Ted Bates Statue

That's an awful turn of events for anyone let alone a young lad, hope you manage to sort tickets and then it's up to Tonda to complete the job and put a smile back on his face

Leeds take the lead against West Ham. Just a thought, but if we do get to play the winner of this tie, Russell Martin managed to get the better of Farke on three occasions. On that basis, I would fancy Tonda Eckert's chances.

Thanks, I'll make sure to download this as an mp3 for my collection If anyone is able to do the same for the video that would be appreciated.

In comparison, Jack Stephens got sent off for basically stroking Cucurella's hair

Usually someone like @supertadic21 would have given us an idea of what it's going to be, first time in a while it looks like we have no hints at this stage. Anyone?

Not another thread about the women's team FFS

That's a shame, I was thinking of buying a couple of memberships and then at least clawing back some discount

Somehow you managed to choose the sole known instance of Russell Martin doing his homework... the playoff semifinal v West Brom

In fairness, most people on here were suggesting very early into the 23-24 season that even if we were to achieve promotion, we'd go straight down if we were to attempt the same tactics in the PL.

I'd argue that both punishments of low fines or points deductions in recent seasons send out the same message to ask forgiveness later and cut as many corners as you like to achieve your aims. According to the BBC, Boehly cut £150M from the purchase price to deal with the fallout from all this which tells you how softly Chelsea's wrist has been slapped here. Compare and contrast to when Luton got hit with a -10 points penalty by the FA for a total -30 to send them into the Conference despite a new ownership that was entirely innocent of any wrongdoing - and blew the whistle on themselves. I don't really know enough exactly what Chelsea have done but wonder what the equivalent penalty would be. If the powers that be were serious about stamping down on infractions or selling training grounds and women's teams to themselves, they would just do it. Just need the Man City icing on the cake now to devalue the competition further. Edit - looks like someone did the maths already:

With a bit more context, what he says actually makes some sense. He's obviously on the job hunt again and he might well end up convincing someone else to hire him as their manager... before proceeding to blithely ignore all the so-called "lessons learned" as soon as he's appointed: I think this is the closest you'd ever get to an admission that he should have toned down Martin-ball.

On the basis of this showing, fair play to Rob Edwards for turning AA into a PL goal-scoring threat. Not just talking about the goal itself but also the effort which ends up hitting the post. As others have said, looks like it was a win-win for everyone involved but I think it's a shame we never got to see this player performing like this in the prem.

"Closely monitoring..." In January he was in danger of getting sacked before the end of the season.

Agreed, our forwards aren't clinical enough. Yesterday gave us the perfect result without giving everyone cause to be over-optimistic. There is definitely room for improvement up front.