OhForAGreavsie

Are you ruling out the possibility that all complaints are valid, i.e. none of our strikers quite fits the bill?

There is also another aspect. They are bolstering their future negotiating position. When they they come to this point with Bellingham or Adyemi (assuming they will be signing him next year) potential buyers will know they mean to stick to their guns.

So the golden boy is a girl. Life eh?

Everyone in the Bundesliga seems too accepting of Bayern's de facto monopoly.

Yes, I've always liked Mando but I'd like to have Ademyi too.

Good fixture for Eden's second debut. 🙂

Brilliant strategy by Dortmund to establish themselves as a preferred destination for up and coming talent. It gives them a competitive team and a highly profitable transfer operation. Yet again they get a young player many would have loved to see at Chelsea.

Highlights of the girls' triumph yesterday. Sadly for me I wasn't able to be there due to long standing Family arrangements.

👏 Jason Cundy especially annoyed me when he was talking about us being the best team in the world after the Juve game. He wasn't the only media figure spouting such nonsense but he is much closer to the team, watches them more than almost everybody else and should know better. Scratch that. He must know better. Indeed, listen to what he had to say after the Watford escape and it's clear that he does know better.

I think I've done it again. 'It' being quoting a comment which had itself been quoted within a different post. Sorry.

Glad to help old son. Now we need our transfer decision makers to accept, internalise, and act upon the fact that footballers are wedded to their basic talent level. Once the decision makers have done that they should be well placed to deal with bizarre reports from Latin countries that XYZ player has been doing afterschool lessons with Antonio Conte and has magically improved the things that no footballer is actually able to improve. In short they will realise that people who claim a lad who had the touch of a lamppost now has silky ball control is either lying to themselves or is lying to everyone else.

🙂 Nothing dependent about MB. Could and inevitable can't be used as qualifiers for each other. If I say that something could happen everyone knows what I mean. If I say that something will inevitably happen everyone knows what I mean. If I say something could inevitably happen no one can have a clue.

Just like Rom they were all the same player here as they had been elsewhere.

'Could' and 'inevitably' don't really belong together. 🙂

Hasn't happened in the last ten days. There are excuses. Maybe. Actions > words. We'll see soon enough. Wednesday probably.

Yes, he just miss spoke. We all do that but it gave TT a chance to have a laugh at his own expense and demonstrate (again) how comfortable he is with the press. As for Ralf using 'year' and 'season' interchangeably, we all do that too. 🙂

And there was the fact that the club tried to replace TT after the 0-0 with Wolves. His first game! 😆

A-bleedin-men to this.

City also beat us rather easily to be fair. If this season's Man City is the barometer then it's level pegging between us and The Hammers.

Are we calling Bowles a nine? More like a ten wasn't he? Around then I'm thinking it may have been Paul Marriner or Bob Latchford although perhaps they may have been a bit later. Kegan and Brooking would have been in the team in 1980 because they were still in it two years later in Spain. That means it would usually have been Keegan plus one up top I think. What about Tony Woodcock maybe or was Joe Royle still around then? And what was the name of the Villa centre-forward at that time,? (The lad with the beard.)

I honestly don't even remember Tommy ever playing for England.

Tommy scored some of my favourite CFC goals. There were the couple he scored in the 4-0 Stamford Bridge promotion celebrating win over Hull the week after he had scored the goal in a 1-1 promotion securing draw at Wolves. Some things I remember clearly about Tommy but I don't remember him ever being regarded as first choice for England. P.S. Hands up anyone who ended up on the pitch after that Hull game all those years ago. 🙋‍♂️

Well, before the game I thought we'd loose tonight, and that was before I saw the team. Three points is a nice surprise. I didn't expect it.

The commentary team confirm it appears someone had a heart attack. Of course it's still the case that we don't know anything about the person's health history.

Looks like it will be a long night. Surprised but glad there seem to be empty seats. A full stadium would make this even harder than we've made it look so far.