stevegrant

All that table shows is that we've played away at Man United (cap 76k), Arsenal (60k), Man City (55k), Newcastle (55k), Sunderland (48k) and Chelsea (42k). Arsenal haven't played away at Man United, Man City, Newcastle or Sunderland yet, so their average will increase as a result. Not quite sure what the point of that table is, really, it doesn't really prove anything, even at the end of the season. You'd actually expect the clubs with smaller stadia to be nearer the top as they'll have one fewer game at a low-capacity stadium to bring their average down.

There is a collection option, but I think the site said something about them not being sure when the tickets will be ready to send out, which suggests they don't actually have the tickets in their possession yet.

Good to see the club charging £6.20 for "recorded delivery" of these tickets, despite the service costing just £1.73 via Royal Mail...

Well the club has quite specifically said it's a Promotion XI so I won't be expecting either to be there.

Well yes, considering he scored as a result of being allowed to do so.

Are you REALLY going to take the "it wasn't offside" angle when replays showed that TWO of their goals could have been flagged offside in the buildup? Yes, they were very close, but having any part of the body that can legally play the ball in an offside position is offside. The video footage conclusively proved that Rooney was offside for the first goal and Martial was offside for the third.

His 45 minutes in a crap defeat at home to Leicester (goals from Nugent and Matt Mills, FFS) clearly made an impression Now at Roma and doing reasonably well for himself, which has come as a surprise to everyone, I think.

I don't think there'll be too much of a problem there, with it coming so soon after the end of the season (which I expect is why that particular date was chosen) they should all be able to play some part. Morgan Schneiderlin has pretty much confirmed he'll be playing on his Instagram feed, which suggests there won't be a problem for internationals.

All as sub, unsurprisingly.

I saw him play for Sutton United at the start of last season, he was ****ing terrible. Released after a couple of games.

If we are strictly talking about players who made league appearances in our two promotion seasons, that means the following are eligible (appearances in brackets): GK: Kelvin Davis (91), Bartosz Bialkowski (1) DF: Frazer Richardson (54), Dan Harding (36), Ryan Dickson (23), Jose Fonte (85), Danny Butterfield (44), Radhi Jaidi (31), Aaron Martin (18 ), Joseph Mills (2), Dan Seaborne (27), Danny Fox (41), Jos Hooiveld (39) MF: Morgan Schneiderlin (68 ), Jason Puncheon (23), Guly do Prado (76), Dean Hammond (84), Adam Lallana (77), Lee Holmes (11), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (34), Oscar Gobern (11), Richard Chaplow (58 ), Dany N'Guessan (6), Dale Stephens (6), Paul Wotton (2), Jack Cork (46), Iago Falque (1), Ben Reeves (2), Steve de Ridder (30) FW: Rickie Lambert (87), Jonathan Forte (11), Lee Barnard (42), David Connolly (41), Nicholas Bignall (3), Billy Sharp (15), Tadanari Lee (7)

Scousers in "thieving ****s" shocker.

I'd largely agree with that sentiment, and it's something Celtic fans warned us about when we signed him, that he feels like he can coast through games against lesser opposition but will turn it on against the big boys. It does seem as though a penny may have dropped with him in the last week or two...

Which part of that statement isn't fair and/or accurate?

And deleted within half an hour of said announcement. The integrity

As mentioned already, why would the club give him ammunition by banning him so he can make the story about the evil football club stopping the hard-working journalist earning a living? Much easier to just let him carry on spouting **** which gets proven to be wrong. The world will continue to turn, and nobody will give a **** about some two-bit hack who gets his rare accurate exclusives from the matchday programme.

Also known as "moving to the States to work", I believe The problem I've found with many similar attempts is that they try to be all things to all people, which ends up making it a bit dull, as you say. Nobody's going to read the match reports as they'll have probably either seen the game already or read a match report from any of the dozen in the national media long before they get their hands on a fanzine. Unless, that is, the match report is done like this: http://www.htfc-world.com/reports/Southampton2/southampton161010.htm The main thing fanzines have been good for, IMO, is providing a platform for people to talk **** about their clubs, but forums, Twitter, Facebook, blogs all do the same thing now, only more instant, requiring no actual printing or publishing to get their views out there. While there will always be a nostalgic desire for printed fanzines, I just don't think there's enough things to write about these days, as everything will have appeared somewhere online a week before the fanzine even goes to the press, let alone hits the streets.

Would take that with a mountain of salt, tbh...

My interpretation of the Pellè situation is that we don't see a particularly long shelf life for him beyond this season, so we wouldn't be "losing" him. As I may have hinted at before, I genuinely couldn't give a **** about Wanyama, he's nowhere near as good as he seems to think he is. Mané would be the only genuine loss, but we'll be compensated with a ludicrous transfer fee.

All bets are off when you talk about QPR in a business sense, though. They turned down £12m for him from Leicester in the summer, holding out for £15m. They are basically a football club owned by an egomaniac without the slightest sense of how to operate as a business. Makes you wonder how these people make their money in order to buy a football club in the first place...

Indeed. Currently bottom of the National League South

Oh god, ****ing Patrick Agyemang. The memories

Loads of Football League clubs have had transfer embargoes imposed, although they've been with the caveat that they can sign players on what the league determines "a reasonable salary" if their squad size drops below a certain level, but they're not allowed to pay a transfer fee. Man City were fined around £50m by UEFA and had their Champions League squad size reduced last season. Nobody has failed the Premier League's FFP criteria, so we've no idea what sanctions would be imposed there.

Well quite, it's not as if it's the most important part of his job.