Zola quits. Great player, comes across as nice bloke, shame really but just don't think being a manager is for him.

Huddersfield might though.

Schards#2

Forbury Lion

Schards#2 If you weren't at Chesterfield 7-1 Reading circa 1978, I don't want to hear about it

Are you in the 28 club then?

No, thankfully, I didn't bother on Saturday

What we need is for Kes to give us an answer as to which set of three results makes up the definitive 21 club.

I see Mourinho is back to what he does best. Publicly undermining his players. Maybe Shaw's form is suffering because he's being managed by an obnoxious pcunt with dubious man management skills. And Zlatan's being a bit non conmittal about signing a new contract. "I didn't come here to waste t...

BR0B0T I rem Chelsea netting off the front row seats as they had
to put in larger advertising displays for televised games
(i may totally be imagining this )

That was a Champions League thing wasn't it?

Oh, and I agree that Liverpool's treble of cup wins should not be called the treble unless its in the context of "Gary, tell is about the treble of cups you won that season".

Type in THE treble football into google and see what comes up first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_(association_football) Here's a list of teams that have done THE treble. Celtic Scotland Scotland UEFA 1966–67[b] Scottish Football League, Scottish Cup, European Cup Ajax Netherlands Netherlan...

Not convinced there is such a definitive thing as the treble. If there was I'd say it would be a clean sweep of the domestic competitions. Everything else is a just a treble.

Pepe the Horseman I want us to beat Leeds on pens, after 90% possession and no shots.

As amusing as that will be I'll have to get on a train home with them so I'd rather we were 7-0 up and half-time and they all left early.

Says something that Rooney getting dropped* from that not great looking squad hasn't really created that many headlines.


* reports say he's available for selection

Its a nonsense isn't it. All for chasing promotion which if they achieve their thanks will be getting the sack within 6 months if they aren't in the top half of the Premier League.

Winston Smith

I understand Lineker getting overexcited as he used to play for them but the others must be putting that on a bit. Has Owen shown that much movement since he was about 23?

He looks down at Zlatan so has a fairly good picture of his position Yep, looks as deliberate as Costa's did against Liverpool last* season, he knows exactly where he is. *was it the season before? Zlatan also does not take his eyes off the ball. Maybe, but he's deliberately chucked his elbow back ...

Loving the outrage. Reigning champions sack the manager of the year. Yeah that's not happened since way back in, er, last season.

Do you reckon they remembered to put relegation clauses in those nice new players contracts?

Nameless Anyone spot themselves in the crowd ?
BR2 perhaps ?

RL is the middle aged woman at the front.

Nameless So we have Kermogant who is a line leader, we have Samuels, Rakells who are different, and we have Meite who looks different again.
What are we looking for ?

Someone who scores lots of goals. HTH.

I met Pat Nevin in '83 when Clyde were on a pre-season jaunt in Aberystwyth and I was on some summer football camp thing. Chelsea were there at the same time and signed him very soon after. Both sets of players did some coaching with us and a Q&A session which prompted this amusing exchange as n...

Interesting. How come in other sports its the individual athlete that has to do the whereabouts stuff but football its down to the club? In this case, it's the club at fault. Regulation 14(a) reminds clubs that they must furnish the FA upon request with any whereabouts information, which at a minim...

Tony Le Mesmer He really only does co-commentary, but I like the old pervo David Pleat on R5 Live. Pretty much just gives a tactical summary of what he thinks is happening on the pitch. Just tells it as it is.

+1 and Jimmy Armfield does the same thing brilliantly.

Interesting. How come in other sports its the individual athlete that has to do the whereabouts stuff but football its down to the club?