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Liverpool are well and truly choking on their Premiership title dreams, yesterday dropping points to an Everton team in dire straits on and off the pitch. It’s a shame for Jurgen Klopp; a man who is on everyone’s ‘I’d like to be best pals’ wishlist, because I think most feel it’d be great for football if he won something huge.
Liverpool has spent well, the football vision is exciting, but it’s starting to look like this season might be a little beyond them. Pep G’s winning machine – supported by my best pal – looks like it’s just finding its winning gear, whilst Klopp’s is sputtering like an office shredder you’ve accidentally dropped a Darren Anderton autobiography into.
It’s interesting to read the excuses coming out the of the club, Klopp classically lambasting the wind definitely up there with anything Wenger cited in his latter years. I also think it’s amusing reading around the Liverpool fans, excuses ranging from HE’S A FRAUD, which I have to say is outright one of the most pathetic critiques spouted online. It should be a hate crime to call CR7 a fraud, yet all the kids say it everytime he doesn’t score a hattrick. RONALDO A FRAUD DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORD. PEP G A FRAUD ARE YOU JOKING?! GET IN THE BIN YOU VIRGIN.
Back to the post… the other twist on the Klopp choke I read was, ‘well, he could finish as a record-breaking second placed team.’
Intriguing, because my initial reaction to hearing this was: PFFFFFTTTTT!
That did get me thinking because there’s a lot of referencing yesteryears points totals when trying to ascertain current progress.
Would anyone really be happy with a record-breaking second place? Is that like the Buffalo Bills making 4 Super Bowls? Can points totals year-on-year be used to ascertain success?
I have to say, I wasn’t sure about this.
Does 90 points carry the same value in 2019 as it did in 2015?
Are the smaller teams getting better, thus making high points totals even more spectacular?
Does comparing two different league seasons, where so many variables change, really act as a good barometer for progress or success?
Can you really be classed as a choking meltface if you break 90 points?
I spent some time thinking about these important questions. I dug around the hard numbers instead of dropping a factually loose hot take, which would usually be my preferred weapon of choice. I was surprised by what I found.
The difference between 6th and 7th felt like a good place to begin my investigation to ascertain if the league really was getting better.
Points gap between 6th/7th
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 13 |
2012 to 2017, the average difference was 5 points. This season, despite all the praise Wolves and Watford are receiving, the difference between Chelsea and Wolves/Watford is a whopping 13 points. If anything, it would appear from this data point that the league is getting less competitive below the top 6.
In 2012, Newcastle were in the top 6. Everton in 2013 and 2014. 2016, Leicester won the thing and Southampton were 6th (unreal).
The last two seasons have seen a return to normality. The big clubs are occupying the big spots. This season looks set to follow the same trend. The league doesn’t seem to be getting better across the spectrum, it’s getting better at the top as the mightiest concentrate power by doubling down on better players and elite coaches.
So from a Liverpool perspective, can you really say that a record-breaking 2nd place is an achievement? Maybe. In fact, probably. NO, I’d say you certainly can.
| League Year | 1st/2nd Gap | 1st pts Total |
| 2012 | 0 | 89 |
| 2013 | 11 | 89 |
| 2014 | 2 | 86 |
| 2015 | 8 | 87 |
| 2016 | 10 | 81 |
| 2017 | 7 | 93 |
| 2018 | 19 | 100 |
| 2019 | 1 | 71 |
The points total for winning the league has really ramped up over the past two seasons. City dropped 100 points last year with a 19 point gap between 1st and 2nd, the average gap the preceding 6 seasons was only 6.3 points. If both City and Liverpool take 22 points from their last 9 games, they’ll finish on 93 and 92 points. Liverpool would have closed the gap, no doubt, and really, after the utter dominance of last season’s City, that’s a good thing for the league.
Can you call a team that breaks 90 points bottlers? Absolutely. It’s hilarious to do so because journalists who have lost touch with the realities of fandom write op-eds about how terrible this sort of analysis is… bit like me with the word FRAUD. But, the reality is, it’s hard to call anyone reaching 90+ points a bottler. That’s league winning numbers. It’s incredible consistency, skill, hard work, fitness and focus. It’s paper thin margins at this level, a point difference at the end of a season is not a coin toss between world class and BOTTLE JOB. It’s luck of the draw.
