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Those websites all reported Manure’s likely interest in Ashworth before Manure officially contacted Newcastle. They were hot on the Brailsford link and that he would likely want to work with Ashworth. If this story had a negative Saudi angle they would be running with it wall to wall! No objectivity in journalism anymore

King Eddie is so beautiful. And then you think of Ratty Dan trying to put Eddie in the dirt over his own stupid decisions in trying to leave for Manure. The contrast in their characters couldn’t be more clear.

I wholeheartedly agree with your main point, but who the hell is Isaac?

Harder!

Willock is a Joelinton alternative for different games where we’re expected to be a bit more dominant. Willock buries that chance at Brentford! Plus Isak loves playing with Willock. Goals, assists and knee slides for days!!

Hello R. Kelly!

Staying in London?!!! Worrying!!!

Stephen Big-Dog Bruce used to do it for league games!

Wet dreams!

Can someone please interpret this? What does it say and mean?

I sort of agree. He doesn’t read how wingers are trying to beat him very well, but he’s so quick and got great physical strength that he can recover and get the tackle in. Losing half a yard on say Mbappe in champions league though would be costly. Also his passing is average. He uses a lob wedge that the winger/striker has to compete for or bring down on their chest or at an awkward height. I’m used to Schar pinging a 5 iron into feet. Would definitely take him though. Recovery pace, 1-on-1 fuel strength like Joelinton. He’d be better than Dan Burn most likely, and certainly better at de fending than Hall.

Were you the girl doing kickups on the street?

Next year’s targets: a semi-final in Europe. Top 6. Deep run in a domestic cup. In dreamworld we’d win the Carabao Cup which gives us a boost to go on and win the Europa League. If I’m being really greedy, we avenge Manure in Carabao final!

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The ability to finish belongs to a player, not a club. I could have said the same about Isak before he’d scored a goal for us. Eddie says the same about Elliott so I’m in good company :-)

This is one of those posts quotes in 2 years’ time to acknowledge you called it wrong. “Yeah but in fairness, there wasn’t much to show at that point.” Anderson can clearly finish and he will do for us if given the chance. 5 goals next year, 8-10 the year after

Well that fell flat!

What on earth did Hurley do to you that you took out a restraining order?! I personally would have let her carry on!!

Yeah strikers didn’t need to press as centre backs were going to hoof it. Or give a pass to the full back to play a channel ball. I still doubt the idea that football requires more now. All the off the pitch advancements have extended longevity in most other sports despite performance levels increasing there also. F1 cars have more downforce than years ago. Alonso and Hamilton are racing into their 40s. Tennis players are stronger. Federer, Djokovic, Nadal have gone on longer. More cricket is played than years ago. The England cricket team’s getting older. Anderson, Broad played late, etc. I’m just not sure I buy that because striker’s press a bit more the game’s harder overall. It just changes the balance of off ball running. If attack and wide midfielders are pressing more, defenders are in fewer battles than before and so resting more.

Training, nutrition, sports science, sleep science etc have moved on also. Are you suggesting that the gap between the exertion required to play 90 minutes has grown more than the loads placed on players on training and their ability to train for that exertion? Why is that not the case in other sports? Runners still run a normal marathon distance. Tennis players still play the same amount of sets and matches. Cricketers play more cricket. Are there more sprints in football now compared with 1990s? Longer distances run? Arguably, with 4-4-2 hoofball being pervasive in the 1990s more stamina was required as it was a game mostly full of length of the pitch transitions. This idea football has “moved on” seems easy to say but difficult to prove.

In my day playing 90 minutes each week wasn’t “flogging” but desired as being a normal footballer.

If the market forces a player sale that’s just football. If contrived premier league elitist rules force the sale that’s a disgrace!

He was always fit as a fiddle under Bruce. Perhaps 2-day training weeks are best after all!

Zinchenko for me.

Eddie is my King. Lewis is my left back. That is all.