Totally agree. I absolutely loved the Euro's and it's a thousand pities from the Albion's point of view that we couldn't cash in on the feelgood factor because our team is so unappealingly shit (relatively speaking) and has actually gone massively backwards.
O/T - it's a good point about comparing over the ages. The current women's 100m record time is 10.49. This would have been enough to win the MEN'S 100m race in 1956 and in every Olympics prior to 1938. So yeah, I think comparisons across eras and across sports is always a bit pointless - you can...
I agree, however it's not helped when the Guardian run articles such as "Ellen White is one goal from Rooney's record - and fully his equal" - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/13/ellen-white-wayne-rooney-england-record-equal
I know it's just standard Guardian clickbait as White...
I agree. Before the start of last season there was a lot of talk about the investment. We'd finished 6th the previous season, we'd recruited well (apparently), and whilst no one was expecting to match the likes of Arsenal or Chelsea there was a feeling that we'd 'give it a bit of a go'. Given...