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Yeah, he was playing with an Achilles problem, Potchettino mentioned it when Haji withdrew from the USA camp. I’d assume the staff told him to not risk that because you don’t want your star player rupturing their Achilles tendon.

Here is where I’ll recommend college football to you and any American football fan in the UK. A lot of the headline games are on at normal UK times. Ohio v Texas (ranked 1 & 2) are playing at 17:00 and Alabama v Florida State is at 20:30. I’m actually a bit gutted I’ll miss Ohio v Texas because...

I work with some Leicester fans and they are not optimistic about this season at all. Frankly, I don’t know too much about their team, I’m not convinced with their manager and neither are they. A QPR fan I work with wasn’t so keen on Cifuentes but perhaps that was a bit of sour grapes. It’s so...

That applies equally to BTA, Rapha and Andrews. We only started to create opportunities when we brought Rudoni and then Haji on.

Rapha should carry on as a 4th choice, ideally and assuming a winger is brought in before the deadline. There’s a player in there and I’m optimistic his development is best served here. As for Andrews, I’m erring to the side of a loan but given Lampard’s track record of developing talent, you’ve...

Thats an interesting concept. Frankly, I’m not sure it’d move the dial much in terms of interest. Attendances are a problem too and now the draw is ‘seeded’ in the next round… I wouldn’t be against the League cup being a Prem only affair. No one takes it seriously and only the top Prem teams...

He had a couple of nice touches and played a nice ball to BTA in the box in the 2nd half. Right now, you wouldn’t back him and make an impact if he was required to fill for a first team player. He’s a raw prospect. The same applies to Rapha. He’s still developing and if Lampard believes the...

Tonight showed that our strength is depth isn’t that great. Granted, Sheaf and Eccles were injured and Lati too. The reason I’ve been banging on about wingers all preseason is because right now, Rapha is our only recognised winger in the squad. EMC is carrying a knock so his minutes are being...

‘Can’t play upfront in Lampard’s system’ ‘His best position is LW’ Apparently…

Two changes: Grimes > Torp BTA > Wright

I don’t know. My worry at the time is that we were so desperate to get rid of SISU we were willing to buy anyone’s bullshit. There’s plenty of bad actors as football owners and we could’ve went from one lot to another that were just as bad. Going through the archives, we’d see many people...

Our team was in a v different place to Notts County’s and personally, never understood the idea that we could’ve went the way of Notts County had we lost in the playoffs. I was quite happy with our team back then, we’d have lost McNulty, Willis and Bayliss but with the funds it wasn’t game...

It just means messiah tbf! I was just being silly! 😂

It was bad and hindsight can be 20:20. I don’t think Robins was the lisan al gaib (Dune reference) and the only person who could’ve led us back up the leagues. But, appointing Robins was about the best decision could’ve made in that moment and meant that relegation to L2 was moment to ‘reset to...

The stats do tell the story of the game. Anyone watching on Saturday, it felt like we were going to score with every attack and we more or less did. Our final 3 of our goals were all low xG chances. Even if our xG was double, or triple the figure of 1.27… it tells the story that we were...

Without trying to play ‘alternate history’, I think the club would’ve found itself back in L1 and pushing towards the Championship without Robins. By all accounts, Robins had a good relationship with the owners and that counts for something. Where Robins and Viveash deserve their status as...

The way football is going, the formation matters less and less. BTA starts out wide and darts for the box at the nearest opportunity when the ball is being progressed in opposition half. It's pretty common to see a triangle of MVE-Rudoni-BTA and once MVE can overlap, BTA goes to the box. It'll...

Obviously they weren’t good owners… it’s still the case that their diagnosis of the problems the club face were accurate.

How many charlatans were trying to buy the club way back when? Sometimes, it’s a case of ‘better the devil you know’. Imagine if they sold to that Preston Haskell IV guy? I for one was optimistic about his plans for us… he went bankrupt a few years later. Perhaps the painful steps SISU took to...

We’ll probably play 4-4-2 again as we did v Luton. In fact, the team will probably be v similar to that lineup.