Additionally, a points progression for Arsenal would be a notable achievement because we were 9 points off 7th, and whopping 12 points off of 4th place last season. I think it’s looking like it’ll be very tough for us to make #Top4, but if we’re within spitting distance, Emery will be able to point to Ozil and Ramsey struggles and he’ll probably be able to pull together a sizzle reel of Mustafi playing his Nintendo Switch at corners that’d likely make a good case for investment delivering a higher position.
Just some extra numbers, because why the hell not. The average points total for the wooden spoon has been 25 points over the past 7 seasons, the outlier being Villa finishing with 17 points the year we downed them in the FA Cup.
Despite common consensus, the league isn’t really getting better, I think it’s just a perspective thing. Watford and Wolves are the new Stoke, Everton and Southampton. When they drop a result against a mega team, you feel like you’ve never seen it before, even though you have, it’s just you’re used to a different colour kit for your upsets.
I’m basically saying you’re stupid and I am clever because I have a really good spreadsheet.
Also worth remembering that if Liverpool drop 90+ points, they’ll have jumped over 15 points in a single season. If Monchi comes in and works the transfer market really well, there’s really no reason for us not to expect similar levels of progress.
The competitiveness of the Premier League is also exciting when you look across Europe and what Champions League money has allowed big clubs to do. This from Rory Smith.
In the Belarusian Premier League, BATE Borisov has won 12 titles in a row. In Switzerland, Basel has swept the last eight. In Bulgaria and Scotland, Ludogorets Razgrad and Celtic have been untouchable for six. In Croatia, Rijeka won the championship last year. But the previous 11 had all gone to Dinamo Zagreb.
These are no longer title races. They are now simply processions, their result almost preordained, entire seasons stripped of drama and intrigue.
Over the last five years, Olympiacos has received more than $125 million from its Champions League appearances. Basel has brought in $68 million. BATE, thanks to three appearances in the group stage, has earned $50 million, and Dinamo Zagreb $55 million.
So even as we chant BOTTLE JOB MUGS at our southern scouser friends at work today, just be thankful there’s a race this season, and maybe excite yourself at the thought that they were in a poorer position squad wise than us when Klopp took over.
Right, that’s me done. See your sexy faces in the comments. x
Words, Pierre knows the rules… he can’t come on here spouting his ‘change the subject agenda’ and think he’ll get away with it.
Arteta the best manager since Brian Clough? The evidence mounts by the hour
VAR. What is rules behind this? For instance Harry Kane’s offside. If VAR was in use at the PL. Should the ref be convinced that the linesman had made a mistake or does he go on his (linesman) word and state “no offside” therefore VAR will not be looked at”. Unless he is doubting the call from his linesman? Also what is this I’ve seen all over social media stating that the foul on Kane should be called before the offside as he wasn’t playing the ball…or something like that? So why do we even have a ball in football?… Read more »
“He knows he can do no wrong.”
Says who??
Receding
Until now, it’s mostly been an upward trajectory for him. As long as he keeps them in the CL mix, one of the six or seven richest sides will give him a go in a few years.
Not sure if the numbers show that the league is getting better.
What they do appear to show is that the gap between the Top 6 has been getting wider.
Will that persist? Who knows., but next season, if Everton finally manage to get their act together and/or Wolves begin to be more ruthless against bottom half teams, (they’ve done well against the big 6 and top half teams) I can see the gap narrowing.
The only real measure of how good the league is, and whether it has improved, is how well EPL teams do in Europe.
*The gap between the top 6 and the rest
Champagne Charlie “He knows how to walk the right rope, change the record.” Does he fvck. The poor officiating as Receding mentioned was all round in that match not just against Arsenal. And that included missing obvious yellows. He shouldn’t be continuously walking tightropes anyway but this is what we get from him. And he has a healthy amount of yellows to his name this season. The officials may actually feel sorry for him at this point. When he first joined the league they probably didn’t know he was a lumbersome lump like many fans didn’t know. Now they are… Read more »
Free Pierre!!!!!
“As long as he keeps them in the CL mix, one of the six or seven richest sides will give him a go in a few years.”
looking forward to how he does if and when he backs himself to take a job where expectations are sky high
Words on a Blog
I think one of the sides from 7th-12th will break into the top six over the next couple of years. Wolves and West Ham will spend this summer. The three London clubs in the top six are the most vulnerable of dropping out of the top six for one season.
