Wycombe Wanderers, a club with no reserve team, no under 23 team, no money. A team of loanees, free transfers and journeymen. Fleetwood Town, silky purveyors of possession football. The Final of the League One play offs. Winner gets promoted to the Championship. Loser slinks away gutted.
Do Wycombe have a chance? They have a charismatic rock star manager, Gareth Ainsworth. The longest serving manager in the top four tiers of English professional football. Previously a Wycombe player. Known as Wild Thing.
And Adebayo Akinfenwa, a 38 year old weight lifting centre forward. Known as The Beast.
9th minute: Wycombe score from a Joe Jacobsen deadly corner. 1-0.
57th minute: Fleetwood score. 1-1.
79th minute: Wycombe score with a Joe Jacobsen penalty. It couldn't happen, could it?
11 minutes of intense pressure from Fleetwood.
Full time: Wycombe, with 24% possession, are the winners. Remarkable. Spirit counts.
Wednesday July 15th, 2020. Emirates Stadium, London.
Arsenal, languishing in 10th place in the Premier League. A team of kids and has-beens. Liverpool, newly crowned champions of the Premier League, 20 points ahead of the rest, proud purveyors of heavy metal football. Winner gets pride, loser slinks away gutted.
Do Arsenal have a chance? They have a young manager in his first managerial job, Mikel Arteta. Previously an Arsenal player.
20th minute: Liverpool score, as expected. 1-0
32nd minute: chaos in the Liverpool defence, Arsenal score. Alex Lacazette. 1-1
44th minute: more Liverpool chaos, Arsenal score. Reiss Nelson. 2-1.
46 minutes of intense pressure from Liverpool.
Full time: Arsenal, with 31% possession, are the winners. Remarkable. Spirit counts.
Saturday July 18th, 2020. Wembley Stadium, London.
Arsenal, languishing in 10th place in the Premier League. A team of kids and has-beens. Manchester City, FA Cup holders, silky purveyors of possession football. FA Cup Semi Final. Winner gets to the Final of the FA Cup, loser slinks away gutted.
Do Arsenal have a chance? They have a young manager in his first managerial job, Mikel Arteta. Previously an Arsenal player.
And a deadly striker from Gabon, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang.
19th minute: Arsenal breakaway. Aubameyang scores. 1-0
71st minute: Arsenal breakaway again. Aubameyang scores. 2-0
19 minutes of intense pressure from Manchester City.
Full time: Arsenal, with 29% possession, are the winners. Remarkable. Spirit counts.
We were discussing your teams yesterday as we sat amongst the lavender fields in Shoreham. We got them correct. And we were also correct in predicting that all three would feature here.
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