No respect for the guy. Karacan’s injury (which massively hobbled his career) was not a coincidence. Tetek’s injury (which seems to have effectively ended his career) was not a coincidence. He was a thug of a manager who had no respect for opposing players or officials. That’s the real Warnock, not...

I guess, as one of the traditional "Big 5", when you've only won 2 league cups in 30 years, you have to take the little victories wherever you can manufacture them. Must be galling to spend 4 decades playing second fiddle to your big rivals. Replace "2 league cups" with "1 ...

I guess while Reading isn't much bigger than Oxford, we have surrounding towns like Newbury, Wokingham, Basingstoke, Maidenhead and Bracknell where people will support us as their nearest professional team. You must be looking at half a million or so overall. By contrast, where else are Oxford goin...

I'd say that all the physical factors that measure speed of players, distance run, intensity of play etc will have increased since 1992.

Some players used to coast a lot of the game, but anyone trying to do that k=now would be instantly found out.

From being generally regarded the biggest and best stadium in the country 20 years ago, OT is looking really shabby, run-down and old-fashioned.

Didn't someone seriously post on "The Team" a couple of weeks ago "Shall we lose to Blackpoll to stop Poxford getting into the play-offs"?

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.