Totally gutted. A 3 year journey torn apart in a couple of days. And to add insult to injury he has taken the entire back room staff with him. We now know where we stand and will go back to our rightful place in the table and let the Top 6 carry on winning everything.
Very disillusioned with football today.
Very tough on Brighton, I agree. I wonder with what is going on at Leicester, whether you might approach Brendan Rogers. Would be a good replacement for you.
Totally gutted. A 3 year journey torn apart in a couple of days. And to add insult to injury he has taken the entire back room staff with him. We now know where we stand and will go back to our rightful place in the table and let the Top 6 carry on winning everything.
I would prefer Cooper from Forest or Frank from Brentford but then of course we will be just as bad!
Forest and Brentford more particularly are on journeys. Don't go nicking their manager.
Seriously I can understand it being really galling. You seem to have very good folk behind the scenes but now yes really have to be wise / lucky with your next management team.
Very tough decision on whether to cancel the fixtures this weekend. There will be arguments either way and I respect them all. Personally I would have gone ahead this weekend and used it as an opportunity for the clubs/crowds to pay homage as they did at West Ham's Europa League match. I am sure that many fans have spent money on travel arrangements etc and it is tough on them to cancel at short notice.
I think next weekend will definitely be cancelled and with it's proximity to the date of the state funeral, perhaps this would have made more sense. In all likelihood the matches next weekend will be cancelled as well. I can't see the police wanting thousands of fans heading into London while the preparations are being made for the funeral. They will be overstretched as it is.
Perhaps others see things differently and that's OK. As I said, I can see valid arguments both ways.
Edit
Just noted that the ECB have announced that matches will restart tomorrow (Sat) including the Test Match against South Africa.
-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 9th of September 2022 01:29:20 PM
I'm sure everyone will be pleased to see that there will still be a home nation Group A team in the next Nations League campaign
Scotland will also join England and Wales in Pot 2 in the Euro 2024 qualifying draw to take place in Frankfurt in 12 days time. So they will avoid each other and indeed France. Northern Ireland will be in pot 5.
-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 27th of September 2022 10:10:33 PM
Had the pleasure of going to watch England U20s vs Australia yesterday. It was all a bit one sided and the 3-0 victory could easily have been 7 or 8.
A few names on show. Liam Delap from Man City and Carney Chukwuemeka from Chelsea being the two best known although both were held back and came on as late subs. Best player on the park was a lad from Bristol City called Alex Scott despite him missing a penalty.
Just got back from FA Cup at Bradford where my Harrogate Town team won a local derby 1-0. Great win as we played well and havent been playing well this season; Ive not been to an away match before but the atmosphere was crackling. Bradfords stadium was only maybe 1/3rd full with just under 7000 there, we had around 500 fans and well deserved a good win. Onwards !
Town drew Solihull or Hartlepool in round 2. Either way, a banana skin in waiting. I think they said 19 non league teams in the round 2 draw, realise a lot are still in round one replays, but its a decent number.
Have to say as a supporter VAR is really tarnishing the experience of attending matches. Was at Wolves on Saturday and referee did not see handball from Dunk (Probably because it didn't touch him). No one really appealed and if game carried on no one would have thought twice. We were in line with it and saw nothing. You then get 2 minutes waiting in bewilderment as to what is going on as they watch the incident over and over again to see if there was any conclusive evidence as to if it hit his arm (there wasn't). Then another minute while ref goes over to monitor (and by then you know he is going to give it so a complete waste of time).
Not only that but every time you score you half celebrate in fear that VAR will find a way to overturn it.
It's really noticeable how when I go to watch Worthing what a better experience overall it is without VAR.
Listen we won the game anyway so not really the fact we were on the wrong end of the decision but who is benefitting from VAR? Certainly not the supporters who by the way had already had to travel 200 miles each way with a train strike on.
Have to say as a supporter VAR is really tarnishing the experience of attending matches. Was at Wolves on Saturday and referee did not see handball from Dunk (Probably because it didn't touch him). No one really appealed and if game carried on no one would have thought twice. We were in line with it and saw nothing. You then get 2 minutes waiting in bewilderment as to what is going on as they watch the incident over and over again to see if there was any conclusive evidence as to if it hit his arm (there wasn't). Then another minute while ref goes over to monitor (and by then you know he is going to give it so a complete waste of time). Not only that but every time you score you half celebrate in fear that VAR will find a way to overturn it.
It's really noticeable how when I go to watch Worthing what a better experience overall it is without VAR.
Listen we won the game anyway so not really the fact we were on the wrong end of the decision but who is benefitting from VAR? Certainly not the supporters who by the way had already had to travel 200 miles each way with a train strike on.
I agree with this, Seagull - same for watching Harrogate play, surely it is all part of football's great appeal that it flows and mistakes happen - VAR slows it all down and confuses. Apart from "did it cross the goal-line" stuff I think we should leave the rest to the Referee on the pitch.