Whitey Grandad

He and the centre halves looked as though they’d never played together before. I’ve just watched their goal again and DCC gives a perfect example of how not to play full back. Tavernier just runs past him down the outside and then skips into the penalty area with all the space and time in the world to roll the ball into our net. It’s happened so many times this season that the opposition have been able to run into our penalty area and then pick their spot from twelve yards out.

“And that”, said Sooty, “was that”

I’ve found out tonight that ‘selles’ is the Spanish for ‘useless clueless bag of shite’

He let nothing go past him tonight.

Does anybody want him to stay at the club if we are relegated?

A friend of mine was having some work done on her house. She took great care to tell her builders that on no account was her white batheroom suite to be thrown out. When she got back home there was a white bathroom suite in her skip so she stormed in and gave the builders a few choice mouthfuls to which they responded with blank faces. Then she saw her white bathroom suite still in its normal place. And there was One Foot in the Grave,

Gazzaniga was in goal for Girona on Tuesday when they beat Real Madrid 4-2. Like any professional footballer, being thrown in at the top level before you're ready can only lead to hardship and pain.

Indeed. But not necessarily in that order.

Too many ‘if onlys’ for it to be just a coincidence that we end up here. The whole strategy is wrong. It’s ok trying to breed success but you can’t afford to have more than one or two promising youngsters in your regular starting lineups. The league table never lies and we don’t deserve to stay up. Does anybody think we’re unlucky to be in this situation?

Playing negative football with no ambition to score. Far too slow and predictable.

Desperate times lead to desperate measures.

Such statistics are meaningless. Palace have had a good run and shouldn't be compared with just one specific team especially since three points of that jump in difference are down to them beating us.

There are such cases but he's a young player and for his future career prospects he needs to consider his behaviour very carefully.

Good point. And very tempting 🤪

It suddenly occurred to me today that maybe I shouldn’t be too keen on staying up. I don’t enjoy losing most of our games and there’s no fun for me in staring at the bottom of the table trying to work out all the permutations. I rather fancy the idea of a league without VAR and TV schedules changing the match dates and kickoff times.

Incredible. 4-2 at full time. Somehow I’m very pleased for them. Was Romeu captain?

He's under contract. Not going anywhere without our say-so.

You can try but it's not his yacht any more. Last time I saw it was in Málaga harbour a couple of weeks ago.

His record proves otherwise.

“Trip or attempt to trip” He stumbled because he was trying to avoid the keeper. A penalty is a reasonable decision.

And an indecent keeper?

Is Bednarek likely to play? I know it wasn’t officially a concussion injury but I have seen a comment in a newspaper that he needs a couple more days.

I like Moussa and I think he adds variety and effort. Elyonoussi however…

That’s because it weakens the midfield and invites the opposition into your final third and penalty are. The result is inevitable.

Sounds just like this place.