Just watched "I Swear"; superb performances by Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake & Scott Ellis Johnson as a young John Davidson. A wonderful film that hopefully sheds some light on Tourette's & educates people to help those with the condition. The scene in the car in particular a triumph of great acting
I'll level with you Andy, I'd rather set fire to my own knackers that watch that game back. You're a braver man than I to do so.
Id rather lick my own driveway clean than listen to anything Saunders has to say. Sadly his complete embellishment of the Cloughie story illustrates how a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its trousers on - a tactic used in politics these days on both sides of the pond
I get the point Andy but the line-up formation was frankly idiotic. Treating Madrid in their own backyard like The Dog & Duck wasnt smart - effectively playing 4-2-4. Gonzalez should be starting alongside Rodri in such games - Ill go to my grave screaming "start Gonzalez ffs," Im convinced of it.
The line-up/formation was daft & you could clearly see we were way too wide open 20 mins in. Did he change it? Nope. Gonzalez should be playing alongside Rodri in such games, especially away from home. Savinho & Reijnders belong alongside Rico in the early rnds Carabao Cup, not games like last night
Those "Academy Players" they had last night like Courtois, Mendy, Rudiger, Valverde, Tchouanemi, Vinicius jnr, Camavingha. TNT made it sound like we were facing some plucky underdog scoring one for the little guy.
Way too high with those marks - Gigi 5, Khusa 4, Dias 4, Guehi 3, O'Reilly 2, Rodri 4, Bernardo 3, Semenyo 2, Savinho 0.5, Doku 6, Haaland 1. Subs - Reijnders 1, Cherki/Ait-Nouri/Marmoush (not enough time to register a mark). Pep - 1. Treated Real Madrid like we were facing The Dog and Duck. Abject
He'd have signed an actual physical card for you but he was wide of the paper and signed the table instead.
Going to Madrid's backyard & treating them like we were playing The Dog & Duck, lining up effectively 4-2-4 was indeed a bold move by Josep. Went well I thought. Savinho & Reijnders belong in the early rounds of the Carabao alongside Rico, not nights like last night. Saved us all some money anyway
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Well that went well. Lucky to escape with a 3-0 tbh. Bold decision by Semenyo to make his CL debut playing in slip-on shoes; meanwhile the telly box told me Erling had gone off - I didn't realise he was actually on at any point. An awful team selection, miserable performance & fatal result #mcfc
Pep clearly thinks we are going to somehow make chances this half so has presumably brought Reijnders on to miss them for us. Jesus wept. Gonzalez and Cherki still sat there utterly wasted #mcfc
Terrible job by the manager tonight Im afraid. Lined us up wide open, which was blatantly obvious after 25 mins. Then doesnt do anything to change the formation/personnel so the tie is now out of sight. Gonzalez shouldve started this game alongside Rodri; but then shouldve been put on quickly #mcfc
We need to make changes now to the formation and personnel. Otherwise this tie may be out of sight by half time the way we are lined up #mcfc
after Kemi Badenoch's hapless PMQs performance, Spurs have approached her to manage the men's team
Tarbuck entirely on brand throughout.
Fantastic nugget of info and thread here - not surprised about Tarbuck either.
I know it won't make any difference to his voters, who pay no attention to what's actually going on, and think foresight is for pussies and consequences can be wished away.
But if Farage was PM, we'd now be in a moronic, illegal war he demanded we join 2 days ago, and now thinks is a disaster.
Home draw. All we can ask for #mcfc
Hes criminally underused by us - weve played our best football this season when Gonzalez has been in the team. There are games to play him alongside Rodri - Weds night a prime example - & others he should be starting in too. With a packed schedule upcoming his value to us will only grow.
Now hear me out, but I’m just beginning to think it may have been an error to appoint a deranged, narcissistic, psychopathic, criminal, sex offender, reality TV star on the run from justice with dementia to the highest political office in the world. Twice.
Ace away day that. Our end was fantastic backing the lads to the hilt. 2 low yet top contributers were Ake and Gonzalez who were both excellent.
Think Doku may start on the left and sadly Savinho on the right sitting Cherki and Semenyo. It's Pep though so we are shooting in the dark.
Good luck Mr Duggan.
Can't stay fit. Anderson a far better bet for me on durability alone.
"Wasn't it great watching Tony Vaughan & Gareth Taylor trot about!" No it wasn't. Been going to games since 77; the period 95-99 was the most inept, insipid load of garbage Ive seen. Pining for it as some still seem to do is quite odd. Can only assume a large % of them never actually went through it
Most were in those days. Unlike many Blues I don't pine in any way for that season in the third tier. It was shit. We were shit, the standard of football was shit & the grounds we played at were shit. Wycombe A on a Tues evening was another "highlight" for me.
Lincoln Away in the Lge Cup when we lost 4-1? Went to that - their fans were singing "Are you Grantham in disguise?"
Bethell 👏👏 - a fantastic effort. But India fielded and bowled far better than we did, and that was the difference.
Great job by Captain Brook today - drops the Indian opener who takes the game away from England. Also gives Archer a fateful 4th over when hes been smashed to all parts, and three of the first four balls of that over get hammered into orbit. Mind bendingly stupid.
