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I'm sorry Mr Jenas, we cannot consider your application at this time...

Don't sell yourself short. Hold out for some onion rings, half a grilled tomato and a portobello mushroom (give that to your agent).

I like Lineker as a bloke, but the fee that the BBC has had to pay him in order to compete with privately funded broadcasters has been disproportionate to the value he brought to sports coverage. Few, if any of us tune into MotD or choose the BBC for internationals because Lineker's presenting...

Ramsdale pulling out of the England squad has led Carsley to call James Trafford into the senior squad. I guess that this could mean another couple of starts for James Beadle for the U21s against Spain & Netherlands?

It was a reckless challenge, but the ball was already dead, so no penalty. Had it not been Liverpool's best player and had he not done his cruciate, that would have been the end of it. No Liverpool players were in the ref's face demanding a red on the pitch that day, they were hoping for a VAR...

The discussion of Palace afterwards gave me flashbacks to Potter's first couple of seasons: 'Underlying numbers', 'Underperforming the xG', 'likelihood of regression to the mean'. Sent a shiver down my spine. Sounds like they aren't as bad as we might like to hope, but all hope of their...

Can we have Des back now?

The Guardian have picked out fors and againsts: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/11/referee-david-coote-video-jurgen-klopp-liverpool-pgmol-premier-league Still raking over that Pickford foul on van Dijk though. He was offside. Let it go.

There were already some linking Liverpool title failures on the Twitter thread. :ROFLMAO: Those shouting 'Corruption!' seem to be overlooking Coote' s reason for giving that view of Klopp. 'He called me a liar.' doesn't seem to be the complaint of a corrupt official. It's perfectly possible...

When Hurzeler came in there was a lot of media scuttlebutt wondering how a group of players would react to a manager who was younger than some of them. Anyone who sees the way things operate at Brighton just kind of shrugged, knowing full well that senior players like Dunk and Milner and...

That was very good. The Guardian's Football Weekly also gave us a bit of praise. Nick Ames mentioned how impressive the recruitment is when you consider that we that we finished 6th two years ago and are 6th now and how few of Saturday's team also played in the team that qualified us for...

Yes. Transfermarkt has provided the matches and points totals in game week order despite the Bournemouth and Palace games being rescheduled because of the death of the queen. Potter's last game against Leicester was our 6th game, leaving us on 13 points. We then drew with Liverpool, lost to...

Seems a leap for Wrexham fans to sing 'He hates the F-ng king' because he wouldn't wear a poppy. Hating the monarchy and supporting the British Legion aren't mutually exclusive. I wear one every year and have no time at all for the monarchy. Next time, perhaps they should sing: "James McLean...

Of course, all teams have not played all teams yet and some have had more difficult starts than others. According to Experimental 3-6-1, only one team has already played the seven teams predicted to be the strongest by an amalgam of bookies odds...

I don't know what made me look at the other end of the table. Let's call it a whim. The current three all have seven points or less. Since we've been in the division 24 teams have reached this point having gained 7 points or less. Of the 21 that did it in previous seasons, 13 were relegated...

This is our record after 11 games for each year we've been in the EPL. We're generally strongish starters, but this is the first season where it feels like there is more to come rather than thinking 'Can it last?' 2017/18 - Hughton - 8th - 15 points 0 GD 2018/19 - Hughton - 12th - 11 points...

Gave us no chance when I heard that we had to go to Hillsborough without either of them. What chance a first win there with Sidwell and Norwood in centre midfield?

The year that Jennings was born we were in the top division and Chelsea were in the league below. His team are the personification of nouveau riche and even have a fan forum called 'We Ain't Got No History.' Before the Russians arrived they would also have been considered a class well below...

In his first ten EPL games RDZ won three, drew two and lost five and had a -1 GD. Hurzeler actually has a better record: Won four, drawn four and lost two with a +3 GD. RDZ had it harder coming in part way through the season and his joining coincided with a difficult run of games. However...

It's not negativity, it's realism. We're a work in progress and I'm happy with the pace of the progress. However, City are the best team in the league, possibly in the world and we've taken 4 points to their 37 from our 14 EPL matches with them. We have a minus 31 goal difference from those...