Herrera on a free from Porto would be an instant upgrade on the Swiss lump.
We can dream and hope.
Ishola
He hasn’t been sent off in over two years. Pretty clear he knows how to manage his discipline
All the more hilarious that you’re now offering ideas like ‘officials feel sorry for him’. It’s you people should feel sorry for, you’re obsessed.
Dream10 – entirely possible that one of Wolves/WH and perhaps Everton will break in to the top 6, but it would need some kind of implosion from one of the London clubs – hopefully Spurs……..
azed
“Free Pierre!!!!!”
Free Pierre!!!!!!!! Xhaka out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How did Ben Afleck ever become an actor?
Well the officials must have felt sorry for him the other day or they were just poor at what they were doing.
Stone cold yellow for the rake on Kane (borderline red), always a yellow for blatant body checking to halt a player going past.
That makes two yellows = off.
Xhaka has the officials to thank that he stayed.
And why did he get into these dangerous situations?
Because he is too many times off the pace. Lumbersome oaf.
lmao, when pierre was on, everyone was on Pedros case for not banning him, Now he’s banned, everyone’s begging for another chance or defending him. As usual the fickle arsenal fans doing what they do best.
Not the first time this has happened though.
“He is very much needed.”
No he’s not.
Ishola
Players don’t do the same things if they’re on a yellow, your revisionist stuff is blatant agenda because you dislike him.
Comes across as desperate when you’re annoyed one of our own players wasn’t sent off in the NLD, get a grip you twat.
HL
He is needed. Who else is going to keep you in check on here?!?
No I’m not annoyed that he wasn’t sent off. I’m just merely pointing out to you that if the officials were on their game the other day Xhaka would have been walking down the tunnel before 90 mins were out. Just like other errors they made on the day.
What annoys me are his apologists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP5aqAC8PPY
I’m basically saying you’re stupid and I am clever because I have a really good spreadsheet. ______________ Hahaha Pedro is a Stats Nerd now…. what was our expected point totals based on XG though? Seriously though… I think what this means to me is there are fewer and fewer game changing players out there.. So called word class players.. and the ones that are out there are being bought up by all the top Clubs. So the mid table teams have no chance they aren’t gonna be able to hold on to those diamonds in the rough even if they… Read more »
Good post today
#FreePierre
Middy
We’d be the Newcastle of a Super League.
people worrying about Pierre, he’ll be reinstated in a day or two. Ask RedTruth, the master of the banishment. 🙂
Pedro
“Would anyone really be happy with a record-breaking second place? Is that like the Buffalo Bills making 4 Super Bowls?”
Thanks for a reminder, Pedro. You son of a …. 🙂
gons,
lol Arsenal fans make me sick, this place is as flip floppy as the fans I regularly bump into at the Emirates.
Lol.. Sal.. your not wrong.. I didn’t say It would benefit us.. I just said maybe it is time. Instead of watching Barca play Celta Vigo… or Juventus play Chievo.. they play each other more.. We would definitely be a fringe Super League Club… however if the money payout was astronomical once your in maybe Stan has an idea. Then again…. maybe not..
Keith Flint dead at 49, shocking news this morning. Prodigy and Chemical Brothers at Brixton Academy in 1995 is my favourite concert of all time. Flint was legend, he will be missed.
How did Ben Afleck ever become an actor?
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One of life’s greatest mysteries right there.. just shows you, it doesn’t always take talent to be successful..
Yaya Sanogo was our starting CF in a Cl game against Bayern Munich..once. you now what I’m sayin.?. Sometimes it’s who you know.
MidwestGun – years ago now, some commentator here compared either you or N5 to Ben Afleck and it made me laugh.
Ishola
You’re fixating on Xhaka and how he should’ve been sent off in the NLD, despite the fact he wasn’t even booked until late in the game for dissent.
You’re obsessed. If you want to vent about his “apologists”, which you’ve made no comment about until now, then why not unravel how he was made a captain by Emery and in the NLD he was kept on the pitch and Guendouzi removed at half time. Sounds like you have some issues with Emery on that front.
#FreeMesut
JWL-
Hahaha Yeah I remember … JOhnty… you remember that crazy b.astard?… Called
N5 … the Ben Affleck of commenters.. so Cesc Appeal and I were calling N5 Ben Affleck for months..
