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I can't recall ever having ever being criticised for chanting nor seen any others criticised for doing so. Are you sure that either you or your mates were not being obnoxious in any way?

... but we can't afford £500,000 per week at City! He'll have to go to Paris instead.

I have seen very little from this govt to even dream that a regulator appointed by them would share money more equally! It goes against everything that they believe in. To be consistent they would insist that the biggest clubs be allowed to keep everything but their wealth would "trickle down" to ordinary clubs.

Yes, I imagine that even in the multiverse there aren't that many universes where they are both fit at the same time! 😉

He certainly is if you accept Hegel's argument that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics but if you believe Kant that fitness (as with all reality) exists only in the imagination, he isn't. On the other hand, if you believe (and understand) the theory of the multiverse, as put forward by Hugh Everett, there are many universes where Hanley is fit, and many where he is not. 🤔

No - I like to hear from fans of other teams (as long as they don't pose as City fans like I suspect one or two do).

The pragmatic answer is pretty simple if staying up is the goal. They are already relegated, so should keep him, get promoted comfortably next season and then sack him and install someone like Hodgson (Dyche etc) who plays totally pragmatically and b*gger the style.

I was quite excited to see something about Lenin on here - I like a good political argument - but don't really understand the point 😕

I agree with most, if not all of what you say in the post but there is still a part of me (heart rather than brain?) which retains some hope - perhaps naively. We managed to play an attractive, although often direct, brand of football under Lambert and I'm not convinced (yet?) that it's impossible* - although clubs like ours (and about half the division) are only ever a bad run away from relegation once we get to the Premier League. * I can dream about a solid 4-5-1 with rapid counter attacks with Sainz, Rowe, Sara and Sargent, with Nunez pinging long balls as teams over-extend in trying to break us down. But then, it's the hope that kills you...

I agree with you completely - it is the tactics not the the players that is they key. I don't think that Sheff u had better players that us when they stayed up, nor do I think that Brentford's squad was significantly better than ours the first year they stayed up. Tactic is the key - as you say, trying to outplay players of higher quality is asking for trouble as we found and Burnley have found this year. Notice how much better Burnley did under Dyche, with far less money than they have done under Kompany. To stay up we need pragmatic tactics and for the squad and playing style to evolve over time. (Having said that, when Palace tried to evolve their playing style they had to go back to Hodgson pretty quickly!)

Thanks Ricardo - real sense of momentum ATM + the players looking much more confident (even on Wednesday before the dismissal.)

I understand the cynicism but I think that to view all politicians as the same is part of the problem - there are many dodgy politicians but to tar them all with the same brush is unfair to those that are not and lets those that are corrupt off the hook. E.G my ex MP (who I did not vote for) Simon Wright did not move on to a well-paid directorship when he was voted out but instead runs a local charity, Nelson's Journey, which helps young people from Norfolk having to deal with bereavement. Compare this to Brandon Lewis, MP for Gt Yarmouth. https://members.parliament.uk/member/4009/registeredinterests Gordon Brown and Teresa May have behaved very differently as ex-PMs to Tony Blair, David Cameron and Boris Johnson. IMO saying they are "all the same" just lets the bad ones "off the hook." OTBC 👍

I understand your point and disillusionment with politicians but still feel that someone who enters politics in late middle age having reached the top of his chosen field brings more to politics than someone (present in all parties) who have gone straight from University to a SPAD role and then MP - i.e. never done anything professionally outside politics.

It did when we were winning.

Nonsense - Norwich City won't merely be complicit, they will be the primary cause!

Starmer was 53 when he first entered Parliament, so could hardly be described as a professional politician. Would have taken a big pay cut as well.

Yes despite all the stick that Webber gets, a lot of his purchases look pretty good in the long term - Gunn, Sargent + Tzolis is having a great season this year. It was the more established/ better known "star buys" that really let us down - Rashica, Gilmour, Williams, Kabak.

Yes, I remember the charge was also that we couldn't compete because we "wouldn't pay the wages" - there were whole threads on it! The accounts show we spent £50 million more on wages than Brentford - £118 million to £68.2 million - but still the wages/ lack of ambition myth exists.

I must be the same vintage as you as it was my first season too. I'm sure it was the South stand then as well.

Amazed that they sold so many shirts + only 22% female.

Yes - it is amazing how many miss the extent to which we "gave it a go" during the last relegation. We had one of the highest ever wage bills of a relegated team and spent tens of millions that we didn't have. After years of being told we needed to be "more ambitious" and spend money we don't have, they have completely ignored the abject failure that resulted from such a policy.

That's because they had very "ambitious" owners who plunged them into huge debt chasing the dream quick success.

Draw away at a team that made the playoffs the season before: logically a good result, surely? The trouble is that some have elevated expectations and seem to expect to win and play well every game - they just don't understand football. I'm not defending some of the football we have seen in the last two or three years which has been pretty dire and I'm not a particular fan of either Delia or Webber (or Attenasio for that matter) but after watching us play for 50+ years I think that some of the reactions this season have been OTT.* Short of getting a multi-billionaire owner, happy to subsidise us tens of millions every year, we are always likely to have ups and downs - and we probably would still have even if we got said owner - look at Stoke. * Although, TBH, I'd had enough of Wagner by the end of November, but he seems like he might have turned it round.

There are rather a lot of them both on here and Twitter. I'm not sure they are on a wind up, I suspect that they don't see the mutual incompatibility of their statements.