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On the subject of why the English don't like the Americans calling football soccer I always think that people arguing that 'soccer' is an acceptable alternative term miss the point. They shouldn't have to seek an alternative term because that utterly tedious cross between rugby league...

I'm sure you're right about the Cure, but I think you misunderstand my attack. It's not that he hasn't made the obvious choice in terms of the Cure, it's that all of his music journalism is more concerned with his own self image than it is with a sheer love of music. You may be right that its...

He's done it too many times for it not to be deliberate. If asked to list Lee Marvin's top 20 songs, he'd find a way to have 'Wandrin' Star' at number 5.

One thing that's objectively true is that Alexis Petedris will never be caught picking the obvious answer, no matter how correct it is. He put Blue Monday at No 4 in the list of New Order songs. He reminds me of Lee & Herring's 'Ironic Review' parody of Julie Birchall and Tony Parsons, forever...

Most comments about Moran on there seem to be fairly positive. He scored last night, but you can appreciate their ire as they threw away a two goal lead. The complaint seems to be that they don't have a decent defensive midfielder to play with him. Seems fair enough as we all know that he's...

They do appear to be stupid rumours. They seem to track back to a story on a Spanish website: https://www.fichajes.net/noticias/manchester-city-liverpool-pelean-crack-argentino-20241019.html Now I'm not saying that Fichajes.net isn't a totally reliable source that always checks out rumours...

The club doing the right thing, but the EPL haven't given it to him. It doesn't really matter, as it doesn't change his brilliant battling run and tackle/cross. I was just surprised that they would go to the extreme levels of pettiness required to not credit something that could so obviously...

It was. Which is what caused me a little outrage that they penny pinched an assist from him. That moment won us the game and hopefully he'll continue in that way and we'll be looking back on it as the moment when we realised what a player we had on our hands. "But it might have deflected off...

Noticed that Rutter's currently credited with two goals and one assist in the EPL this season and wondered why he wasn't credited with a second against Newcastle on Saturday. Turns out he was credited for that, but wasn't given an assist for his match winning cross against Tottenham! The EPL...

He was just desperate for a left back and has an unconscious bias towards Palace players. Mitchell's okay at left back, but he's not a wing back, which is what he's currently being asked to do.

And may not be guaranteed an England spot now that Uncle Gareth's gone and they're being managed by the bloke who sold him from Chelsea. Surely sooner or later someone has got to remember that there is a far better former Chelsea, good at passing but weak at heading English centre half playing...

Goal scoring seems to be the issue that they need to solve and the purple patch at the end of last season may have given them false confidence in their ability to do this. Looking purely at numbers, Palace had four players who averaged somewhere about 0.25 goals per EPL game last year. Scoring...

Just to sound a cautionary note, because previous experience of looking forward to Palace's demise seems to end the same way every time. We're currently twelve points ahead of them, but last season they caught that gap up in the last six games, taking sixteen points while we took four. This is...

Had we scored with one of our 21 shots against Ipswich, Palace wouldn't be in the bottom three. According to Opta, Wolves have the most difficult first ten games of the season and Palace's were easier than those of Ipswich, Southampton & Wolves...

Gruda in his cameo against Spurs looked like he'd give BDB some problems.

:ROFLMAO: They got lucky that year because Hodgson, a former England manager was out of a job, as they had the year before when another one, Allardyce bailed them out. If they give Glasner the boot, they'll surely be sniffing around a third.

Well that says that Newcastle have had an easier start than we have and we're both on the same points from our fixtures, but they are made far more likely to finish in the top five (37.3% v 11.1%). We'll be needing to beat them tomorrow to change that then. What doesn't get much of a mention...

Careful, they'll make you a judge.

Tim Smith doing Dave Davies? Yes please.

Blimey, did they invent Polka too?