The young chap who scored the winner for United looks something special. Irrespective of how crap they are he has started 8 games in a row at 18 and scored a brilliant goal (link for those who haven't seen it).
Too soon to say for sure but England have a number of talented young midfielders coming through the ranks.
Surely that's pretty much as good an appointment as they could realistically have expected to attract?
No clue why they didn't go for him instead of Deeney in the first place. What an odd saga.
Hasn’t this happened multiple times at the Gate over the years? I’m sure I remembered both Johnsons doing so, though I may be misremembering. Certainly not something I would attribute to Jurgen Klopp.
Nice to see two ex-Robins captaining a Premier League game - Kelly for Bournemouth playing against Brownhill for Burnley - surely the first time that has happened?
Just seen that Ipswich are 13/1 to be relegated. So apparently less likely to go down than us (6/1), Swansea (7/1), Coventry (10/1), West Brom (10/1), Millwall (11/1)….
Surely worth a cheeky fiver considering they didn’t even win the league!
By definition it’s a competitive fixture as you can’t play trialists. Your players have to be professionally registered.
So while it’s clearly not a trophy of any great magnitude, to call it pre-season is being disingenuous.