Wolfcastle

Got a ridiculous shots on to goals ratio, you'd think that cant keep up

Probably unsporting conduct anyway flaying an arm at a the ball putting defenders off

Off to the shops it is then

City away is even more of a fixture obligation fulfilment excercise for Burnley than it is for us

I know, be rare that a league hasn't looked competitive before September's out.

Fans managed to tell who was a good finisher and who wasn't, who was good and who wasn't, which team was the better on the day when the only stats you got were player ratings out of 5 in Match or Shoot!

That's the sort of level he's going to need to go back to, to have a career not built on two year stints and payoffs. Not even Southampton levels where they'll go up and the cycle will restart but somewhere like Blackburn or Portsmouth

Didn't they used to say that the league cup was the better one for the fans to win but the FA Cup better for the players, or was that something else? Either way, the only reason I'd fractionally possibly prefer the FA Cup these days is because of the 'its only the league cup' patter. Feel the FA Cup means less every year since the fannying around overkill and the league just stays were its always been.

Yeah, sad reality is qualifying/not qualifying for the CL is relevant to us and Villa as relates each other but makes no difference now in the bigger picture due to these f*cking rules. It would probably have staved off some sales for a year and kept some momentum if they'd qualified at the most given their PSR situation. And we did qualify and lost Isak and were outbid for other targets anyway.

Feel like I cant remember a naffer start to the Premier League season than this. Most games have been dire and the one entertaining team is the one that's spent the most money and looks like sauntering to another title.

Doesn't mean anything at this stage really. Seen it look that way and end up not that way countless times. Us in the championship under Rafa being an immediate example.

Couldn't be ersed stretching to an Irish one in the Untouchables though

Never would have believed going into the 1997 campaign Dynamo Kyiv would have more, way more, fans than Barcelona on account of the distance, economies etc but they did.

Got to be the Ferguson factor if Amirom is still being defended, how he was in the brink of the sack multiple times after two lacklustre seasons, but at least had that improved first full season to ride.

Hard lines M'baldo and Costko Chelsea next

Fair enough, give yourself more of chance than they did for sure, was more at my end thinking I'd not be confident of staying up at this point. Nobody really seems a write off at this point which is blessing and a curse, if Leeds and Burnley had no points and had looked out of their depth and you had the same points, maybe.

Its the 100% pure Brucey phase now. Not riding on the fumes of new manager bounces or coat tails of the previous regime. So that's just every club he's been at since and including Aston Villa that thinks he's a terrible manager and unimpressive bloke generally. Can only presume every single on of those people are wrong.

You had 5 points from 3 games in 96/97 and went down 4 points from 3 games in 90/91 and went down 5 points from 4 games in 02/03 and went down with record low points 5 points from 3 games in 17/18 and went down 7 points from 4 games in 86/87 and went down we took 3 points from 3 games in 96/97 and finished 2nd, 1 point from 3 games in 93/94 and finished 3rd, 4points from 5 games in 02/03 and finished 3rd - so it works both ways Not saying/caring if you do or don't but for a club that's been relegated as much as yours no way would I be so sure of myself especially given the fixtures thus far and your record for getting carried away coming back to bite you

More because Leeds and Blackburn wouldn't have been allowed in 92 and 95. On the Leeds point. They spent and showed ambition as a nothing second division club in 89, signed big names, got promoted had a good season, won the league. As well as the Ridsdale decline being prevented, it also prevents their rise in the first place.

Game before was 13,000 against Southampton (think our lowest PL gates is 20k higher than that and only because of capacity). Their gates in the early 80s were similar. Either side of their glory era of the mid80s is represented by many sub20k crowds.

Think we averaged over 51,000 in the Championship under Ashley. Don't think Everton have ever averaged that. Certainly didn't when they were winning things, struggled to get over 30,000 winning the title and struggled to get 20,000 the season after. We've had a higher average than Everton every year since the PL started. There's a reason they moved to a 52,000 capacity new White Hart Lane and not something bigger.

As amateurish, unfair, corrupt and infantile as that would be, that is my reading of the situation

All this just to prevent 6 becomming 8. The 'cure' is worse than the disease. Just have a big8 and revel in it ffs instead of being obsessively paranoid about it. As an added bonus Forest, Leicester, Everton and Sheffield United etc. wont get shafted in the wake of the paranoia.

All the clubs that spent tons of money before are being allowed to benefit from spending tons of money before The clubs that want to spend a ton of money now aren't allowed and are effectively punished because of clubs that did it before, who themselves aren't punished. Can't say unfairer than that.

Paid 500k more for Des Hamilton than we got for Ginola Dalglish gets a lot of unjust defence rather than criticism, not just because in my opinion differs but with regards to Gullit too who never gets defended and inherited Dalglish's team not Keegan's, also bought a few good players amongst mostly bad ones, got us to a cup final with a harder run and in more impressive fashion than Dalglish, brought Harper through, played better (albeit not difficult to) football, turned Gary Speed around* and left us pretty much as he found us.....and I don't consider he was a good manager *Speed is cited as a plus for Dalglish but in truth he was a terrible signing whilst Dalglish was here to the point he was being booed by some fans At the time Dalglish left he arguably hadn't had a good signing, allowing for Hamman only playing twice, Solano not at all and the Speed scenario above. Dabizas was okay but not a noticeable improvement and Given had time on his side but wasn't what he became and was about to be dropped for Harper.