Ted Hughes wrote:Slim wrote:john@staustell wrote:Alan Hansen was actually right - you need a team of mature footballers. That RAG season was the exception which proved the rule.
This season should be the optimum one for this squad, after which it will start to break up/change.
The striker situation obviously needed a bit of a spanner to it. Now that has been done we should fully kick on and get stronger as Chelsea - as usual - get weaker.
After that we just 'evolve'! With our new cash from Cameroon telecomms, Chinese lottery pundits and gas companies etc
I won't get in to how badly you and everyone else on the planet misuses the phrase "the exception that proves the rule".
But you are still wrong, everyone is acting like Bacon played 11 kids and won the lot. He had the most expensive squad in England and it allowed him the luxury of adding kids to that. And while Giggs played a full season in 92-93, Ratface, Butt and Spiceboy played a combined total of 1 league appearance as a sub in their inaugural season. Chuckle2 wasn't even added to the first team list, well thank god he won with kids.
Hate to mention it, but Hansen said that in '95.
Someone remake the t-shirts, it's the class of 95.