The judge "concluded last month that the protection of the boss' identity was necessary to "secure the proper administration of justice", adding there was "no sufficient countervailing public interest" in his name being disclosed." Seems reasonable to me. As long as due...

Genius is a very over-used word, so I'd say "No, he's not". I'm not sure anyone in football is (apart from SSC...!) He's simple a very good manager, especially at the really difficult skill of managing a set of highly-paid star with big egos all competing to be included in the same team. T...

Yep, but he was a last resort. Sidwell was gone and we knew that was happening, but all the players we had lined up to replace him (e.g. Scott Brown from Hibs) turned us down and we felt we needed to get someone so Fae was the end result. Due to lack of time we missed out all the Steps we'd normall...

Being reported that Hull have just sacked Liam Rosenior, which seems ridiculous, but nothing is surprising in football I guess. My brother (who supports Hull) has tried to justify it by saying the last third of the season wasn't great at all, home form particularly. I think that is complete bullshi...

Wasn't Emerse Fae a record signing at the time? I could (and am most likely wrong). He again was hit and miss, some really strong games, but mostly powderpuff. Yep, but he was a last resort. Sidwell was gone and we knew that was happening, but all the players we had lined up to replace him (e.g. Sc...

Asaba was done no favours by the expectation given that he was a big, goal-scoring target man - he was nothing of the sort, and when he was allowed to play to his strengths of a fast, attacking wideish player he did well for us (home to Sunderland in 97/98, for instance).

Yikes Maybe not so bad: The report details that, since June 30, 2023, the group has entered into sale and purchase agreements for players with net transactions amounting to £111million receivable. Managed to sell Lavia to Chelsea didn't they. Yep - £58M - and also James Ward-Prowse to WHam for £30M...

Aren't Southampton in trouble if they don't go up? I'd imagine so: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24159702.southampton-post-87m-loss-2022-23-financial-accounts/ Yikes Maybe not so bad: The report details that, since June 30, 2023, the group has entered into sale and purchase agreements for playe...

But if a player always goes bottom corner that's really predictable, and a keeper only has to pick a 50/50 chance which way to go and to hope that the taker isn't too close to inside the post. (And, of course, the closer to the post the taker's aim is, the greater the chance of them missing by going...

can I throw in another interesting law of the game that people often don't know? If a game goes to a penalty shoot out and one of the teams has had a red card during the match, the other team has to nominate a player that is excluded from the shoot out so that in case it goes way into sudden death ...

https://i.ibb.co/4PJy1Ck/GLNClv-WEAABWLC.jpg That's easily explainable, though. The Derby team knew they were shite so tended to park the bus and play for a draw, Two lines of defenders tended to keep shots down. Man Utd think they're good and so flood forward attacking other teams, leaving themsel...

So am I. There's constant fan pressure to spend more to compete and succeed regardless to cost or consequence. We all saw it under Madejski. Wheres the money gone? He has to invest to succeed. He doesn't wamt to go up because it costs too much. He's selling our best players so he doesn't go up. And...

So your view is that he's not biased, just completely incompetent Yep, and he's still one of the best in the country which is why he's a PL official. We've seen ourselves what they have in the Championship and L1. And when you see clubs facilitating abuse and conspiracies like Forest are, and setti...

WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.

Yeah that's outrageous. Hopefully a huge fine and their club account banned from social media posting. The PGMOL also have some questions to answer if they knowingly used a VAR who supported one of the teams that had an "interest" in the result. I think they should sue Forest for defamati...

Won't that just mean the higher-placed team sets up with a 10-0-0 formation and kills the game as a spectacle?

There's also a problem that the decision given affects the game from that point on, whereas with cricket the ball is dead and they can judge things at their leisure. If a linesman flags for offside the game stops, so if VAR proves that decision was wrong then how do you recover from stopping a promi...

How did we do it before these guys came on board. Never saw any problems or issues prior to getting these guys in. Very little has changed n the ticketing world other than adding tickets to respective phone wallets. Maybe the old system didnt work on a smartphone? If this company charges like £5k a...

As with most things in the world, it would be much easier if people were honest. The PL don't want their team to play less games, they just want them to play different "higher value" ones. As has been said, the FA and PL have just decided this is the way forward without obvious consultati...

NathStPaul Said it before and I'll say it again. Cole Palmer is very special.

Whilst Pickford is anything but special...