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Date: Wed 22 Dec 1999 01:52 GMT
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This Issue:
1. UNITED STARLET ON HIS TRAVELS
2. West Ham match report of a sort by Paul
3. Paddy Answers Pete on MuTV - about Radio 5 Live Interview
4. Cole injury blow ««
5. PREM - Fixtures and predictions
6. COTON'S COUNSELLING CRUCIAL FOR 'KEEPERS

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United winger Luke Chadwick has joined Belgian outfit Royal Antwerp on loan
for the rest of the season.
Alex Ferguson is keen for the England under-21 international to earn some
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UNITED STARLET ON HIS TRAVELS

Manchester United starlet Luke Chadwick is the latest Old Trafford player
to go on loan at Royal Antwerp.

The 19-year-old Cambridge-born midfielder has joined the United feeder club
until the end of the season.

Chadwick joins fellow juniors Kirk Hilton and George Clegg at Antwerp and
should make his debut when the Belgian Second Division resumes after the
mid-season break.

Chadwick, who has already been called up for the England Under-21 side, is
regarded as one of the best of the new crop of players at Old Trafford and
he made his senior debut in the Worthington Cup defeat at Aston Villa in
October.

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West Ham match report of a sort by Paul

	A rare weekend, United are playing ! or so it 
seems these days, so off Julie and I set to Upton Park. The
journey down via A50, M1 (avoiding Birmingham)was very 
uneventful so no tails of motorway madness as you get in 
Paul's reports.

We set off late but still managed to get parked up in Green
Street just after 2. 

	Down at the ground a Harry Enfield 
(loadsamoney)look-alike strides across the road with a large
wad of cash on display and a load of kids in tow shouting 
"who wants a scarf then" whilst waving his cash around 
proudly and telling all the kids just how much he hates 
ManU (sorry pete, his words). Into the ground to find our 
seats up near the back and behind the goal, at least we got
a good view for our £31.

	The teams were out warming up and after Raymond 
left to go back inside and Steve McLaren had finished with 
the rest of the players they came down to have a few shots 
at Masimo. The shots were raining in on him as usual and 
then Scholes hit one which skidded along the ground straight

at Tiabi. He went down to gather the ball, which was in
front of him, (ahh your ahead of me) and the ball somehow 
managed to find its way under him and into the net a la 
Southampton. Cue much laughter from the players and 
laughter mixed with sighs from the crowd. 

	The teams came back out to start the match and this
gave us our first sight of the linesman (sorry asst ref) 
with a moustache which would have looked excessive in Billy 
Meredith's day. Apparently one of the linesmen did not start 
the second half, maybe it was a moustache related injury ? 

	Usually at West Ham they come out fired up, the 
crowd get going and United start nervously. Today was the 
opposite, United were in control from the off and the early
goal gave us more confidence. West Ham were struggling to 
get out of there half and Keane got the ball, he floated 
the ball over the back of the defence to Beckham, taking 
two defenders out of the game with the pass, Beckham looked
up and hit a ball in behind the defence where Yorke 
appeared unmarked to head past Hislop, so simple yet class.

	The second goal came very soon after, Yorke did 
well to control a bad pass and then find space on the left,
he looked up and passed the ball into the six yard box and 
then as the West Ham defence stood still the ball went in. 
We did not know how, but who cares, mass delirium in our 
end and silence from 'the ammers'. The announcer then tells 

us it was Giggs who scored and renditions of 'Giggs will 
tear you apart' are sung. The atmosphere in our end is 
really good now with renditions of 'champions of Europe' 
and 'Yip Yapp Stam'(every time he makes a tackle) getting 
an airing. A rendition of 'Jingle bells' is sung but I am 
weary of this so early in the game, how many times have 
things like that come back to haunt us ?

	The West Ham crowd is now silent except for 
barracking their players when they cock things up. We press
forward again but the ball is cleared, it comes out to 
Giggs about 30 yards out who hits it first time, left 
footed. Time seems to stand still as the ball goes straight
into the bottom corner of the goal, the West Ham defence 
seemed to part like the Red Sea and Hislop just watched it 
go in. Later on MOTD the replays show Ruddock swinging his 
leg at the ball and missing completely :)

	'Are you City in disguise ?' goes unanswered from 
the West Ham lot and talk of Forest last year is rife. West
Ham look dead, nothing they do is coming off, when they get
a break, a free kick just inside our half. City reject 
Lomas takes it and swings a high ball to our back post, the
ball is headed back across goal by Wanchope or Foe and 
there best player (who is unmarked?) Dicanio fires a volley
under Raymond, 3-1. The crowd wake up briefly but hey, we 
are in control, we won't let this slip, will we ?

