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I've seen us lose in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.

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You mean: "He's a liability when he doesn't have the ball" ? If so, Cruyff's quote about a player having the ball for on average only 3 minutes in a game springs to mind, he said: "...the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball? That is what determines whether you are a good player or not." I don’t think boys like KP and many others like him grow up believing this from JC to be true - as a boy, skipping past 5 or 6 opponents at will, scoring 40 or 50 goals a season - they grow up believing they are incredibly special and talented, and have what it takes and are destined to be a special player for someone like Chelsea - and this talent certainly carries them a long way and gets them so far - even as far as lucrative professional contracts - but eventually most meet reality and the limits of their talent. Then what? Then, to be a "good player or not" is determined by other things, nothing to do with your ability to manipulate a ball. And this is where, I imagine, boys like KP - feted for so long, told they are "special" or "talented" - struggle. To be good player ie get picked, involves a whole lot of stuff they believe is for other less talented boys and not for them. They can't or won't make the switch It's not like KP will be unaware of what is required in professional football to be a good player, to be a regular First XI player, so what has he done about that in his time - he has had plenty of this here - here? Is it a case of he "can't" or he "won't" ? As I imagine it, some boys that grow up streets ahead of their peers and feted for their talent just can't be doing with what is required in those 87 minutes and when they are being rewarded as KP still is, and no doubt will be again when he's gone from here, then it must be tempting to think: why change? They want the game to fit to how they are, not the other way round. I am guessing and speculating but KP has had long enough now - long enough here, long enough out on loan - to know what is required and do something about and adapt his game, but it hasn't happened.

Well, nowadays, any really good player will only be here for one season/sold at the next transfer window, while the average and the rubbish players will be here for considerably longer. So not as many as years gone by when players played for years and years, and clubs held the whip.

I was fibbing. And being silly. Far too silly. It was a long weekend. I do apologise.

... and Fair dooze. Guilty as charged, tbf.

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Next time we drew Liverpool in the cup, we managed to squeeze three games out of it and three times the ticket sales. Not as dim-witted as many like to think, the City board of directors

Good answer, chucky. A few of the "Super" fans forgot this one ....

Just got both spinning on me decks now .... not sure how Fat Boy Slim does it, tbf

I've changed me mind. I won't go back down the City ground until Kraftwerk play there. Supported by Kate Bush (or maybe vice versa).

Now, now Silv. Try and answer the questions properly

You are not alone, Cliff. We are here with you

You don't get bored now?

What was yer last game? And why you haven't been arsed since? Mine: Man City in the cup. Previous to that, Man Utd. Been busy, tbf. Won't go again until Kasey "Ken" Palmer is bombed out. You?

Exciting football helps. The ball being in the penalty area - ideally, the opposition's penalty area - helps. Shots on goal help. It might not be sophisticated but someone "bombing on" down the left and right and whipping it in the box between the retreating defenders and goalkeeper - this sort of thing helps with rousing a passive audience from their seats and their slumber and their apathy. And their phones. Neat passing sideways and back in the middle of the pitch doesn't help.

Yes, but only twice. In 120 years, or whatever it is. So you can say: "we're not going up" using our history as your "source" and be reasonably confident in your prediction. You can go on to look at the record of relegated clubs bouncing straight back up and the inequality of the division, should you feel the need for further reassurance that "we're not going up." The "strangest" thing that ever happened here was being relegated three seasons in succession. That, we've only managed once. But not if we are promoted.

"The club had asked Garth to take a look at this lad called Jamie Vardy .... " So Vardy was already somewhere on the Leicester "radar." Or known about, to some extent. It wasn't a scout taking in a random game and seeing some one and some thing no-one had seen before. I would imagine even us lot on here could see Vardy had "pace." The decision to pay a record for a non-league player when signing Vardy was perhaps as much the interesting part of the story - and relevant to us now - as the "finding" of this undiscovered talent.

Right, so he's crocked, will be out for a year, and never be the same again.

Think it was Preston. Lost 0:1. Tom Finney pretended to be concussed, and there was a lot of "shit housery." The ref was a disgrace.

Does a lot of, er, "running around," though. Not saying that's all he does though .....

"Around ..." ? Curiously lacking in precision and detail, here?

Maybe. But it's starting to rain, and there's no roof.

Now I think about it, it was 2:10pm. Still early enough to avoid a proper "reception" and get an escort to the away end. Crowds were about 5 or 6000 then, so most rocked up about 2:50/2:55.

Very early, though. Before 2pm. Barely anyone in there. Bit like going to Millwall on a Thursday.