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Even the tapeworm will eventually detach and release out of some place the sun doesn’t shine, looking for a new host.

If Mateta hadn’t fallen apart, that would make most of that difference. If we can get at least one of Mateta and/or Strand-Larsen firing on all cylinders next season, we would be looking at breaking our highest league finish as an absolute bare minimum. Also the same goes for Munoz, he needs a...

In the end just about everyone would go full Roy Keane on him every time he was on the ball… they knew they had to! Even that in itself would lead to a decent amount of free kicks and penalties, although how many we took full advantage of is a different question.

It’s a weird pattern but everyone can feel it has been that way, and the stats speak to that. I always regard us as one of the most vocal and well-supporting home crowds. We are well known for it, even among the rest of the league’s fans. You’d think that would have a positive impact on home...

Tony Pulis their manager at the time. Set up the same way as he did with us fifteen years later.

That doesn’t mean that any of those attributes you listed are not positives. Following that logic, Southgate would’ve won more than Pep in a big job because he wasn’t bothered by silly things like tactical nous.

More or less, yeah.

I doubt there was ever anything in the rumours around Le Bris. Firstly because of how stupid it would be, and secondly because it never came from anywhere credible. It showed up on a few suspect sites, and the next day weirdly Sky felt the need to comment on the speculation only by saying that...

That must be why Pep has never won anything. Oh, wait 🤔

On the point about severance you are spot on, and I’ve said the same thing. A lot of commentators make this error (perhaps deliberately, for clicks), there are others who have clarified it. On your reasoning, I have to say I’m pretty sure none of them are what you’d call “self-made”. A truly...

Oh darn it. Oh well, anyway 😂

The “king of nonchalant”.

Exactly. Sky and the tabloid papers do a lot of “guesstimating” when it comes to this sort of thing.

Wouldn’t take much adapting to him. But would be concerning that Ruben has had much less success in the same system with, in theory, much wider resources. Whilst they have a lot of similarities, tactically and in character, Ruben would be a bit of a downgrade on Oli both tactically and with...

People always think it’s like that, and Sky et al don’t help with that impression, but the pay-off is never close to the remainder of the contract. There will be a set release fee included in every manager’s contract. But to the main point, it is looking more and more likely he won’t be there...

It’s always been Brighton in my eyes, first two fixtures I look out for every season. But view it as a “friendly rivalry” like the Merseyside derby. Millwall is a retched club with a caveman fanbase, like their Scottish clones Rangers. Never liked them one bit, will view that as a more hostile...

Absolutely right PTB.

Yep Roy had more riches on his hands squad-wise than any of our managers before or since. Maybe other than Coppell. But he (Roy) couldn’t get a tune out of 99% of them. We also made more bizarre bit-part signings under him than with anyone else, and it seems like they must’ve been his own...

First the most obvious, a manager. With Oli on his way out the door, we will need to act quick and get’em through the door, so we are able to plan accordingly. Not suggesting that we may not have already done so behind the scenes, obviously we don’t know as fans. I would say we have the numbers...

It’s Bloom’s analytics company they can thank. Since they’ve been involved with Hearts of Midlothian they’ve been transformed too. Real Saint Gillois in Belgium as well.