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heres Paddy McCarthys latest evaluation of events, from the 'bluearmy' site.


We were made to pay - dejected McCarthy

by Andy Mann

Defender Paddy McCarthy admits that the Leicester City squad were "frustrated" and "disappointed" after their 2-2 draw with Watford on Tuesday night.

City looked to be heading for their fourth home win of the season after Joey Gudjonsson's goals had put them 2-1 up.

And that position was streng-thened by the dismissal of Watford defender Clarke Carlisle early in the second half following two bookable offences.

But City failed to capitalise on their advantage and were pegged back let in the game.

Watford defender Malky Mackay scored his first goal for Watford from close range to tie the game 2-2.

The result clearly hurt the City players, who felt they should have closed the game out and taken all three points.

And a despondent McCarthy said: "Frustrating is a good word to sum up the feelings in the dressing room.

"To be 2-1 up and playing against 10 men, we should be finishing the game off, looking to finish the game a bit earlier.

"Everybody is disappointed that we didn't win. We played well. During the game I don't think Rab Douglas had a save to make, apart from the two goals.

"We seem to be saying the same things. They had two chances and put them away, we haven't taken ours and we have been made to pay."

The point leaves City in 16th, while Watford remain third and Sheffield United are up next at the Walkers Stadium.

McCarthy has no worries that the team will pick themselves up for the visit of Neil Warnock's men.

Indeed, the defender is looking to put right City's opening-day 4-1 defeat at Bramall Lane.

"We won't need any picking up," he said. "We have a big game at the weekend. I don't think there's anything to fear there. We will be looking forward to that and to settle a few old scores."

Anyone see how Joey O'Brien did last night?

i had half an eye on it stutt, he seemed solid and wasnt culpable for the goal conceded.bolton went for the win with a front 3 which included Nolan so the back 4 had to stay put generally speaking so he didnt do as much work higher up the pitch as when ive previously seen him, still when he did venture up at one point he played Nolan in behind with a beautifully weighted pass down the line.

BTW, John Barnes, on his show presenting the game spoke again of Nolans availability for the republic through parentage, and his guest Pat Nevin(?) declared that england would be fools not to get him signed up quickly.

heres an interview from the leicester O.S. with Maybury, about the frustrations of the season so far

Maybury Hoping To Rewrite The Script

Alan Maybury is hoping to return home with a smile on his face on Saturday evening.

The 27-year-old defender has seen his side win only four Championship matches so far this season and as a result they go into this afternoon's clash against high-fliers Sheffield United in 16th place.

He said: "It doesn't matter who it is - it can be my neighbours or my family. I just seem to be going back to them after each game with the same hard luck story.

"It's the same for all our fans. We just want a few more wins and send everyone home happy.

"Hopefully we can do that against Sheffield United on Saturday."

While the Foxes have experienced an indifferent start to the season, the Blades, on the other hand, are riding high under manager Neil Warnock and are second in the table.

City crashed 4-1 at Bramall Lane on the opening day of the season but Maybury is convinced that his side can right the wrongs of Tuesday night and topple the Blades at the Walkers Stadium.

"I don't think it is an issue as to where people are in the league at the moment," the Republic of Ireland international added.

"I don't believe the table is worth looking at until around March. Sheffield United have started well and they are a decent side but we have done well against the better sides so far and I don't think we've got anything to fear.

"Nobody we have come up against has outplayed or outfought us. We just need to make a few better decisions but we aren't a million miles away."

Maybury is also keen to repay the faith the Blue Army have shown in the team to date.

"We are the players out on the pitch and we are responsible. It would be great to give the fans a win to cheer about for a change.

"The fans were patient with us against Watford on Tuesday, and that has been the case all season, but the whole place was flat at the end of the game.

"I don't think anyone could quite believe what had happened.

"The 2-2 draw was extremely disappointing and anybody who'd have come into the dressing room afterwards would have thought that we'd been well beaten."

Maybury started the match in midweek at left-back before reverting to his preferred position on the right-hand side of the defence.

He added: "I am more comfortable on the right and didn't start well against Watford and hold my hands up to that.

