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The key change was in 89. Bob Higgins, the person responsible for signing and developing the Wallace brothers, Shearer etc. left the club under a cloud (Merrington looked after the YTS guys). After he departed (taking Jamie Cureton and Darren Eadie with him) the people brought in to run the youth (and I'm talking 10-16 year old's) development scheme were no where near as competent. Lew Chatterly amongst them didn't know what they were doing IMO preferring physically bigger players (rather than more skillful players with greater potential) and failing to nurture character as well as talent. There was a lot of change of personnel at that time and the quality of player brought through in the subsequent years was miles off where it once was. Lowe made a huge difference in getting our youth scheme back on track because he provided the right levels of finance and also brought in the right staff to look after the academy.

must have missed those. For me he mostly he stands around waiting for the ball to come to him. That might be exactly what Poch wants him to do, who knows.

I'm a massive fan of Cork and think Poch has missed a trick by overlooking him countless times when he would have been the best sub to bring on. However, last night he was certainly below par, with quite a few misplaced and aimless passes. Hardly surprising though, considering how little game time he has had this season. Once he finds his feet and gets up to speed he will be fine. He was sensational last season and he won't have come a bad player overnight. If Wanyama is injured, what a great player to have in reserve.

I didn't think he was at fault with any of the goals last night, but his distribution at times was woeful. The floated passes out to the touchline to the likes of Clyne are terrible balls. By the time they get to the player the opposition can get a cross and turn them into hospital balls. A couple were head height. What is Clyne going to do with them? In the second half he did it again, only this time falling short. I honestly don't know what he is trying to do here, but it doesn't work. Other than that it's very difficult to comment on whether he has improved as he had **** all to do.

yes.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-unable-to-iron-out-woes-1-5703037

Tough coming into the side with very little match practice, but Jos has done it well several times since losing the starting position. As I have always said, he'll do a job when called upon. No doubt some tit will try and blame him for the goals yesterday!

Personally I hope Lallana plays in the Germany game. Play well against them and he becomes a shoe in for the World Cup squad.

I could not have been more disappointed than when Lallana dived. Hate seeing it and if it's one of our own doing it, that annoys me more.

At international level you need players that are happy to dribble and keep the ball just that little bit longer than lessor players can. Townsend, Wellbeck, Sturridge, Wiltshire and even Rooney to lessor degree can do that, which gives me more confidence than I have had for a long time in the England side. Lallana is another that can do just that and I'd have him in the England squad without question. I think Walker getting skinned a couple of times by Konoplienka has tarred everyone's opinion of him. Walker is strong and pacey and just as good going forward as Clyne. Whether Clyne or the Skate toilet thief would have faired better against Ukraine I don't know. Johnson has been made to look a mug on many occasions at the very top level. Whether Clyne is better than those two I'm not 100% convinced. I'd select him ahead of Smalling or Jones, but all England managers like to take about 15 centre backs and never play them so no doubt Roy will do the same. I thought Delph was the best player on the pitch at Villa Park last season against us. He is very assured and looked a class act. I think he is well worth a look at international level.

Quite clearly the wind was the main factor in the goal, but is it just me then that thinks Boruc was being far too casual and as a result was totally unable to react to the wind assisted clearance? He's been great for us, no doubt about it, but there have been a number of occasions when he has started games with a very laid back attitude that has led to him making under hit passes and poor clearances. It is his style, I can see that, but it can put us in a little trouble. Perhaps it would have made no difference on Saturday if he was on his toes, facing forward rather than walking across the area and alert to the possibility of the wind taking the ball, but it certainly couldn't do any harm.

yeah because the away end at nottarfkrap offers fantastic views (many of them behind pillars and some below pitch level), tremendous toilet facilities (with running urine over your feet) and catering the envy of the world (warm' food unavailable by half time). Smaller perhaps, but the facilities at Oxford, Plymouth and Chesterfield for example look state of the art compared to **** park.

If a football fan went to an away game, stayed over in that city, and whilst they were out in the evening they robbed a shop and were subsequently caught, would they get a football banning order as part of their sentence?

New Flatscreens. Yippee. Whatever next? Toilets that don't leak back onto your feet?

me too. It's a work of genius that.

@******sFullKit At what age did you adopt Jamie? #AskHarry @Will_Turner71 #AskHarry Can I have that ball that hit you in the face? I want to take it out for a nice seafood dinner and call it again

Are there several of these interviews because I just listened to a talksport interview on YouTube http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=44kZsmByhWA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D44kZsmByhWA and it's Galloway that comes across badly in my opinion. He spends the whole time pointing out that Robinson is not his real name, yet Robinson was totally open about that and explained why he went by a different name. When he accuses Robinson of making up a survey that said 28 percent of Muslin students think murder is justified, it's Galloway that needs to gets his facts straight. There was such a survey. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2462911/Muslim-students-back-killing-in-the-name-of-Islam.html Telling Robinson he knows nothing about Muslin history, without proving he doesn't, and telling him to shut up lots of times, hardly puts him in his place, if anything it just makes Galloway look limited in his ability to make a fool look like a fool. I wonder even if Robinsons story about women and men being separated at a Respect meeting might even be true. Who knows. But Galloway saying it is a lie isn't terribly convincing. I know nothing about Hammas, but Robinson is correct about the eu saying that they were a terrorist organisation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1441311/Hamas-is-added-to-EUs-blacklist-of-terror.html His understanding that Galloway supporting them was also true and admitted by Galloway, so, in what was a pretty short discussion, all I got from it was that Galloway was happy to speak up for an organisation that wants to wipe out the jews, whilst Robinson costs the taxpayer money because of his protest marches. Since when did Galloway put the taxpayer before his own ideology? In that particular interview Robinson didn't crumble at all, he just continued to provide information that he felt supported his argument. Blimey. I can't believe I have defended Robinson, but unless there is a different interview I think it's Galloway that came across as phoney.

How often do refs blow for imaginary free kicks from debatable corners or free kicks to prevent MOTD style replays where those corners and free kicks etc. are called into question? Dean does it all the time.

if he sticks to passes less than 10 yards he looks great. Any time he tries something longer he looks woeful. Glad we bought him as we now how great stremgth in depth in that position, but I wonder just how badly either of our two central midfielders are going to have to be playing to let Cork get a game.

Those blue tinted specs must really keep out the light because Sarsavic took the **** out if him the whole game.

have you seen Ferry, Ertl and Barcham play? ****ing terrible. Wallace is the only midfielder they have with any talent at all.

what about the earlobes?

I watched Swansea against Liverpool and Valencia and they looked the dogs nuts in both games. As you would expect, they keep them ball very well, going backwards and square when needed to keep the ball, not too dissimilar to ourselves. But they also move it about very quickly (quicker than we have managed to this season) which has caused their opponents no end of problems. The two games I watched might not be indicative of how good Swansea really are, but on those showings I'd have them down as a really top side and one that will need to be pressed hard. I recall we gave them a good going over in the game at SMS and but for the poor goal we gave away we would have been worthy winners. Whatever we did in that game we need to repeat it. Pressing high up the pitch and putting some distance between Michu and their midfield seemed to be the tactic. At their place they took us apart for ten minutes at the start of the game and I really thought they were on a different level to us. We clawed our way back into the game and they gradually ran out of steam, before we eventually started to cause them a few problems right at the end of the game. Patience and lots of hard work were the order of the day and just a tadd of fortune that Michu was a little below par.

You are right, he effectively put him on gardening leave. Whether that is morally or legally sound I don't know. It all goes back to the managers contract. If sacked he should get what the contract says.