This Weekend's Fixtures & Leicester v Newcastle (05/06/07 Apr)

[HCZ_Reborn]

I went to Keele University and I lived in Stoke on Trent for a year

I still despise Stoke

[HCZ_Reborn]

Man Utd: Onana, Dalot, Mazraoui, Maguire, Yoro, Dorgu, Ugarte, Fernandes, Casemiro, Garnacho, Hojlund
Subs: Bayindir, Amass, Kukonki, Lindelof, Shaw, Eriksen, Mount, Obi, Zirkzee

Man City: Ederson, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Gundogan, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Marmoush
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Grealish, Doku, Nico, Reis, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis, McAtee

Seeing the United front line reminds me of what Dennis Healy once said about Geoffrey Howe as a parliamentary debater. A bit like being savaged by a dead sheep

[Mac76]

I hope Ram gets another PL gig, but this time for a club whose manager doesn't adopt suicidal tactics

[Letters]

Southampton are one of those clubs I’m pretty neutral about.
Obviously I don’t support them but they’re inoffensive enough.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Foul given outside the area, just. Dias on a yellow already.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I went to Uni there so in theory they’re one of my second teams and I should care.
But I don’t.
Quite liked Le Tiss back in the day before he went mental

Yeah fuck em basically..I'm just sad we will probably get Sheffield United in exchange and possibly Burnley too.

Bored of them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I can’t say I know too much about what tactics Southampton employ. The main issue seems to be that most of their players aren’t premier league standard.

They have a couple of youngsters that might break through in time and Ramsdale I think will get another premier league club (though if he’s smart he will avoid one of the newly promoted clubs for 25/26….as I think we are likely to enter an era of clubs getting promoted and going straight back down….especially if Burnley and Sheffield United get promoted again)

Leicester…they have a couple of premier league level players but the fact that 38 year old Vardy plays week in week out is telling. Simply don’t have the money to buy themselves a team that can sustain itself in the league.


Ipswich are the Luton of last season, I think ultimately just don’t have it in them….i think Delap will be sold (and I’d like it tif be to us)

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I wonder if this will be the pattern for the next few years, the same shite clubs coming up and going straight back down. Not good enough for the Premier League but rich enough, and too good for the Championship.

A Super League in all but name.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yeah fuck em basically..I'm just sad we will probably get Sheffield United in exchange and possibly Burnley too.

Bored of them.

Burnley and Sheffield United are yo yo clubs (a bit like Norwich and West Brom in the recent history past) too good for the championship, not good enough for the premier league (the gap between the two divisions which I think has been intensified by FSR is bigger than it’s ever been.

For me there are 17 premier league clubs of varying quality that on their day are capable of giving any other team real problems, and there are three teams that are fodder for goal difference…I sadly don’t see that changing next season

[HCZ_Reborn]

I wonder if this will be the pattern for the next few years, the same shite clubs coming up and going straight back down. Not good enough for the Premier League but rich enough, and too good for the Championship.

A Super League in all but name.

It’s definitely something I’m worried about. I’m a bit sad that Leeds have dropped off because a) quite like Leeds despite their deserved reputation from the 70s of being scrotes and b) I think they are more likely to survive in the premier league than Sheffield United or Burnley