Recent content by Commander

The idea that Bloom is happy to sanction a couple of million quid or so on somebody who is basically a cheerleader is, quite frankly, f***ing ludicrous. If Bloom thinks Milner is worth whatever a year’s contract is, then that is good enough for me. I’m not going to pass judgement with no inside...

Never seen that before, superb goal.

How do you know it is altitude that is stopping him working hard on the pitch? That seems extremely unlikely to me.

We really are going backwards.

Guessing that as she is trying to draw attention to climate change, she should have swum.

Yeah I’m confused by this as well. My kids are in football, cricket and tennis clubs. Yes the clubs are a pain to deal with sometimes but I don’t see how it is hard to get them into them? It’s a million times easier than it was when I was a kid, there are so many more options.

My Palace mate says the odds of all this happening before 1st March were calculated at 400/1, and so it’s unfair to blame Parish etc for not seeing it. Pretty sure Bloom would have done though.

Yes, I think so. In fact I'd be amazed if we didn't in the next 20 years. We've been so close recently, and actually genuinely close rather than 'all those oh so nears' in the 80's and 90's where we were the 7th best team and the tournament. It will happen sooner or later, I'm sure of it. The...

I'm not just talking about goalkeepers. The pitch and the goal dimensions being too big is just going to make size and power even more important in women's football than it is in men's football. And, the percentage of the male population who are over 6 foot is much higher than the percentage of...

100%. A Sussex-based Fulham-supporting friend of mine took his 11year old son to his first ever away game last year (Wolves). I asked him how the journey was with him and he said "Fine, he just played on his iPad the whole time". I just don't get it. If I have a 3 hour journey with my 11 year...

On the male goalies point- the game was completely different then. Heavier balls, it was much slower, the players were much less fit. You can't tell me a 5"8 keeper would do well in today's game. Give it 10-15 years or so, and I bet the average female professional footballer will be over 6 foot...

It is odd, isn't it? I'm pretty sure if I had a daughter playing in goal I would be thinking this is f***ing ridiculous, as she got lobbed for the 4th time when on her goal line. So many times I've seen a goal on social media scored in women's football that they are saying is an absolute...

Fair point. But maybe I phrased it wrong- Is it LOSING money? Because if it is, then it is a vanity (or possibly even virtual-signalling?) project. And I would imagine the last thing a lot of football clubs need is yet another drain on resources. It's been mentioned already, but if the men's...

So the tallest keeper you could find to quote is the same height as Maty Ryan. It doesn't feel like the strongest comeback. I've watched the women at the Amex and I've watched women's football at grass roots level. There is a girl in my son's team in fact, she is class (and is in the Albion...

Yes I do, definitely. I don't see why it's controversial to say that a goalkeeper who is 5"5 has a massive disadvantage over a goalkeeper who is 6"5 when in the same goal, and that the game would be better adjusted for the former. But quite apart from that, the Amex is a particularly big pitch...