Sunday, 25 April 2010

Livermore hails "tea time" Parker

TOTV soccer pundit Jim Livermore has hailed Ian Parker for his hat-trick in the Tyne-Tees derby as "one of the best performances I have seen from him for a long time."

"In 2007, he was nicknamed 'Prime Time' because he played well in evening matches," Livermore said on BritLeague Super Sunday straight after the match. "Well, today he was Tea Time." The match between Parker's Monsters and the Newcastle Geordies kicked off at 16:00, which is of course, tea-time.

The hat-trick could reignite Parker's hopes of appearing for England in this summer's CSA World Cup finals, but manager Marco Garibaldi, who saw the game at Monsters Park, has warned the 23-year-old midfielder that he'll have to keep playing the way he did in that game if the Italian is to select him in his squad for the Middle East.