"But Richard (Stearman) did really well over on the left when we switched.

"We'll have to wait and see what happens on Saturday afternoon."

Irish players who scored at the weekend include
Goodwin(S****horpe)
Foley(Bournemouth)
Heffernan(Doncaster0
Melligan(Cheltenham)
Peers(Mansfield)
Devanny(?)Barnsley
Bell(Rushden)
All young players as far as I know.I also beleive Mcphail(Barnsley)and Yeates(Colchester) playing well ATM.Young Billy Clarke called into Ipswich squad for tonights game.

leicester v sheff utd 4-2

the day began with a minutes applause for George Best.

McCarthy and Maybury played for leicester and Kenny,Quinn and Geary all played for sheff utd in a game with 6 goals and 10 bookings, of which Geary got one and Maybury another for a moment of handbags with Quinn.the ref was definately a bit trigger happy as it was a full blooded encounter but not a nasty game.

McCarthy had a decent 90 after a bit of an iffy start when an awkard jump by him saw leicester concede a free kick from the off in a dangerous area and 2 attempted hacked clearences looped over his own head anf towards his own goal, but neither was punished and he settled down to have a good game.

Maybury was excellent throughout,although always sound defensively he offered much more going forward than recently, very comfortable with the ball on the offensive he was frequently involved in nice build up play and delivered some good crosses.he also beat 2 men at one point and drew a save from Kenny in the utd goal from a very tight angle.

the 2 utd goals werent errors from the lads,one was a fine flowing move, the other a header from a hotly disputed corner in injury time.

for united,Geary,while impressive going forward with some good centers and once forcing a fine stop from Douglas and overlapping cleverly all game,defensively he faced Smith on loan from arsenal and the youngster gave a m.o.t.m. performance and gave Geary a real chasing at times.

Qiunn looked good early on and much of sheff utds good work went through him abd he also drew a save from Douglas with a free-kick which he got up and down over the wall nicely but in the second half when his side needed to re-establish themselves in the game, he was'nt involved enough for my liking but he was far from being the only utd player to go missing.

Kenny was beaten 4 times but that doesnt really tell the story of his afternoon,not to blame for any of the goals conceded, he also made 2 fine one-on-one saves from leicesters Hammond where he stoot up well and out foxed the striker, a better striker may have removed him from the equation and the home crowd saw them as poor misses, but he can only play whats in front of him and on both those occasions he did very well i thought.

leicester needed this, the new manager has been here over a year now and the playing budget this season was still among the biggest in the division so being 3 points outside the bottom 3 and 9 off the playoffs was not what is expected and fairly or unfairly, there was the beginnings of revolution in the air. hopefully this win will buy the time needed and give the confidence required to this young side to continue to develop.

also in these parts.....

Peers one scored and Dawson made one with a beautifull 30/40 yard pass in mansfields win.

Bell scored and McCafferty played for rushden... and Reddy made 2 of grimsbys 3 with fine crosses and made good headway om the wing before backhealing it to the guy who crossed for the goal for their third,

and Goodwin scored for scunny with Keogh also playing.

Billy Clarke made his debut for Ipswich last night, coming on as a sub against Cardiff.
Colin Doyle joined Millwall on loan from Birmingham and played at the weekend against Leeds.

Paddy McCarthy previews leicesters league cup-tie v bolton this week.......from the 'bluearmy' site.

We are ready for test - but we also aim to take our own game to Bolton

By Bill Anderson

City defender Patrick Mccarthy could be up against a Bolton onslaught tomorrow night - but he believes it might not be as simple as that.

The Premiership side will be eager to make the most of home advantage against lesser opposition in the Carling Cup, but the Irish Under-21 international thinks they will not get it all their own way.

He said: "It is a massive game and we won't fear them. Hopefully we will take the game to them and match them in all parts of the field. They play 4-5-1 and, whatever formation the gaffer chooses against them, we have enough good attacking players to get the win."