Penalties conceded by the top 6 in the last 3 seasons ( including this season)
Chelsea………5
Tottenham…10
United…………10
City……………….11
Liverpool…….12
Arsenal …..22(twenty two)
Yes!!
Christ, Bales agent on the full blown defensive after the Real fans washed their hands of him at the weekend 😂
“Should be kissing his feet”….pardon? He’s been all levels of average for the money and attention he got. Speaks “reasonable Spanish” after about 5 years of living there, what a hero.
“Should be kissing his feet”
A bit like we should do with Ozil.
Good post Pedro, You spend ages putting some good figures together and it’s largely ignored. That’s frustrating. The figures are interesting and it’s not immediately obvious how to interpret them. Just looking at them in isolation one could argue the gap between top 4 and the rest widening and the amount of points City and Liverpool are getting would indicate an over reduction in quality of the rest of the league. However I feel the opposite is true and what we’re seeing is increased tv money and CL money along with oil money etc is seeing the top 4 raise… Read more »
Penalties scored top 6 last ten seasons (including this season)
City…..58
Chelsea..53
Liverpool….46
United….44
Tottenham…37
Arsenal……34
Benny
It’s easy to interpret them. Everything below 6th place is decreasing in quality
Said it for years that the league is decreasing in quality
Was a lot harder 97-12
Pierre
Keep em coming
Red cards top 6 last ten seasons
Tottenham…19
Liverpool…..24
United…….24
City……..25
Chelsea……..29
Arsenal……32.
There seems to be a recurring theme here ….
Conceded the most penalties
Awarded the least penalties
Awarded the most red cards .
VAR. Can’t come quick enough as far as I am concerned.
Pierre does have a point with those stats.
I wouldn’t say a conspiracy, but I always said Wenger was the most vocal of all managers with the fourth official nearly every game.
The fourth official is a referee, maybe not a hatred of arsenal and Wenger but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a biased for given a decision against arsenal just to rub Wenger up the wrong way. As punishment for always moaning at
With Pierre there, get VAR implemented in the Prem asap.
Adds to drama whilst giving the extra layer sometimes needed in the battle.
Certainly hasn’t hurt Tennis, NFL, NHL and other sports.
“Awarded the most red cards .”
Caca + Mustafi = the ultimate red cards combo.
Good post today Pedro, like a good stat.
Not sure about
The klopp love in though, always thought him a little condescending and what’s with the Wenger excuses, the wind, lol.
Also would question the whole he inherited a worse squad than what emery did.
Grabs
As anyone who has an understanding of the game would know ,penalties and red cards are all game changing decisions but now they will be taken out of the referees control by VAR.
Pierre,
There are more plausible explanations other than a conspiracy ring of biased officials plotting against Arsenal;
-Our central defensive pairing of Koschielny and Mustafi have been penalty magnets because of the clumsiness.
-We don’t have pace in our central defenders,
-Our fullbacks were shit and didn’t know how to cut off crosses
-We had no proper defensive midfielder to shield our defense
-Mesut Ozil was good offensively but playing him made defensive shape very difficult.
That Aubameyang penalty miss has given me bad flashbacks all weekend, honestly a miss we may be talking about for decades depending on how the season pans out. I might, at least. Just random moments of dropping my head and cursing. Fucking hell. I got a new Glock on Friday and even waited until yesterday to break it in, I was so depressed. Yesterday carded a 94 over eighteen holes, worst score I’ve had in months. Still can’t believe that miss.
That Aubameyang penalty miss has given me bad flashbacks all weekend, honestly a miss we may be talking about for decades depending on how the season pans out. I might, at least. Just random moments of dropping my head and cursing. Fucking hell. I got a new Glock on Friday and even waited until yesterday to break it in, I was so depressed. Yesterday carded a 94 over eighteen holes, worst score I’ve had in months. Still can’t believe that miss.
That Aubameyang penalty miss has given me bad flashbacks all weekend, honestly a miss we may be talking about for decades depending on how the season pans out. I might, at least. Just random moments of dropping my head and cursing. Fucking hell. I got a new Glock on Friday and even waited until yesterday to break it in, I was so depressed. Yesterday carded a 94 over eighteen holes, worst score I’ve had in months. Still can’t believe that miss.
94….shit golf ..give it up mate or go and have some lessons.
I mean we’ve had a gross neglect of our defensive half of the team for the past half decade. We haven’t had proper defensive coaching for a long time.
