Chelsea v West Ham United
Subs: Boffin, Tomkins, Boa Morte, Kovac, Piquionne, Obinna, Keane.
Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, David Luiz, Terry, Cole, Essien, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba, Malouda.
Subs: Turnbull, Torres, Benayoun, Zhirkov, Ferreira, Bertrand, Anelka.
While we're waiting, time to address more serious issues. "Rodney wasn't a Charlton fan, his Mum was," insists Owen Worth, with reference to the fact that Charlton was also the character's middle name. "He used to support Chelsea. There are many references to this in a number of episodes. Also I doubt Vince would have fitted in with the Shed End in the 1980s." I take your point. Though Stamford Bridge has always been a broad church. I was looking at young Mr Pinner as a kind of prototype Tim Lovejoy.
Team news: Fernando Torres is on the bench again. Oh Fernando! West Ham meanwhile will be missing Matthew Upson, out with a chest infection, joining Footballer of the Year Scott Parker on the sidelines. Full line-ups coming your way soon.
Anyway, the football. Chelsea need to win, to retain a slim hope of winning the title. West Ham need to win, every point vital in their relegation battle. And poor Fernando Torres, dreaming of 2008, really needs a goal. This could be a cracker.
Anyway, in lieu of a solemn hymn, here's a blast of the original theme to Only Fools and Horses:
It was written by Ronnie Hazlehurst, incidentally, subject of the only other Memorial Minute-By-Minute in the history of the Guardian. Big fan of Ronnie's, but not sure the 1970s-style light entertainment segue into the episode works so well here. Probably for the best that it was replaced by Sullivan's own themes (which have, on the DVDs, airbrushed Hazelhurst's first-series theme totally out of the picture, a Stalinist revision that's not really on, but now's probably not the time). Anyway, all together now: God bless Hooky Street...
None of the characters in Sullivan's work appear to have supported either of the teams playing tonight. Wolfie Smith, eponymous star of Sullivan's first hit, Citizen Smith, was a Fulham fan. Del Boy and Rodney, meanwhile, were Charlton Athletic supporters. No idea who Penny Warrender from Just Good Friends cheered on. Vince looked like he might have been a Chelsea fan, though. Yes, he could easily have been a Chelsea fan.
John Sullivan RIP: A sad day for anyone who sat cross-legged in front of the television during the 1970s and 1980s, as one of the finest sitcom scriptwriters in the history of com dies. So this has got nothing to do with football? So sue me!
source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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