McCarthy coped well with Sheffield United's bright attack at the Walkers Stadium on Saturday, underlining the form of the settled defence with Patrik Gerrbrand alongside him, but he also pointed to elsewhere for the praise.

He said: "We have started to defend well and I think the play of Patrick Kisnorbo just in front of the defence has a lot to do with that. Since he has done that it has made a big difference to the back four.

"Saturday showed we have got enough to match anyone in our league and hopefully we can take that forward.

"Now we are looking forward to taking to a bigger stage. That is what it is all about.

"We will not get carried away with Saturday but just concentrate on the two big games coming up, Bolton and Leeds.

"The Bolton game should be a good one to play in. The Prem-iership is where we all want to be and it should be a good game.

"It will be physical but so is every game in our division so we should be ready for it.

"We will go into it confident that we can win. It will be a good test for all of us and we tend to do well against big sides

Karl Bermingham was restored to Man City's reserve side, and started on the wing against Bolton's reserves at the City of Manchester stadium
City won 3-1 with Bermingham proving the cross the lead to the opening goal and set up Miller late on who unfortunately failed to convert
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...11&toyear=2005
Bolton review: http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page....html?ptvParm=

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Billy Clarke made his debut for Ipswich last night, coming on as a sub against Cardiff.

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Interesting debut too. Came on with 25mins to go & exhibited the first touch of an elephant but his one & only chance to run with the ball saw him turn Jeff Whitley inside out and he was fouled. Ipswich equalised from the resulting free & Clarke was subbed immediately so Ipswich could defend the 1-1. I stopped watching when he went off. I presume it finished that way.

Dunne score a scorcher for Millwall last night apparantly.Goals on ITV tonight I think.

Ben Burgess injured, out for 3 months.

Is Stephen Elliott injured? Not even on Sunderland's bench recently despite being the only forward who can get a goal up there.

bolton v leicester 2-1 aet

Maybury started and played tho 90, McCarthy was rested but came on late in the game(84), but still managed to get booked and Sheehan came on in extra time and delivered one quality deadball to Dublins head which but for a great save from the keeper would have brought it to penalties.

the 2nd choice keeper was due to play but got injured in training this week but Levein went with Douglas in goal and no keeper on the bench, so no involvment for Logan.

no O'Brien for bolton, hopefully this means he is now considered 1st team and rested like 9 others for the tie, i hope its not an injury.

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no O'Brien for bolton, hopefully this means he is now considered 1st team and rested like 9 others for the tie, i hope its not an injury.

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Allerdyce said he would give O'Brien a rest as he doesn't want to over expose him. Since he didn't start the last 2 games I assume this is his break.

Willo Flood has had to have double hernia operation, and expects to be back soon
From official site: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...12&toyear=2005

Excellent corner by Duff for Chelsea to score just there. He had a quiet first half but Mourinho has given him more freedom in the 2nd and he's producing some of his trademark runs. At one stage he beat 2 or 3 players and took the wrong option of passing to Gudjohnson when he should have shot.

/edit - Another superb run by Duff into the penalty box. Sets up Drogba who hits it over the bar from 6 yards.

O'Brien was back for Bolton against Arsenal. If he's good enough to be in a side that can beat Arsenal then he'd be wasted in our U21 side. He's our most credible cover for Finnan at the moment, including Stephen Kelly, and he's not even a natural right back.

Anyone see the Sheffield derby?

All the Irish impressed me from the TV highlights, except Partridge :(

Whelan's passing is superb. Quinn was as industrious as ever & scored a good goal. Murphy was really unlucky not to score with a curling shot that had Kenny beaten all ends up. Kenny had a very solid game. Coughlan played well too & is always a threat from corners. I reckon he's probably our 4th or 5th best CB at the moment, though he's probably found his level. I like the look at that Norther Ireland lad Brunt. I've seen him a few times now & wish he was ours!

OK, so TV highlights don't give the full picture I admit but still I liked what I saw.

David van Zanten scored his 3rd goal of the Season for Scottish Division 1 leaders St Mirren against Ross County on Saturday. They are 7 points clear at the top at the minute, so he may well be playing in the Scottish Premiership next season.