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There’s also the thing of him occasionally choosing to drop the ball directly at the feet of the other team’s striker with an open goal.

Good news for Ellis Simms

Alternatively - shows that a good keeper means fuck all if you can’t compete on the rest of the pitch.

He cost them more than £5 million to buy, from a club who paid about double that to sign him in the first place.

It’s a quote from a UK government inquiry. I mean, I’m not here to personally defend every individual paragraph of the story on the writer’s behalf. But if you want to play a game of sensationalism tennis between this article and the British coverage of the case so far, I’m sure I could keep...

Don’t agree personally. The New Yorker is not exactly renowned for sensationalism. But if you’d rather go with what’s been reported in the British press…

Which random US medics are you referring to? The journalist who wrote the piece hasn’t posted on Twitter in almost a year. Are you sure you’ve read the right article?

Desperately hope the clubs vote to do the right thing (lol) but would feel extra grim knowing our cup semifinal moment was taken away because of what turned out to only be a temporary insane blip in football history.

Of course, but the margins are nevertheless fine - the last three finals have been decided on penalties. We were a couple of penalty kicks away from there being more Scottish winners than German ones over the past 30 years.

Possibly? I wouldn’t have backed them to beat Liverpool at Anfield either. I just don’t think performance in knockout tournaments tells the whole story about a particular club, or particular league’s strength - I’d have thought all Coventry fans would be acutely aware of that this year! But...

As I say - I don’t value the Europa League in the same way, and the qualification rules mean it’s not always apples to apples. If people agree that winning the Europa League is an undeniable barometer of a league’s superiority then it’s very hard to argue with you though.

I mean, it’s a stronger argument if you think we have to, but I think it’s muddied by the different number of teams who qualify for each tournament (and the number of UCL teams who fall into the Europa League after being eliminated etc). Personally I don’t think the winners of the second-most...

Well English teams have won the Champions League every other year dating back to 2018 (a different team every time as well, in case you were worried about it being boring). Over the 20 year period you mentioned, there have been nine Spanish champions (Barca and Real) and six English ones. I...

Every top league has these kind of dud fixtures…

So you think Real Madrid or Dortmund would win the Premier League this year? I think knockout tournaments are kind of an inexact science for judging this kind of thing. English teams have done pretty well in them for the last 20 years regardless!

When people talk about “the best league in the world”, I take it to mean the complete package - quality and entertainment etc I’m not sure in any case that the last 20 years of European competition makes a conclusive argument against the English league being the best and most successful (unless...

The most entertaining league IS the best league, surely?

Don't think you can really write off an entire league based on certains teams having a shocker in a knockout tournament. And I don't really understand the constant desire to talk down English football.

I assume LG knows that, which is why he didn’t mention any specific political parties. It was you who decided to take issue and try and apportion blame to individual groups. I needn’t have said anything if you hadn’t, but if you don’t like being called out on stuff, don’t post on a discussion...