"It is not how you start your life that's important, it's how you finish your life" - Ian Paisley Jnr on the death of Martin McGuinness
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-statement-on-the-death-of-martin-mcguinness
Well, they wouldn't want to be associated with any of the tainted history of the previous football club to play at Fratton Park, would they? (apart from the trophies they didn't win on merit of course)
With the whiff of hard cash in the air, sit back and watch the tinpot sanctimonious brigade u-turn quicker than you can say "Tory National Insurance Blunder"...
Poor first half but we were the better side in the second half. Wouldn't have been an unfair result if we'd snuck a point.
I'm sure most of us would have taken 2 wins and a narrow defeat from our last 3 premier league games (all away from home)
Hope Gabbi's injury isn't too bad.
Concerned about Boufal's attitude when he came on. I suspect he would thrive if in the starting 11 for a prolonged period of time but that's not going to happen if he keeps cutting off his nose to spite his face.
So, we sit in the top half of the table with 2 games in hand. A decent season, all things considered, is still on the cards.
We've never really rotated players for Premier League games this season. I did some number crunching a month or so ago and worked out that during our busiest period (i.e. September to January) our Premier League starting 11 only changed by something like 1.8 players (on average) from game to game.
I suspect its more do do with giving as much game time and experience to Stephens, and to stick with a winning starting 11 during a period where we don't need to rotate, rather than Caceres's fitness per se.