Agree 100% and as per your last sentence, surely Bloom and Barber must sit down with Potter to agree on taking this approach. Be very interested to know how that plays out, whether the ultimate say is GP’s or not.
First two posts above sum it up, couldn’t risk the thin squad but as a PL team this is arguably our best ever chance to win silverware, disappointing that we don’t take it seriously. Wonder if Bloom has any input into it.
Who says people aren’t taking that into account? (your last sentence). Dress it up how you like, but, as much as it pains to say it, we just don’t have fans of the calibre of those at Fratton; no way would the Amex be anything but pretty much empty by the 80th minute, let alone after 5 minutes...
And sadly had that been us down 0-4 at the Amex against Palace the home stands would be very sparsely populated. An impressive show by the Pompey fans, relatively few empty spaces at full time.
They recently reopened The Holocaust section at the IWM London after a summer of expanding it and revamping it, their recommended time to do that 4th floor is 1.5 hours, I was in there for over 2. Well worth a look (just ignore the foreign students filming themselves doing Nazi salutes by the...
There’s a very good documentary on him, Oskar Gröning, featuring interviews with him, coupled with dramatisations, not sure if this is the same thing, it was on YouTube.
And hopefully his fall will be spectacular. Similar to his slimy ex-mate Cameron, Johnson’s entire raison d’etre has always been Number 10, stepping on any ‘inferior specimen’ who got in his way en route to being PM. Vile individual.
Kosh lifted that whole piece from a song called ‘The Magpie Cryeth’ by seminal 1970s prog rock collective The Mists of Scapa Flow. Top bombing all round.
Good analysis and I agree with you, but you’re missing the lifestyle issue for players; money only goes so far when you’re waking up under the slate grey skies of Manchester and other UK cities on a regular basis when you could be living in Spain. Players like Suarez, Coutinho, Hazard...