Villa’s poor form coincided with injuries to Tielemans, Kamara and McGinn. Only McGinn is back by now. On top of that Watkins has played like a donkey for most of the season and they only have Abrahams in reserve. The main threat will be Rogers – any chance of an injury tonight?

Each of the four at risk teams are in trouble if their form doesn't pick up and/ or they don't have the fight in them. Injuries to key players can also play a big part. Really dificult to call games at this point in the season. I'm starting to think away to Brentford and Palace are equal in degree o...

As they will still have PSR in the Championship I can't imagine how Forest will be able to get away without selling several players 

There are two separate conversations on here (although one is more of an argument). One is which is the most successful league and the other which is the most entertaining to watch. It depends on how you want to define ‘best’.  I’m with Fabio on this. The Premier League is boring at the moment and t...

If you looked at the last 10 years, then the conclusion would be that Spanish clubs dominated the Champions League with 6 wins to England’s 3.  The Premier League generates far higher revenues than any other league – almost twice as much as La Liga – but the money is spread around more widely. For t...

Interview with Clyde Best in the Grauniad promoting a film made about him. Might interest some of the oldies on here. Lovely quote about Sir Bobby: “A person like Bobby Moore, if you didn’t know him, you would have never known he was captain of England. The Lord gave us one of the best human beings ...

Massive Attack" wrote: ↑12 Mar 2026, 21:18

Westham67 wrote: ↑12 Mar 2026, 20:44

Massive Attack" wrote: ↑12 Mar 2026, 20:29

What's his ability to shoot and ball skills like?

And his dribbling

Just learnt he is in fact a Keeper, so it's more about his handling. 

But the Bundesliga has higher average attendances than the Premier League. 

Luis Guilherme played the opening 80 minutes for Sporting

Still the best league to watch      No idea what league is the ‘best’ or what the criteria is, but I do find that Premier League games are mostly snoozefests these days. Too slow paced, technical and bogged down with tactics and shape. Individual flair having been replaced by organisation and athle...

We don't have any free-scoring striker on the books and Nuno can only work with what he's got. The upturn in form has coincided with playing Taty and Pablo together upfront. It has allowed Bowen and Summerville to exploit the space left. Difficult to argue against that. Is Pablo a saviour? No, but h...

From Greek Tragedy to Greek God in 12 yards

I've run the numbers and there's a 93% probability that Oxshaw is a dick

It could be a Jim Bowen Bullseye moment if we get drawn against Port Vale but then lose to Brentford. "Let's take a look at who you could have played"

I think it is a 57.1% probability of being drawn against one of those four

Yes, Kilman's value is written down at £8m per year. At the end of this year his book value will be £24m. Should someone foolish buy him for £30m then we could report a £6m profit. I'm not sure what happens from an accounting perspective is he is sold for less than £24m. 

It will be rather nostalgic having a WW3 truce/ ceasefire so that they can play the World Cup. Shame the final's not scheduled for Christmas Day 

You reckon someone like Oxshaw has got this far in life with all his teeth intact?

Profit on player sales only relates to any surplus once you subtract remaining book value from transfer fee received. That £20m must have been the scraps from selling Downes, Benrahma and Kehrer. It’s the running of the club that’s a mess rather than the accounts. Too reliant on Broadcast revenues, ...

Spurs fate will probably be down to if and when they get their better players back from injury. It doesn't seem like anyone of note will return until mid April and with Van Der Ven now suspended it's not looking good (from their viewpoint)
 

Nuno's fortunes have certainly been improved since Paco turned up. 

Coincidence? Another short-sighted daft mistake not to let him bring support staff with him when he was appointed.

Leeds have got Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace and Wolves in the coming weeks, I just can't see it myself. Leeds have won two of their last ten games. Which of those games are gimmes for them? Stop following me around you fucking oddball, just because we had a disagreement before, I don't ...

We're now at the stage where points,not performances are the priority. Individual mistakes can be forgiven as long as we are racking up points and we get closer to safety. Still wouldn't like to predict how this season ends,could well end up that our last game of the season is a 'who stays up decid...

Mads still gives me the heebie-jeebies at every corner kick. Fortunately, Fulham are not one of the aggressive set piece teams. It will be a different question against Manchester City, Arsenal and Brentford (in the league). Although, it was a very smart save towards the end, it followed from a corne...

No argument that there’s still much to do if we are going to survive. But odd to claim that we can’t win matches when we have won four of the last eight. In the same period, Leeds and Forest have won two and Tottenham zero. The momentum is with us although clearly nothing is guaranteed – past perfor...