Lighthouse

Well, he certainly knows his stuff when it comes to crap strikers.

That’s proof of absolutely nothing other than the fact that the football authorities briefly went mad and decided that any incident requiring medical attention in the crowd necessitated a stop in play and that only the clubs on field medics could run across the pitch and deal with it, rather than the St John’s paramedics who’ve been in stadiums for decades to deal with such occurrences. These ‘stoppages every week’ involved an NFL player who was head butted in the chest, at galloping speed, by a 19 stone mountain of an opponent and a fan at Notts County who slipped on wet stairs and cracked his head open. Hence they ‘seemed to be happening every week’. The likes of Tiss hysterically posted these stories knowing they were at best ambiguous, but didn’t show one ounce of contrition when they invariably turned out to be bullsh*t. But then why would he; tweeting things like, "hey guys, sorry if I mislead you all last week, it turns out that Fleetwood fan was actually an u3 year old registered diabetic," isn’t exactly great for your anti-vax street cred.

He said MANAGER, not manger.

Merse I don’t know about but Gazza has always been affected by his mate’s death as a child and his ADHD, among other things. It didn’t helped that many of his teammates just saw his eccentric behaviour as being ‘a bit of a character’ whilst they were out getting smashed with him. I think for him the booze is more of a pain numbing coping mechanism.

Two massive problems with that. First, results are worth the same number of points regardless of who you play and in what league, they’re not like ATP rankings or whatever. If you beat Port Vale and Wycombe, by your logic that makes you a better manager than getting a draw at the Etihad, then beating Arsenal at home. Secondly, PL teams play eight fewer games in a year than FL teams because there are fewer in each league. Last year 89 points won the PL and 36 avoided relegation. Meanwhile 101 points won the Championship and 49 avoided relegation. The points for pretty much every team are guaranteed to be higher.

I think these are supposed to be more interesting than exciting. Obviously the true enthusiasts will have a massive horn, but that pretty much goes for any fanatic, from UFC to stamp collecting.

Have you ever tried it, or achieved any level of competency at it? Love skiing; the outdoors, the scenery, the speed, the physical challenge, the skill, the social aspect, the apres ski, the foreign culture, the Norwegian women’s biathlon team, the Swedish women’s biathlon team, the Finnish women’s biathlon team, the Ukrainian women’s biathlon team, the Ital… wait I’m getting side tracked here. You can reduce any sport down to a blunt literal definition, football is just 22 millionaires kicking a bag of air around a field, it’s still enjoyable (at least it is for the fans of 91 FL clubs).

The mainstream meeeja still refusing to blame Freddos for the 1985 Challenger disaster too. Wake up sheeple.

I’d say I was patient, personally, but there have got to be some serious signs of improvement in the next few games. Inconsistency I can live with but there has to be evidence that we’re going in the right direction.

I heard someone say addicts aren’t addicts because they need something but because they’re missing something else. No idea to what extent that’s true and I’m sure it’s too generic to explain everything but it does raise an interesting point. You see plenty of retired footballers fall into various addictions, trying to replicate the thrill of professional football in front of a big crowd. I remember Merse on Soccer Saturday saying, “there’s no feeling in the world like scoring a goal, and I’ve tried everything.” Mick Hucknall was famously a ‘sex addict’. He claimed he was that way because he was trying to fill the void left by a lack of love from his mother, which is kind of a sad and messed up way for a guy to feel.

Been there and done that with Poortvleit, we ended up getting relegated in front of crowds of 14,000. People said Jamie White and Jake Thompson couldn’t be worse than BWP and Viafara. They were wrong.

We were in the relegation fight and one point off safety, without our best player. Ralph was the top end of what that squad was capable of, everyone we’ve tried since him has had us plummeting like a stone. Ralph didn’t sew anything, Gao, Ross and Les did, leaving us cripple with an expensive squad of sh*te we couldn’t afford to replace for years. 90th in points is such a nonsense statistic, all that really means is that we were towards the bottom of a league. If you care about that then go and hire the guy 16th in League 2, because he has more points in 2022.

I wonder if we’re planning to get Turner into this team next season. Bas, Abbott and Big Keith can’t go on forever.

Because he basically said he was going to retire after the Saints job?

What exactly do you think we need to forgive?

Right, because if we hadn’t loaned him to Burnley, he never would have wanted to leave the Championship for Bauer Leverkusen? The Tella loan worked out great for us, a player who was basically useless and going nowhere became an in demand £20m asset in the space of one season. As for Ballard, he scored against Exeter in a 9-0 win in the EFL trophy. That in no way equates to him being good enough to play Championship football.

Never should have been sacked, he kept a squad which was barely an improvement on the one we've got now in the Premier League season after season. Everyone wanted him gone because apparently 15th in the Premier League was an underachievement for this sack of sh*te, which is now getting spanked by Sunderland and Ipswich.

I assume you mean a West Brom run, not a 99% Boufal run.

My phone says 1946 and no score updates, do I have a network problem?

I know Holgate’s debut was bad, and I mean properly f**king rancid, but surely we’ve got to be better off with him in there, rather than Smallbone and Aribo in CM. They’re less of an anchor, more of an inflatable sun lounger.

I’m glad it’s not just me, I was starting to think Alcaraz was wearing the emperors new clothes. Everyone is talking about how he’s a class above this league and will rip it apart but almost everything I’ve seen this season, and for large parts of last season, has been sh*te.

If this game finishes 0-0 I will eat a pair of wellies, a Machine Mart catalogue and 4kg of loft insulation.

I wouldn’t have said Burley was random, quite the opposite in fact. Jermaine Wright. Every. Single. F**king. Game.

Between George, Brand and Martin it's been one heck of a s**t weekend for people called Russell.