John Boy Saint

Anyone who use to watch Soccer AM when it was good - that was proper Kung Fu! 🤣 Cheeky whatsit had my new Christmas jumper on too - can’t keep anything to myself 😢 😀

Or AMN!

Seeing that Twitter post further up the page, whilst Che should have done the business when he had sat the the keeper down, what was Elyounoussi doing running past him and then ending up behind the keeper getting in the way as "another Lincoln defender" momentarily. That said looking at this photo he is already on the back foot in his mind, being so right foot dominant. Anyway as Jonesy said its a win and we are in the next round.

Talking to my diehard Chelsea fan Brother in Law - most of that sentence with a little tweak fits them too now.

The fact that he'd put the keeper on his backside and he was on his right foot compounds that - nowhere to hide when Jones has his tuppence worth in his post match analysis. The Lincoln goal was farcical and was nearly duplicated a little later with ABK heading to clear again, and once again sending the ball straight up high into the nights sky and again dropping towards goal at a very awkward angle for young Gavin who probably thought "you have got to be kidding - again". The first goal offside confusion was yes a Lincoln player was possibly offside, but the ball came off ABK's shite "clearance" dropped and hit Gavins hand and in- Lincoln player didn't touch it. It certainly was Stumblebum Utd v Lincoln City for a fair amount of last night, both Salisu and ABK, in particular, looked very ropey and being young probably thought "I've just been to the World Cup so I must be better that everyone on the pitch". AMN can be packed up and sent back to Arsenal, or pinned against the wall and have it beaten into him that he is a million miles away from being a Brazilian. On more than one occasion he did these silly blind backheel type passes, one was so bad I think even the 3 Lincoln players he back heeled the ball into the middle of paused, thinking "do they have an invisible player!?" or even "careful lads its a trap". Many moons ago Graham Taylor was the manager of the Celebs on one of the early Soccer Aid thingys, something he tried to get into their heads was the thing that all good professionals do is take photographs in their head of who is 360 degrees around them, either as a threat or who to pass the ball onto. I think AMN (and Elyounoussi too for that matter -actually I don't think he even owns a camera) is waiting for his head photos to be developed at Boots! No wonder JWP is being dulled, he's having to keep his eye on a liability alongside him. Bright spark of the night was Sam Edozie, enjoy him while he is here folks. He looks like you could snap him like a twig, but his close control and especially his deception is a joy to watch, even I was suckered more than once sat up on row EE in the stand. I'll forgive him his miss, as I think he was more ready to tidy up than receive the ball.

Moi was caught in 2 minds where to put the ball in the net - Edozie was waiting for any scraps. Then Moi suddenly thought “Fuck it” I can’t decide and squared it - Edozie seemed “oh shit I wasn’t expecting that, my feet aren’t quite right”. in the moment it was surreal and quite in keeping with the game.

Ah Walcotts just secured Chrimbo off with the family

With my perspective glasses on Lincoln have been playing these WC weeks and it shows

ABK won second prize

AMN looks like he’s won the chance to play for Saints in a raffle

We need dunking in WD40 - jeez you can hear the grating rust

I think in his case he tries too hard - bit like playing golf, you try and hit the skin off the ball and your ball is most likely going all over the place. If you slow things down the ball goes more or less where you are aiming and a long way. Djenepo always seems to be in hurry to do things, how many times do you see him test and go beyond the limit of grip of his studs ending up on his arse. He obviously has ability, if he tempered his frantic endeavour a little he would probably find he was a little more in control and would be able to easily pull off what he has planned in his head. People in the club must see something in him as a player, as I’m pretty certain he got a contract extension recently.

Maybe his attitude was when he made it to the big time Premier League "I've done my work and have arrived in the big time - nothing more to be done". That last bit is where he fell down. Whilst he would quicken the pulse when he got on the ball, those moments were sporadic, but where he failed, with Ralph in particular, Sofiane wasn't prepared to roll up his sleeves and get stuck in with the team mundanity on a matchday.

Thought his leg was going to come off when he hit that

8 minutes

Fuck a duck - you’d have put your house on that

I thought the ref was one of the better ones hmmmm - after tonight his match report will take a while to fill out - not as long as it will take to get the purchase tax back at the airport on all non fouls he bought especially from L Messi & Co. Even though the Dutch didn’t complain (or turn up for all but 10 minutes) I thought it was a bit rum to appoint a Spanish ref, given the relationship between Spain and Argentina. Certainly got to be marked down for not punishing that ball fired at pace into the Dutch dugout.

Err I thought you were boycotting 😳😁

Shits and giggles for starters 🤪

But we are getting it! Like I said we get a set minimum of live game money even if we are only on the box once in a season. if we ain’t razzle dazzle box office we ain’t going on the box in a hurry - we are in a select few clubs suited for the contracted Saturday night game up against Strictly. in La Liga, Barcelona and Real Madrid get 55% of the total TV money pot - which is similar to what the top 6 are arguing for here (it may have snuck through already) They are box office and we are mere cannon fodder - In La Liga you support Osasuna AND……..

Liked the commentary line “a moment of sheer brilliance from Brazil, followed by a moment of sheer bloody mindedness from Croatia”

So basically we are buggered!? Hmmmmmm just looked at the Championship table - can't see anywhere that I haven't been or offers a touristy long weekend - ho hum

I use to work for the Reading Evening Post in the mid 80's when our most favoritest manager of all time was in charge of them. While I was there they got promoted from League 3 to 2 helped by a season opening run of 13 straight wins. Working in circulation sales the uplift when the paper ran a feature piece on the club was very noticeable, and it had the sports department working flat out to produce something else about the club to keep the sales up in slow news weeks. Weirdest thing was when Reading got to the playoff finals against Bolton, my neighbour a keen Reading fan asked if I could get some bits from the club shop for him for the big game at Wembley - stood outside a bike shed with a shutter on one end that was the "mega Store" I was peering over the fence into Elm Park and thought "jeez Man U could be playing on that pitch next year!". Just before that playoff John Madejski happened to mention that it would be a financial disaster if they got promoted to the Premier League as so many players were out of contract. I went to the playoff game - to this day I swear Reading threw the game, from being thoroughly ruthless in the first half to being a bunch of stumblebums in the second - something that was not in their DNA all season.

Hey - the majority of Stoke fans would freely admit that a Jesus of Nazareth miracle would have failed to get a tune out of that squad.

He was definitely on something during his last game for us 🙃