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  1. Kalvin Phillips set to join Mason Mount in the England 'Where Are They Now?' pile.
  2. Non story. Guests there at every game who get the pre match meal etc and sit in the directors box gratis. Same applies to guests of visiting team.
  3. Out of all our young centre backs, I reckon Adegboyega is the nearest to the first team for next season. Can we keep hold of them all? Doubt it-so Tomkinson may get another loan next season at a higher level, if he continues to impress, it'll be as it was with Mumba, either his parent club or another will want to buy him. The bottom line of academies is indeed training and preparing young players for a professional career as a first team player....somewhere. Just not neccessarily with the club they do all of that with.
  4. A couple ot those ex-managers have gone on to much bigger and better things.
  5. Ross Jack scored in quite a few consecutive games back in about 1981 bur Sarge is now on a run for the ages, long may it continue.
  6. We all, rightly, look back at 92/93 with fond memories. But that 88/89 team came just as close to glory and was being tipped as an unlikely double contender at one time. And there's my hill. That was our best ever season, side and squad.
  7. I really like those-wonder if they do an equivalent golf shoe!?
  8. I like it! Wonder how many pairs Nunez has, perhaps he should get a special rate? Do people remember their first pair of football boots...mine were these-George Best Stylo Matchmakers...
  9. I'd happily spend a day at Colney cleaning and polishing up their boots, £20 a pair......🤣
  10. Yes, he was always going to be there, but, now he's with Ajax, he's on the plane. So he'll start alongside Rice. Alexander-Arnold is injured but expected back at the end of this month, if he is able to displace one of Klopp's fledglings (altogether: ahhhhhh!!) and get a run of games in April, May, then he's an option. Pickford Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell Henderson Rice Saka Bellingham Rashford Kane (not my XI, the one I think Southgate will regard as his starting XI) Guessing Sterling will miss out, Tripper and Phillips not certainties for the squad either. Mason Mount English football's forgotten man!
  11. He is a bit on/off with Foden, isn't he? He has to be in the middle of that front three-and its why Bellingham will play deeper. But that gives him (Bellingham) most of the pitch ahead of him, and, with his vision and ability to read a game, its the best place for him. If only Rashford was on his game. But, as has been said, he usually plays well for England.
  12. Agree. Behind a 4 of Saka, Bellingham, Foden and Rashford. Madders may have been in contention, injury hasn't helped his cause. Whilst Grealish has been out of favour. Left back is a concern. Maybe Walker will play there with White at right back.
  13. Suspect Maguire will keep his place. Would opt for Lewis Dunk or Marc Guehi myself but Southgate will go with experience. For that reason, Chilwell at left back. If he's not fit then thats a bit of an issue with Shaw likely out as well. Phillips may not even make the squad now. Think Southgate will play Bellingham deeper and keep faith in Rashford in that attacking trio.
  14. And there's the rub-when the future of any kind of football is dependent on TV interest and rights. Where would the game be without it-and where would most clubs, ourselves included, now be without it? TV owns the game and the medium acts like it. It was Keith Burkinshaw, who agreed with a journalists comment about Tottenham ('...there used to be a football club over there' -and that was in 1984!) who also said TV would one day govern the game to such an extent that fans would be paid to attend games in order to provide the atmosphere for the TV coverage. As it turns out, VAR is the great entertainer for the sofa dwelling masses right now but that day might still come once true fans are fed up with Liverpool vs Inter Milan for the 7th time in a year....
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