I'm all for this extended 25 minute half time as long as they lop 5 minutes off each half of football. Especially the way we are playing at the moment.:moo:
(An 80 minute match would have ensured a point at Villa)
and therein lies the problem. I think all Prem players are vastly overpaid but we are not competing on a level playing field. We cannot attract proven decent strikers therefore we rely on a gamble from lower leagues or abroad. How long can we continue doing this ?
The County Ground at Northampton was an interesting football/cricket ground. I haven't seen the Albion there but I did go to see a match (when I was ticking off grounds) and where the football pitch ran into the cricket pitch they had erected a small wooden stand which was only three rows high...
We have gone on another of our drawing sequences , similar to last season, apart from the City game we could have won all of them but we didn't but I think we were the better side against Arsenal , Norwich , Leicester (cup), Liverpool and Newcastle - which is better than last season.