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    Penny Morduant - the art of light-touch loyalty

    She 'doesn't want to dignify the rumours' by speaking out - yeah, right. The knife is glinting in her hand! And then it will be 'Well, others put me forward, but when it became inevitable there was going to be a challenge from somewhere...' Have to say, she's long been my biggest fear, to the...
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    Sonny Finch

    Notice he's scored for under-21s in each of his four games since his return from injury. On the first team bench soon maybe...?
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    We haven't got the personnel to play the way we do

    The football vogue is to try and dare the opposition to press you so you can break their lines and attack. Fine. But you have to have the players with the technical aptitude to be in the 'credit' column in terms of the risk/reward. We aren't. We have too many technically suspect players in...
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    Sunak - Roadblocker!

    For an example of how the Right governs (and reports on itself) in a totally un-self-aware bubble, this has to be the most eye-popping yet. The Welsh Police should question him under caution. The right sort of protesters?
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    Boro's worst 'repent at leisure' deadline day deals?

    We're all waiting for this striker to pop up in the next few hours - and last season's transfer window did yield some exciting additions. There's a lot of buried trauma there too though. I was thinking that stinker under Karanka - Gestede, Guedioura, some other donkey, wasn't it? Can't remember...
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    The world's most loathsome Boro fan?

    With friends like this... This is the uber-rightwing Tory who planted the piece in the Telegraph last week (on behalf of his wealthy - but bashful - hedge-fund backers) about how Sunak needed ousting. Well, you're never gonna guess who the tool supports...
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    3 up, 3 down - 3 down, 3 up?

    With Southampton and Leeds breathing down Ipswich's necks, it's looking increasingly likely one will supplant the Tractor Boys on the top 2 - with the other likely to be favourites to win the play offs. If that happens, it is also likely that when their respective season-long camping holiday in...
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    Darren Bond - should be reffing League 2 next week

    I thought he favoured them all game - typified by his blowing for full time when we were mid-attack - bizarre. The missed pen on Greenwood was shockingly blatant - and how the linesman didn't clock it I'll never know. Ditto their keeper taking out Rodgers. Hopefully, he'll be rightly criticised...
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    Team for Chelsea if Jones doesn't make it?

    Will we go three at the back now Jones is out and no Ayling? Can't see who else can play wing-back now. If we go our usual system I'd go VdB to full back, Howson and Barlaser middle, and Forss, Crooks, Hackney behind Rodgers. Thought Crooks was decent when he came on today, made things happen...
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    Nadim Zahawi overacting as himself in Post Office drama

    It's badly written, with the clunkiest exposition I've seen in a long time, but it's undeniably moving for the simple reason that it depicts such humble and blameless lives being ripped apart. It is twee, though, and it wasn't until a good way in that a non-white story was aired, with the the...
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    Rotherham - revenge for Boxing Day; focus, team & tactics

    Even Millers fans will admit they were massively spawny in that game a few weeks ago. We were manifestly superior and they essentially scored without having a shot on target as their goal was a poorly-executed cross! With our horrendous injury situation beginning to ease, both sets of fans will...
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    unusual footballers?

    In my younger days, the template was always Pat Nevin. A footballer who 'liked Joy Division' was...well, someone a bit like me, basically. Football in those days seemed like an impregnable fortress of conformism. Even from a young age, reading Shoot magazine, the mono-cultural nature of the...
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    The Djed Spence hot potato

    Off to Genoa on loan as a sweetener in a transfer deal, with Spurs paying all his wages... 10m option to buy (tempting...)
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    (Song) Chelsea, whoever you may be...

    ..You sold your soul for a rich fan-cy And all you've left from your rich Russian man Is a plastic club for your plastic fans
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    No darts in the Olympics? Class bias?

    i've always wondered why, when you've got things like shooting that are hardly any more 'athletic', mass participation sports such as darts and snooker, which produce incredible levels of skill at the top level, aren't included in the Olympics. In the old days people used to reply that having...
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    Referees' 'thinking time'?

    Sheff Wed v Hull highlights popped up on youtube. It looks as if the ref wasn't even going to give Tyler Morton a card at first, then 'bows to pressure' from the home fans? Human nature, I suppose, but do hate to see refs who bottle it.. serious foul play or yellow card?
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    The Top 8?

    Cream always rises, and now is the time it starts to show. I think there is a case for saying that the present top 8 may well constitute the final top 8 - with one possible exception: us. You can make a case for Norwich and Watford. Teams like Stoke and Swansea bossed us for long periods too...
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    Carrick's substitutions - spot on

    Thought he nailed it with the subs tonight. I don't know if Dijksteel had an injury but getting Coburn on early second half gave us the focal point and the hold up play we lacked - which was important especially as the game wore on. More importantly, of course, he scored! However, it was clear...
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    Jones' miss

    A miss for the ages, that. Stand aside David Currie!
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    When I started sticking pins in that Kieran Trippier doll...

    ...I never expected it to be so effective...
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