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Hooray for Saido! Hooray for Fizzy Cup! | The Fiver
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!There’s nothing quite like the magic of Fizzy Cup, especially in August. Tens of fans flocked to stadiums up and down the country to watch a bunch of reserve sides contest last night’s second-round ties and the romance in the air was overwhelming as Neal Ardley responded to AFC Wimbledon’s plucky defeat to West Ham by accusing Mexican goal goblin Javier Hernández of using the dark acts to get Rod “Rodaldo” McDonald sent off. West Ham were able to fight back from a goal down and Wimbledon’s near miss was as close as anyone got to pulling off a giantkilling, unless Nasty Leeds losing for the first time since 1973 counts as an upset. “My conclusion is we didn’t play well,” Marcelo Bielsa said after his team’s 2-0 defeat to Preston North End, though the Argentinian wasn’t exactly on the kind of rolling boil that sees certain managers leave a press conference shouting “RESPECT! RESPECT! RESPECT!” Continue reading......read full article
