Post by WyomingWhite on Aug 7, 2006 9:31:29 GMT -1
I hope we can sign Warner because he was solid on Saturday, and looked a lot more confortable than Sully does in between the posts, (plus he can kick straight). The Guardian named him their man of the match.
From The Guardian: football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,1838586,00.html
It is starting to become an annual occurrence - the unexpected phone call, the frenetic dash across the country, the brief opportunity to get acquainted with new team-mates and, finally, the clean sheet to begin the season.
Tony Warner's preparations for Fulham's pre-season tour of Germany were interrupted by Leeds' urgent requirement for a fit goalkeeper on loan. "I was out shopping on Thursday in London when my agent phoned and told me to go back to the ground and pick up my boots," said the 32-year-old. "It's a case of 'get home, get your gear and get up there'. Leeds is a big club, so you can't pass up opportunities like that."
Warner delivered the game's outstanding contribution with athletic saves at the start of each half from Robert Earnshaw the highlights. Experience of being parachuted in to a new club without advance warning helps. "Last season I was at Cardiff and the same thing happened," he recalled. "I got a phone call 48 hours before the Premiership kick-off and I played the first game for Fulham. We drew 0-0 with Birmingham."
Warner brings a healthy dose of realism to his sudden career changes: "It's the way it happens for a lot of footballers." After five loan spells he is primed to answer goalkeeping emergencies: one man's dead leg [Neil Sullivan's] is another's raison d'être. "I don't like to be labelled but, if that's what it takes to get a game, that's what has to be done."
Kevin Blackwell beamed: "He didn't have a lot to do but what he did he was very accomplished." The Leeds manager sprinkled praise elsewhere with less justification, though David Healy did secure victory by calmly converting a 41st-minute penalty conceded by Lee Croft.
Warner was partnered by a second itinerant footballer on loan. Geoff Horsfield was another late addition to the Leeds squad. Now at his seventh club, Horsfield has acquired the reputation of a promotion specialist and an in-depth knowledge of the M1 and the M6 after three spells in Yorkshire and two in the West Midlands.
The presence of the striker nicknamed Horse lent an agricultural flavour to Leeds' tactics. Excessive use of the hoof was among the grievances at Elland Road. Barely 20 minutes had elapsed before the first disgruntled cry of "get stuck in, Leeds". It was not grit and graft they required,though, but pace and invention.
Those were qualities Norwich displayed in abundance, attacking on both flanks with a fluency that suggested 4-5-1 need not be an expression of negativity while challenging the wisdom that a target man is a prerequisite for success in the Championship. Chances ensued, all falling to the sole striker Earnshaw, who struck the post twice. "Even the Leeds people will say we deserved something from the game," said the Norwich manager Nigel Worthington, though Blackwell, predictably, disagreed.
Man of the match Tony Warner (Leeds)
From The Guardian: football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,1838586,00.html
It is starting to become an annual occurrence - the unexpected phone call, the frenetic dash across the country, the brief opportunity to get acquainted with new team-mates and, finally, the clean sheet to begin the season.
Tony Warner's preparations for Fulham's pre-season tour of Germany were interrupted by Leeds' urgent requirement for a fit goalkeeper on loan. "I was out shopping on Thursday in London when my agent phoned and told me to go back to the ground and pick up my boots," said the 32-year-old. "It's a case of 'get home, get your gear and get up there'. Leeds is a big club, so you can't pass up opportunities like that."
Warner delivered the game's outstanding contribution with athletic saves at the start of each half from Robert Earnshaw the highlights. Experience of being parachuted in to a new club without advance warning helps. "Last season I was at Cardiff and the same thing happened," he recalled. "I got a phone call 48 hours before the Premiership kick-off and I played the first game for Fulham. We drew 0-0 with Birmingham."
Warner brings a healthy dose of realism to his sudden career changes: "It's the way it happens for a lot of footballers." After five loan spells he is primed to answer goalkeeping emergencies: one man's dead leg [Neil Sullivan's] is another's raison d'être. "I don't like to be labelled but, if that's what it takes to get a game, that's what has to be done."
Kevin Blackwell beamed: "He didn't have a lot to do but what he did he was very accomplished." The Leeds manager sprinkled praise elsewhere with less justification, though David Healy did secure victory by calmly converting a 41st-minute penalty conceded by Lee Croft.
Warner was partnered by a second itinerant footballer on loan. Geoff Horsfield was another late addition to the Leeds squad. Now at his seventh club, Horsfield has acquired the reputation of a promotion specialist and an in-depth knowledge of the M1 and the M6 after three spells in Yorkshire and two in the West Midlands.
The presence of the striker nicknamed Horse lent an agricultural flavour to Leeds' tactics. Excessive use of the hoof was among the grievances at Elland Road. Barely 20 minutes had elapsed before the first disgruntled cry of "get stuck in, Leeds". It was not grit and graft they required,though, but pace and invention.
Those were qualities Norwich displayed in abundance, attacking on both flanks with a fluency that suggested 4-5-1 need not be an expression of negativity while challenging the wisdom that a target man is a prerequisite for success in the Championship. Chances ensued, all falling to the sole striker Earnshaw, who struck the post twice. "Even the Leeds people will say we deserved something from the game," said the Norwich manager Nigel Worthington, though Blackwell, predictably, disagreed.
Man of the match Tony Warner (Leeds)