has had a second surgery and will be back in feb. good news that we know when he’s back and he will be there for the business end of the season, but still some way over the 16week estimate for the injury he had. will take him a while to get up to speed
no empirical evidence to back this up but purely based on the eye test, teams in the PL are more physical and faster than teams in the EL and dealing with that is our achilles heel this season
yeah winning something is pretty much all i want to see now. i still have quite a few years left hopefully, so if they can be as successful as possible then brilliant.
but in this day and age, where trophies are reserved for a select few giants and petroclubs, if we won something, I would feel...
it’s an interesting conundrum. i think he was very good in the context of a european game. by that i mean, the other top european leagues are generally less intense and physical so the refs generally allow less contact. i think, considering that, he did pretty well. no howlers, and the foul...
very much worth a mention tonight. fantastic, ingenious pass for the goal. always manages to deliver in the big moments. some have written him off as too slow, or not scoring enough, myself included, but i honestly don’t know what we’d do without him
nearly in tears here
i know it’s old hat to mention this, but to be on the verge of going out of the football league to winning a europa league group within 25ish years is incredible. and when you see the crowd and the players, and the manager when we scored that goal, it brings it all home. we...
exactly why i said a couple of moments ago that ferguson would suit this game. the lad knows how to get himself a quarter yard of space and be clinical
very good first half all round. passing a lot more incisive and purposeful than saturday. a few nice ideas tried but not come off yet, we need to try and nab a goal early in the second half as you do suspect that marseille could counter and get a goal from one solitary attack (don’t know if that...