OhForAGreavsie

Now for something decisive.

Good build up, presentable chance for Hakim.

Another great ball from Hakim

Thought Timo was scoring there.

Looks like we could do with another two minutes in the dressing room so TT can have another go at his halftime team talk.

Are we Tottenham in disguise at the moment?

Hope we're not going to regret that it's only 2-0.

Great by Saul

Rom needed that

Oh the perfect goal to score against Tottenham. 😀😀

We've just played Liverpool, we have Spurs three times in two-and-a-half weeks, City in there somewhere, the only game I can bring to mind against non-league opposition and now you've put the Night Train into my mind. Covid stuff itself. What a good day this is. 😀

Thanks FB. Unbelievably mild. My daughters kept going at me to get tested but I was sure I just had a cold.

Thank you Vesper.

Me too. Covid positive. Gutted. Hope the recovery goes well. Laser helps I guess.

There's the theory and there's the reality. In reality the power in English football resides entirely in The Premier League because they have almost all the money. The Premier League, and therefore by extension English football, is run by EPL clubs. EFL clubs get far, far, far more money from The Premier League than they raise from the EFL Cup. They know who the paymasters are and will always do their bidding. If we don't like two legged semi-finals we have to blame Premier league clubs. The same clubs who are happy to watch their managers, coaches, and other representatives complain about fixture congestion but who never use their power to do anything about it. Indeed, not so long ago we were all horrified when a group of them planned to make the situation much worse. Meanwhile, I don't care if the Tottenham game is our 5th or 65th fixture of the season. Any match against Spurs is a priority level 1 occasion. If fit NG plays.

I know people get upset when current, or even former, players say that XYZ are a bigger club than us but it never bothers me. I've loved this club for all but the first six years of my life. I bring the passion, I want players to bring the talent and the effort. I don't need them to lie to me and it certainly doesn't bother me if they tell the truth. Unless I get a negative covid result tomorrow I won't be there but I hope fans either get behind Rom or stay quiet. We don't need to keep putting on an off the pitch show for the world. We've entertained the football public enough this past week. Let the circus move on.

Is Trevoh definitely out? I'm still hoping he can play. Also if NG is fit, and his risk factors allow, I'd like him in the side. This is Spurs and, for me, that means a no holds barred, must win game with full first XI on duty if at all possible.

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Thought and said so all along. Posted to say that I didn't buy the, "Rom has unfinished business at Chelsea.", line and that instead it was likely that someone in the Chelsea decision making ranks had unfinished business with Rom. Went on to log my suspicion that this person was looking to prove they were right to have signed Rom in the first place all those years ago.

Club instructions maybe?

I hadn't thought of this. Good point. Jose certainly thought Billy Gallas was guilty of this at one stage and I have never believed in Willian's so called injury that kept him out of the 2020 FA Cup Final Instead I've always felt that a win securing European football for his new club was so much to Willian's benefit that it made him hopelessly compromised and unplayable in that game.

A welcome bit of good news.

As I said in the comment to which you originally replied, I don't think Ian s ready but if it's a choice between recalling him or Emerson, I vote Ian. I get there by asking the same question you have in respect of each player; is he good enough. In Ian's case my answer is, "Maybe not. Certainly not now.", whereas in Emerson's case my answer is a flat, "No". Since maybe is better than no, I choose Ian of the two but I would prefer a different solution.

Max, I don't know it as a fact but I suspect that I've watched Ian Maatsen play, live and on telly, more often than anyone else on this forum.

Only just read this. Fifty years ago Kenny Dalglish was just establishing himself in the Celtic first team and it would be another five years before he moved to Liverpool. At Anfield he became a key part of one of the greatest English club teams ever along with his international teammates Alan Hansen and and Grahame Souness. That's just one era of one team and we've already found three Scottish footballers whose talent dwarfs Billy's. I know Klopp was just trying to be nice but for a compliment to really mean anything it has to be believable. As it is, Klopp's comment must be the stupidest thing he's ever said about football. Meanwhile... Billy seems to be getting stick from some Norwich fans. I'm on record as a non believer when it comes to Billy but he's getting minutes so I'd like to see him stay at Norwich, tough it out and play his way through this. What do other people think?