Fan The Flames

How a team sets up for corners is part of a managers style of play.

They do, otherwise you will go down again. You can stay up if you are better than three other teams but Russball can't beat the top teams in this division.

Nice writing mate, thanks.

Yep that looked like a team not playing for their manager last night. RM was very down/cross post match.

I did like Leicester's chant to us (to the football in a library tune) 'do do do Pompey on a Tuesday'.

Maybe after seeing Stu A get injured they all worried about themselves. Rothwell took himself off at the first niggle.

Brooks stayed wide all night, there was times when Leicester were open, it just needed a run from him and a ball played between their left back and centre and we would have been in. But he kept holding his position, I can only assume under direction.

Martins game just can't compete with the good teams. He needs a new philosophy or fuck off.

Well that made me forget the Cardiff result, every cloud.

They can then point the finger at lefty liberals, the ECHR, Labour etc and shout do you want more of this under Labour.

Interesting stuff. So there are two types of favourite, the betting markets type and the one in reality. You'd think they would be the same but you've explained why they could be different. A football forum generally talks in terms of the actual favourite.

Is the gulf between the two getting greater? If it was you would expect the three promoted teams to come straight back down most of the time, but this rarely happens. You can still go up and stay up if you do it properly. All non big club clubs are one bad season away from going down and often the foundations for a bad season are laid in the season before. Which means there is a space in the Prem ready to be bagged by the most prepared promoted team.

Happy Blair Peach Memorial Day.

Am I right in thinking that if Trump had paid Stormy out of his own pocket this case wouldn't be happening.

Because in an off the cuff conversion in a moving situation words and sentences are not fully considered before being spoken. It's a high bar to expect a copper to get it right every time. I feel sorry for that policeman and so does Gideon Falter.

Ask her to dress and talk like Lord Duckhunter. I'm picturing stonewash jeans, keys clipped to belt loop, fleece with a picture of a howling wolf on the back and crocs with Simpson and dinosaur jibbitz whilst talking about pinkos and snap dragons.

The police were wrong in this. Part of the problem is the Police in this country are too quick to go to 'well you'll be arrested if you don't'. They can't handle their authority being questioned and pull out their top trump card without the situation escalating at all. It happens up and down the country every day.

I hope Earth makes it to the next one.

Yes of course, it's nuanced mate.

That would have been fuckin amazing.

Replays are a small part of the magic of the cup and a small part the redistribution of cash between clubs.

Today is more evidence that this year's FA has been brilliant.

Woke up gutted, still gutted now. Fuckin football.

I don't know if it was, there was a chance he could have pushed on. I think he failings for me is his inability to learn and evolve, he sticks with his system. He's a 'gut feel' rather than evidence based manager.

Sad to say but I don't think Martin is the right man. Failed 'twice' to get us into the automatics. Time for a reset.