NEEJ

It's embarrassing watching Carroll lumbering around up front.

This is an outrageous take. You've seen the way Carroll's arm moves as he lands too, right? It's almost identical.

Focusing on the lateness of the challenge rather than the (quite obviously deliberate) elbow to the jaw.

Has there been a jammier bugger sat in our dugout?

It's gonna be another 0 shots on target 'performance' isn't it?

The shackles are off.

I hope that one day we're a proper football club again and no longer have to put up with Jonjo Shelvey and his shite use of the ball.

Nicky Butt.

A goal a game. Are you not entertained?!

100% he is. There's an old Guardian story about him looking completely dumbfounded when someone asked him if Elmo was observing Ramadan.

More likely to be exercise-induced bronchoconstriction; it's very common among elite athletes. They'll likely be prescribed inhalers - a reliever such as salbutamol and a preventer such as Fostair. A therapeutic dose of either isn't going to give them a competitive advantage. The above is assuming they've undergone an objective test rather than just been diagnosed using a questionnaire. They wouldn't be taking them if it wasn't going to give them some kind of advantage. 63% asthmatic vs. 12% in general population can't just be a coincidence There's a real lack of evidence for any sort of meaningful performance-enhancing effects of salbutamol when under the controlled upper limit, especially in team sports. You'd have to be taking around 16 doses of the thing over the course of the day to exceed the controlled upper limit, risking a failed p*ss test. Like I said earlier, this is all assuming they've done the objective test. It's not something you can really cheat, and it's a pretty unpleasant test to undergo (tests of lung function before and after inhaling dry air for 6 minutes). Fair enough. You are obviously more qualified than me to speak on this. Do know it's been a big controversy in cycling in recent years with teams getting TUEs based on a ridiculous proportion of the cyclists being asthmatic I've done the test and been diagnosed, but I'm by no means an authoritative voice on the subject. I just think a lot of the time the controversy is overblown. Even if the athletes are absolutely caning the stuff, any performance-enhancing effect is likely to be negligible. For a lot of them it's probably a placebo type situation.

More likely to be exercise-induced bronchoconstriction; it's very common among elite athletes. They'll likely be prescribed inhalers - a reliever such as salbutamol and a preventer such as Fostair. A therapeutic dose of either isn't going to give them a competitive advantage. The above is assuming they've undergone an objective test rather than just been diagnosed using a questionnaire. They wouldn't be taking them if it wasn't going to give them some kind of advantage. 63% asthmatic vs. 12% in general population can't just be a coincidence You can't compare elite athletes to the general population. This too. Swimmers are notorious for having such problems, but then they spend most of their training time breathing in swimming pool air. Endurance athletes are likely to spend ages outdoors breathing in cold/polluted/allergen filled air at much higher rates than the general population.

More likely to be exercise-induced bronchoconstriction; it's very common among elite athletes. They'll likely be prescribed inhalers - a reliever such as salbutamol and a preventer such as Fostair. A therapeutic dose of either isn't going to give them a competitive advantage. The above is assuming they've undergone an objective test rather than just been diagnosed using a questionnaire. They wouldn't be taking them if it wasn't going to give them some kind of advantage. 63% asthmatic vs. 12% in general population can't just be a coincidence There's a real lack of evidence for any sort of meaningful performance-enhancing effects of salbutamol when under the controlled upper limit, especially in team sports. You'd have to be taking around 16 doses of the thing over the course of the day to exceed the controlled upper limit, risking a failed piss test. Like I said earlier, this is all assuming they've done the objective test. It's not something you can really cheat, and it's a pretty unpleasant test to undergo (tests of lung function before and after inhaling dry air for 6 minutes).

More likely to be exercise-induced bronchoconstriction; it's very common among elite athletes. They'll likely be prescribed inhalers - a reliever such as salbutamol and a preventer such as Fostair. A therapeutic dose of either isn't going to give them a competitive advantage. The above is assuming they've undergone an objective test rather than just been diagnosed using a questionnaire.

"Well, it was a tough game today wu got wer backsides kicked. It's always tough when you have to play the last few minutes with 10 men."

Nee chance. Of course it is man. He's got no excuses, he knows Lewis is there which makes it ludicrously reckless.

Almirón

In fairness to Bruce, who could've foreseen Lamptey being a massive threat?

He's an absolute fucking tattie.

How was that not a foul on Fredericks? WTF? or was it given? I don't remember. The first shocker made by Fredericks? It was pulled back for a foul IIRC but obviously no yellow, as he was booked for the second one later in the game.

His dribbling ability is absolutely obscene.

Oi lav Habib buy!

Weren't they selling actual match tickets for the league cup for a tenner last season?