BLUE GRIT; Sparky: Fightback proves we're no soft touches Blackburn 2 Man City 2.Byline: By DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. McDONNELL MARK HUGHES This article is about the Welsh footballer. For other people with the same name, see Mark Hughes (disambiguation). Leslie Mark Hughes OBE (born November 1, 1963 in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales), nicknamed Sparky reckons his Manchester City side proved they are no faint hearts after scoring two late goals to seal a dramatic comeback at Ewood Park Ewood Park is a football stadium in Blackburn, Lancashire and the home of Blackburn Rovers football club. The stadium, which opened in 1890, is an all seater facility which holds 31,367 people and has a pitch size of 115 x 76 yards. . Trailing 2-0 with three minutes of normal time left, substitute Daniel Sturridge scored one and set up Robinho for an added-time equaliser as City denied victory to Sam Allardyce's side. And Hughes (above) claimed his City players had proved their mental strength with their thrilling comeback, and praised Sturridge - in the final year of his contract - for his inspired late cameo which changed the game. "We had a great result against Hull but you need to have other qualities as well as being able to play good football," said Hughes. "You need to be able to play a different type of game at times. "I was pleased with the qualities we showed, as pleased with them as I was with the 5-1 win against Hull on Boxing Day. This was different to that. We had to dig in to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure s>. To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; - used of warfare or negotiating situations. See also: Dig Dig and show the strength of character some people suspected we didn't have. "Those are the qualities you need if you're going to be a consistently good Premier League team. I was also delighted with Daniel. "You always hope subs can make a positive impact and he did that. We asked him to make things happen and that's what he was able to do. "He's a great young talent. We've tried to introduce him bit by bit. We want to keep him at this club, we want to bring good players in, but we can create the sort of environment in which he can thrive. "I think we're very close to agreeing a new deal with him. He's been allowed to get into the last year of his contract. That was allowed to happen before I came." |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion