Holmes_and_Watson

That he did all that endurance running, while having such a serious blood disorder, makes him even more of a legend in my eyes.

Stone

Mantra

Plenty of time for Downs to break back into the USA squad.

He's not back to being the total lump he was for quite a while, but Aribo is obviously a bit rusty and not as mobile as he could be. That said, the pace of that second half was very different. Everyone was a bit slower and more measured. Only Robinson having a few solo runs and AA's work rate strong, even when slower. Even then, Aribo's awareness closed things down without him having to bust a gut. He also took up at least one really good space only for no one to pass to him. That, and the off chance of getting some January pennies for him, and I can see why he's there.

If Tonda keeps giving us dull second Halfs, then he's got no chance of getting the job. 🙂 All done in the first half again. And again, the set up makes the most of our weaker areas, with lots of support for each other. AA roamed even more tonight to create space for the others. Scienza once again the beneficiary, along with Azaz. Scienza is able to disrupt defences with even the smallest opportunity and makes a massive difference. Initially Fellowes had to run from deeper than he'd have liked to. But he had his opponents well beaten, with one sentence off and the other lucky to escape cards. It's a shame we've no target man for his crosses. He had to adapt his delivery. With no Stephens THB was the one getting forward. And he did it well, in addition to the two headers. Manning becomes key to a lot of our set pieces. We need to be attacking, so that teams don't exploit us at full back. Quarshie is a lot rawer. But his presence put Leicester off and he did things well. Downes picked up his obligatory card, although he looked angry with himself for it. In truth, he should have got one a lot earlier. Bragg gets a start. Cameos for Robinson, who showed some direct runs, Aribo with more pluses than minuses and Downs who won a header, even if he decided not to aim towards the goal with it. All sensible switches from Tonda. The squad players know what they need to do, to start. This weekends game to come. But if it goes half decently, Tonda will get the job. Then not long until the window for Spors to rectify the centre forward issue.

Yours can't count because a) it's you and not him b) your example isn't being used to support a headline in the Guardian, without understanding the context and, importantly, c) your personal anecdotes are real ones. The closest SOG has personally come to a racial incident is the one he faked on here, when there were national incidents, and then blamed his wife.

We need an Alan Ball. 🙂

I woke up screaming from my usual existentialist nightmares. Why sit staring into the void, terrified of the futility and bleakness of it all? I can put the cricket commentary on...sod...

Just so much harder against 10.

I saw Fenandes put in his usual defensive work leading up to their goal. On the other hand, that might have been his missed shot that led to the sending off. Such a daft way to get sent off.

It's a bit like a Rento.

Crater

Data

Having any kind of centre forward would have improved our squad, as would an all round better goalkeeper. But both would have had to have wanted to be here, which I'm not sure is the case for either of them. Since the tactics would have had them running through treacle anyway, it would be a no.