Black boots should be mandatory. I would have said the same thing a few years ago. At one time only Alex Pearce wore black boots, and it fitted his solid no-nonsense style. Now black boots just look like the equivalent of having to do PE in your underwear because you forgot your kit. Colourful boot...
The Selles comments in the local news underline just how important it could be to get the new owners fully committed in the next few weeks. The planning for pre-season and for contracts has already started. Possibly the most important thing the new owners will do is provide the guidance and backing ...
Mid-table Championship. Football at three o'clock on a Saturday. £400 season tickets. Go into most games knowing a win is possible. Team made up of academy products and a few seasoned pros. Good cup run and dump out one of the top six PL teams at home. Premier league. Get dicked by billionaires at o...
I probably should wait until a takeover is confirmed, but hopefully Dai is on his way out. In terms of how I'd like to see incoming owners go about business, I think there are several priorities to focus on: 1) Communicate with the fans Oh how we have missed communication. What is your vision and a...
The parties will need to go in depth into expensive legal and financial analysis, that then gets reviewed, amendements proposed and negotiated, projections and models created etc. etc. Most of this I assume will not have been done before exclusivity because lawyers and accountants cost a lot of mone...
I'm with IR on this: VAR = more correct decisions. Now, for some reason almost every VAR intervention seems to take for ages in the Premeir League. The Bundelsiga and Ligue 1 seem to get most VAR referrals done in seconds - it's really rare for them to drag on. We don't need to get rid of VAR, we ju...
Not a great performance - not sure how many attempts on goal we made, but it felt distinctly disjointed and tepid. Didn’t think the ref was bad really - I know a lot of people believe he should have given a penalty for handball, but if he doesn’t see it, he can’t give it. Hence my criticism of the r...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-06/chiron-sports-said-to-make-site-visit-for-reading-football-deal?embedded-checkout=true Chiron Sports Said to Make Site Visit for Reading Football Deal A consortium backed by Chiron Sports Group visited Reading FC on Friday, as the investor group ze...
What about Off at Eleven (OAE)? I vaguely remember that, but not what format it took. I first signed up to this portal when it was a shade of pale blue and lots of cascading messages down the page like a Windows Explorer tree, with titles of "X" then "Re: X" then "Re: Re: X...
I voted Wing. Bindon has improved throughout the season and is now starting to regularly put in very good performances. But, for me, Wing has been our most consistent, industrious, effective, and at times spectacular, player. Yiadom would be in with a shout too if he hadn't missed so many games, but...
Sometimes an ugly win when the crowd gets the team over the finish line can be amongst the best feelings in football. Maybe not a game for the purists, but it’s not City versus Real Madrid; it’s a scrap in League One. I was entertained throughout. Northampton are a decent side; without some borderli...
2 of the worst decisions I’ve seen on a football field since Bodin getting sent off instead of Davies. Not to mention the 4th, who twice got in the way of players trying to take quick throws. That corner which he gave to us as a GK was unbelievable. Crowd laughed at that. Plenty more to choose from...
If someone was suggesting after ten games that Selles was some sort of tactical and motivational genius they weren't doing it on any rational basis. Even his Madre would have been wondering how long he could hang on to his job the way things were going. Anyone saying now they always knew it would wo...
Presumably with the (expected) Labour majority post-election this will help move things along quicker/have more positive backing from the MPs Labour do love a quango or two… They call it creating jobs….. A regulator will just add to costs - and maintain the status quo - and create another layer of ...
Meanwhile, the entire pyramid is oxf*rd and underfunded, they can't agree a payment deal, two PL clubs have been docked points, the Saudi state owns Newcastle, the state recently forced a terrorist state supporter to sell their club and the regular Champions are charged with over 100 offences Very,...
Wigan sold their training ground to Preston when they were in the poo, they still got a buyer. The club statement yesterday stating there will be an announcement in due course about alternative training arrangements, whether that`s BS on their part to take the heat out of the situation is anybody`s...