The Doctor

Ref not having a great game, but then Faes looks half asleep as well

Brazil 1970 wish they were us.

Slapped for X normally means losing by X goals

5-2=3.

Surely if anyone should feel unlucky it's Ipswich to have started so well and to be so far off first

I mean they were not that far off before the FA put an effective ban on women's football for decades. The finalissima in April selling out so quickly, the support for the euros and the world cup, next Friday's game v Belgium being a sell out, the attendance arsenal got v Liverpool at the Emirates... The support base is there to be tapped into but requires clubs to buy in. Only us and Bristol use the same ground as the mens team as our main ground, even though some will put a few big matches in their mens man ground, and we only open the west stand. Once attendances come, money comes. There's huge advertising and TV money in the championship compared to some top flight European leagues, let alone to the likes of Serie B or Liga Secunda, because there's a support base there

Howard bullying Shaw at this point, not many CBs in the league that'll do that to her

Does my head in. Same as referring to man Utd as united

Keating does look like she wants a lot of time on the ball, some pressing on the keeper looks like our way back into this

Great chance but straight at her really

Great chance for a three v two, Whelan doesn't release, then Nevin and Tierney tackle each other to create a chance. The organisation and communication need to be much better

Surprised the free kick wasn't the other way tbh? Greenwood steps forward, misses it and gets tangled with Whelan?

Interesting to see how in possession Nevin is playing effectively cm alongside Tierney.

Leitzig should do better but the defensive positions are so poor there, Nevin not back to deal with Kelly, just leaving Thibaud to defend against two

Because there was barely a game played that day, timewasting from the 15th minute and maybe only 20 minutes in play in the entire second half

At least pep recognises his place in the follicular challenged manager rankings

Selfishly I'd like Birmingham to be moved to the Sunday because I'm at a wedding on the Saturday, but it's gonna be the Saturday lunch kickoff isn't it

Yes, this is about a loss of revenue from COVID, the case against Everton is about them breaching FFP and essentially cheating to stay up at our expense

My favourite Schlupp moment is still him trying to substitute himself at home to West Ham because they were taking their number 15 off, and cambiasso having to chase him and explain the concept of opposition making subs

Fair point, I'd honestly forgot he joined in Jan that season. Definitely the regular 11 and the regular subs: King, Ulloa and Schlupp

https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-youri-tielemans-wants-to-quit-aston-villa-after-fall-out-with-emery/ Lol. Maybe you shouldn't be such a lazy bastard then Youri

They were key players for us in a title win everyone thought was impossible. All of the 15/16 squad are legendary.

I'm quoting the article that LBC have run: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sir-keir-starmer-hamas-terrorism-israel-defend-itself/ To be quite frank I think it's naïve to say this. He's made it clear he won't. Now, maybe he actually agrees with my politics and is just constantly lying through his teeth until he gets elected, at which point he'll actually come out with a social democratic program, but banking on that is imo naïve. If he's not distinguishable from the Tories, and on policy positions and what him and his shadow cabinet are saying, there's not much, then getting the Tories out doesn't achieve anything because it's just choosing different colour shoelaces on the boot kicking your teeth in

And will they thank you for ensuring that the labour party are committed to things never getting better either? Maybe if labour did some actual opposing rather than "the problem with the Tories evils are that they're not doing it competently", and you could slide a cig paper between the two in terms of policies on benefits, refugees etc then maybe it wouldn't be a choice between two cheeks of the same arse.

You can't enact collective punishment within international law though...