GeordieDazzler

good little primer on his career before Napoli. Shows the worth of having awareness in these leagues. Obv Napoli lucked out slightly with the Ukraine war changing his career path.

If he used MOTD as a soapbox for his political opinions then there’s an issue but he hasn’t. He’s basically being punished for expressing a public opinion that’s deemed unacceptable by the party currently in power. Unfortunately it’s a bit of a win either way for the govt, either Lineker gets censored or the BBC makes itself look incredibly bad, which quite clearly they have done.

I’m sure the premier leagues and the club sponsors would care if one of their main platforms for exposure wasn’t broadcast.

Urgh

Spurs should have won the title in the Leicester City season the fact they didn’t was massively damaging for them I think. Hard to shift the also ran mentality for them.

‘Hint of handball’ fuck off man, not a chance

Love Ayoze

They are a weird club to manage I think. They’ve done a lot well building commercially but still lack identity. They sacked their most successful manager of recent times in Poch. Tried two brute force managers in Mou and Conte and one failed ‘Project’ manager in Nuno. It’s unclear where they go from here. Would. Poch round 2 work? Who knows.

You feel they’d make a play a Silva if Conte goes. Feels like they will try and get Poch back though.

Christ Antony use your other foot

Terrible corner

strongly rumoured to be joining Ronaldo in Saudi I think

I want Man U to win which means they’ll get beat.

Palace goal VAR disallowed

Haaland loves the aggro, must just be him getting bored with them never passing to him.

Class by Trips

An in form Wilson improves almost every other player in attack for us, when he’s off it we look limp.

Big Joe

I think a lot of that is not wanting to give the press too many threads to pull or narratives to run with. He’ll happily talk about the game and tactics but everything else he’s the master of the none answer. Bruce and others showed if you react emotionally to the press it’s a red rag to a bull. I mean this in the best possible way but he’s a bit Keir Starmer in how he deals with them, don’t needlessly give folk ammo to shoot at you with

Strange, considering that Fraser gave at least five interviews last season that were positively gushing in praise for Howe. I think when he decides that he wants to move on (his lack of game time won’t get any better here) he just checks out on the hard work. He was playing and motivated last season. This year not so much.

There was a Crystal Palace documentary that way mainly boardroom based too wasn’t there?

Means we will fall away and miss our goals this season, and then win the league the following year.

Thiago Silva has done his ligaments, Chelsea crisis just deepened.