Presuming Southgate leaves after this, which I'm not so sure, and presuming the FA want another English manager, you're left with a choice between;
Gerrard, Lampard, Potter (don't think international management is his bag), Howe, Rooney.
Good luck picking the peanut out of those turds.
When...
Good points raised about the injuries. I hope to god its nothing like last year.
I would expect the see Velts again though surely, and Baleba showed some real promise at times so I hope he's not loaned and we see a real breakout season from him.
If we loan him out and keep Milner I give up.
This is not aimed at Picks specifically, but I find all the pen shenanigans incredibly tedious. Once the keeper starts walking towards the spot or pisses about with a water bottle I'd like to see the ref just blow up and award a goal straight away.
Then again I love it when Bart or Jason do...
Good effort, but ACD sounds a bit like a disease and Cozy-D sounds like a white rapper from Basingstoke.
If he's hitting the first team next season this needs sorting.
Shearer was getting exasperated and moany first half.
A bit of punditry courtesy of the North Korean propaganda department at half time.
Shearer now toeing the "great performance" line.
I think this is a case of you can't win em all. We've spanked a few arses over the last 2/3 years (financially) and I suppose this one's a bit more on the pragmatic side.
Keeping everything crossed that this guy is mustard. But if you'd said to me last week that club x bought an unknown but promising kid, loaned him out for a year and now stand to make a 20m+ profit by selling him to club y, I'd be thinking TB's done it again.
Can't wait. Reading the BBC write up this morning there's reference to a bit of tit for tat in the offing from last year. It will be interesting the watch the team tactics at play as I always find this part fascinating.
Corners are becoming increasingly tedious imo. Defenders bear hugging their man. They don't bother looking at the ball just at who they're marking so they can barge or grab a bit of shirt - just enough to stop the run but not enough for a pen.
And just when the corners about to be taken the ref...