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Ok, it wasn't that mainstream or popular in the 70s ☺️ I'll always associate 70s Ajax with the concept of total football, rather than pressing Anyway, I enjoy watching us high pressing or closing teams down or whatever its called

I'm obviously confused as to what a high press is then Can't imagine it was that successful in the 70s and 80s when most teams played some variation of hoofball to a Mick Harford/John Fashanu type centre forward on a pitch that resembled a farmers field

Low block is just parking the bus High press is a relatively recent thing though surely? I dont remember seeing much of that before the last 5-10 years

I wonder if they practice this? Top Shithousery

There’s an angle on the replay where it looks like it hits his hand first. whatever. if we keep playing like this we beat them over 2 legs

Pope is absolutely key to our shithousery. They cant make him go off the pitch, so he is often injured. Multiple balls on the pitch before the penalty. Genius move.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/465277 Chelsea have named only 21 out of 25 players in their squad. They have the maximum of 17 non Home Grown Players. All of their other players are under 21 players. Barkley isn't a replacement. They don't have to remove anyone from their squad to add him.

They have space for 4 home grown players in their match squad at the moment, so he's not replacing anybody.

You're right, but I am struggling to think of a player I hate more than him. He just made Shane Long look like Messi.

Paul Moran, Billy Askew, Darron McDonough...the list is endless. Point is after a short period of time the lack of ability was spotted and they were moved on. Even Fereday never got a second season. Shola is the only challenger and even then I can remember games where he looked unplayable. Or maybe a half. Or a 15 minute spell. Or that one time when he...

Depends on the criteria. We have had some poor players make a handful of appearances. But on longevity of shitness, he's in the top 1.

To be fair to him, it must be confusing as a defender when the opposition run at you with the ball. I'm guessing that's not something he experiences in training. Worst player ever in our history.

Basically the Spinal Tap of football clubs. Making the Makems handling of the kiddy fiddler look professional...

I'm beginning to feel sorry for him. The club are massively taking the piss now. He should have been sacked Saturday night, not left to stew while we obviously whore ourselves around the international bargain bin of management discards...

Not enough characters??? You picked Riviere you stupid cunt.

A fucking park bench is better than most of our starters

Well the bbc table has manu 13 points clear, which they aren't...

I think either one of them could come good. They just need a bit of time and patience. When any of you start a new job are you immediately the most productive member of the team or does it take a while for you to settle in? Plus these fella's have moved to a new city/country. Give them a chance and judge them over the next couple of seasons. I remember Colo struggling in his first season and look at him now, there isn't a better centre half in the league. Personally I think Obertan has a chance but he obviously needs working on and some support.

Not seen a mention of how awesome Krul was tonight. He's a large part of why we are doing so well this season. Nice change after Given and Harper to have a keeper who comes off his line and claims crosses, corners and throw ins. You can see how much confidence the defence has when he dominates his area.

I'm only pissed off because I had to put up with another 30 minutes of Phil Fucking Thomson.

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This is Fat Mike's 4th year here, so the previous 6 seasons were under Shepherd. Let's say we do finish in the top 10 this season. That's 1 top ten finish (not even confirmed yet) in four seasons for Fat Mike and 4 top ten finishes out of 6 seasons for Shepherd. You do the maths on that one and let me know if you really think that's a 'fact' in Fat Mike's favour or not. EDIT: I see Leazes already beat me to that one. Fat Fred's Trophy Haul 0-0 Fat Mike's Trophy Haul I see. So Bobby Robson and Keegan were failures ? Bit of a straw man there fella...

This is Fat Mike's 4th year here, so the previous 6 seasons were under Shepherd. Let's say we do finish in the top 10 this season. That's 1 top ten finish (not even confirmed yet) in four seasons for Fat Mike and 4 top ten finishes out of 6 seasons for Shepherd. You do the maths on that one and let me know if you really think that's a 'fact' in Fat Mike's favour or not. EDIT: I see Leazes already beat me to that one. Fat Fred's Trophy Haul 0-0 Fat Mike's Trophy Haul

Is that the January window that closes at the end of August? He signed in August 2006...

Unfair? Andy Gray is suing the News of the World over the phone hacking allegations. The same NotW, who errr, just happen to be owned by the same people that own Sky. Nice one Andy. You might want to forget that before someone at your current employer digs out some tapes of you making some slightly unguarded sexist comments and you find yourself without a job.