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A player I’ve defended but that was wet as ****

HAHAHW ***** FOREST *****

#WhenTaken #439 (11.05.2025) I scored 738/1000🎗️ 1️⃣📍277 km - 🗓️28 yrs - 🥉114/200 2️⃣📍481 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇181/200 3️⃣📍16.4 km - 🗓️13 yrs - 🥇175/200 4️⃣📍1.5 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 5️⃣📍1.8K km - 🗓️30 yrs - 🎗️69/200

Not about his popularity but his general efficacy. He’d be thought of as way pragmatic rather than as a dinosaur or whatever. We’re very snobbish on here, most of us would have turned our noses up at Parker and he’s gotten Moore points than Enzo with a worse side. Rohl, Manning etc are invented managers and have a lot of potential but they’ve achieved almost nothing at that level. Dyche has gotten Burnley up twice, kept them up and took them to Europe. He’s an abrasive, odd bloke and the football he plays isn’t beautiful (nor was Puel, Marescas or RVN’s) which is what people are basing their opinion on rather than his merit as manager.

If his name was Juan Diaz he genuinely would be considered differently

Given my brother my ref. Will have a much more enjoyable day at Anstey Nomads.

I’ve been there twice and they’re had between 3-4x the amount of fans singing and standing. Somehow I doubt they have stat the average home game despite not caring about us a jot.

Despite being a big Chemical Brothers and New Order fan it only just dawned on me today that Bernard Summer does the vocals on Out of Control

The Armstrong one would sound ridiculous if it was sung in the ground.

Even our own populace. WWII naturally occupies more headspace but most people wouldn’t know ~twice the amount of British troops died in the Great War.

Worse

If we try and sell him any purchasing team would want us to pay a % of his wages anyway. Better off cutting out losses on him quickly rather than waiting for a market that inevitably isn't there.

Tricky #WhenTaken #437 (09.05.2025) I scored 780/1000 (💡x1) 🏅 1️⃣📍978 m - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200 2️⃣📍💡20.9 km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥇184/200 3️⃣📍992 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈168/200 4️⃣📍7.8K km - 🗓️17 yrs - 🎗️73/200 5️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈162/200 https://whentaken.com

Next season you'd expect Spurs and United to improve, Wolves look genuinely good under Pereira, it's only West Ham I don't really rate going into next season. There'll be about 16 good teams in the PL and this is somehow a bad thing? The median side has gotten smart; it's such a high quality league and finally befitting of all the money spent relative to comparable Spanish or German clubs.

People just like moaning about the PL. The stated preference is people want jeopardy at the top of the table but if Man City won in a close title race vs Arsenal or Liverpool, the very same would whinge about it. It's not a memorable title fight or relegation battle but like you said, the churn between 3rd-16th has been really interesting. The quality of the median PL side now is so high they can usurp atrophied big sides.

Shows you how strong the PL is that two lower midtable teams wipe the floor with the rest of Europe's B tier sides. Athletic are absolutely no mugs and the worst Man United side for x decades blitzed them (the early red didn't help). It's quite interesting there is some churn in the sides from England qualifying for Europe, even if Notts Forest are one of them.

James, Happy Mondays and The Lightning Seeds in Colchester in August. 4 tickets for the price of 3 when I bought them so pretty good value at £36 each.

Villa will be fine, they've successfully managed to flog players to Saudi, something we did once successfully about 7 years ago and never bothered trying to again. Two of Buendia, Bailey and Watkins will be enough

#WhenTaken #436 (08.05.2025) I scored 829/1000🏅 1️⃣📍5.1 km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥇199/200 2️⃣📍6.4K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥉110/200 3️⃣📍694 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥈174/200 4️⃣📍313 km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇185/200 5️⃣📍934 km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥈161/200 https://whentaken.com Lots of annoying near misses and trying to be too clever by half.

Annoying when they act like he was a better deal than Vardy & Mahrez but Seamus Coleman was a snip at £50k. Caicedo cost Brighton £4m ish, sold him for £107m more than that

Are we playing Derby at Edgbaston in the T20? That’s what the site says

No but he's a big name after being Chelsea, Top is a total star****er but I'd imagine difficult to reach. - The remit probably pans out like this. "Jon, get a famous manager that will make us play like Man City" - Rudkin ambles around humming and awing, going back for Potter, only to be rejected for the nth time. - Try furtively for some bigger names but not possession focused i.e Moyes - Try and talk to Top but he's difficult to reach - Running out of time - Steve Cooper wants the job and is available

United are in a crap PSR position, they're not spending fair chunk on a lad Evans age. Seems to be his agent is maybe forcing Leicester's hand or tipping off other clubs about him moving. Even if it's true, it'd be silly to sell. Our senior striking option going into next season is Daka (deal expires 2026), that's it. If he even scores 7 or 8 goals as a 17 year old he's worth twice the reported fee anyway.

Feel sorry for Iversen, we've wasted years of his career here.

Europa is also a bit easier now without the dropouts, only have to look at this year's likely final to see they even have a chance at that.