Whitey Grandad

Brillo !

I think you’ve missed my point. What were we trying to do? We were already relegated so goal difference doesn’t matter any more. We were thrashed anyway and I firmly believe that our team setup contributed to that. Again, what was the point of it all?

It’s gone down the toilet.

Your defence starts at the other end of the pitch. As for trying to limit their space we surrendered the whole of the midfield to them and sat back in our own penalty area. This will only ever end one way.

Works for me 😊

What would he know about those? 😉

That feeling lasted about ten seconds for me.

What an idiot.he clearly believes that Ukraine started this war.

To be honest I’d be inclined to throw Will in for free.

We got well stuffed anyway. What were we playing for? To keep the score down? We were already comfortably relegated. The way we played was like a condemned man refusing his last meal because he was trying to lose weight.

You seem to forget that football didn’t exist before the Premier League.

For the first time ever I ignored their applause as they came over to the Kingsland.

It was stupid because he was guaranteed to give away a penalty and it was clumsy because he actually did give away a penalty. There was no need for him to go flying in like that. Even getting a solid touch on the ball is no good if he touches the other player first.

The “advantage” shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone given that the referee gave a clear signal that he was applying it.

You’re very welcome. You probably know of another useful iPhone keyboard shortcut where instead of typing shift and then the symbol above the letter you simply swipe down on the letter itself. This can be useful for entering the occasional number for example.

I have come to accept the realisation that we are nowhere near good enough to beat Derby’s record. We are not worthy and it would be an insult to them if we did. We deserve nothing more.

It’s a bugbear of mine when foreign words are spelt without the appropriate accents. Leaving them out can even change their meaning. On an iPhone they’re very simple to type. Just leave your finger resting on the appropriate letter (for ü that would be the u) and your options will appear. Then slide your finger across and release it over the one that you have chosen. On a desktop PC it’s a lot more difficult. There are some key combinations for the common ones such as Ctrl-Alt-e but for most of them you need to learn the ALT numeric codes. The € symbol is (from memory) Alt-0128

But you were still a further away that they were?

Yeah, always blame the referees if all else fails. I assume that you had a much better view than any of them?

It looked a clear penalty tome at the time and it was right under the referee’s nose. I’ve just had a look at the incident again and Stephens doesn’t reach the ball. It was clumsy and stupid but that’s what you get with him.

Yep. All down to Dibling farting about.

Exactly. We have been conceding the centre ground for longer than I care to remember. What makes it worse of course is playing with three centre backs who simply get in each other’s way.

I don’t agree that they were different styles. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. Playing three at the back or around at the back is just stupidly defeatist especially at home. It just weakens our midfield and shifts the centre of mass of our team back towards our own goal and invites the opposition to come and have a go at us. Countless times one of our players will receive the ball out on the wing and then find that the easiest and most open pass for them is to play it back towards our own goal because that’s where most of our players are.

We gave them plenty of space. Most of the pitch to be exact. You get nothing by packing your own box with eleven players and nothing is way at we got. We were lucky to restrict them to three goals and had Ramsdale not saved that penalty it would have been four. A hiding and nothing is exactly what we got.

In any other situation I would agree with you but yesterday was simply pathetic.