2024/2025 Premier League - The Drive for 5 (city losses in a row?)

[Chancer]

It’s a good job @BruidheanChaorthainn isn’t here in his old guise or he’d have gone to town. That said it was a horrendous miss.

[Special_Olympiakos]

That save will count. Reckon he was onside

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Chancer

It’s a good job @BruidheanChaorthainn isn’t here in his old guise or he’d have gone to town. That said it was a horrendous miss.

I’d have tapped it in

[Fagan_ODowd]

Yer man Mings is like a lad that’s half asleep

[Julio_Geordio]

These Set pieces coaches would want to be wound in for fuck sake.

[peddlerscross]

@BruidheanChaorthainn was some judge of a player.

[Special_Olympiakos]

Poor touch by Mo’s standards

[Spidey]

‘Nunez will do untold’ was the cry here every game when he first joined Liverpool

[myboyblue]

@Julio_Geordio

These Set pieces coaches would want to be wound in for fuck sake.

You rarely see them in the technical area when they concede a set piece

[myboyblue]

You’d be a foolish man to not recognise the talents of a player like Darwin.

Very very foolish.

[Diabhal]

Nunez has cost Coach Slot the League here

[Chancer]

Good oul’ game there. End to end stuff. Emery is some ham-actor.

[Cheasty]

It’s slowly slipping away. Abu Dhabi haven’t broken sweat tonight either.

[Julio_Geordio]

They’ll take a point there all told. Mid wobble at the minute.

Villa played right on the edge coming out from the back. But when they sprung the press they had a lot of joy.

Points on the board are worth more than points you might get this year. Arsenal will drop more.

Big game against city now who will fairly have the soul ripped out of them after tonight.

Cc @thefootixthread

[Julio_Geordio]

Darwin is playing the long game. They won’t be swapping for Isak after that.

We love him not because he is perfect. But because he is perfectly imperfect. Martinez did very well to snuff out another Darwin created chaos chance

[Spidey]

[Chancer]

Hmmmm…. At least he’s keeping injury free but ……recurring nightmares…

[Galaxy]

Ruud looking in trouble. 3 níl down at home to Brentford

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Galaxy

Ruud looking in trouble. 3 níl down at home to Brentford

Must be terribly bruising for a lad with Ruuds ego to be so shit at management.

[Cheasty]

@Fagan_ODowd

Must be terribly bruising for a lad with Ruuds ego to be so shit at management.

What did Leicester think they were at appointing him? I mean it was obviously going to fail miserably.

What bright spark at Leicester thought, “Oh, I know what we should do, we should get a high profile ex-Manchester United player with a shit record in management and a track record of being a difficult character.”

Bar the odd exception like Xabi Alonso who was obviously very smart and the proper supernatural exceptions like Zidane at Madrid who kept a squad of superstars from getting notions merely by being Zidane and clapped his hands to three European Cups in a row, the days of these ex-players being passable managers are pretty much done.

Appointing somebody like Van Nisterooy is like voting for Trump. Van Nistelrooy pretty much fits into the below category, as does Wayne Rooney.

@Sidney

In British football, supporters are obsessed with the idea that a great former player will make a great manager when they retire. That they can drive a team to success as a manager by sheer force of personality and will.

The classic examples of this are former players who were tough tackling “no nonsense”, all action, “alpha male” midfielders, eg. Graeme Souness, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane and Steven Gerrard.

The concept that managers should have to think simply doesn’t come into the equation. Thinking will not be needed, apparently, because these are great players and they won’t have to think, they just are.

Predictably, these former great players turn out to be shit managers, because thinking very definitely is required to be a manager and these former great players are rubbish at it, and are easily outfoxed by former mediocre players who have the ability to think.

The Tory party is trapped in this exact mode of thinking. They want a tough tackling, no nonsense midfielder. They want Churchill.

Boris Johnson just is, they think (and I use the word in its loosest possible sense). He won’t have to think, he’ll be able to lead through sheer force of personality, with no thinking at all involved. This is Brexit in a nutshell.

Boris Johnson as Tory leader will be the managerial career of Roy Keane. A headstrong moron prone to frequent temper tantrums, with no idea what he’s doing.