Keiren Westwood Talks About Today

Last updated : 07 April 2007 By Thetashkentterror

United goalkeeper Keiren Westwood spoke to BBC Radio Cumbria's Derek Lacey on Saturday evening as he talked about the excellent 2-0 victory at Port Vale this afternoon, Westwood not the first footballer to talk about the need to take each game as it comes :


" We defended from the front again like we did against Tranmere. Obviously there were a few skirmishes around the box but we defended for our lives like we always do. I think we won the league on that last year - defending for our lives. I just try to go about my business and do my job. The save was one of those flick-headers, the follow-up was offside. It was a great ball in to be fair by the lad, I think he (Paul Harsley) has got up just in front of someone and flick-headed it. I just had to get across and palm it away really.

" Of course we can get a play-off place, we're good enough, I think we're good enough anyway. We've got talented individuals, a great work-ethic and great team spirit so with all those put in a pot the ingredients are fantastic. When he (Joe Garner) has got the ball, I kicked it up and Danny Graham has got hold of it and done really well. Then he laid it off to Joe, and I'm saying 'just go to the corner' with a minute left, but he's pinged it and it's hit the postage stamp and it's gone in. To be fair though I said I'd have saved it, I said you've got to ask your keeper some questions if you score from there (jokes).

" It was non-stop singing, the Carlisle fans were fantastic, when they just sing like that the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, they just fully deserved the game today that we gave them. I don't really like talking to the press that much, because whenever I talk I say something about clean sheets or something and we end up getting hammered. I don't really want to say too much, we just need to keep doing what we are doing, as long as we keep doing what we are doing then we'll probably sneak in.

" We're just taking each game as it comes, we're the underdogs at the minute, we're just outsiders. We'll keep plugging away, you just never know do you with the momentum that we've got at the minute with three clean sheets in a row. It sets a great base and if we can keep going then we never know. I think Crystal Palace did it a couple of years ago, they came from out of nowhere like Sunderland are doing now. Palace left it a little bit late and they ended up sneaking in sixth and ended up getting promoted because they had the momentum.

" You just never know you do, you don't want to jinx it too much, and you don't want to talk it up or talk it down as much. You just try to keep it Steady Eddie and see how it goes. I'd love a big crowd to come out on Monday, I like playing in front of big crowds, the more the merrier really to come and sing for us and push us on really as a twelfth man. "