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Reply | crown jewles
at 22:09 6 Dec 2025
I must admit, I S CREAMed with joy at their daring. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's win
at 22:00 6 Dec 2025
Pleased he isn't going overboard. We're still a work in progress. |
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Thread | Salah
at 21:59 6 Dec 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cze8rnx4g7go
So much for Slot praising him for his professionalism! What an entitled twerp!
People allowing their perceived 'position' to inflate them - it's the way of the world, of course. With an attitude like that, he'll do just great in the Saudi league.
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Reply | West Brom Reflection
at 21:17 6 Dec 2025
On that basis, presumably every strenuous 3-day week from here on in somehow 'won't count'. Even though, to his credit, JS says we need to be better and show more ambition to 'con-feerm' our credentials. |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 03:15 6 Dec 2025
Good for you. I, personally, think you're point-scoring and vindictive, so good luck with that going forwards. [Post edited 6 Dec 3:25]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 03:13 6 Dec 2025
Well, yes, I guess that could be the conclusion to be drawn if you're someone stymied by dislike without an ability to consider alternate, rather obvious implications. |
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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 01:54 5 Dec 2025
For the first time ever, I can't care. The club has sucked my passion for the cup out of me.
You Arse! |
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Reply | World Cup Draw
at 00:12 5 Dec 2025
Reminds me of a joke by a flat-chested female comic about how she was looking for a boyfriend with a small face!  [Post edited 5 Dec 0:12]
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Reply | Belatedly learning that
at 00:10 5 Dec 2025
I like Kolli, but I'm really started to get fed up with his seemingly endless injury issues, plus the 'noise' that seems to surround him when he's not playing. It feels like he just can't get going with us, and if it doesn't change, and even though I don't rate Frey one bit, I'd be looking to loan him out for the rest of the season - and possibly the next.
Elsewhere, Bennie looks, if anyone, that he deserves to be brought back into the fold, so my worry is more the players who continue to play without deserving to (Messrs Varane and Madsen).
16th looks about right with our lot. [Post edited 5 Dec 1:53]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:31 3 Dec 2025
God, you're tedious. Anything but actually deal with actual content/argument - man and not ball every time. Why not just make a big effort to grow up? |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:29 3 Dec 2025
I didn't say it was watertight, and, yes, Warnock showed himself to be a better man-manager than Magilton, I guess. Though I still think he (JM) was set up, which was no doubt why he was talking about taking the club to a tribunal. |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:26 3 Dec 2025
If you can't see the value between making a distinction between human inconsistency/ contradictoriness and talking 'nonsense', so be it! It doesn't change the fact that I wasn't talking nonsense, just expressing a view you happen not to agree with. Perhaps engaging self-critically with my content rather than always trying to 'catch me out' might even turn out to be both more humane and more interesting. Just a thought. [Post edited 3 Dec 20:54]
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Reply | New stadium for London
at 01:13 3 Dec 2025
It seems like every football club in London gets permission/money to build/take over a new ground apart from us. It's getting to a point where I'd be considering suing H & F Council for restraint of trade. [Post edited 3 Dec 1:14]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 01:09 3 Dec 2025
That's fine too - we can just agree to disagree.
For the record, ultimately, I don't actually think it's human to be (fully) consistent - contradiction (inc. self-contradiction) is what keeps conversations like those on a football message board in business, as well as interesting. This isn't a court of law, after all - fans are irrationalists! [Post edited 3 Dec 1:16]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 19:44 2 Dec 2025
If anyone seriously wants to argue that football is more tiring to players (let alone threatening to life and limb) in the 2020s compared to any other time, what with, ooh let's see:
near-perfect pitches
dieticians
psychologists
culturally legitimised squad rotations (i.e. cheating) for cup competitions
actual withdrawal from cup competitions in the case of Manure
friendly game-level substitutions
simulation
international breaks
water breaks
and whatever else,
I despair.
In 2025/26, the ball isn't even in play in a Premier League game for more than about half of the 90 minutes on average (see https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/15/longer-games-less-football-ball ), the lowest in 11 seasons since records began. (If we had records for previous decades, those of us with souls could all vomit in unison!) You don't have to be a statistician to see there is an inverse correlation between the enrirchment of players and clubs and the value to the fan, which is, in my opinion, the reason that the Julien Stephans of this world now agree to cynically manage down expectations at every opportunity with bullsh*t about 3-game weeks - and don't get me started on the likes of Ferguson and Klopp!
Good journalists would be shouting about this stuff every week in the influential media and throwing it back at the clubs on our behalf. That they aren't tells you something, but I'll leave that to you to work out.
Then again, it could all be a conspiracy theory, and I can be the child in the room again if you prefer. [Post edited 2 Dec 20:06]
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