Gary Speed was another player whose youth development included this Bennell guy. It was denied at the time of his tragic suicide that there was any such link, but now all this is coming out, you do wonder.
There was a piece in The Argus the other week about most teams finishing close to where they were after just 12 games last season.
So logically that rule might be even more true after 15 games, but I think things could shuffle around a fair bit more this year.
The likes of Villa and even...
There was a piece in The Argus the other week about most teams finishing close to where they were after just 12 games last season.
So logically that rule might be even more true after 15 games, but I think things could shuffle around a fair bit more this year.
The likes of Villa and even...
Still one of the most depressing days I can remember. Not so much for the result, but for the miserable 'salt in the wound' tedium afterwards of being slowly shuffled for hours and hours on end to a tube station that was in completely the wrong direction for someone who lived in Ealing at the time.
Newcastle will be top two. I think we have a chance of getting the other slot, but play-offs are more realistic.
In a strange way, it might actually help to know 4 or 5 games out that play-offs is where we'll finish. Fighting to the very wire for automatic promotion last season took so much out...
Dunno nuffink bout no money mate, me dog does all that, the banks 'n wotnot, I just got couple tenners in me back pocket is all I knows, the dog pays all them bills, numbers and cash and cheques and stuff – never seen 'em, wouldn't know if get paid 'undred quid or 'undred 'undred million quid...
Our only blip, really, is the defeat to Brentford. Every other result, I'd pretty much take it as in line with what we need and should expect when you map out a promotion-worthy season (including the defeat at Newcastle: you won't win 46 games in a season, after all).
That BBC gallery puts you off any of the totty. You look at the scrubbed-up studio shots of, say, Alexsandra and Jessica, and you would. And then you look at the real-life shots down below, and... nah.