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They can’t pass the ball to one another, which seems a salient fault 

Good to see the Manchester City contingent being just as professional as they were during their last outing at Wembley

Ssshhhh Jim might be reading 

Did anyone else do the chilly celebration when he missed 

21 minutes ago, Geordie Boyo said:

 

Slightly disingenuous as the Castore print-on badges on their authentic shirts (the one which is used for Adidas there) are identical to the Adidas print-on bar some texturing in the gold trim. Embroidery more delicate that printing on a whole badge, one would assume.

16 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

Training gear maroon as mentioned 

Haha yeh I mean dammit I’ll inevitably buy

3 minutes ago, Jack27 said:

Goddamnit 

1 hour ago, ponsaelius said:

 

I'm no eco looney but it seems a bit bad craic to laser the kittiwakes with this while they're nesting mind  

 

Can't help but think there's other places they could have done it.

 

 

 

Full kittiwakers

If, presented with the two options, he’s chosen that project then he doesn’t have the outlook and priorities which we want in players. Fair enough, many people would share his outlook. 

Possibly the price of not being in Europe.

harrington jacket sharp AF, but £75 no sir

On 26/05/2024 at 11:15, Shadow Puppets said:

He missed the Australia trip because he’s awaiting the arrival of his first child.

What an asshole 

To be honest that’s a microcosm of the season. Nothing working out but being needlessly agonisingly close the whole way. Just cursed 

It’s always Manchester United who beat us when it matters. So grim.

1 minute ago, Dancing Brave said:

Don’t think it’s unreasonable to suspect corruption in football tbh.

There are too many weird individual errors not to be suspicious I reckon 

City look bizarrely bad 

They’re not really competing 

Shopcastle United Shopball Shop tbh

On 20/05/2024 at 07:32, Andy said:

There isn't a stat that can predict results, at least not very well, football is unpredictable.

 

This is proven every time someone posts a table like that to show a team has underperformed or overperformed their xG/xPts or whatever else. It's not that the team has under or over performed, it's that the data is flawed apart from at the extreme ends of the scale. A team's results over a full season is their correct level. 

Not necessarily - our “true” level would surely involve more points accumulated if we didn’t play for 2 months with half a squad missing?

4 minutes ago, Beth said:

Really? I assume he's capable of time travel then?

Christ - right you are. I was sure he was pushing 40 when he left. My mistake!

Re: Calvert-Lewin, it’s hard to find decent strikes who are prepared to be back-ups. I reckon a lot are probably quite egotistical / alpha and when a first choice striker is in form you may rotate them less if e.g. you need results.

We’re shopping in a market where the player will know Isak is The Guy, and where it’s not somewhere we’re going to make a huge outlay. Similar to the Kelly transfer, if the aim isn’t to play him more than 50% of the time, then perhaps past injury issues are less concerning.

I am probably trying to talk myself into it, but I think there’s probably some logic and value in there somewhere. + Howe would make him look better than ever before, you’d expect.

34 minutes ago, Beth said:

But it is though. Dubravka is 35 and he's dropped off a cliff. How many number one keepers in the PL are older than that? Lloris got fucked off from Spurs in his mid 30s and had been shite for a couple of seasons before that. The days of your Shiltons and Buffons playing at the top level till they got to 40 are gone.

 

De Gea is 33 but no one seems to want him either, even on a free.

Lloris literally played as the spurs captain until he was 39. 

Perhaps they figure he’ll be less injury-prone in a squad rotational role; or his injury prone-ness will be felt less keenly as a result

Yorkie v reds/blues