	The second half starts with West Ham looking like a
different team with Wanchope and Dicanio causing all sorts 
of problems. West Ham's tactic being hit it long to those 
two and see what happens. It works and our defence seem all
at sea. A long ball is hit through, our back line do an 

Arsenal circa 1990 and stand in a line with their arms in 
the air looking for the offside. No whistle and Dicanio is 
away, Raymond comes out to meet him Dicanio goes to shoot 
then in the same movement takes the ball around Ray and 
slots it home. Even the great Dane would have been beaten 

by that one. The crowd now wake up and anyone who has been 
will tell you that Upton park can still be quite 
intimidating even though it is all seated. West Ham have now
taken the game by the scruff of the neck and are pressing 
hard for an equalizer, another long ball leaves our defence

lost and Dicanio is away again looking like completing his 
one man comeback. He reaches the edge of the box with Phil 
and Ray closing in on him, "s$*! this is a goal" I say to 
Julie. Dicanio then tries to be a bit too cocky, instead of 
laying the ball off to an unmarked teammate he dummies then
tries to chip Raymond, good effort but thankfully he does 

not get enough height and Ray gathers the ball. The United 
end breathes a sigh of relief as Ray takes his time before 
the ball goes back into play. Within seconds the ball finds
its way out to Giggs, who is having one of his better 
games, he beats Lomas again, crosses to the near post where
Teddy helps the ball across the goal, "megs" shouts Julie 

as Dwight puts the ball through Hislops legs and our end 
finds its voice again. From a possible equalizer and looking
like maybe winning it West Ham are now dead again all in 
the space of about a minute, 'Football eh, bloody 
hell!' indeed.

	We take control again after the goal and 
Beckham nearly scores with a curling cross, Hislop 
having to parry it over, Beckham turns to the West Ham fans
and gives it an 'ooooh that was close' look, they don't like
that. Nicky Butt comes on for Beckham and then outdoes his 
colleague by getting the ball in from 20 yds only for the 
ref to disallow it for offside. Nearly forgot the ref, it 
was our friend Mr Renney. After a quiet first half he 
decided to make his mark in the second by constantly 
stopping the game for petty fouls even though the other 
team had the advantage, annoying both sets of fans, 'your 
the worst !$*!$£" ref we've ever seen' we sang. As the 
second half wore on we got festive and 'The Twelve Days of 
Cantona' got a very loud rendition and the song of the day 
'is that a bally on your head' got a 10 minute blast from a
few. 

	We left the ground with all the points to be 
met by an angry crowd of Hammers who were being held 
back to let us out. They could so easily have been the ones
with the smiles had Dicanio squared the ball 20 minutes 
earlier. A fairly quiet walk back to the car as the 
Police had everything under control up Green Street 
past the tube station. Back to the car and back up the 
M1 in the snow to civilization. All in all a good day out 
and a good game.

Paul.
copyright Paul Wheeler 1999
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Cole injury blow ««

Andy Cole looks set to miss out on the club's push for points over the
festive period with a painful rib injury.

The in-form striker, who has bagged 14 goals so far this season, took a
knock from a team-mate during training and the feeling is that the player
is set for a long injury lay-off.

Cole though must wait before discovering how long he will spend on the
sidelines, and after missing the West Ham clash at the weekend, will not
find out the full extent of the injury until the swelling has gone down.
The England international is set to miss the Boxing Day clash with Bradford
City at Old Trafford and may well be rested for the next two or three games
after that. However, Cole's absence will present more first team
opportunities to the reliable Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham.
But with Cole in such devastating form this season, United boss Sir Alex
Ferguson will be hoping that the striker will not be absent for too long.
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PREM - Fixtures and predictions

*** FIXTURES ON 26/12/99 ***
       Coventry City  v  Arsenal
        Derby County  v  Aston Villa
             Everton  v  Sunderland
        Leeds United  v  Leicester City
   Manchester United  v  Bradford City
    Newcastle United  v  Liverpool
 Sheffield Wednesday  v  Middlesbrough
         Southampton  v  Chelsea
   Tottenham Hotspur  v  Watford
           Wimbledon  v  West Ham United

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*** FIXTURE PREDICTIONS ON 26/12/99 ***
       Coventry City   1-2   Arsenal
        Derby County   2-1   Aston Villa
             Everton   1-2   Sunderland
        Leeds United   2-0   Leicester City
   Manchester United   3-0   Bradford City
    Newcastle United   1-1   Liverpool
 Sheffield Wednesday   1-3   Middlesbrough
         Southampton   1-1   Chelsea
   Tottenham Hotspur   3-0   Watford
           Wimbledon   1-0   West Ham United
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COTON'S COUNSELLING CRUCIAL FOR 'KEEPERS

For Tony Coton at Manchester United, read also Clare Rayner.  
Because United's goalkeeping coach has revealed how the plethora of
goalkeepers at Old Trafford has turned him into a part-time agony aunt.  
With Mark Bosnich, Raimond van der Gouw and Massimo Taibi all competing for
places, Coton says that he spends as much time consoling the disappointed
keeper of the week as he does coaching.  

"It's not healthy having three senior keepers to a certain extent," he said
on BBC GMR.  "It's good for the club because you know if anyone gets an
injury, we have a senior keeper to step in and if anything happens to him
you still have another senior keeper to step in.  "But you're always in the
situation where you are putting your arm around one of them, certainly for
the league games, and saying keep your head up, keep working, you're doing
well, blah, blah, blah.  "It's not an ideal situation from my point of view
because you are a bit of a Clare Rayner, Marje Poops and goalkeeping coach
rolled into one really."  

When Taibi is eligible for Champions League duty in March Coton's
counselling service will be increasingly called upon as one of the three
stoppers will always miss out on the trip.	

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