Golden Fox

He's just been appointed Cambridge manager... But I'd still have gone for him as well!

Nah - the real question is: had he stayed, how many Champions Leagues would we have won??

2015/16: PFA Player of the Year / Leicester City player of the season - Riyad Mahrez Premier League Player of the Season / Football Writers Association Player of the year - Jamie Vardy Leicester City Players' player of the Season - N'Golo Kante I'd say this backs up that the view that it was a team effort, but we did had 3 world class players with little to split them. Nationally, the vote was split between Vardy & Mahrez, but the players themselves went for Kante. If pushed for who was most important, you'd have to side with the players' view of Kante, but revisionist history for the article's claim it was all down to him!

To some degree, but the previous biggest deal was $426.5m, so the scale of this is extreme. Most the Dodgers games are already streamed in Japan anyway, so I doubt they will get anything close to half that. Dodgers are owned by Boehly, so its being driven by a Galacticos mentality of spending the most money to get the biggest names because they can. Its basically small dick syndrome - and can't be justified at all on commercial grounds. Did I mention I hate the Dodgers?

There seemed to be a lot of talk of the Jays over the past week and the Dodgers being less likely. But I thought all along it would be the Dodgers, as he was already in LA and they had been clearing space for him, but ultimately were probably going to pay him most and he wanted to play for a team that won their division year in, year out. So I think all that talk was all misdirection to drive up the price.

Ohtani goes to the Dodgers for $700m. As much as I held out hope of him signing for the Giants, it does seem bloody ridiculous to spend more on 1 player than some teams (Oakland & Baltimore) spend on their entire rosters! He can't pitch at the moment, and who knows what he'll be like after surgery. Hopefully this goes down as one of the worst contracts of all time.

What nonsense - people want to see their teams win. Its either very hard or very expensive to get tickets at the moment - and that is not going to change while we are top of the league!!! Frankly, I look round at home games at rows of middle aged consumers with their thermos flasks and bored expressions who don't contribute at all to the atmosphere and sit there expecting to be entertained like its the cinema and wonder where it all went wrong - So I'm all in for Enzo ball and would be quite glad if they found more interesting things to do and let more fans have a chance to get involved.

Counter-attacking football works as a style because the opposition are caught upfield and there is lots of space behind to attack. But the problem with it is that you give the opposition the ball and chances to attack you. The Pep/Enzo way tries to keep the ball at the back, stretching the opposition to try and marry the best of both worlds. Limit chances against you, but have spaces to attack. Plenty of comments in the game threads about our winner being anti what Enzo is trying to do but it is exactly the situation our style of play is looking to take advantage of!

This stat is absolutely crazy in the context of criticism of our recent form: Joint top since the International break!! (just off top spot due to goals scored!)

Wont work at all for me - I can get to the red button bit, but nothing will click to the game. 25 minutes wasted on this c**p...

Snap - will find my way to my local Budgens at some point this week as its the only shop round here which sells the perfect match to a big game...

Its the hope that kills you... Niners still 2 games back from Philly and needing them to drop games. They have looked like losing a few recently only to pull it out at the end. Buffalo did everything but win that game: Time to change the narrative on Sunday as the Niners visit the Eagles!!! Its been circled on the calendar all year & really up for it now.

Yep... must confess to having googled how old she was as well... Can't say I've ever seen a 77 year old in an outfit like that before. But if that's your act, what else can you do? (Maybe sing some Queen songs?)

The most frustrating this about this for me is from the BBC article: The Premier League referred Everton to an independent commission in March but did not reveal the specifics of the club's alleged breach. The Premier League had enough evidence about this in March - and yet it has taken until now to apply this points deduction. Hardly sporting integrity from the Premier League to then apply it in a different season.

Rodgers getting slated by a lot of people over this. The article says that Rodgers didn't play him (or infers want him), but it was the club that wouldn't let him leave. I'd put this at either Rudkin's door or its a sign of disagreements within the club, but unlike Soyuncu, not sure this lost transer fee is all on Rodgers.

I'd be all for that... but it can't happen now. The British public demand top level sport. We are spoilt with regularly being able to watch the best in the world at football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motor racing, boxing etc. Now we have had the proper thing, few people would go for a substandard league (as was shown by NFL Europe). I also watched the Monarchs (v Rhien Fire) but at that level, its a niche sport, so wont be filling Wembley. The development leagues are run on a budgets - XFL and USFL merging and shared training/stadiums between teams - so it's not financially viable to ship them over here. All a mess! Serves us right for following a sport from the other side of the world I suppose!

