Whitey Grandad

Take your prejudices elsewhere.

It’s the only explanation.

If they believe that then they are deluded.

I checked through The Times several times but every article seemed like an April Fool’s article to me.

He did well to get back and make that tackle but he was fortunate that the forward miscontrolled the ball and gave him the chance. The forward only got that chance in the first place because Stephens was ball watching in their half.

Not just crosses. Shots on goal too.

And thereby hangs our problem. People thinking that Stephens had a good game.

I wasted over an hour of my life on that dirge.

I can’t for the life of me see how it could ever be called ‘defending’. It's a bit like the way that they abandon sea defences and call it ‘managed retreat’. No, it’s just ‘retreat’.

He lost possession in the first half and it lead directly to them hitting the inside of the post.

Indeed. It’s the same dilemma that faces the designers of main battle tanks.

Yes, their number 27 had been free all throughout the game.

A decent and succinct summary. The question is, of course, why aren’t we playing well enough? On paper our squad should easily be good enough. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, the game isn’t played on paper.

Gordon kicked Phillips? Indeed he did.

Very sloppy but not actually responsible for us not winning. But he could have been.

And they seem to be proud about it.

Both he and Stephens.

In the centre of the penalty area. Right on the penalty spot.

Just being better than Adams is enough.

All this TV hype is making me vomit.

It’s a foul on the defender. WTF has gone wrong with football at this level?

I once asked Richard Hall how much the crowd affected the team on the pitch. He said that they were too busy concentrating on the game to really notice it.

It can be arranged with tidal ponds that power is always available but the environmentalists have bigger power.

It was that wild slash at the ball in the first half that finally settled it for me. Either hammer it low across goal or at least get a shot on target but that effort was woefully amateurish.

Only the immediate neighbours joined in. For the rest of the crowd it was an unnecessary distraction. It takes a lot to get the geriatrics in the Kingsland to join in but it can happen. Banging a board won’t do it.