Tiresias

I knew letting long dead drunk welsh poets on twitter was a bad idea

Worst thing is it was all because Ashley wanted to spunk £40m on Joelinton for no reason at all

Who did, Ciaran Clark? Off topic tbh Clark has proven a pretty reliable understudy, probably reasonable tho probably wouldnt want a long extention as he is getting on isnt he?

What is it then? Which other managers use it? Read this https://thefalse9.com/2015/11/football-tactics-for-beginners-the-false-10.html I did, and I still have no idea. It's like an inverted winger apparently. Which seems to be a winger who plays in the middle Honestly think if you want a real example who makes sense would be Podolski used to be at Arsenal, who sat in no 10 slot kinda but basically did little creatively just banged in goals more like a striker from there

I do remember pardew once subbing ben arfa on at half time when we were down a few goals, ben arfa nearly dragging us back into the game then pardew singling him out for blame for the loss mind

If you take 'false no 9' which is definitely a thing (and I have heard of false no 7s too, wingers who basically play more as strikers isnt it?) essentially all it means is that the players role is different from that which is traditionally indicated by his starting position on the pitch. So Bruce is saying that they both started directly behind the striker, which they did because we played very deep defensively to start with, and it differed from traditional footballing roles in that neither decided to play any actual football. See Bruce is a genius what are you talking about

Probably an improvement on the pitch tbh

Absolutely typical

The very same pundits who purr over Sheffield United's good football are the ones who say of course we play the football we do look at how much poorer we are than all the other teams

I love how he says that he sees positives in that we're trying to play further up the pitch as if it wasn't a self created situation It's positive i've set up the team a bit less shit than i set the team up last week

season over

Lascelles is a good centre back to be honest, but probably fairly rusty and not having a good game so far

Fucking commentators describing carroll as a good finisher, evidenced i guess by all the goals?

I would love it to happen but I don't think it will, I think league will protect their 'big six' and will just filibuster and obstruct. I think legal avenues might be being pursued but ultimately the longer things take the less likely they are to happen tbh. Sorry, I try not to post but this place just endlessly goes round in circles at the moment and if I had a penny every time someone reported someone was 'confident'...

yea sorry i guess

Eeer isnt the story that he has long covid? Of course he would have negative tests then its whether he is fit and able still

Dont be silly midfield is for these fancy dan european teams that try and 'win' games

Cabbagehead probably bought himself another year on his contract with that

Thing is the sheer air pressure from all the total bollocks big sam shouts is so great that it forces all covid 19 carrying air particles out of the whole stadium and in fact all the way back to europe, take that EU!

This. Long waits is signs of death not life.

good to know our medical department have worked out how long long covid lasts for, maybe could share that with the rest of the world?

I mean better than pickford isnt much of a bar tbh

I think Shearer has got a lot better as a pundit but I don't want to hear pundits opinions on their friends. I understand Shearer not wanting to stick the knife in but he should then probably not be asked to either defend or criticism Bruce. It is giving Bruce an easier time than other managers.