Window Cleaner

The one seems entirely dependant on the other, he's not even on Deschamps radar just now. Deschamps = big club, big club, big club. This is a throwback to 1998, they were nearly all playing in Italy, Juventus,AC Milan etc etc.

Finishing 17th in League 1 is favourable right !!!

apparently he wanted some Scandinavian with a unpronounceable name. Bram Nuytick or something like that.

At the end of the day over half our current first team were either here before Adkins or if you believe the Boruc article signed without his explicit approval. Yoshida wasn't what Adkins wanted apparently, well according to the Daily Mirror the day after his sacking.

Unsurprising with the way Sczesny is playing of late.

but where are the CM 2014 stats

Should have cut out the cross in my opinion. Then again I personally think KD is a very, very, average keeper and certainly should have not been entrusted with our PL campaign. I've always been totally consistent about this, even back in League 1.

Never mind the bookies will make money out of it anyway.

But surely the whole interesting point here is the way he says "It gave Adkins (not Mr Adkins or the Gaffer or the Manager or whatever) a reason to drop me. In this phrase and one a bit further down he highlights the friction between himself, brought in by the TC without NA's sanction and the then manager. Now whilst Boruc was out because of this incident we lost 4 vital points because of basic goalkeeping errors and I'm being kind in not including KDs error against Sunderland in that. So because of Adkins refusal to change the keeper at the appropriate time we were losing points and when AB started playing a bit better it became glaringly obvious that the manager was stubborn over certain things and thus a liabilty.

zip, didn't see it was an ongoing dinosaur thread.

7 games apparently. We did seem to have a lot of goalkeeping crises, think one season we were down to about our 4 th choice keeper.

No it's a colloquial expression, means blow fuses, act stupidly, go over the top etc etc. Peter means to fart but also to burst or suddenly stop working in an explosive manner.. Ma télé a pété, doesn't mean the TV has farted, it means it's blown up or just simply stopped working suddenly.

For the francophones: From this morning's L'Equipe Don't have time to translate it all now, Mrs says I have to go to the shops when I've finished my cuppa. http://kickoff.blogs.lequipe.fr/?p=508

Anyone with a pair of boots would fit that description

Right in the crapper, that's where we would be, just confirmation of what I've said all along, NA wanted nothing to do with Boruc, he had his binkie and there was only 1 keeper at SFC. Got him sacked.

well that would be Cech playing for Czech Rep on Friday and again next Wednesday Cole+Lampard for England Friday and Wednesday Azpilicueta and Mata for Spain, (Finland Friday+France mercredi) Ba for Senegal against err Angola on Saturday Hazard for Belgium home and away against Macedonia Friday and Wednesday Ivanovic must be playing for Serbia somewhere, unless he's injured Obi Mikel and Moses will have a game for Nigeria on Saturday, Kenya I believe There must be a couple of others and then there are the Brazilians.

See he's got the watch then. Have we only got the 1 pen then, always the same. There will be a clique mentality at the club soon, those with "the watch" and those without.

But that would be "accurate shooting". Has a lot of sexual encounters with bears does she?

In fact we have a couple of players who you just know will waste every chance they get, Cork and Lallana both had reasonable chances early on against QPR, either converted would have changed trhe course of the match but they snatched at them and troubled the corner flag more than the keeper. No confidence when shooting is a bugbear, if they'd been hiiting the target regularly they'd probably have done far better. Look at Morgan, a right old donkey in front of goal up until this season but now he's got the gnaque of it it's gotten much better.

Clubs with superior financial clout and superior sporting projects can always buy whoever they want. Might get turned down at first on occasions but if they really want the player they will get him. Long term contracts mean nothing apart from a sort of financial securisation for the selling club. Only got to look at a couple of transfers involving young english "future stars" Jones and Henderson, both had longish and recently renewed contracts but when Utd and Liverpool came calling with silly money those contracts weren't worth the paper they were written on. Just upped the ante a wee bit. Players in the main want success, to be all they can be and if their actual club is going nowhere fast they'll jump ship.

To get out of League 1 he had a side including Lallana,Schneiderlin,Lambert,Fonte, Puncheon and AOC so a side in League 1 with 6 players who have become PL regulars. To get out of the NPC he had the above (less AOC of course) plus Cork and Jos, so is getting a side with 7 players capable of holding their own in the PL promoted some sort of mega-feat, I don't really think so. Adkins always had all he needed to get to the PL quickly, it just needed pointing in the roughly right direction. However his first dabbles with the PL showed him to be not quite up to the level so he was sacked after being given a better chance than many.

So Guardiola turned us down huh :D:D But on a serious note I've always wondered how Adkins survived beyond that point.

Deschamps only looks at players with European competition to their name. Morgan won't get the nod until he's with a club Deschamps has heard of or Deschamps is gone. Morgan did himself untold harm vis a vis international selection in dropping down to League 1 with us and the FFF won't forget that they told him not to do that.

Thing about that game was a: we started with Fox and b: Lallana went off after 40 odd minutes. Both those things would be extremely perturbing to any system. We'd used 2 forced subs (including sending on a vastly dimished Shaw after 57') before the hour was up. If we had just converted one of our early chances the game would have been different. Green was pretty amazing when he came on and that gave them a boost as well. It was just a combination of circumstances that day. It happens in football.

Nothing wrong, how can you say that with the mess he made of the GK situation? If anything is going to cost us PL status this season it's that. If we had got it right last summer instead of him insisting on continuing with KD at all cost we would now probably be on somewhere around 40 points.