St Helens official Chris Foy is at St James’ Park tonight for our Carling Cup Quarter Final against Chelsea.
Foy’s last visit to St James’ Park was for our 2-1 defeat to Fulham in September. Foy famously dismissed Chelsea’s Arjen Robben at Sunderland last season.
We face the Champions on Wednesday, in the quarter-final of the Carling Cup, with some reasons to be cheerful. Firstly, there is the likely absence through injury of John Terry. It’s been reported that he hasn’t travelled with the rest of the squad, and so it seems that we’ll be facing the same defence that shipped two goals against Everton on Sunday – Hilario, Geremi, Boulahrouz, Carvalho and Cole. That’s a unit to be respected, but not feared.
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