À propos of nothing from The Guardian's newsletter...
Brighton-on-Thames, earlier. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA
26/09/2023
Will Mauricio Pochettino finally get a tune out of his Brighton tribute act?
Barry Glendenning
CHELSEA FEARS...
Did anyone else catch the game? I took in the opening half-hour before our KO and recorded the rest on Fubo -- it was De Klassieker, after all. I watched the rest after our result, and Ajax was, to put it bluntly, woeful. Feyernoord could easily have been up 5 or 6 nil at halftime. Just...
AEK and Bournemouth were ideal opponents for RDZ to try out different player combinations and positions to see which ones clicked. He'll have a much better idea of who to play when and where after this week. We wondered about the nearly infinite permutations at his disposal -- it's good too...
Sillly thought of the day... I wonder which sweatshop is worse -- the one Nike used to make our Europa shirt or the one that made the Chinese knock-off?
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I got home in time to watch the 2nd half live. It looked like AEK followed the WH playbook to a tee. There was just so little space to shoot through when we were in the box. We still haven't found a reliable solution to the low block and killer counter-attack after controlling play for 10...