Red-Robbo

Maybe Demin at Bournemouth? He's the majority owner now. Be interesting for our division.

They got a points deduction because they cheated, allowing them to buy and retain better players than would otherwise be the case. Had they not cheated, they would have got no deduction but would also be less competitive, and therefore may well be sitting in the relegation zone anyway.

He should never have been allowed to take ownership of a UK football club. Definitely not a "fit and proper" person. In 1990, he had a market stall in Moscow selling Russian dolls, in 1992 he went to prison for a year for stealing state assets, by 1995 he is a billionaire in charge of the entire Russian denationalised aluminium industry and its second largest oil company. At no point would he and Berezovsky have had the assets to buy the refineries, mines, resources that they "acquired". In his rise are murdered aluminium and oil workers, murdered commodity brokers and murdered journalists who investigated the racket. He's perhaps the biggest crook to ever own an English club, and considering Maxwell, Oyston and some of the other previous owners, I don't make that statement lightly.

Er, they did win the FA Cup and the Uefa Cup winner's Cup in 1970. I'll concede that Arsenal were more successful from the mid-70s to mid-90s, but Chelsea were a force in the late 60s/early 70s. My observations are that Chelsea have more fans in London, but Arsenal have more across the UK and overseas.

I think that was an evidence-free posting on here, but if true I wonder how many of them are playing in any country's top flight? He must have a great agent if he's that bad.

12 in 50 according to the stats I looked up, but I suppose it depends on how they play him. I don't read Flemish well enough to know how fans see him, but I did notice he started their last game, so their manager must rate him to some degree. Mechelen are 6th in their top tier and given the decent state of Belgian football I'd warrant they could give City a tough game.

I actually don't think there are too many "wasters" on the field. You get the feeling "wasters" would be Pearson's #1 hate and be sidelined quite sharpish (as indeed at least one has). The reasons for our failure this season are a lot more complex than just players not trying.

This is it. May well be more of a failure to develop the guy rather than failure of recruitment. Now playing at Mechelen in the Belgian prem. Not a bad side at all and still only 25.

If most people thought that then they weren't seeing what I was. Not only the hardest-working member of the squad, but consistently asked to drop too deep to utilise his goal-scoring threat. I'm not the only one who thought that. I fear sometimes Alex Scott is likewise asked to play too far back the field to make the most of his threat on goal.

Historically, it often is. The other thing is, the bottom 4 (not just 3 if Reading are still in the mire) will start fighting for their lives the nearer we get to season's end. Faced with the prospect of earning a lot less money, underperforming players tend to wake up and start doubling their efforts. At any rate, I don't think it's a given that we'll beat Peterborough.

Well, I live 20 miles away from Yeovil (thank God!!) and we do have a few YTFC fans in our village. More City than Yeovil though. Even a few deluded Gasheads here - who of course never go to games and also support PL clubs.

I think it was because they couldn't have family down for the wedding in January, so they held a celebration ceremony now.

'Spose it depends on how damning the footage/phone evidence/medical report is. The lawyer on here has said how such prosecutions rarely go ahead without the co-operation of the alleged victim, but he/she will also tell you that the CPS will not take a case to court unless they have a "reasonable prospect of conviction". In practice, this is usually taken to mean that cases have a more than 50% chance of success in the case officer's opinion.

We play our worst against shit teams. Proved that on the weekend.

Let's imagine how unlikely a trio of wealthy white businessmen are to INSIST players make an anti-racism gesture - and how more likely a multi-racial group of young men (some of whom will have experienced or know those who have experienced racism) are to request that they do it.

Plus body cam footage from an officer who attended the scene apparently.

Well they may not have worked out, but at least we had Tin Plavotic....

More snortsmen than sportsmen, I expect....

Guess it depends how they lay it out. If it's just a modern, san serif font (as opposed to some fake olde worlde nonsense) then we'll be fine. If they want to include the little box graphic, it'll look a bit Play School.

My main memory is of a player so slow that he made Martin Kuhl look like Usain Bolt! He obviously hasn't been like that throughout his career and was pretty handy in his prime. Players are like anyone else though. They age at different speeds. In his case his legs were not going to let him play at 35. Huddersfield knew this when they released him.

Yup. Only in football would you be able to write off a potential quarter of a million pound mistake with just a shrug, but that's the madness of the economics of the game*. The signing does pale into insignificance compared to some of the clunkers roped in during the Lee Johnson years (although of course, he had much longer plus the "help" of Mr Ashton to sign that lot). Still a minor blot in the copy book of NP. I'd argue that Simpson never looked fit or ready in March 2021 and I'm not even sure how he passed the physical, let alone got signed. Renewing the contract doubled down on the mistake. * Well, only in football and politics

Twinned there with the worse haircut ever.

I understand they voted to do that rather than it being a rule imposed by the club. As for giving his shirt away, I suppose he's the only player whose jersey will fit an 8-year-old.

Sounds far too much like hard work. I'd simply leave the turd for millions of years until it turns into a fossil coprolite and hey presto! It can be polished to your heart's content.