From Despair To Where? Genuinely thought Taylor and Carter-Vickers were nearer 30. They seem to have been around for years.

Both are twenty-six! Greg Taylor started playing regular first team football at eighteen; Carter-Vickers went out on loan to Sheffield United when he was nineteen.

It does speak volumes that Butland was their POTS but I'm not sure any Rangers outfield player would get in the Celtic team. I also think the point about the Rangers defence is equally valid for Celtic as well. It's not great and it shows against better quality teams. I think it applies to Celtic t...

Once again showing what happens when you don't have a natural goalscorer in the team. Apart from the disallowed goal, Rangers didn't trouble Hart. Idah follows up the one half decent shot and buries the rebound. I've watched Cantwell all season because I thought he looked a decent player in the Cha...

Winston Biscuit First Scotch FA Cup Final between Celtic & Rangers in 22 years

Yeah, I know?!

That was a surprise when I saw it, although they've played each other a lot in the competition since then: ten times, including five times in the semi-final since 2016.

ACADEMY RETAINED LIST CONFIRMED So, we've either retained or offered a new deal to everyone who was in the U21 squad vs Sunderland except Carson (who we knew about anyway), Paul and Collins. Sackey isn't listed, but I imagine he's on a youth contract. Collins going isn't much of a surprise to me, e...

Keeping Cat 1 status in L1 is insane. It's certainly not viable for a club our size in League One, if the new owner chooses to keep Cat 1 that would certainly be ambitious, hopefully not foolhardy. It can only be a short term thing. A lot of Championship clubs say they can't afford Category One sta...

ACADEMY RETAINED LIST CONFIRMED So, we've either retained or offered a new deal to everyone who was in the U21 squad vs Sunderland except Carson (who we knew about anyway), Paul and Collins. Sackey isn't listed, but I imagine he's on a youth contract. Collins going isn't much of a surprise to me, e...

QPR at home is dull, but fully excepting we'll play someone like Swansea at home for the final friendly once again which is even duller.

blueroyals Marek Matejovsky got 30 mins against Sparta Prague at the weekend

He's still playing!? He must be older than 40 now.

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Would never have thought of him as manager material but good luck to him.
The article didn't mention his very successful time at Bristol Rovers.

Was that very successful time with the Chairman’s daughter … allegedly

Renowned for his scoring prowess of course.

Obviously still a fox in the box.

Leverkusen 2-0 down in the Europa League final against Atalanta. Would be a shame if they fell now.

It still feels like Chiron have more leverage due to the debt and charges. They may have found something in DD that they have tried to amend the price for. Dellor is reliable enough, but his contacts will be Howe and others at the club. Feels to me like they are putting out rumours of other buyers ...

First announced match is a behind closed doors match against Watford at their training ground on 6th July at 11:00: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/m ... t-22may24/

Article suggests this will be the first match of pre-season.

Strange with Elliott - was getting picked when not playing regularly, breaks through as a regular, dropped by his country. Can only assume it is because of the fact he won't have played for over a month by the time of the games. Could be a fitness thing or the manager has decided to look at some di...

Scottish League Cup announced new prize fund today. A team that enters and loses every group game will get £36k. A side entering Round 1 in England only makes that money if they reach the quarter finals. The Scottish League Cup has a much more equitable prize money with the Scottish Cup (notwithsta...

Snowflake Royal Yeah, he seems to be progressing well actually.

Particularly after his injury, which I think took around a year out of his development.

Couldn't seem to find a general thread for our players on international duty, so I though I'd create one. Looking over the summer, it's possible a number of our players will be away. New Zealand play in the Oceania Nations Cup, so Bindon will probably be involved in that. New Zealand also feature in...

Noticed Pelle Clement has played regularly in the Eredivise ever since leaving us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelle_Clement

He's currently at Sparta Rotterdam who play in the Dutch Conference League play-off semi-final (winners qualifying for the Conference League) on Thursday night.

Five over-age players and one over-age keeper: https://www.premierleague.com/news/2677866 However that was for the season 2022/23 when the format was changed from under 23 to under 21 and might have been a transitional phase. Confusing now because the Premier League are also saying for 2023/2024 th...

It's here under definitions: So, unless I'm mistaken, anyone 20 or under on 1 Jan. 2024 will qualify as U21 for the forthcoming season. Thank you - didn't think it would be as early as January. So that gives another season of U21 football for CBC, Borgnis and Wareham and only three starters from ye...