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I understand the value of possession football. When you've got the ball, the opposition can't hurt you. But I'm drawn to the phrase 'It is what it is'. I'm not repeating an old joke there by the way. I'm making an observation. When a person says 'It is what it is', it tells you he accepts...

I've just remembered what Warren Aspinall said about us during one game (it may have been Everton - not sure). Excitedly, he said we are quicker in the final third, and that doesn't give opposition defences the time to set. Obviously he was comparing it to how we used to be. If we are now...

We never really played badly. We competed against most teams. I was never one calling for a new striker, because I could see we were creating chances. It was just the final ball, final product missing. Towards the end, Potter did seem to fix this. Now take a look at this report: 'Chelsea...

Grizzling? Prat? Are you always this aggressive? For the record, I was never a 'Potter out' person. I thought Potter was the business, even though I wanted to see more, well, goals. Now we've got RDZ, the goals are flowing, and with the benefit of hindsight, together with five months to...

Actually, we were doing all right, but we're doing better now! In case you hadn't spotted it, RDZ is an upgrade on Potter, using the same set of players. Far from rewriting history, I'm looking forward to the future we now have with RDZ.

Perhaps Potter did us all a favour by seizing his chance with Chelsea. We could have suffered his football for years, and with inertia, never have known about RDZ and how profoundly different possession football could be from Potterball.

Haha - I was just going to post the same thing. BBC say 4 shots and none on target. The result is the same anyway. Lots of possession, but no end product.