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Torquay Preview
Well, this preview was intended for Make It Beesy on Yourself (www.makeitbeesy.com, kids, advertising rate cards available on request) until some loser forgot to pay the bill for interweb hosting. So, it's our gift to the GPG instead.
Anyway, Bees travel to the English Riviera in search of a first away win of the season. The usual in-depth analysis of the players on display for the Bees has been hampered by the fact that the official site hasn't published their preview for us to plagiarise, sorry, be inspired by, yet.
Instead we'll wildly speculate that Deon Burton will be back from international duty (just when Kevin O'Connor looked like he'd figured out where he wanted to play), Jay Tabb should have recovered from his non-specific leg injury (just when Stephen Hunt was being given a chance) and Dobbo should be back (when we're beginning to prefer Sam Sodje).
Of course with no away wins to our credit this season, there would be some trepidation about playing any team, even one as patently crap as Torquay. They have lost two and drawn one at home, and last week's win at Stockport – the worst team we've had the misfortune to see at this level in some time – was their first of the season. They're likely to be unchanged from that game but do have goalkeeping troubles, so much so that Ollie Gottskalksson, late of this parish, has been on trial with 'the Gulls'. Sadly Ollie managed all of two minutes of a reserve game with back knack in the week, and is unlikely to be fit.
But fear not good people of Torquay as the South Devon Herald Express brings the good news that: 'United still have player-coach Kevin Dearden on their books'.
A sight I'm sure we would all love to see. Here are some facts about Torquay…
(c) Make It Beesy On Yourself
Anyway, Bees travel to the English Riviera in search of a first away win of the season. The usual in-depth analysis of the players on display for the Bees has been hampered by the fact that the official site hasn't published their preview for us to plagiarise, sorry, be inspired by, yet.
Instead we'll wildly speculate that Deon Burton will be back from international duty (just when Kevin O'Connor looked like he'd figured out where he wanted to play), Jay Tabb should have recovered from his non-specific leg injury (just when Stephen Hunt was being given a chance) and Dobbo should be back (when we're beginning to prefer Sam Sodje).
Of course with no away wins to our credit this season, there would be some trepidation about playing any team, even one as patently crap as Torquay. They have lost two and drawn one at home, and last week's win at Stockport – the worst team we've had the misfortune to see at this level in some time – was their first of the season. They're likely to be unchanged from that game but do have goalkeeping troubles, so much so that Ollie Gottskalksson, late of this parish, has been on trial with 'the Gulls'. Sadly Ollie managed all of two minutes of a reserve game with back knack in the week, and is unlikely to be fit.
But fear not good people of Torquay as the South Devon Herald Express brings the good news that: 'United still have player-coach Kevin Dearden on their books'.
A sight I'm sure we would all love to see. Here are some facts about Torquay…
- Torquay is one of three towns which make up Torbay - the others are Paignton and Brixham. Together, the three towns are known as the English Riviera.
- Torquay United were formed in 1921 by the Rushden-style merger of three clubs: Torquay Town, Ellacombe and Babbacombe, at least two of which sound like words a toddler with speech difficulties would say. They then played in the Southern League against teams like Boscombe.
- Famous novelist Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, unlike anyone else of any note it would appear.
- Following election to the League in 1927, Torquay achieved their first promotion just 33 years later in 1960. They were relegated two seasons later.
- Popular TV hit Fawlty Towers was inspired by the madcap antics of a Torquay hotelier.
- As anyone who has had the misfortune to try to read Torquay's history on their website will tell you, their history is a long, uneventful and, frankly, boring one.
- Torquay International School offers an exciting new course in English for business for the 2005 academic year. The course involves a total of 28 hours 20 minutes tuition per week.
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