Jonas

Wonder if he'll recommend his replacement on the way out again and somehow cleave some credit for the vast improvement after he's gone.

Loved me some Kluivert.

Couldn't be more the opposite of how any real football fan anywhere feels where they'd love the see the "big clubs" suffer like everyone else has and have some changability at the top.

Love this bloke. His play, his look, everything, got proper cult hero potential. When the time comes, please dont do a ballSak Wolt.

Serves them right for not pushing to switch it to Heysel. Really fancied that and all its extra ticketery.

People were coming up with all kinds of (where are they now) options to replace him and criticising the job he'd done weeks before he won a cup because we lost some game or other like every c*nt else does. Was a slim chance they might learn from that even if some compunction was too much to ask, sadly not.

Were not shit because Arsenal were better than us and narrowly beat us today, we lost to a better team, that should be better than us, by the narrowest of margins, last gasp and with an unbalanced team. There's going to be several more games this season were a better team is, shock horror, better than us on the day and likely beat us. Thats normal. Beating, matching, bettering them is over-achievement on our and everybody elses part not the way it should be.

One of the first thing's Shola did was put Lebeouf into the Milburn Stand, which I appreciated. Never thought he was fast though. More a McGhee (since that was topical in the Bradford pre-match thread) - capable of some interesting skill but not going to burn anyone. I got the impression he ran at the same pace as the defender, not realising he was allowed to go faster and beat them to the ball, so either it was that or he wasnt fast.

Its basically the Play Offs for the big clubs now after a King of the RIng qualifier or two, you're just braced for those fixtures at some point. Would have preferred Grimsby and a cartelico or two elsewhere but cant be too sniffy. Be hard though. Least we both have CL so no advantages there.

More than just impressing in that cameo, he looked stylish doing it. Like the cut of his jib.

He's as much a risk in such a scenario as a hail Mary.

Wouldn't the three promoted teams, if they stay up, just follow suit and vote in rules aimed at enshrining against being usurped like the cucks do now? Essentially its what the cartel have done, with the exception of Arsenal the rest weren't of that status at differing points in time and I'm sure Liverpool wouldn't have been nearly as happy with the status quo when they were Everton's poor relations.

Cant remember the game but it had to have been shite. Was towards the back of the Gallowgate so saw a steady trickle of people leaving for a while, it felt contagious and wanted to join them in a protest/huff at the performance and result but was told to wait because you never know, and sure enough winning goal and goal of the season. Lesson learned. Think later it became about getting my money's worth rather than loyal support tbf.

Think it will be a slog in the mould of Wimbledon. Take it I guess with the fixture congestion, squad limits. Big things have small beginnings. Learnt the value of staying behind until full-time at home to Bradford. The famous Mark McGhee winner. Only bailed out at the 2-6 against Man United after that.

Absolutely hate this fixture. Only time we've played well there since as far back as 1989 is under Bruce during Covid and apart from that the only other non-rancid game was the Krul game.

...and the European Super Cup. (Won the league at a canter too.)

He got right up on wick last season with Southampton up here, possession cup fetishist. You'd think that'd be the last thing Rangers or Celtic would want seeing as its a given they'll dominated possession anyway. Looked at the league table the other day myself, five teams in a twelve team league without a win after five games seemed pretty unique.

Just so complex and complicated as only a lie - dressing up of a 'don't compete rule' to look like something else, would be. A straight universal spend limit could have its merits debated but you couldn't argue the understanding of the rule. I have noticed that the pretence of protecting smaller clubs has faded into the ether now its been used up as the Trojan Horse for this shite. How in the hell are the things recently discussed above supposed to have prevented that?

So Ashley not only saved us but also got us in the Champions League. And still no statue. Shameful.

Went from challenging for the title to relegation battle and from playing the best football in the country to the most boring in the space of a year. He had way more money to spend that people think, approx 31m in nineteen month, of largely dismal transfers. Set us back as a club massively and deserves to be right down there. I'd say he and Souness did the worst jobs out of the lot. Absolutely wrecked good teams and good situations. None of the rest inherited good situations.

Hopefully its the humiliation at the irony of being out-cartelled by Arsenal over Eze. Strange unplanned timing for something like maybe feeling he's peaked with the Europa League win or not feeling appreciated despite it or whatever. Summer before the window was the time for that.

He's the worst like. The archetypal smug gloryhunting not that passionate about his own club cunt, type that would root for a cartel club against a lower league side in the cup

Think they want every other club to just know their place and the squeeze on ambition encouragous ambitous clubs to just saunter through the motions, clock in and cash the cheque like a good boy Brighton-style instead of the downward cycle Villa may be in as a result of crossing the line and trying.