Recent content by bluenorthwarrior

I think this is a real consideration, I am uneasy with too many links to African players simply for this reason. Yes it's not every year, but to have a third or more of your starting 11 unavailable for up to 7/8 games in a season is almost accepting whatever target set can't be achieved.

Said it before but there are a dozen or so clubs across europe playing a completely different game to the rest. In terms of money, attention, influence over governance and rules, and relationships with the staff at fa's. I truly, truly hope they leave and have their billions of pounds league...

Villa will be first home game I reckon.

You'd have to think it's very low odds of working out for him at Chelsea. They need to challenge next season from the off, he won't get much time to find his feet and risks becoming the latest young english player on the scrapheap at a Sky club on wages that prevent a transfer elsewhere. Can...

Surely, surely Moyes watching this type of pointless performance (yet again) must put any view that he trains well so may come good in time to bed.

Fun half but it feels like the whole refereeing community in this country has had a collective meltdown/loss of confidence over the last couple of years and can't apply the rules with any confidence. You see it in bizarre VAR decisions like today, and also in random yellow cards for nothing and...

Agree that the absolute focus for at least next 24 months is stability and rebuilding of an actual squad. That will take at least the next 3 windows, during which we need to be nowhere near the relegation conversation. This probably means also nowhere near the top 5 conversation, but hopefully...

This I suspect is more and more the case. I only watch Everton, even when I have the chance to watch another game 9 times out of 10 I don't. It's not just this season with the obvious accusation toward blues that it is only because of the table, I've switched off for at least 5 years now even...

I thought he took on an early morning milk round or something? That would have to affect your energy levels.

It's amazing the effect that commentators and pundits have on what becomes the accepted 'truth'. This Madrid side, as you say, are demonstrably not the worst for many years and are packed full of world stars. Good on Arsenal. One thing I have heard on both occasions I have watched a RS game...

It's a blend of the pep way being adopted by every team as the way to attack, coupled with the big Sam two banks of 4 on edge of own box to defend. Every team does both of these things now, and the problem is exacerbated by the pep way giving time for the big Sam way to set up as it is so slow...

I could give plenty of endeavour, that really is not close to being enough.

Doucoure and Harrison yet again a complete waste of a shirt going forwards, again, again, again. Genuinely baffles me what managers see, particularly in Harrison.

If the ref had balls it would have been an immediate second yellow there for the clapping

Doucs is a passenger both in and out of possession.