I wasn't the one who called you a clown, FYI. The thing with this idea of a national identity for style of play is that it really only applies to the league as a whole. You look at individual teams at the top level and they play their own game, and have the financial backing to build teams in that s...

That article (and your own posts on here) would mean absolutely fuck all without the results of one single round of matches. It completely ignores the fact that English teams dominated the group stage (Spurs finished 4th!) and recent years of the competition in general. The ties aren't even over yet...

Oh do fuck off. I explained perfectly well why your "theory" was full of shit. You got way more of a contribution than you deserve, you muppet.

If more English teams reach the final more than any other country why haven’t they won it more? Statistically they should right?  For fuck's sake, 360. 2 of the finals were all-English. They can't both win, can they? Out of the 7 English finalists only one lost to a foreign team (Liverpool, both ti...

This is typical of you, 360. You say something utterly stupid and when someone points out why then you don't own up that you made a mistake or exaggerated things, you double down on it. No-one is not comprehending your posts properly.  Your quote: "I think prem teams will always find it hard to...

360, you don't half talk a load of clueless old fanny. English teams have won 3 out of the last 7 Champions League finals, with 3 different teams! English teams have had 3 winners and 4 runners up in the last 8 finals. No other nation had more than 3 finalists in these years. In 2019 and 2021 both f...

Just had a look at Valverde's goals. That's a hat trick any player would be extremely proud of. Great finishes. Yeah, I watched the game. Great goals, especially considering that he's not usually much of a goal scorer. He actually doubled his tally for this season with that hat trick, having only s...

But the Bundesliga has higher average attendances than the Premier League.  Yeah. There's so much TV money in the Premier League that clubs with tiny grounds or low attendances like Bournemouth and Brentford can still compete financially. There are 10 clubs in the Championship with over 30k stadium...

Bit cunty anyone trying to bring politics into this, but it is true that more than a thousand teens die every year in the UK and I don't really see why this one is any more deserving of a wreath than any of those (or even deserving of a thread to be honest). If the kid played for the West Ham youth ...

Yeah, he made a terrible start with some godawful decisions but I don't think he's ever been one of those managers who'll fire up the players and get them going from the off. I did actually bring up at the start of this thread that he didn't have a great start when he took over at Forest in December...

Manuel wrote: ↑10 Mar 2026, 08:14 Still no sign of Orford getting his chance?

I reckon that the team practiced penalties in training this week, which is what should be done prior to a cup match, but seems like we've never done under previous managers. Can't remember who but I know one of our managers once said it was a waste of time as you can't recreate the pressure, but I t...

Good work on the thread title there. Watch for the skies! We need to keep America and the world safe from alien invaders (and not just those pesky Mexies). Clearly the best way to keep watch is from a northern vantage point, like say, uhm, Greenland. We need to take over that country right now for t...

I didn't say he doesn't have any impact. I said he doesn't have as big an impact. That is quite a different thing. In any case, you began this whole discussion by asking "What makes Pablo so good, who cannot score or assist?" but you don't seem to want to hear the answer. Fact is that you ...

Okay, perhaps not completely ignored. You did say that you "don't think we'll miss him greatly rightly now when we have a goalscoring Striker to instantly replace him in his absence". So you clearly prize one attribute over the other, regardless of how it effects the team as a whole.

Not sure what any of this has to do with Traore, but... It is interesting how in Soucek you have someone who's got a knack for scoring goals but contributes fuck all else in the opposition half, while Pablo seems to be somewhat the opposite. It's a bit daft to ignore what a player does bring to the ...

I heard last week from a Spanish friend that the media over there have been playing up his influence on our recent results. Could be just coincidence that he rocked up during the transfer window when we were able to change personnel and thus formation and tactics. Who knows? Noticeable when he had a...

I feel like 20 years ago on here, most of you would have been all over this thread, enthusiastically regaling us with lurid tales about your own trips to strip clubs. Did you all just get old and testosterone depleted, or have you become timid because of the puritanical times we live in?  People on...

Yeah, he looked fine. Mind you, the way we set up and the way Burney played I don't think we'd have even noticed if he was missing a yard of pace from not being match fit. A good game for him to start off with.

It's the sort of transfer window you'd be okay about if we were wallowing in mid table mediocrity with little hope of getting into Europe or getting relegated. As it is, it's absolutely pathetic if this is supposed to be an attempt to improve our chances of staying up. I'm an optimistic sort and hav...

I'll stick me neck out and say I think Disasi will be a decent signing. Don't buy into this not being ready mantra either. Is JWP ready for Burnley? Normally I'd agree with you. People make too much of that match fitness stuff. Lingard was at it from the off and he'd barely played all season. It do...

Sorry, but I don't agree on the scouting. He had a decent pedigree, certainly a better pedigree than Fabianski who'd barely played until he went to Swansea aged 29. Areola wasn't always back up - he had one full season as 1st choice No 1 at PSG - as well as at Bastia, Villareal and Fulham. The seaso...

Another lazy bit of non-scouting from our crack recruitment team. He was signed by PSG when they were interested in shelling out obscene money for anything that moved. They have since changed tack and end up finally winning the champions league. Funny that. Nah. Areola was a PSG youth player. They ...

In my opinion yesterday wasn't the player himself, but the intent and message it sent to the team and the opposition making that sub.   Exactly. I knew as soon as he went on that we were fucked, and not because of the player, who didn't perform especially badly. Taking off a striker to bring on a c...

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