I'll put the fixtures in in a minute.
Meanwhile enjoy this seminar from Tony Gale
You wonder how clubs get into so much trouble when brains like this are outside the game.
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I'll put the fixtures in in a minute.
Meanwhile enjoy this seminar from Tony Gale
You wonder how clubs get into so much trouble when brains like this are outside the game.
1. Appoint a manager
2. ???
3. Profit
A true football genius would have added 5. Win all of the games.
They already have a top, top manager. He just needs TIME.
Bigger than Arsenal within 3 years
Hasn't he just ripped that from Fergie's business seminars?
Stuff like this is mad, I know the money difference is enormous but can you imagine 10 years ago someone in the first XI of Porto going to Bournemouth?
He isn't in their first eleven. Last year someone who actually was went to Wolves.
What year, you said?
I'll have you know Tony Gale is inside the game as some sort of director at Walton Casuals who have just been promoted to the Isthmian Premier for the first time ever.
They wouldn't look out of place mixed in with these lot:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2zvwKegBAM...s640/work+.jpg
That greasy curtains haircut Luke Knight sports is due a widespread comeback.
'it will take the most incredible thing ever in sport for Southampton not to stay up now', sez Jamie Redknapp. That's Southanpton who are three points clear and play Man City on the last day.
That might be the most incredible piece of hyperbole ever in language.
Them getting hammered won't be surprising, but won't Swansea also have to annihilate whoever they have? It would be pretty incredible.
Huddersfield will lose to Chelsea and Arsenal, so Swansea will just have to beat Stoke. No big deal.
Like a fucking div I actually got my hopes up ever so slightly. Though if they'd drawn tonight it would have hurt much more when one of those cunts inevitably got a point on the last day.
Quite looking forward to the championship though, and I think it helps hugely that we're going down with a bit of positive momentum and the Pardew Pulis stink somewhat fumigated.
Is that West Brom down now too then?
EDIT: Ah yes.
Man City would have to beat them by seven and Swansea would need to win by three. It wouldn't be the most incredible thing to happen in the Premiership in the last two years never mind the history of sport.
Shut it.
Gotta hope Huddersfield lose so that sky can roll out their "survival Sunday" pish.
To be honest. Southampton getting relegated after last night would be pretty incredible. Losing your most important game by seven while Swansea would actually need to smash Stoke is probably at least 1/1000 stuff.
Fingers crossed for Huddersfield. Swansea's got three points against Stoke ... probably.
Not expecting these last two away games to go great for some reason.
https://i.imgur.com/6MDlv51.png
We’ve never beaten Arsène Wenger in a league game and we are outrageously poor atm. The run will end tonight.
Yep, a few late equalisers but no win. Can see Lacazette completing his hattrick after 90 yeah, 5-0.
Bored of Puel yet?
Well, that PR tour of Myanmar is going well.
1-0 to the Allstars.
No need, he will be gone in the summer and the cycle continues. Issues way beyond the manager.
Four centre backs whilst 2-0 down at home to West Ham wasn’t exactly electric stuff though. Injuries or not.
The amount of times Hazard is rested by Conte is bonkers.
Ignoring tonight's game, there would be no better (or perhaps more fitting) send off for (latter day) Arsene than following up battering a hard to beat, decent team at home, with a meek loss away to a relegation struggler.
City's record away from home is absolutely mental. Hopefully more teams bother against them next year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44039951
It's coming home.
He’s the least selfish player with his quality I’ve ever seen, so that doesn’t surprise me. It comes across as if he only plays because he’s fucking good at it and he’s not arsed about anything other than his family.
Mid table team without Hazard.
Whys there no MOTD on?
The bus at Stamford Bridge is well and truly in park mode. Doors locked and engine off.
That article got me to thinking about penalties, and the various machinations of them. Are players expected to make their own decisions as regards what they do? I have always imagined yes, but now I ask myself why? Surely having some boffin-based plan you just send the drone out to execute would work better? That's how 'keepers do it (if you believe the spiel). I don't mean, everyone boot it in the top corner, more like giving them a simple set instruction - left, right, down the middle, low, high etc (some combination thereof). Operating on the assumption that all professional footballers are capable of kicking a ball far better than they are necessarily at handling pressure, or making decisions, might that not be a way to try and mitigate against those things? Or do you lose on the second guessing/sending the 'keeper the wrong way in proportion to your gains elsewhere? If nothing else, it's a good way to share the burden - ie the player is not alone in taking the penalty, so if it goes wrong in some way, there is a shared burden. I reckon we should go for it.
Hazard can only be second to Messi in terms of going past people at pace. He has that strange skill of not seeming to do very much but somehow sending everyone the wrong way as he scampers round four challenges.
Conte is a mess.
Once teams cottoned onto his 3 at the back
That's the CL places set now is it?
Liverpool could still lose at home to Brighton at the weekend and let us in, but realistically yes.
As a fan I like the Europa League as a) you play different teams and b) I might actually get to a game or two for once, but I suppose I should be wallowing in misery as now we can't buy Messi, Aguero and Stoichkov without the lure of Champions League.
I guess in the summer, Roman is going to have to have a rethink. I reckon he should
1. Appoint a new manager
2. Appoint a recruitment team
3. Provide a war chest
4. Put the ball in the net more than they concede