Rich

Or, as I’ve seen him do a few times this season, he’s sprinting back to cover someone else and saving their bacon as much as his own. Still, when I wrote my post I genuinely knew that’s the bit you’d comment on and in the way you did, ignoring the rest. The only disappointment was that you didn’t quote Maldini. You’ve obviously got your viewpoint, you’re sticking to it, and you’re going to hammer it home at every opportunity, as you do. Crack on, I don’t know why I bothered trying to post an alternative and far less lazy/negative analysis of a player I consider to be one of the very few highlights of the campaign that should only get better.

Cracking advice, cheers. Back into my box I go.

Nah, as then the onus is on the person taking the shot, the goalkeeper, etc. The mistake leading to what Opta consider a ‘chance’ has been made and counted, so looking at the raw number is actually the way to go if we’re looking at who’s ’error prone’. Defensive errors tied to negative xG is what we really need, but I don’t think that’s available anywhere. (I’m actually being serious here, sorry.)

Leads the league in last man saving tackles, is one of the league leaders in aerial duels won, has played almost twice the minutes of Botman, yet doesn’t appear on that list for errors leading to shots (Thiaw’s on 3, with 2 leading to goals). They’ve each additionally conceded one penalty in the league. Turns over possession less than his CB colleagues, and has also scored the same number as the rest of our CBs combined, which has to count for something, surely? ’Very error prone’ just isn’t true, is it? If he hadn’t been an almost ever-present, things would’ve been even worse.

Premier League players with most errors leading to a shot (2025/26) James Tarkowski (Everton) – 7 Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool) – 5 Omar Alderete (Sunderland) – 5 Pedro Porro (Spurs) – 4 Bernd Leno (Fulham) – 4 Djed Spence (Spurs) – 4 Curtis Jones (Liverpool) – 4 Yasin Ayari (Brighton) – 4 Carlos Baleba (Brighton) – 4 Ethan Ampadu (Leeds) – 4 Casemiro (Man Utd) – 4 Mateus Fernandes (West Ham) – 4 Sven Botman (Newcastle) – 4

That was the joke

Aye, but I heard it from my barber, who’d had the club photographer in. Far too many loose lips around.

Funny how stuff gets around, like. If I was a club photographer would I fuck be telling my barber what goes on.

Longy man

Hard to believe this is the same Leeds who put in one of the best performances I've seen from an away team at SJP, not that long ago.

Crumpy still on the WUM, must've been going 30 years strong now.

If the keeper is putting himself in amongst it all, he has to be able to sustain equivalent contact to what the rest of the players do. In the multiple shots we saw, there were at least three equal/worse cases of holding/obstruction going on. Just let it stand, man, wasn’t given on the field, crack on.

Sums this season up completely this

JUST HIT THE ROOF

Started to believe

Can we just let West Ham win next week now, then?

Our game management this season is something else, shit the bed city.

That was sublime.

One day, Tonali won’t treat the ball like a bomb.

Much more like it from Big Nick

Botman has been supoib

Turd so far, that pass to Murphy aside.

4-4-1-1 this, not 4-3-3.

First game I ever saw on TV, that. Still remember the day really vividly.