didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I have and didn't even expect to watch that much
The last few tournaments had wrecked my enthusiasm really. For 2018 my son was born smack bang in the middle of it and we were in hospital for a couple of weeks so missed a fair chunk of it, 2021 was just...
last summer I went on holiday to Saltcoats in Scotland staying in a caravan park. We were a bit early on the day of arrival so popped into the town. My son decided he needed the toilet after a long drive so we found some public toilets on the seafront. My word. It was a bit like that scene in...
yeh McGhee tried his best with Knight (I would perhaps say Knight's best form came under the brief sting with Coppell but I largely agree with your point). Knight proved to be almost impossible to manage with many trying and failing- he was simply a bad apple. I remember Knight particularly...
we paid him back a fair chunk last year. It is a loan but in reality he's in no rush to claim it back and wants to pass the club on to his kids at some point
I don't think a 24 team tournament really works and it needs to be 8, 16 or 32 teams really
would a 32 team Euro's really be out of the question? The top 8 sides that didn't qualify are (excluding Russia):
Sweden
Wales
Norway
Greece
Rep. Ireland
Finland
Iceland
North Macedonia
and they are...
McGhee keeping us up in 04/05 was a colossal achievement. Had no business staying up with the resources he had at his disposal. Shame about the following season but we'd lost Virgo and Harding as well as Cullip and Currie in the previous January and wasn't given the money to replace them. In...
in what setting would the human vs polar bear fight take place?
if it was in the wild I don't think there's a single human that is capable of beating up a polar bear- a male PB is on average 8-10 feet long and they are also generally absolutely raging for a meal. I doubt the human would be able...
yes mind blowing really
even in recent years, two vaguely competent strikers- Steven Fletcher and Kris Boyd both fell out with managers and didn't get anywhere near as many caps as they should have
shooting themselves in the foot as I said earlier- I'm not sure Wales, Northern Ireland and Rep...
we've already seen the end of the Tory party as we know/have known it- it really started with, or slightly before, Brexit and was accelerated when Johnson and Cummings purged the party of a huge sway of moderate MP's. What will be left on the party after the election will be very interesting. I...
nowhere near the top but worth a mention anyway- but our time at the Amex would have been very different had Russell Slade not kept us up. Bloom took over that summer, hired Poyet not that long after and the rest is history. I think we would have eventually got to where we are now eventually but...
from a historical, nerdy perspective, Scotland's issue in terms of getting past the first round is that the point where they were producing top level players- the 70's and 80's, came when World Cup's were 16 or 24 teams rather than 32. Even into the 90's they qualified for an 8 team Euro 92 with...
not enough quality ultimately particularly up front....options were a striker from the championship, Hearts and bringing on a guy from MLS
it's still better than how it's been for the bulk of my time supporting Scotland but desperately need some more quality in certain areas. Really need a...
love him as a player
I wonder if he's someone who might just stay at Brighton for the long haul- I think we're exactly his level and could also see him as a future captain