Matthew Le God

Yes, Barcelona in 2020 use tactics. A huge amount of work goes into preparing for each game, far more than the Saints team of 60 years ago you mentioned. Brazil 50 years ago also used tactics, but significantly less detailed.

It has nothing to do with the manager becoming more the focus of the media. Tactics have become significantly more detailed in the last 60 years. They can't be left for the players to implement on the pitch as a collective without outside input.

Lots of reasons. Firstly they are not a collective mind, 11 players making independent tactical decisions is a recipe for disaster.

Their "too much quality up front" was not good enough to beat Brighton, Fulham, WBA and Newcastle in recent games.

Hopefully we do catch them on a 7-2 day

More cryptic than 'It's going to be a Long night" 10 minutes before the teamsheets are made public? 😁

Guess who's back, back again? Ingsy's back, tell a friend!

Replace one injured player with another... how does that help?

I do, my phone doesn't when typing.

Or more that it doesn't lose its best players in their prime. Ronaldo is not in his prime, he is in decline. As for Neymar, you need to reassess why he left.

That is not what is meant by the term selling club.

Real Madrid & Barcelona

Every club bar one or two is a selling club.

The article does not say 'anyone incoming was dependent on Lazio buying Hoedt'.

Pray for what purpose? Why would god give a shit about my ramblings on an internet forum, when he doesn't give a shit about children he designed to die of cancer or in a global genocidal flood?

Neither of those quote you used of mine were horseshit. 1) First quote you used... 'god is genocidal, sexist, homophobic, rape endorsing deity' - All can be seen and evidenced in the Bible. 2) Second quote you used was me asking a question - 'Which verse in the Bible does it say present giving, eating a turkey roast dinner, putting a tree in a room (tree decorating pre dates Christianity btw), meeting friends & family are exclusively Christian activities?' What was wrong with the question?

@Turkish & MLG tag team Unbeatable!

Given West Ham played on Sunday, they will have a recovery day on Monday and we play them on Tuesday. They won't have time to prepare for Saints, let alone have an energy boost. Saints had their recovery day today and can train on Monday in preparation for the game.

I wish Djenepo could look effective vs West Brom.

You know there is a difference between saying 'alot my posts' and saying 'all of my posts' don't you? Because I said the former, not the latter. Some things in this thread are tongue in cheek, others are serious.

Good idea! I'll create a picket line at Holyrood church...

That one is just telling the truth. I said 'a lot of my posts', not all of my posts were tongue in cheek.

Have you not noticed the tongue in cheek nature of a lot of my posts in this thread?

That isn't correct. We had two goals correctly disallowed for being marginally offside which shows good chances created. The build up play for both was good and we also should have had 2 penalties.