Football Daily | Chelsea, Mauricio Pochettino and a chance of silverware at Wembley
With the January transfer window currently unfolding with all the drama and high-octane excitement of a Liberal Democrat conference, the Worthington Cup looks set to regain its preeminent position as English football’s fourth most prestigious tournament. True, it may lack the prestige of the Premier League, FA Cup and summer transfer trolley dash, but its ever-ambitious organisers once tried to stage a draw for the competition in outer space, before settling instead on Aisle No 5 of a Morrisons supermarket in Colindale, just a short home delivery from Wembley Stadium for any van driver worth his salt.
Re: Crystal Palace threatening to sack Roy Hodgson (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). There might be a cunning plan here. Suppose they did sack him and installed a placeholder manager, just to look after things until we arrive at the business end of the season. Then with, say, four or five weeks of the season left, Palace could reinstate him as manager to do what he does best when he does it best” – John Lawton.
Re: Pete Headland’s reference to the Hoddle Constant of quantum mechanics (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). The Honda Quandary is analogous to being on the back of a horse. Can two people be on the back of a horse? Why, yes, of course. So, by extension, two people can be on the back of a motorcycle. That defines their place relative to the motorcycle. Their place relative to one another is another matter. Are they fore and aft, front and rear, ahead and behind, etc? But would you have been brave enough to call Stan Bowles ‘a bit behind’?” – Ken Muir.
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