Phileas Fogg

Would you pick Rashford? He seems to be a real Southgate favourite - but, imo, hasn't justified being anywhere near consideration.

My favourite grounds aesthetically are Ibrox, Anfield and Villa Park. I also really liked Maine Road, very unique looking ground. I also like The Valley. My least favourite type of stadium is that lower league bowl style - somewhere like Doncaster

Yeah - I don't think it's been planned brilliantly in terms of generating atmosphere - and the concourse areas feel unfinished - but it's pretty good. I remember the bizarre "bus stop" proposals for the new ground when that was on the table - at least we didn't end up with that.

I think generally people class a good ground as somewhere with history, status and tradition (Fratton Park, Villa Park, Anfield, Ibrox etc) or an exceptional modern ground that has world class facilities (Spurs new ground for example). What you don't want is to go from a traditional ground with character and tradition into a disappointing new ground/rebuild - (Man City, Coventry, Southampton, West Ham) that loses all character and tradition but isn't necessarily a massive upgrade. I think we've done relatively well with the AG rebuild in balancing both, it's not perfect but given the limitations I think it's pretty good.

I think the comments on this thread are ok really - so it shouldn't be disappointing that people don't hold the same opinion.

It’s likely a metaphoric goal about getting back to his best - makes sense to aim as high as possible.

This isn’t the middle ages - people don’t stay in one place anymore so I don’t know why you keep posting this. The general consensus from ‘chirpy cockneys’ West Ham about loudest set of fans to visit them this season? Us

I’d quite like them to let Jon Lansdown off the leash and use his creative genius honed at fever pitch to devise the most hated kit possible. Onyego as sponsor, Robin badge in LGBT colours, made by O’Neills, font in comic sans.. would really like to see what he’d come up with

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It’s all relative though - with their league position and wage budget - you’d expect automatic promotion fairly stress free.

Vardy’s finishing was odd - I appreciate he’s getting on a bit now, but you’d expect him to bury at least 2 of the chances he had. It felt like one of those football manager games they throw in sometimes where you’re doing too well so guaranteed to lose regardless.

Agreed - win Monday and I think I’ll be more open minded. I appreciate we’ve had lots of injuries - but I just feel so uninspired by it all. I was fairly ambivalent whether we won or lost today.

I thought we played well - but I had the nagging feeling we won essentially due to Leicester being on poor form. I doubt they’d have missed the chances they did if they were on form. Our game plan worked though, Manning got that right. Lots of managers would’ve subbed Mehmeti off before his goal - good to see Manning stick with him and it paying off. I’m far from convinced but he deserves credit for today - he got it right.

They aren’t clever enough I don’t think - it’s just a textbook JL blunder

Oh come on Tim. You know there any outrage, people are having a nuanced discussion about what is actually a macro issue about awareness and decision making. There is no need to dumb it down so much with a straw man.