Festive Fixtures (26/27/29/30 Dec & 1st Jan).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 Jones.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Daka.

That's awful.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Don’t rate Gakpo at all, he might score the odd decent goal but a lot of the time he’s anonymous. I think Diaz is a much better player (although sometimes he also has the headless chicken about him) but technically he’s just far superior in my view

It was nice to think Leicester might get something, but if Liverpool can’t beat them at home they might as well pack up and go home

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 Salah.

[Letters]

Oh well. This was maybe a Christmas miracle too far.
Overall an excellent set of results today though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 FT.

[HCZ_Reborn]

The three promoted clubs are all in the bottom three, on current form I can’t see past them all going straight back down

I actually hope I’m wrong about this, because I don’t think it’s good for the game to have 17 clubs stratified at the top of English football and for three of the remaining clubs to be yo-yo teams like Burnley

But unfortunately it’s clear the spending power of the clubs above them is higher

[Mac76]

Don’t rate Gakpo at all

Yes, just stick to your foolish prejudices and we'll just carry on looking at the player as he is, just as we did with Rice amd many other players amd also clubs (e.g. Liverpool) you've foolishly written off

[Mac76]

The three promoted clubs are all in the bottom three, on current form I can’t see past them all going straight back down

I actually hope I’m wrong about this, because I don’t think it’s good for the game to have 17 clubs stratified at the top of English football and for three of the remaining clubs to be yo-yo teams like Burnley

But unfortunately it’s clear the spending power of the clubs above them is higher

I think it's also partly down to what is a seemingly growing trend among promoted clubs' managers to think they can mix it with PL clubs and go toe-to-toe, play out from the back etc

Much as I hate the negativity and pro-violence approach of cunts like Dyke, I'd forgive a bit of parking the bus etc from promoted teams under the circumstances

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yes, just stick to your foolish prejudices and we'll just carry on looking at the player as he is, just as we did with Rice amd many other players amd also clubs (e.g. Liverpool) you've foolishly written off

Prejudiced means having a pre-conceived idea of something that isn’t based on experience

Rice I didn’t want us to sign because he’s not technically good (he isn’t), isn’t a great passer of the ball (he isn’t) and doesn’t have great acceleration (he doesn’t). This is the reason I get frustrated why he’s played at 8. He’s fantastic at 6 where he has a great ability to sense danger and read the game to put out fires. But he’s also I maintain part of the reason why our attacking play is often too slow in a way it wasn’t when we had Partey and that Swiss halfwit at no 8


Gakpo as I say gets you goals, but what I noticed when he was at PSV and for Netherlands is that he’s often anonymous in games and still can’t hold his runs enough to stay onside a lot of the time. Bit like Marc Overmars for me in the sense that if he’s not scoring goals, his overall contribution on the pitch is negligible.

I know that you find it hard to discern between what you think and what is fact which then brings you into bother when other people have opinions.


But if you are to interact with people other than figments of your imagination, you have to understand that people might think differently from you


As for Liverpool, I have already conceded that I underestimated that Salah would prove to be as influential as he has been. I thought he was on the wane, but clearly not.