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RDZ in his press conference last night said that we are about playing young players and that young players have to be given the chance to play and make their mistakes in order to improve. He took pains to point out that although Barco made a mistake for the third goal, he 'played a good game'...

It seems to me that last year's achievements may have made some of us presume that we automatically belong in the highest echelons of European football and that us fans are being let down by every disappointing result, so in response to the recent spate of woe is us/sack everyone threads, here's...

Last night was gutting. It's never nice to be on the wrong side of a heavy defeat. It's never nice to get knocked out of a cup competition. (I know we're not technically yet). However, the team gets very little time for analysis and it's straight on to Forest at the weekend and then...

Without Pervis, Lamps & Solly, we have to fit square pegs into round holes to cover at full back. Veltman is a natural right back, but we have nobody fit who has played regularly as a left back. The last of Igor's 11 games in the position was in 2021. Milner did a season there for Liverpool...

Thinking about Trotskyism because of the discussions on the 'Tory Meltdown' thread has reminded me that one of the greatest bands of the eighties, The Redskins sadly made just one album during their career. There was a live album put out some years later, but during their time together, they...

Six changes yesterday away at a team that hadn't lost at home for a year. Dahoud came in for Gilmour who has arguably been the key player in the last few games and he helped us run the midfield. Welbeck replaced Ferguson after his hat-trick against Newcastle and was one of the best players...

After all the talk of how many more South American countries we need a player from, here is the current FIFA Top 100 and confirmation of whether we have had a player from that nation and whether we've had someone who has played international football for them. I'm sure some of it will be wrong...

Disappointing that Amol Rajin, and not Samira Ahmed, has replaced Paxman, but 'University Challenge' is back next week: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/14/new-host-new-set-same-fiendish-questions-behind-the-scenes-with-the-all-new-university-challenge The wonderful 'Only...

Adam Hills on the Last Leg was just talking about being in the box at Lords last week with William, George and Sunak and showed this photo. The Prime Minister & two heirs to the throne and, in his position, none of us would mention any of them, when we arrived home saying 'Wow! Guess who I've...

Inspired a bit by @Bozza 's recent thread of positivity https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/what-unites-us-is-greater-than-what-divides-us.401965/ and the Christianity discussion, I've been thinking that 1) We all need stuff in our lives that brings us unqualified joy; and that 2) This stuff...

The Guardian kicked off their coverage https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2023/jun/09/champions-league-final-countdown-transfer-news-and-more-football-live of tomorrow night's game with a weird opinion piece...

I've never posted one of these, so excuse the lack of Instagram etc. There is probably nothing in it, but when I was looking at Transfermarkt to see how to spell Dahoud, I noticed that someone had posted a rumour linking us to him. I can't find mention anywhere else at all, so am guessing that...

This was from 10 May. We have now Played 11 and won 19 points: Arsenal LW Chelsea WW Liverpool DW Man City L? Man Utd WW Spurs LL An average of 1.727 points per game. Over a full season that would be 65 points and European qualification. This also doesn't account for the fact that, with...

http://footballpoets.org/poems/goldstone-ghosts/ I’ll raise a glass today Atilla.

I'm guessing that 'Foxy' meant 'sly' or 'crafty' as opposed to 'vulgar' as suggested by the Guardian. Surely he couldn't have meant 'foxy' in the way that Jimi Hendrix did?

Fulham's manager in his press conference said that we have had more of the ball than the opposition in 100% of RDZ's games in charge. I know that our possession has gone up even further from the high levels it was at under GP, but didn't think that was true. I took a look at the 19 cup and...

On Saturday Buonanotte became the eighth player aged 21 or under that we have used in an EPL game this season. That moves us above Chelsea and Wolves who have picked seven. Southampton joined us on eight by giving a debut to their new signing Sulemana. We actually ended Saturday's game with...

With the seemingly imminent departure of Trossard likely to push our transfer balance this season to somewhere over 80m Euros* (Unless we buy someone other than Buonanotte this month), I wondered how this compares with previous instances of big transfer balance profits and what impact making a...

To add to the Potter v De Zerbi debate, (and inspired by Louise Taylor's reference in the Guardian's coverage of the weekend's games), we have a nominatively better statistical chance of winning the FA Cup under Roberto. Unless you count George, no Grahams have ever managed their team to a FA...

According to Transfermarkt records, since Tony Bloom becoming chairman in 2009/10 , there are 60 players who are no longer playing for us who's signing or selling or both involved a fee. Their figures are given in Euros. There are three figures listed as unknown. I've assumed that we let...