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He was a key part of the Bologna team last year that had the 3rd best defence in all of Serie A. No chance he does that being a terrible player, more like the system here is much much worse

The same thing happens in business, where somebody will be promoted into a managerial position because they are good at the job (in this case this would be playing football) BUT the skill of managing is a completely different beast and there is no guarantee being good at a job translates at all to management. Being able to relate to the players is one thing but you don’t have needed to have played extensively at the highest level to understand that I don’t believe. First and foremost the candidate should be the best MANAGER of people, players, and tactics of which I don’t believe any of the recent English top professionals are at all despite their great careers. The manager doesn’t need to run around and kick a ball

I’ve only seen the fans of Forest & Swansea have good things to say - that’s always the best barometer of a manager in my eyes

So one footed it actually hurts to watch at times

Those mentioning that we would lose to Australia playing a ‘traditional approach’. We haven’t lost a home Ashes series in 20+ years, why does the wheel need re-designing to such an extent and why would we be guaranteed to lose by playing on green tops to suit our swing kings ?

If they need Crawley in the team so much could we do worse than Foakes in for Pope?

Imagine having your greatest striker in your club’s entire history, in form after scoring in the last 2 games, and in one of most important relegation games as an option, but instead you let your flair player who’s leaving the club at the end of the season take it instead

Need to make changes for balance, Praet for Ndidi, possibly Soumare now he has the yellow

This commentator is such a bloody whiner

Roberto Martinez being linked with the Portugal job 😂 Man is such a fraud would be unreal if he lands that (good for everyone else though)

He’s always like this though, looks good on first sight but doesn’t have end product so he doesn’t actually get the job done

Looking for 2 tickets if anyone could help Dad over from Australia for the festive period and would love to get him to a game

Has to take a pen though surely? Can’t be waiting in case there’s a 5th purely for glory

Neymar not taking a penalty is an absolute joke. Captain and best player should be #1 to build confidence. They missed the first pen and could never recover, and he sits on the sidelines crying but never taking one…

You lucky man

In cricket the fans get to hear what the umpire is talking about and considering in his decision Surely football could do something similar to increase transparency and awareness of what is going on

Any chance of Madders starting tonight? Saw he’s back training

Always thought he was awful and surprised at how’s he managed a career playing for the biggest clubs in the world and as Spain’s focal point Fair play today though, a good finish and changed the game but not sold on him overall

Not sure if this has been mentioned but has anyone found the stats shown during the games baffling and weird ?!? Random things like receptions, forced turnovers and the ‘in contest’ possession stat, all very strange imo

I’m fairly sure he’s just recovered from doing his ACL so that’s why he hasn’t played much. The fact he managed to put in a performance of that quality so soon after returning is immense

And Australia beat Peru in the playoff to qualify!

Thanks so much!!! Couldn’t ask for a better result, a month or so ago I thought today could be looking very different so I am glad Leicester Till I Die!

This weekend I will be in the London Stadium away end with the blue army. It will be 4765 days since I last saw the boys in blue…a 1-0 away win at Reading courtesy of Martyn Waghorn. I live in Australia which explains the absence, but so much has happened in that time I can’t quite believe it. The heartbreak of Watford, the joy of promotion, the Greatest Escape, the world’s biggest sporting miracle & chaos on and off the pitch. All of these while waking up at 2am for years and ruining any functional sleep schedule. I wouldn’t swap it for anything! I had no LCFC friends so was just my Dad and I against the world. I am 23 now and I feel like supporting Leicester and especially with all these significant events in my teens surrounded by Australians supporting the global super clubs has almost influenced my personality (ie. ANYTHING can happen). Anyways, that was a bit of a rant but ultimately I am so bloody keen and maybe catch some of you there and before kick off for some 🍺 🦊

I worked at Manly Oval in Sydney as a kid keeping score on the scoreboard and I heard shouts of “Bucky” all afternoon but I had no idea he was English or that he had played so much county cricket !! Pretty solid career looking at it properly statistically but wonder how lucrative it would be

Not too sure what the point of the comment is… but if you really wanted to know there’s a lot of mountainous jungle here with no good roads so even short distances take a long time to get around Very beautiful country though, would recommend to all, made even more beautiful seeing a Foxes shirt in the wild