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You think this decision is about hooliganism?! That is seriously naive. Israeli fans were attacked in Amsterdam with crowds shouting ‘they’re Jews, the IDF’. The SAG has looked at the demographics of Birmingham, that routinely has Pro-Pal demos and have made a decision they cannot guarantee the...

The pertinent question is why is it a tinder box ready to ignite? They’re football fans going to a game, not the actual IDF. Why this episode is so shameful is because it’s yet another example of sectarianism creeping into our society. We’ve brought this upon ourselves with mass migration. This...

Should Palestine be banned too?

Has anything else happened in the Netherlands? I’m only aware of the one incident. One thing I’ve observed on social media is that many of the Pro-Pal people have v little to say about Hamas executing political enemies in the streets this week*. *Or ethnic of the Uighurs in China… or...

When you spend so much money to be so mediocre, you need a lot of copium. They’ve spent at least £25m on strikers (just Kyogo and Stansfield) and those two will struggle to get 20 goals between them. My view has always been that it’ll go tits up at Blues and the backlash will be nasty. I...

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Given the demographics of Birmingham, it’s almost definitely the latter. Israeli football fans were attacked on a UCL away day in Amsterdam. In short, legitimate questions exist about the safety of Jews and Israeli football fans travelling to certain European cities. It’s shameful.

There will probably be around 2,000-2500 supporters on 1500+ points. Any allocation that’s 2000 usually gets to the 3rd sale window at a minimum. @Skybluecol can you confirm with the spreadsheet please?

I stand corrected! Counted 8 goals rather than 9.

Undoubtedly, Lampard has made some tactical tweaks that’s had an impact. We haven’t conceded a goal from open play this season - they‘ve all been set pieces. Compare that to last season… Even despite the end to last season, from Xmas we were the 3rd best team in the division so there were...

Always be sceptical of teams/players that overperform xG and so on. Look at Manning at Norwich, now starting to perform close to the ‘underlying data’ whereas last season he was an over performer. There will be some players/teams that will tend to over perform (e.g. long range specialists) but...

23/24 - 17 goals 24/25 - 12 goals missing 19 games... Piroe was the top scorer with 20 goals Any insistence that his form has only picked up because its a world cup season is nonsense. Since he's joined, he's been one of the best forwards in the division which makes the preseason naysayers...

Haji Wright is a great player for us and had it not been for Vik, we'd be calling him comfortably our best post-Prem striker. A fully fit Haji is one of, if not the best striker in the division - comfortably Top 3 in the league.

I can’t fathom the idea that we’ll get to a World Cup and not start either Foden, Bellingham or Palmer. One of them will start, Bellingham has X-Factor and the ‘clutch’ gene that you need to win a World Cup. I’ve heard Honduras will be one of the Miami games but there’s a lot of rumours...

Qualifying is routine now, borderline a waste of time imo. Under Southgate, we broke England records for goals scored in qualification and so on. The best team we’ve played, Senegal (in terms of world ranking) and we got battered 3-1. That’s the best team pencilled in between now and the World...

Something has definitely ‘clicked’ with the group since Serbia away. Even against Wales we blitzed them and were out of sight after 20m. I’m looking forward to Tuchel experimenting with the squad. Right now, the only change to make is to get Bellingham or Foden in the team. Anderson probably...

Realistically. 8-10 goals is a decent haul for any Championship player. It’s not groundbreaking, but solid. There will be 10-20 players in the whole division who will surpass 10 goals in a given season. People seem to forget that. To bring the conversation full circle, Haji was always going...

For BTA and Simms, last season was v much an anomaly in terms of their goal scoring. If you take 1 bad season, that can be forgiven so long they come back good the next season. In the summer, despite the v many repetitive calls, we never needed to sign a striker.

Reading away, lost 1-0. 22/23 was the only season I don’t get a ST over the last 5-6 years. Part of it was being skint, then the stadium delay but that 1/4 exit put me off football for a couple of months. Heartbreaking - international exits always hit me a bit harder. With the Luton penalty...

2022/23 season: Kane missing the second penalty v France Dabo missing the penalty v Luton With the Torp goal in 23/24, it wasn’t so much a moment that ‘haunts’ me, but it does make feel angry because that goal offside and we all know if the roles were reversed, VAR wouldn’t have intervened.