Danny

Will never happen unless there is significant change in how we are governed. Reality is that Lib Dems and Greens and whoever else will rarely ever be close to power, and the only way to open up new avenues for political parties is to give more power to local authorities which in turn would give your vote more power. imo anyway.

He's a fucking idiot, wasn't aware that it may cause some "friction"

Yeah it's a funny narrative which I've seen all over social media, same amount conceded as Aston Villa who are generally praised for their defensive structure.

A lot of talk online about Ange and set pieces...it does make me wonder though if this discussion about him not practicing defending set pieces is similar to when Pep said he doesn't get his players to practice tackling, and the media had a field day with it. Are defending set pieces a serious problem for Spurs consistently this season, or is it just that they've conceded a few in a short space of time and so it makes a good story?

Liverpool one looks like a knock off of a decent shirt. Newcastle is nice, back to thick stripes. The idea behind the Arsenal away is nice but it doesn't look very good. I like the Dortmund kit, but the PSG one looks horrific.

Also silly to include Klopp in this as Liverpool had a much wider transfer committee in which he was apart of but not the brains. Fergie is a much better manager and strategist then Klopp, probably argue Klopp is the better coach but yeah.

Fuck me did they need lines for that?

Imagine spending the majority of your career at PSG and Chelsea, two separate sleep paralysis demons in one go

Thats fair. I suppose its one of those weird things where, I do believe your chances of staying up would have been better had he been at the club, but then you make a fair point about White and ultimately he wouldn’t have been in Bielsa’s team to go up anyway.

One thing I respect about Leicester is how the likes of Vardy, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndidi, Ricardo, Justin etc stuck around to get the club back up. I don’t know how much the club needed the money from the Maddison sale and maybe that plays a role in him leaving but it does leave a bit of a stain when players who should have kept the club up, much like Tielemans, jump ship

Honestly not sure what this will solve in terms of English football, but if you’re a Premier League club then you can basically secure enough investment each season to try and compete with the bigger clubs. No wonder they didn’t vote for it

So not quite and definitely not quite then

I still hope Luton can stay up, but how funny would it be for Burnley to stay up above them all. Looked dead and buried at one point, completely out of ideas, how have they got back into this?

I would imagine the set-up at United in Fergie's latter years probably resembled the European model a lot anyway, but just that the specifics of it was that Fergie was essentially the DoF/Manager and then he had coaching staff to coach the team during the week and David Gill to help manage everything behind the scenes. With that level of control I don't think the structure at United was too dissimilar to what you see a lot of English clubs trying to put in place with the director of football method.

Pep won the treble in his first season at Barce taking a team that finished 18 points behind Real Madrid in 3rd place the season before and turning them into one of the greatest teams to have ever played the game, whilst spending under £100m, so I chose him!

This is such a classic Palace move, really good signing and from a Palace perspective I guess it keeps their centre backs in the defence rather than midfield.

Thiago's 28th goal of the season at 2:14...

This is a question for Arsenal fans....do you not miss the va va voom that Arsenal used to possess? One thing I've noticed about watching Arsenal this season, and generally it's regardless of how many you score or don't score, but on the eyes you're quite dull. There's not really any flair or mercurial talent in the team aside from maybe Odegaard and occasionally Jorginho. I remember watching Wenger's best teams and knowing that regardless of what happens, you're going to be entertained. Thinking about Cazorla, Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey, Giroud, Wilshere from your recent FA Cup winning sides....then you go back to Arsenal's peak years and those teams were pure joy to watch. I know you could argue Arteta is making you better (well yet to be proven), and more defensively solid, and you could also argue he's somewhere between Wenger and Graham, but I feel like Arteta is losing what made Arsenal unique regardless of whether you won or lost.

Am I right in thinking this is the moment that really put Jansson out of Bielsa and Leeds plans @Lucas? https://x.com/HLTCO/status/1784510413486395564 I think selling Jansson was probably one of the worst decisions the club made in terms of their long-term security. Cannot explain how integral he was to not only our promotion but to staying in the league and competing to a very good standard two seasons in a row. I think if Leeds still had him they'd be just a little bit more solid/organised at the back, even when he's not fit the standards he sets around the club are sky high. It's no surprise that we have struggled defensively at times this season, of course there are a lot of other factors, but having him around to come in was really important when needed.

Does make you wonder how much of Klopp's exhaustion is rubbing the players up the wrong way, even just in terms of producing consistent performances.

Andoni Iraola achieves Bournemouth's best ever league position in the Premier League his first season, beating Eddie Howe and Gary O'Neil. On top of that he may well finish above Wolves this season. Such a smart decision made by Bournemouth, will be interesting to see how his Bournemouth team develop next season, they play an entertaining brand of football.

That was crazy. They should have a separate VAR for how stupid a decision it was not to give it

Fortunately Raya stayed solid afterwards unlike your man Vicario who let in 2 goals

Haha I was just laying some bait for storts to bite later, how funny would it be now if that Raya mistake means Spurs fight back and win

I didn't think it was a penalty on Kulusevski at first, the contact was soft and it was him tripping over his own foot that causes him to go down. But without that trip, he doesn't do any of it. Don't think it's a clanger not giving it but definitely the wrong decision the more I watch it back.