Yet all Pierre can ascribe the disparity in penalties to his a vast conspiracy against Arsenal.
Pierre wasn’t even critical until Wenger left. It’s no wonder Wenger lasted so long. Kroenke was a doofus for keeping him but there were fans like idolizing him even when he was running the club down.
Dissenter
I could go back ten / fifteen years and the penalties conceded differential will be even wider.
It’s more than coincidental.
Shit golf indeed. Never gotten a lesson in my life. I play golf to smoke weed and yell at stuffy old men like you Pierre.
MidwestGun – speaking of crazy bastards, I remember someone named Hunter who would show up at midnight UK time and just write loony comments all night and those of us in North America would have to read some guy clearly off his meds.
Good to see you back, MidwestGun. Hope you been well and enjoying life.
Lol. Lueto. Keep that Glock locked up mate. Don’t want to be walking around with that thing thinking about Arsenal. Should be a criteria for ownership. No Arsenal gun owners until Stan sells up :).
I mentioned this yesterday.
There’s something rather thick about Gareth Bale, maybe it’s the spursy side of him.
How can you not be able to speak a language you’ve been immersed in for the past 5 years.
He’s declined so much as a player and when you hear the things his Madrid team mates say you just have to wonder. I don’t think there’s a major English club that will take a chance on him. Even United are going down the path of youthful players now.
Bayern looking at our own Don Ameachi. Nooo
Say what you like about Liverpool fans they have a passion
and a voice that makes a lot of our away day fans look quite
insipid.
Dissenter
You should feel sorry for Bale I mean it’s not as if he could afford a private tutor to teach him Spanish. As for no big team going in for him – I’d still wouldn’t be surprised to see ManU go for him, the Spud’s would love to take him back but I don’t think they have anywhere near the money unless they sell a couple of big players.
Away fans are normally amazing but Arsenal certainly haven’t given them much to cheer about the last couple years.
Away fans are our most devoted supporters, bless them.
Bale can join Aaron at Juve. Dybala swap.
Luteo
Are you just trying to confuse him, he hasn’t learnt Spanish in 5 years and now you’re going to drop him into Turin?
Guns of Hackney March 4, 2019 14:30:18
“How did Ben Afleck ever become an actor?”
Ha. How did that become a topic of conversation? Him and Paul Walker (sorry, Paul) are definitely top 2 worst actors of all time. That said, Affleck is not a bad director. I thought Argo was pretty darn good. So was The Town. Can only imagine how much better they would’ve been with a different male lead.
Marc
Cardiff then? I dunno mate. At least he’ll have Aaron to speak English with.
And when they throw bananas at Bale in Italy it won’t be a race thing.
Marc
“Are you just trying to confuse him, he hasn’t learnt Spanish in 5 years and now you’re going to drop him into Turin?”
Made me laugh out loud.
Obligatory link to Ben Affleck’s horrific back tattoo:
https://imgur.com/gallery/vheAM
I don’t think Bale is going anywhere. He’s on pretty hefty wages and there’s only a handful of clubs that could afford him. He’s also turning 30 in the summer. Perhaps China? But not a lot of players want to go there. So I’m afraid RM fans will have to suck it up, and get used to seeing him in their uniform for the next 3 years or so (I believe his contract is until 2022).
Pierre,
You’re sounding a bit untold there.
The recurring theme is we’re not versed in the dark arts.
Upstate
Thing is Casey Affleck has been in a couple of good films. Didn’t Ben Affleck also co write Good Will Hunting?
All these stats don’t mean much. Here’s a couple of numbers for you: The year Leicester won the title, we finished 2nd with 72 points (10 or so points behind them). Next season we finished with 75 points and finished … 5th. That shows me that all the top 6 teams have gotten better. The rest of the league is pretty … MEH. Having said that we still get more upsets in EPL than they get in La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, etc. When was the last time Barca, Bayern, PSG, or Juve lost to minnows? As for finishing 2nd… Read more »
“The recurring theme is we’re not versed in the dark arts.”
Very true – it’s not what you do it’s what you get away with!
Marc
“Thing is Casey Affleck has been in a couple of good films. Didn’t Ben Affleck also co write Good Will Hunting?”
Yes, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He’s still a pretty shitty actor. Casey, his brother, is a better actor IMHO but I just can’t stand his annoying voice. Gone Baby Gone (from one of my fav book series by Dennis Lehane) would’ve been so much better without him in it.
