WellI hope your right because no team wants to be without their leading goal scorer in what could be a season defining game against fellow promotion rivals. If it was Portsmouth who were going to be missing their top scorer I would be elated, I cannot believe you are questioning when he last scored?.....ffs he his joint top scorer in the entire league, enough said !
Cole? At Bolton. Don't get me wrong, he'll be a big miss, but we've got goals in other areas, which is what Cole primarily brings to the side.
I wonder after their match against the USA on the 21st if he doesn't start or only plays a short number of minutes he could fly back for our game with pompey ?
Rest Kane against Wycombe and play Grant. We need him more for the Bolton game actually, scratch that.allegedly he’s on 8 yellows after 33 league games. We have to complete 37 without him getting to 10 MDG is on 7 gotta complete the next 4 games without Kane getting 2 cautions and MDG getting 3 (or anyone sent off of course)
Pretty prolific! Then again, I think I would be too in the Gibraltar league. Absolutely nuts that a rock smaller than Rotherham with one football ground and more monkeys than people has a fully-fledged league and a national team.
A few years ago I was pootling around the Costa del Sol area for a couple of weeks and thought "Hey, let's drive down to Gibraltar. It's not far". It wasn't either, from Estepona, and once we had negotiated the border crossing (slow) it was quite an interesting visit. On the way up on the cable car to the top of the rock, to see the apes obviously, I got chatting with the guy operating it and he said he was in the Gibraltar football squad (I forget at what age level, probably U21). I told him about the famous Scott Wiseman playing for the Reds and his reaction was something like "Oh, him...". But that sort of summed up the state of Gib football. A lift operator playing for them and another plying his trade for the mighty Barnsley. Good luck to them though. By the way, Gibraltar was absolutely packed with people but it was a novelty seeing a M&S shop there, policemen with English bobby-style helmets and all the rest of the Englishness about this outpost on the end of Spain. I wouldn't like to live there though. The Spanish hate the fact that we still have it even though they love going over there shopping. The apes are cute at first but soon become annoying when they try to steal things from your hands. Fantastic views from the top of the rock though. I'm glad I went there at least once in my life.
Been twice, both times when staying in Estepona. Parked up nearby and just walked over the border. Probably a better idea than driving over as there were long queues of cars, presumably to fill up with cheap fuel. Very odd place. Remember thinking we were standing at a railway crossing before quickly realising it was an airport runway. The monkeys do indeed cease to be entertaining very quickly, especially when they nick food out of your bag.
Would like to think Cole would like to prioritise club over country on this occasion as likely to get him a better outcome on his future football career against one international game that the majority won’t be paying too much attention to, but probably just wishful thinking on my part.
Doubt it to be honest! He's just started to be picked in their squads, can't see him turning down that trip and the opportunity to play at Fratton Park.
That runway used to belong to RAF Gibraltar. This was an overseas posting that I wish I could have got but it never happened. I knew a few who had been stationed there who said it was a great posting.