Ham's lucky 1-0 last minute win in the 4th round last season.
This year, due to a combination of inept rail connections and lack of car parking tickets, none of us could get there. So the Sports Caff on Haymarket was the venue, along with some new skyblue friends, who had also had the same idea.
A good first 20 minutes was thrown away with some inept defending and goalkeeping, leading to a 45 minute score of 0-2. The Geordies would have put their shirts on a win from this point. If they hadn't already lost them.
More reasons curled one into the top corner in injury time, to make it a slightly more optimistic 1-2 at half time. The second half came and almost went. Gunnar threw in an exocet in the 93rd minute, which Dann buried in the bottom corner. Extra time, surely our name was on the Cup?
Owen scored. Then Oh Lord flashed a header against the bar from 3 yards out. Our chance had gone. The Sky blue faithful prayed, but to no avail. 2-3 the final score
We can at least concentrate on the League. And the proper Cup in January.
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