Danny

I think it's about time they replace him and I don't think he's done a bad job either. I think that he has done a great job at stabilising them in the league, and of course winning the Conference League was silverware they have lacked since 1999. But I also think that as a club, if you leave your ancestral home like Upton Park, where the fans belong, where the fans are on top of the pitch, a ground that has so much history and was one of the truly iconic grounds of English football....to move to what is very much a soulless bowl next to a shopping centre and gentrified canal district, so you can get the 60k attendances and money that comes with it, you have to try and take the club further forward than just 6th, 7th, 14th and 9th place finish. With West Ham's recent history, if they were still at Upton Park I'd say this is probably unfair and Moyes can't do much more. But I think where they are now, with the finances that brings, they have to improve and they have to try to disrupt the top 6. On top of that, they've suffered a lot of defeats this season where they concede 4 goals, 5 goals in one game. For Moyes' defence to that to simply be that they no longer have Declan Rice, it's not really good enough tbh. I think Moyes will bounce back quite easily, I think had they not have just signed Glasner he'd have Crystal Palace written all over him. Otherwise Forest could do with him massively. But I think he'll take time out and wait for the right job to pop up, who knows maybe even a return to Everton will be back on the cards?

I think it’s better in baguette form as the bread to crust ratio is perfect, if its in a bloomer type bread theres too much bread and not enough crust

Julen Lopetgui to be announced as next West Ham manager, according to Fabrizio. If so then 4 out of 20 Premier League managers next season will be from the Basque region. On top of that, all 4 managers will be from the Basque province of Gipuzkoa which has a population bigger than Manchester but smaller than Leeds.

I always felt it was a bit of both, I remember watching Burnley on the opening day thinking their defence was far too naive. Just watching the goals of that City game back, at one point they were defending in a flat 6...it's all well and good having players back but if they're still allowing the opposition the chance to run through acres of space then it's pointless. To stay up you have to be able to counter-attack, and that generally involves defending well to begin with lol. Thomas Frank almost perfected the counter attack for us, Fulham have a physical defence, sit Paulinha in front and then have the physicality of Mitrovic, Willian and Perriera on the move. Forest have only ever defended the last two seasons and then have relied on the likes of Gibbs-White, Awoniyi, Johnson and Hudson-Odoi to exploit the space. Look at why Bournemouth stayed up last season and why Wolves have been so good, O'Neill plays a brand of football that looks to invite opposition forward before firing through balls behind their defence for their forwards to run onto. I just think Burnley came into the league too attacking, almost too pro-active. If Ipswich do the same then they will definitely go down, but if they can adjust their style to be solid at the back, set up on the counter then I think they may give people some problems with how interchangeable their forward line is.

Spot on decision regarding Gakpo, big dive. Just wonder why it's so hard for them to find consistency

Also just completely blind to the fact that they have been a key reason as to why people don't vote; austerity, windrush, covid handouts, small boats, rwanda, culture wars....none of which gives anyone a better life.

Do you not think that between the fact that they're a relative unknown and the bearpit that Portmand Road will become will give them a good chance of picking points up next season? I think momentum is so important in the first season, remember how good it was for Sheff Utd under Wilder the first time around? On a side note, I remember watching Burnley earlier in the season and they were just not well drilled defensively, wasn't just a player issue, Kompany's coaching at that point wasn't up to scratch. I think it's taken him most of the season to begin to get it right.

Dull game, 0-0. End of season stuff.

Goal celebrations looked great, the race for promotion is arguably the best thing about English football. It truly open to anyone, and you see that in the celebrations when a team that isn't normally knocking about in the play-offs or automatics finally get there. The race to win the Premier League maybe tougher, but I don't think it means as much in general as the teams involved will always be involved at some point. Barring Leicester obviously.

For the love of football that is not a foul

Bournemouth get done over by a deflection in a tackle that helps Arsenal send the ball out to Trossard...difficult way to go 2-0 down. Lovely finish from Trossard though, he's just been consistent this season, big game player.

Bournemouth have played so well, such an exciting team to watch. Don't deserve to be 1-0 down but that is the Premier League

Saka has just missed essentially an open goal...

It will be given but that is absolutely not a penalty, no one drags their foot across the floor unless they're trying to initiate contact.

Manged to buy a tiger bread type baguette today, cut it into slices, heavily buttered, added some goats cheese on top, then added a slice of salami and chorizo before topping it with a tomato slice seasoned with salt, pepper, olive oil and red wine vinegar. Pretty fucking nice, even if tomato's are shit in this country

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