Lets Rumble!

When the League leaders come to the old Showgrounds it's time to rumble, if you can't raise your game when the league champions-elect are at your ground, you don't deserve to be on the same pitch. But we think United will have no bother getting up for this one, we have 'suffered' at the hands of Linfield and their henchmen (referees), twice already this season and Fergie and the boys will no doubt be reminding the players of those two occasions, when we didn't get a fair rub of the green. The man in the middle tomorrow is another Belfast official, Richard Crangle and although his loyalties lie elsewhere, geographically, he'll no doubt favour his employers and we have have to be aware of that.

Will Spike tamper with his team selection, bearing in mind that we have an Irish cup replay against the Welders next Tuesday and JT will miss that match because of suspension and Cookie Munster maybe needs to be rested with that tie in mind. Luckily Marky is fit again, as he proved when coming on in the closing stages at Dungannon on Tuesday. He is an obvious replacement for big Cookie, or Spike could move Captain Jenks to partner JT at the back, with the proviso of moving him up front when if he feels he needs a change of tactics. With the signing of Darboy, Jenks will be reverting to midfield and we at 'Sport are of the opinion, that you can't play Thommo and Captain Jenks in a midfield three, even with Tony Kane for ball-winning duties.

That's all assuming that we haven't picked up any injuries since, there was a rumour about Cush, having a sore knee, but Cush shrugs off injury easily and has been known to play when not 100% fit and still play his heart out. Darboy has scored in the two games (one and a half if you want to be precise), he has played so far in a Sky Blue jersey and we're sure he would welcome some help from his fellow forwards and Cush is just the man to do that, given half a chance. Another player who has only played his second game in a Sky Blue jersey, Jimer, will be raring to go and in the process hope to embarrass his former boss, the big 'fat' controller, that is David Jeffrey, or as Sky Blue fans know him, the' bigoted big mouth'.

The Sky Blue Sport crew were amazed to hear the big fat lump of lard, actually apologising to big two rivals Glentoran ,when he was caught on a video, maligning them and one of their players a few weeks ago. Contrast this with a few years ago in a match at Windsor Park, when he falsely accused United fans of sectarian abuse of his players and when it was proved to be a  groundless accusation, we were met by a wall of silence, that sums up the man in our book, he is just a gormless individual, no wonder his wife left him (but that's another story). The only way to silence him would be if United can produce a victory tomorrow and if we can win our cup replay against the Welders on next Tuesday, we'll have another skelp at him and his team on February 8.  Come on Sky Blues, let's shag those townies, in short, lets rumble!