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Good of TNT to provide a nice balanced view on the game with former Everton stalwart Leon Britten as co commentator. ”It’s such a pity that goal was offside” Fuck off

Sanda? He’s a little rough round the edges Has some Power Bit of a Tool

Everton making pre-planned sub after 18 minutes. They’re treating it like a charity friendly, and they’ll still beat us. Fucking embarassing

It wasn't spontaneous either. It was the last minute and there was a Sky cameraman literally stood next to him pointing a camera at him, so he was very, very aware that he was on camera at that point. He knew that if he put on a show like that then he would immediately be all over Sky and social media for the next 24h. He wanks on about the team being everything, but at that point he made a conscious decision to make it all about him. In doing so, he made himself look like a fucking twat, as usual. You've just scraped past Wycombe in a league one semi mate, not won the fucking World Cup. Everything he says and does is the absolute epitome of 'small time'. And that's why he's destined to only ever manage lower-league teams.

There was still 20 seconds of the game to go at that point. It would have been hilarious if Wycombe had equalised while he was doing that

Yeah. You can’t question his passion but whoever thought he had the temperament to be a premier league manager needs their head examined. How can you expect to keep your players calm and focused when you’re melting down like that over everything

Celebrating like they’ve won the champions league after scraping a semi against wycombe 😂 He’s an absolute fruitcake

Thierry Small looking lively though, Charlton’s best player EDIT: And Jones immediately subs him off

Nathan Jones looking absolutely deranged on the touchline for Charlton.

I was in the front row of the family centre for that game. The foul on Rod Wallace was right in front/ below me. I can remember perfectly watching Wallace sliding along on his front after being taken out by the keeper and it was obviously a pen. Then the unbearable tension of waiting for Ruddock to take it. Then him just smashing it down the middle. Then Ruddock doing his little dance in front of the Milton in the midst of absolute bedlam. Can visualise it all like it was yesterday.

Plenty of those around Southampton to be fair

What year was it at the Dell where everyone invaded the pitch and chanted for the players to come out onto the balcony, and then when they did everyone dug up the turf and pelted them with it? I would have been quite young but the way I remember it, it wasn't just one or two troublemakers, it felt like pretty much the entire crowd did it. It was mental. Pretty sure I remember seeing Tim Flowers throwing some back so must have been late 80s/ early 90s?

That private toilet was spectacular though, worth every penny he paid of someone else’s money

It will be either Leicester or Rangers for him, I think.

I know, I was just making a little joke Overall I agree with your point that bigger, taller, more powerful players are more likely to succeed in the English game. Our squad has been way too lightweight for too long, we need to add more physical presence all over the pitch.

You'd also think that we could offer him and his team a better salary / package than Cov can probably afford.

Tallest players to play in the PL: Costel Pantilimon: 6 foot 8 - shit Lacina Traore: 6 foot 8 - shit Stefan Maierhofer: 6 foot 8 - shit Nikola Zigic: 6 foot 8 - shit Paul Onuachu: 6 foot 7 - shit Peter Crouch: 6 foot 7 - good feet for a big man, and quite likeable, but, utlimately, pretty shit Thus the theory is disproved

Our crest should be a tasteful photoshop montage of Benny Hill, Rishi Sunak, Scott Mills, Chris Packham, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Ken Russell, Charlie Dimmock, Matt Cardle, James Lance, Howard Jones, Ollie Locke, Jona Lewie, the drummer from Coldplay and Adamski all sat on the same New Forest pony

Did you deliberately make it completely wrong to make the point? If so - point well made.

Looking back at that, it's also telling that only two of the signings we had actually made over the summer - Sugawara and BBD - were deemed good enough for a place in the starting XI on the opening day, even in a side as poor at that one. Our other new signings at that point - Wood, Taylor and Archer - were on the bench because they were not considered good enough to dislodge any of those Championship level players in that awful, awful team. Even then we weren't done, as we added more dross like Cornet, Fraser and Gronbaek over the course of the season, again none of whom were considered good enough to consistently deserve a start in the joint worst PL team of all time. Then there were the wages being wasted on invisible men like Lallana who just weren't physically up to the demands of a PL season. With the exception of Fernandes and Ramsdale, the signings we made were such a colossal misjudgement by Russell Martin and everyone else involved that it goes beyond incompetence and borders on dereliction of duty. It's mind-boggling that Dragan allowed his money to be pissed away like that.

Also why would you waste your best centre-half, Aribo, in midfield? /Juric

Oh come on - the Stewart signing has been a disaster but I don't think it's in any way fair to suggest that he hasn't wanted to play. Injuries have destroyed his career. He's spent two years trying to get fit. I'd imagine that all he wants is to be fit and able to play regularly without his body breaking down on him.

I’m not sure that’s how contracts work (unfortunately).

He didn't resign, he was very much sacked after a 4-0 defeat and 8 games without a win. He was going at the end of the season anyway, but they've been so bad recently they got rid early.

Let’s hope so 🙏