Wolfcastle

Been the better team, should be ahead. Just got a bad feeling about it now, result-wise

Would have been 'Howe didn't have faith in him to handle the pressure' if someone else took it. He missed pen. It happens,

worst possible outcome Gordon misses there of all places, Pickford saves going to be their day inevitably

It would be funny to finally after about 25years and a thousand games get a better gate than your 'rivals' - fkin hell, its not even funny being on the completely dominant side of that point. You know what they're like - it'd be like the 25years and thousand examples to the contrary never existed. Shame its 1001 and a counting.

Northampton in the league cup and whoever they were playing, don't know if it was the last

I've fully harnessed that. I always look, focus on and take in the defeats of other clubs rather than on who beat them. Its a way better way to go, you're pretty much fucked the other way.

Wont be any worse of scraping by with an interim at this point, might even fluke something.

Villa away next. That'll be it.

Neither West Ham fans nor Arsenal fans brag about their stadium at all.

The oldest part of SJP the East Stand was built in the mid/late 70s. All but one stand at Everton (built a year before the Gallowgate) is decades older than even that.

Don't think it would much difference either way. Neither are the reason were stagnatng but the new guy usually would get recency bias if it came to it.

Still think most fans and the players expected to strengthen every window and get better and better. Selling anyone significant isn't going to feel like were going places no matter how its invested.

Feels palpable that were maxed out under these rules and at our limit with momentum gone (taken away actually). Bound to be demoralising compared to how it was with hope and sky high potential

never/frequently

Aye two teams is much worse than three teams (Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal) doing the same. But for 'financial doping' you'd have to go back to Everton in 1987 for the last time anybody but those teams would have won the league. Like two years later than the last non-Rangers or Celtic team to win the league in Scotland.

They've dominated the league no more than Man United did from 92 until Abramovic and no more than Liverpool in the 70s and 80s. I'd have been all for a rule change that made things more competitive then. Instead the only rule changes, like now, only enhanced them.

The modern standard is dire mind. Wish they were a bit more dull and less hyperbolic, blowing with the wind and no better than listening to any radge you're sitting next to at any given match. Dull as he is/was and as awkward and dull as he was on Match of the Day in the 90s, even Lineker when I hear him now, was good as a co-comms unless its by today's standards.

I looked at that and they were both definitely onside but you cant take any chances with VAR, sleeves and elbows and all that

We had people criticising him as a superfluous signing not that long back. His contribution of goals, assists, participation in goals and chances for the time he's played is fabulous.

Cant wait for the future, should these rules remain, when the clubs with the most money will by definition buy the league and nobody can compete but we'll call it 'winning the league' instead because its the usual suspects.

I do think people forget what things were like before but its no less competitive now than it was then its just the same team prevails but before that we weren't even getting title races most of the time. It was Man United or Chelsea, before than Man United or Arsenal, before that Liverpool. We were third in 2003 and knew we had no chance to go any higher. That's not being said of Arsenal or Liverpool now.

Aye its almost been like the people running football want an independent regulator and are sabotaging things to that end. Frightening to imagine the absolute shambles they've made of things is an effort to stave that off.

Didn't know David Pleat was still with us. Best thing that's happened to me all day. One of those blokes I could listen to all day on football like Sir Bobby and Graham Taylor. Cursed him for Luton doing us over in 94 but got over it. Often think about him whenever I hear current co-commentators and how good he was, off the top of my head can't think of any better than him and Andy Gray.

PLC's fault all of the above and some of the previous page though, surely. Could it not just be that he was a horrific manager for us?

Just fully expect nothing to happen and preferential treatment, even redrafting of rules to allow for it at this point. Football has normalised and legalised corruption in plain sight that would have looked an absolute elite insulating stich up even a decade ago and its now greeted like a virtue in many quarters. That's it good to have the same teams at the top indefinitely all of a sudden. Having ambition and the funds to pay for it when it comes from outside the elite is now seen being seen and absorbed as 'cheating' and something akin to a regimen of doping or multiple charges of match fixing.