What goes around, comes around... 2 of the CFL expansion teams came from the Sacramento Surge & San Antonio Riders of the same WLAF that the Monarchs started in! I thought it was pure fantasy that it could happen, but the demand has proved so strong in both London & Germany even with games ramping up, the NFL script is very much "either path is in the realm of possibility between teams simply playing eight home games, eight road games, and one neutral-site game, or having one team headquartered overseas. (If that ever happens, there would be at least two.)" (paraphrasing slightly from https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-keeps-dangling-the-carrot-regarding-european-expansion ). I've heard this view before, and as the NFL front office doesn't do things by accident, I have to think they are seriously considering it. Money talks - and as we have seen with the recent grass/turf debate, what may or may logistically feasible or good for the players (still sore from the Niners having a road Monday night game and then on a short week having to face a Bengals team refreshed after a bye) can be ignored if there is enough profit in it for the owners. The fact that the latest CBA agreed the expansion of the season to 17 games and teams having multiple international games in a year means the horse may have bolted on the player's ability to prevent this. I got a bit tired of watching 2 teams I wasn't that interested in play each other, so haven't been to a game since the Niners were last over - but I'd be back to front row of the queue and chucking existing loyalties out the window if we had our own team here!

Not sure Goodell is in agreement with you... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/67329100 Spain or Brazil next year. NFL have now played at London & Frankfurt, so Barcelona next year will complete the set & give proof of concept for the return of London Monarchs, Frankfurt Galaxy & Barcelona Dragons. Its all laying the groundwork for a Europe division... Add a 4th team & you can start & end the season with 3 divisional games, minimize travel by stopover weeks (as Jags did this year) and you can do away with teams losing a home game to come over. I do agree with your comments 100%, but from a selfish point of view, make this happen!!!

There is a gulf between the Premier League and the Championship - no one is denying that, but the question is can we avoid being one of the worst 3 teams - not will we reproduce this season's form. The fact is, if we go up, we won't be starting from scratch in the way Luton or maybe Sheffield United are this year - we will still be a team that has a lot of Premier League infrastructure, won't have the "happy to be here" mentality and will be a team that has had 4 top 10 Premier League finishes in the previous 6 years and a healthy amount of players with that experience. The big thing for me is that Enzo isn't viewing this as a one year project - he is still implementing his methods, getting his players to buy in, learning how to adapt to different game plans, and he is only just starting to build the squad he wants. The results so far speak for themselves, but with further evolving and a couple more shrewd signings in the mould of Hermanson & Winks & I can't see why there isn't a top 10 team in there again.

The Eagles have the Niners at home, not at Levis. Its been a game circled on the calendar since last year's NFC Championship game, but after being 5-0 and Superbowl favourites, my Niners are suddenly at 5-3 and wondering how to pull out of the spiral. A bye week, then the Jags away is somehow looking a very scary proposition. They do have the Bucs at home before Philly, but there is some figuring out to do to avoid coming out of Philly 6-5 or worse. Nobody saw this coming 3 weeks ago and its not helping anyone's mood after the Giants awful year in the baseball...

Philly losing at the moment - if that stands (big "if" I know), it would really open up the NFC with everyone having at least 2 losses...

Spurs are going the route of the England cricket test team (and Wigan rugby league apparently) and giving each player a unique number which will then be on their shirts: https://uni-watch.com/2023/10/26/tottenham-hotspur-launches-legacy-numbers-program/ Not sure how I feel about this idea - but on reflection, I just think its a bit unnecessary (and a bit like a prison number). Shirts are cluttered enough as it is without getting more cluttered.

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I might be setting the record for most grounds visited without doing this! I can count 15 teams (+ Wembley) which have changed where I've seen Leicester. However, with family & ticket availability, its a sad inditement of my ability to go to away matches over the past few years, its either old grounds or new grounds: Old grounds only: Spurs, Arsenal, Derby, Coventry, Southampton, West Ham, Rotherham, Colchester, Wembley New grounds only: Millwall, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Stoke, Reading Different grounds: There is 1 - Fulham - Craven Cottage & Loftus Rd (but not sure if that counts if 1 ground was only temporary...)

Can't believe that's true. I reckon it was 19,530 fans who told him to f**k off back to America.