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1 Community Shield
46 Championship games
1 League Cup tie
1 FA Cup tie
6 Europa League tiesSurely playing 55 club games – plus travelling to European games – is enough for one season. Cup runs will only add to the load. We couldn’t compete in two competitions last season, when 46 games proved too many. I don’t think our squad is any stronger – I doubt that Coyle will field his first team in all the Europa League games.
The players have their international games too. Incredibly, these begin on 14 August, with Wales v Republic of Ireland and England v Scotland. At least we will be spared the African Nations Cup this season.
There are several affluent Championship clubs who will be tough opponents – plus some impoverished ones fighting for their lives. There will be some very tired players at the end of the season; a top six finish will be a very good achievement.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Thursdays will never be the same! Some first leg results;
FC Xanthi 1-2 Standard Liege; Ronnie Stam has signed for Standard
Slask Wroclaw 1-0 Club BrugesSwansea 4-0 Malmo
Motherwell 0-2 Kuban Krasnodar
Minsk 0-1 St Johnstone (Perth)Second leg 8 August
Spurs (and Atromitos) enter Play Off round
Draw 9 August; First leg 22 August; Second leg 29 AugustValencia, Bordeaux, Lazio, Anzhi Makhachkala, Wigan Athletic, Freiburg and Vitória de Guimarães enter Group stage
Draw 30 August; Matchday 1 19 SeptemberWGTB is fast becoming a boring know it allIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
And thank you – I’ve never lost my pace!
Best not to comment unless you witnessed the situation first hand.
Indeed.
At least he sounds like he plays with passion.
A view informed by witnessing the situation at first hand, I trust.
The concern is that if he continues to collect yellow and red cards at this rate, whether rightly or wrongly, he’s hardly going to strengthen the defence. Unless he can change the situation, he’s going to miss an awful lot of games.
Auto-que is an elementary mistake, possibly following the all-too-common mis-spelling barbeque for barbecue.
But it isn’t the only mistake.
“So it begs the rhetorical question…”
First, a rhetorical question does not require an answer.
Second, ‘begging the question’ has a very specific meaning. It does not mean ‘raising the question’, as is often assumed. It means ‘assuming the initial point’, i.e. basing a conclusion on an assumption that has not been proved.
However, life is far too short to correct all the messages posted here. Posters usually manage to make their point, but a little more care would be welcome.
Barnett won Luton’s official Player-of-the-Year Award for 2006–07.
Barnett’s performance in Albion’s 2–1 away win against Leicester City on 8 December 2007 earned him a place in the Championship Team of the Week.
On the other hand;
He played 20 games while on loan at Coventry in the Championship. He conceded three penalties, two of which saw him sent off in consecutive games against Newcastle United and Scunthorpe United.
On 11 December 2010, playing for Norwich against Portsmouth at Carrow Road, he conceded a penalty, for which he received his second yellow card of the match and was subsequently sent off. In protest, he threw the ball at referee Simon Hooper, which earned him an extended two-match ban from The FA.
Barnett played in his first Premier League game for Norwich as a substitute away at Wigan Athletic on 13 August 2011. He started the next game, a 1–1 draw at home with Stoke City at Carrow Road, but was adjudged by referee Neil Swarbrick to have committed a professional foul on Jon Walters in the second half, conceding a penalty kick and receiving a red card.
Not sure what was on his plate, but he had a crust on his mantle piece.
Surely there was an apple core too.
“We will never win the FA Cup with Martinez’s team selections”
That’s an own goal by Lostock, and a Golden Goal too!
My own prediction; We will never win the Community Shield with Martinez’s team selections. My beautiful tickets arrived this morning!
