BigFish

The fact that you post this proves you really have no clue about football....... or probably anything else for that matter.

It is all hierachy, we are 20th best placed club in England in football terms. Apart from the handful of clubs who realistically fancy promotion from the Chumps every other club would swap places and owners if the chance came up. Those clubs include a number with bigger fan bases and more illustrious historys.

Really, Jim, really? It was a horrible time, and what did not tolerating relegation and player sales actually achieve. You must be pleased it ushered in the S&J era I suppose 😉. We went on the spend the best part of a decade in the second tier and we didn't have consecutive years in the top tier again for 18 years. Pretty futile, I think even you must agree. Perhaps the crash and years without success has taught fans the limits of toleration.

Disclaimer to start with, I always thought that the fan revolt against Chase was out of proportion. Fans overreact, and the current critics probably have more in common with the "Chase outers" they they would care to admit. They were good years, built on good foundations, but when the wheels came off they really did come off spectacularly. A Norwich way of playing had developed from Bond, through Brown and Stringer to Walker. Chase's firesale in 96 destroyed this and was a major factor in the decade that followed in the second tier. He also left the club with the white elephant of a stand on one side of the ground that is too small for a club of our stature and too expensive/inconvienent to replace.

4.3 Landing cards On 5 August 2017, the Home Office launched the ‘Consultation on Home Office’s Immigration Statistics - arrivals data’, on ending the requirement for non-EEA passengers to present a paper landing card on arrival into the UK from 1 October 2017. The consultation set out the statistical implications of the change and closed on 2 September 2017. The government confirmed in the Spring Statement 2019 that to coincide with the ePassport gates expansion, the government would begin to abolish landing cards for non-EEA travellers. On 20 May 2019, it removed the need for all non-EEA travellers to fill in landing cards upon arrival in the UK and expanded the use of ePassport gates to seven more countries. The government’s response to the consultation was published in May 2019. As anticipated in the original consultation, ahead of new electronic data sources being developed, the withdrawal of landing cards has resulted in a temporary loss to the passenger arrivals data broken down by nationality and reason for travel. The last set of published data on non-EEA nationals arriving in the UK (based on Landing Cards), cover the period 2004 to 2018) are available in ‘Immigration statistics, year ending June 2019 second edition’. Data on the total number of passenger arrivals will continue to be available as this comes from a different source. So, @SwindonCanary the government has taken back control of our borders by..........removing the controls, incredible! Furthermore they don't actually know how many people are coming to the Uk or where they are from. Well done Brexiteers another winner. Now Swindo **** off you ****

The error was not mine RTB, and you have compounded this with further inaccuracies. Clearly the UK has an established church which places unelected representatives in its legislature. The head of that church is also the head of state. Furthermore, there were no nation states at the time of the crusades, that is a much later invention. Lastly, the Islamic states I think you are referring to were largley created by Westerm Imperialism and Western states have largely stamped on any attempts to secularise them. To paint them solely in the light of what you call a two thousand year ideology is clealy lacking in context.

Totally unacceptable, lol, what are you going to do about it apart from accept it and suck it up granddad. Most fans would be perfectly happy if we only scored 12 goals from now until May if they came in 12 scrappy 1-0 wins.

Supposedly, Farke has been naive and put out teams that were "bullied" at this level. Last EPL season he tried 4231 and didn't have a plan B. This season he tried 433 and we lost 6 on the spin. So now he is putting out what is effectively 352 and we have gone 193 minutes withou conceding a goal. That to me indicates he isn't naive, we have a plan B and we are not going to get bullied. It looks like progress, rot stopping or whatever you care to call it. Whether posters on here find that "acceptable" or not is irrelevent, football is not entertainment, football is sport, it is about results.

It is interesting how tactics evolve. Time was defenders were coached to "show players the line" and force them wide. Then it became "show them inside" and force them into traffic which in turn led to inverted wingers coached to come inside. Most modern clubs play narrow these days to avoid being overloaded in central areas with width being a bit of a luxuary. That is why wingbacks are used to bring width that would overwise be lacking.

Jeez, have you actually watched any football since the eighties.

I know our friend @ricardo likes a good opinion poll to take the temperature but he seems to have missed this one for some reason?

Brentford, this years Sheffield United

Who would have guessed it, seems like the Australia trade deal hasn't happened afterall.

I think I know why you always quote YouGov which is a bit of an outlier, not saying outliers can't be right, @ricardo. It is that their methodology produces much higher Green support and much lower Labour. That said pretty clear that Tory support is c39% which is probably enough to win and have a majority, albeit significantly reduced.

To be pedantic this is hogwash. The Crusades were Western European and Roman Catholic. Jerusalem had never been theirs and they had largely never been there, while by 1095 Jerusalem had Muslim leadership for several centuries. They also spent much of their time fighting Christians who had other belief systems including several horrific massacres such as the sack of Christian Constantinople in 1204 when they spent days killing Christians. You are confusing politics with religion in an attempt to avoid inconvienent facts that the roots of much of this rests with colonialist history. The US spent a decade funding Al Qaeda as did their Saudi allies. After 9/11 Bush called for a crusade, so this is not one way. You analysis is not only incorrect but based on racism.

Racism defined

Em, who do we believe, Nobel Prize winning economist or @Fen Canary?

Far be it from me to comment on exchange rates @ricardo, but the word in the markets is that the £ is supported that the UK will be the first country to hike its interest post Covid and this is likely to be much earlier than previously forecast.

Even Johnson admits that the UK is going through the "stresses and strains" of Brexit, but this is not a crisis. This is the phoney war of a crisis. We haven't seen anything yet. Empty filling stations and shelves, turkey shortages and a bonfire of pigs is just the start. 4 million pushed into poverty by UC credits is just the start. As the Covid support is removed from its role propping up the economy in the form of the furlough, QE and the Stamp duty holiday the Winter is goining to be rocky. The long forgotton spectre of inflation will be back. Interest rates will rise and then in April Sunak plans the biggest tax rises in history. And Johnson hasn't got a clue what to do about it.