Tinmans Love Child

Let's hope we don't get a Boris Johnson to Liz Truss situation if we do sack him! ?? Agreed, I don't need social media to tell me how poor results and performances have been! Don't forget when NP joined on a short term deal the results were awful and we still gave him a contract! What was the point of the trial run if the results are bad but you still get the job? Nothing has really improved since then. I'm gutted as I thought he was the right man (and I wanted him when LJ was hired which would have been perfect timing) but you can't be only winning 30% of your games, have a terrible home record for your whole tenure, and keep your job

Maybe not fair to compare but LJ also had the Crown Jewels sold every summer to contend with, interesting debate

So doesn't that suggest that in two years, NP has not been able to change the culture, attitude, tactics, training etc etc in anyway whatsoever to improve results by just using his experience, man management skills, tactical brain? If yes then that's pretty poor management in my book. Whatever players you inherit, what ever business you can or cannot do, after 2 years I would expect improvements on the pitch surely? If not by now then when?

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I am sensing a horrible 4-1 defeat after we take the lead, maybe it's too many sherries over Xmas blighting my positivity so I hope I'm very wrong! I'll take a draw no problem COYR

? it's taken me longer to get into town sometimes! I think sacrificing most of Xmas day to stay in a hotel for such a short time would have been a touch over the top

Apart from that kick off! ??

Wow I never expected that! Just goes to show that you never know how players really feel, I've always thought he never wanted to be here but what do I know!

I see comments that this is the most talented group of players in years etc etc but we've heard that since the early 00's with that crop as well, then it was all about Rooney being the special one. I think we are competitive on the world stage for the first time in my 44 years, but probably lack a real top drawer superstar player to take us that extra step. I think Southgate has done an amazing job, and much better than the many many experienced managers before him have done. Would another so say experienced manager done better? No one can say but they havnt in the past

I'm seeing NP in a similar light to SOD now, both had a tough job in a transition period for the club, they did what was necessary to reset the clock, then somebody else is needed to come in and take the glory. I don't deny it's been tough for NP with the lack of cash and overblown squad and all the rest of it, but I can't see he is ever going to be able to take advantage of things once sorted because he's already spent in terms of what he says and does and I think a fresh manager with fresh ideas COULD push us on. His record is nothing short of awful really, he's closing in on 100 games in charge and has lost half of his games! I wanted him here, I thought he would succeed but I just can't see it working

The old general hospital, Danny Simpson was there previously and my mate used to see a Deliveroo going to his place every day, explains a lot!

My work colleague lives in the flat above them, he said that when a big match is on TV he sees them out on their terrace at half time doing keepie uppies!

I work in Internal Audit within financial services so am very familiar with the FCA approach to oversight and governance, so these proposals certainly look interesting. For me it's mind boggling that Football Clubs are pretty much subject to no real financial regulation despite how much money is pumping in and out of even small clubs so all good ideas. I think my ideal job within IA will be with this new body and I get to travel to all the football clubs to audit them!

Your mate didn't sum it up at all, ridiculous comment

Southgate is on the FIFA gravy train as well, he was instructed to do it ??

I'll refer you to my previous answer. What are your thoughts on the aliens in Area 51?

I can 100% say that FIFA conspiring to rig the results of the World Cup to engineer a World Cup final is total BS! e.g. if they wanted the Messi v Ronaldo final then were Morocco not in on it, did they refuse to co-operate to allow Portugal safe passage through? Is the conspiracy to just keep England away from the final at all costs so they brought in a referee who would make us lose? Was Kane involved and was directed by FIFA to miss the second penalty? Absolute rubbish

I just don't buy any conspiracy theories, yeh the ref was poor but suggesting that he was trying to influence the result through his decisions is ridiculous. If he wanted France to win, surely he would awarded them a penalty or sent one of our players off? He awarded us 2 penalties, which is a strange way to influence the game in France's favour unless Kane was also involved in the FIFA conspiracy and deliberately ballooned the penalty over the bar to make sure nobody suspected the referee of being involved in the FIFA conspiracy as well?

What's this "our threads bigger than your thread"? ??

I was Googling how goal line tech works and found this article from a German guy dated June 2022 who mentions the Lampard goal and how Germany might suffer a similar fate in the future! He wasn't wrong!https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/how-does-the-goal-line-technology-work.html

Sorry to be a pedant but what you suffered in Oz is xenophobia not racism isn't it? Not very nice obviously

My comment wasn't aimed at you personally, I don't know you, although I'm not sure why anyone would be content with not being PC, if you know a term or joke or comment which you used to use back in the day is now deemed offensive, then to me it seems pretty strange to knowingly not care about that and continue to use it, just because you don't deem it offensive. I think the difference now is we have a much more diverse population than we did even 20/30 years ago let alone 50/60 years ago, so it's only natural that attitudes to certain things like race and religion will (and should) change. When I was in senior school 1990-95, in my whole school year there were 4 black kids and 0 Asian kids out of say 200 kids total. My understanding is that minority groups make up closer to 50% of kids now. Im sure those 4 kids in my year will have taken just as much offence to the causal racist comments, that will no doubt have been uttered from time to time, to kids from minority groups today, the difference now is to some extent strength in numbers, and those casual racist instances are getting called out more and more, and as the minority's increase, the awareness of what is or isn't racist is much more prevalent for all groups. It may seem like the millennials are too PC, although that's not really a bad thing is it, but actually they are more aware of what is or isn't acceptable in 2022. I don't agree in cancel culture as I accept times have changed, but it's poor to knowingly not change your attitudes. I would be sacked from my job if I referred to colleagues using terms from my youth, or made jokes that were deemed ok in my youth, and rightly so. I'm not weak for having this attitude, far from it.

Im 44 next month and fantasy football was on when I was in my mid teens. I don't really see it as that long ago, but obviously in terms of what is tolerated or understood now, it's worlds apart from today in terms of what is acceptable, but unlike others I don't see this as a bad thing. In my own experience, the people who have a problem with this change in attitudes towards what is acceptable to say are the ones who are still dishing out the abuse and they want to continue to do so, and instead of taking responsibility they blame those who stand up to their outdated attitudes