live text replay
"that was a terrible game of football, wasn't it?!"other than chris brunt's late equalizer this was a dead match even as audio commentary, a format which - and due to its constitutional nature as a "hot" medium - can make the most pedestrian match feel exciting. the only thing i can say to the baggies' credit, is that they once again showed themselves to be a team composed of superior individual and top quality players at championship level; and in that respect, they are indeed neither a premier nor championship side, but rather something like the relative level of football that used to be played in the old pre-premier-league second-division.
i'm two weeks behind in my chronicling of the season, as such, so i won't waste too much time on what was a really a pretty poor match. it is interesting to note, though, that with this single point won, this year's baggies side surpassed the entire season's points total of the championship winning team of two years ago by a full two points and with 4 games still to go.
with as much time wasted in this match as there actually was, six minutes of stoppage time was ridiculously short, and ten minutes would've been more like it. the baggies then would have had a chance to go on and win this one.
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