If we put four or five past Nathan Ashmore I'd back us to win the League outright, even if Sutton put ten past Torquay! 1-0 would actually be a cracking result for us! Strange stuff this Non-League. Stockport sign Paddy Madden, known for his goals, team improves, but he isn't scoring them. Wrexham get Hollywood money, go into a slump, hit by bad-luck and poor performances. Notts County sack their manager days before they have a chance to reach Wembley and whilst they are in a challenging position in the league with games in hand, Solihull get this level's big-name player and are never sighted again, Sutton look like winning the league, but they'll have to dig up a pitch that cost half a million if they do, Torquay come out of the traps like greyhounds and just when it looks as though they are true stayers, they start to fall apart, but just as we all get used to them falling apart, they re-discover their inner greyhound, Chesterfield get a new young manager and progress from third bottom to the promotion race. and up their game from snail's pace in the transfer market to being such wheelers and dealers that opponents aren't so much worried about the result against us, as us taking our pick of their most promising players.
And as for you SGB saying that about Son, no wonder Archie Moore gave you detention! I like Jermaine Jenas, but he'd have us believe it is perfectly natural to wave your arm behind you into an opponent's face during a challenge. If McTominay touched him, then that's a foul irrespective of Son's tears. I agree Son went a little far when he decided to take the ball in and went off to fetch his dad who is bigger and harder than everybody else's dad.
Did anyone see Liam Cooper's sending off? That gland Shearer thought it was dangerous, course it was you gland, lots of things in sport are dangerous but there are two parties to dangerous incidents. One does something potentially dangerous, whilst the other puts himself into an endangered position. Being from the Bob-Wilson school of goalkeeping I went into dangerous situations most games. I took plenty of kicks etc from players who were going for the ball, including follow-throughs from lads who'd got there before me. If every time that happened there had been a sending-off we'd have ended playing against ten men every other week! Had Cooper not gone for that ball his alternative would have been to change direction and try and go with the forward. I could outpace Liam Cooper at 68. If he'd chosen that option and a goal had resulted from the move smug pundits would have been re-winding play to his failure to tackle and telling us he had the chance to win the ball. If a player is to be sent off when he wins the ball due to something that happens in the inevitable follow-through, not only will that make defenders hesitant to tackle and/or intercept, but also it will tempt attacking players to endanger themselves in the hope of getting caught and reducing their opponents to ten men. Of course you shouldn't endanger an opponent, after all it is only a game, but equally if you to choose to avoid doing that you should not risk being scapegoated and blamed if the result goes against your team. OPINION!
Call fouls, but look after the game for those who watch by keeping players on the pitch.
And as for you SGB saying that about Son, no wonder Archie Moore gave you detention! I like Jermaine Jenas, but he'd have us believe it is perfectly natural to wave your arm behind you into an opponent's face during a challenge. If McTominay touched him, then that's a foul irrespective of Son's tears. I agree Son went a little far when he decided to take the ball in and went off to fetch his dad who is bigger and harder than everybody else's dad.
Did anyone see Liam Cooper's sending off? That gland Shearer thought it was dangerous, course it was you gland, lots of things in sport are dangerous but there are two parties to dangerous incidents. One does something potentially dangerous, whilst the other puts himself into an endangered position. Being from the Bob-Wilson school of goalkeeping I went into dangerous situations most games. I took plenty of kicks etc from players who were going for the ball, including follow-throughs from lads who'd got there before me. If every time that happened there had been a sending-off we'd have ended playing against ten men every other week! Had Cooper not gone for that ball his alternative would have been to change direction and try and go with the forward. I could outpace Liam Cooper at 68. If he'd chosen that option and a goal had resulted from the move smug pundits would have been re-winding play to his failure to tackle and telling us he had the chance to win the ball. If a player is to be sent off when he wins the ball due to something that happens in the inevitable follow-through, not only will that make defenders hesitant to tackle and/or intercept, but also it will tempt attacking players to endanger themselves in the hope of getting caught and reducing their opponents to ten men. Of course you shouldn't endanger an opponent, after all it is only a game, but equally if you to choose to avoid doing that you should not risk being scapegoated and blamed if the result goes against your team. OPINION!
Call fouls, but look after the game for those who watch by keeping players on the pitch.