Whitey Grandad

5th round is Feb 28th they are midweek games 🤬

Then nobody would every try to score a goal. Why bother when all you have to do is aim for a defender’s arms? That’s a lot easier.

I watched the replay again. Don’t be such a pedant.

They’re not even making this year’s kits.

If he wants passes like that then he’s an idiot. There’s a very old maxim that goes “never pass across your own goal area”

You will also be unsurprised to learn that such figures are total bollocks. Whatever they are supposed to mean. We are playing football here, not Top Trumps.

We saw a comment from a critic about this a few years ago. He called it “a mumblin’ and a grumblin’ and in our house it’s been that ever since.

In my days in television research we mentioned this and we’re told that the adverts were never louder than the loudest part of the programme. Of course, all adverts used sound that is compressed upwards.

Could be anybody to be fair. Might even be me 😳

With still wines it is of course easier to have various bottle sizes but where the process relies on secondary fermentation more investment is needed. We have traditionally visited a vineyard near Chenonceaux in summer for some of my wife’s favourite Touraine Sauvignon Blanc and they do a very drinkable fizzy that we have with our extended family on Christmas morning with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. https://www.pereauguste.com/en/product/methode-traditionnelle-blanc-brut-ou-demi-sec/ Sadly now that I am on my own such visits have lost their main purpose.

There are wines other than Champagne. Almost all are preferable.

Please don’t. The scar tissue is still painful.

True. It explains but doesn’t excuse the error. It was a symptom of the mindset that in order to keep the ball away from your enemy you have to pass it back to your goalkeeper all the time. Hoofing it downfield is less dangerous.

Strange that this plan doesn’t include any countries that aren’t EU members. Scheming bastards

Indeed it was. The only person in the stadium who was expecting a back pass was their goalscorer.

We all know that opposition fans count for nothing.

They were making those runs all through the game and kept being ignored. In the end I wondered if it was a deliberate tactic to try and pull their team out of shape.

Ouch

That was a stupid, petulant yellow card to get. Smallbone too.

Good point. Our possession based principle tires out our own players as much as the opposition.

Yes, of course he should.

We need someone to play as a ‘false Aribo’ whilst he’s away at the AFCON.

From The Times this morning, ”West Ham want to offload Said Benrahma, the winger, and Danny Ings, the forward, whose wages of about £100,000 a week could be an issue for buyers.”

Why did he assume that they’d have to chat about politics?

Nobody complained on Tuesday when their keeper missed a kick and let Edozie in. We've got ourselves into the ridiculous situation where we try to involve our own keeper in more touches of the ball that the opposition’s. This is going to go wrong far too often.