Upstate
I enjoyed Gone Baby Gone – thought it was a decent film and just a bit different. I also enjoyed The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford – but that’s one you’ve got to be in the right mood for.
So we’ve had Keith Flint and Luke Perry die today. There’s got to be some old actor out there who’s bricking it!
Marc
That’s the one with Brad Pitt, right? Didn’t see it. Not a fan of westerns.
90210 – my guilty pleasure back in the early 90’s. Along with Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Saved by the Bell. RIP, Luke.
Upstate
Yeah Brad Pitt plays Jessie James but it’s nowhere near what you’d call a traditional western. It’s a bloody long film and very brooding but it’s worth a go.
I appreciate not liking a genre but Unforgiven is worth a couple of hours of your time. Really strong cast – Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman.
Ben Affleck was very good in the Accountant.
When he plays against type, he is much better. When he tries to play the everyday man he just sound too phony.
Few will disagree that, in terms of quality and depth, Arsenal is the weakest squad in top 6 clubs. That was the case at the start of the season, and with no meaningful signings in Jan, that is still the case. So it would be fair to say that finishing in 6th place is expected, 5th is better, and, for most, 4th is better than good. But it’s still nowhere near as good as winning something. I don’t rate the Carabao Cup (or whatever it’s called nowadays) but I’d much rather win that than come 4th in the league. Those… Read more »
Affleck is a brilliant director it must be said. Gone Baby Gone and the Town were brilliant. Shit Batman though. The assassination of Jesse James is brilliant.
englandsbest
You have no idea what you are talking about. You were talking about Everton challenging the other day.
I’d really not preach to anyone about Arsenal – did you actually make it to any of those 3 FA Cup finals?
Sanchez will face no action for kicking out at Koscielny. Because the ref saw it. Saw it did nothing about it and now they can’t do anything retrospectively. What a dumb rule. Basically they can’t overrule bad refereeing decisions
@Dissenter, I don’t know if it is being thick or very insular. When Gareth Bale went to Real Madrid, he took his family with him (not just wife but parents included) and transposed a Welsh environment over there. I has a former colleague like that. Got transferred to Paris. Saw him in Paris ten years later, still did not speak a single word of French. Has Sky at Home not French TV. Knew all the Irish or English pubs, and the golf course around Paris. Had a monthly shipment of British food delivered to his flat. He was relying on… Read more »
@Englanbest,
I would argue that Arsenal has the fourth best squad.
Behind ManCity, Liverpool and ManUtd.
What Spurs has on us is a few years of good coaching. Take Kane, Ericksen, Alli out of that squad and they are average.
Chelsea have two outstanding players in Hazard and Kante, one very good plus still unfit in Higuain but The rest are just support cast. What they have is mental fortitude and better coaching for the last few years.
Marko
That’s actually not true, it’s a lie / myth perpetuated by the FA to save them from having to point out just how incompetent the ref’s under their structure actually are. There have certainly been cases on the continent where a ref has taken action during a match and then the local FA have upgraded the decision having reviewed it.
Valentin
Yes, but can you friend afford a 24-7 French tutor to shadow him and make him speak French
Also you friend could have learned French from his kids.
A curious parent will learn tonnes from their children.
By now I have no doubt that Emery has identified several positions where he needs replacement and/or reinforcements. If he were to be given a free rein, his list would probably reach double figures. For two reasons he will have to make do with far less. First, he will be given very little money to spend and, second, very few of the squad will fetch much on the transfer market. Ozil must head his would-be list of departures, if only to free up his £17m pa wages. My guess is that a high offer for any (bar a couple) of… Read more »
It was well documented that every time Rambo scores, a celebrity dies!
Stat of the day!
G8
Can we line him up against a load of kids then – sooner or later it will be Harry Kane’s turn!
One of my comments has been removed.
Pedro I’d actually like to know the reason why?
Marc
“I appreciate not liking a genre but Unforgiven is worth a couple of hours of your time. Really strong cast – Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman.”
I did see it. It’s one of the better ones for sure, I agree. I’m a movie junkie and will watch pretty much anything. Westerns just never did it for me. My favorite two are probably “McKenna’s Gold” (old one with Gregory Peck and Omar Sherif), and “True Grit” (with Jeff Bridges).