Yeah I get the maths. On a personal level it's just sad to see a player you were looking forward to see leave. He's an off your seat player from the cameos I've seen.
Wasn't arsed about Buonanotte but quite sad about this. Was really looking forward to seeing him play. Unless we are certain of Ferdi coming in we suddenly look light at left back / wing back.
Yeah. All a bit of an odd one. Doesn't really feel like a 'model' development loan. Sevilla are much higher profile than us, often in Europe, a big European team. And yet they think they can offer him regular game time and we can't?
I wonder whether there is also some cultural element. Young...
I always want to be sniffy about it, but then when we win and you see the kids pogoing to it in the stadium at the end with unbridled joy on their faces it's impossible not to get into it in the moment.
I've got much bigger problems with the generic dirge they play at the start - sweet caroline...
I'm afraid I agree. People's fondness of him has always seemed more emotional al than evidence based. I totally get it. I do it all the time. Get enthralled to a player based on potential and how I imagine them. But in all the games I've seen him he's technically decent but way off our squad. I...
So when we win its money - they win its fans?
Who was responsible for us repeatedly beating the top 4 that season?
My point was the snippy tone about the Chelsea game because it happened to be Potter. Whatever your fan culture no one really likes it being derided.
Reactive or otherwise fan...
And demonising an ex manager, creating a hostile environment which everyone particpated in,, leading, to an improved performance and various opposition players losing their heads,was us proactively helping our team create 'better events on the pitch'. Despite you characterising that process as...
People regularly 'get going' - and then there are special atmospheres for special reasons.
English crowds are pretty well know for reacting and acting with spontaneity (which can also be spontaneously being overcome by torpor - but it's an honest reaction to what is being displayed and the...
That's literally how football - in stadiums, rather than dispassionately watching from the Internet- works. Momentary human pleasure in the moment.
Spontaneous, petty grudges, schadenfreude and drunkenness.
Is it hard to imagine why that might have been the best atmosphere that season.
I...
I'd struggle to find the words to disagree with this more. For some reason the YouTube algorithm keeps sending me full matches from the 22/23 season. A season I watched in full, live. I remember he was good, but I forgot how good. Devastating in attack, almost unplayable at times and RDZ rightly...