Lord Duckhunter

Hopefully we can get back to grey, boring politics again after the crazy, psycho dramas of the last two years.

Oh FFS, what’s all this fucking mass walking to the ground. It’s as bad as those twats who chuck beer around in those noddy fan zones.

He’d have started in the final. You know, games when the manager puts out his best side….

In non hipster parlance, he’s a sub, who doesn’t get in the starting 11.

He can’t even get in our side.

What’s got missed in all the debate about the set is her actual pony analysis. I only saw the England one, as I mute her now, but that was tactics for dummies, yet you’ve got a load of “footy” type nods saying how insightful it was. Dear god, the full back knocks it back to the keeper, when they press the keeper, he plays into into a midfielder who knocks it to the full back who is now free. Fuck me, genius, I’ve watched Wessex League teams do this, let alone countless repeats of Baz to Downs then to full back under Lego. A lot of teams don’t even press the keeper in that scenario anyway. And she’s getting paid to spout this condescending pony, free from criticism because you can’t think she’s a pony merchant, it has to be a sexist thing. She’s the Lego head of the birds game, I would say if she was made of chocolate she’d eat herself, but I’d probably be accused of fat shaming.

There’s also thousands of people from each country living in the states. It wouldn’t surprise me if 60/70% of some nations supporters are US residents.

West Ham away Boxing Day.

The fact he didn’t know who Bin Face was shows how out of touch he is..

There was one plank in that clip, and it wasn’t Bin Face.

Yeah, they were on a hiding to nothing after campaigning on “vote reform, get Starmer out” during the locals. Pretty tough to turn round and then campaign against the bloke specifically running to boot Starmer out. Even a great campaigner like Nigel will struggle to square that circle. The Manchester mayoral election will be a better barometer, but I suspect tactical voting will have a big influence over that as well. Interesting that the Tories won Aberdeen from the SNP quite comfortably as well.

Exactly this. The problem is you can’t criticise that dogs dinner she delivered without being accused of Misogyny. They set her up as some sort of tactical genius, when in fact she was spouting pony. She was totally wrong anyway, as was pointed out by TT’s assistant at half time. What she was praising, he was saying they were unhappy with. They got into the players at HT to do less of what she was impressed with, lo and behold the performance second half was impressive. Anyone could see that the first quarter of the game was a bit of a mess tactically, probably the whole first half. There wasn’t really a pattern before the drinks break. However, she had to say something, so waffled a load of old bollocks. I’ve heard loads of experienced blokes saying “tactically, I don’t know what they’re doing”, “whatever they’re trying isn’t working”, “the game hasn’t settled down yet” and similar. The problem with birds is they try to hard to prove themselves, they seem to think they need to be come out with gems every time they open their mouths. They basically suffer from imposter syndrome, because deep down they know they’re not in the studio on merit. She was hung out to dry by ITV, if they wanted her analysis, put her on the panel. And if the tactical shape of the game hadn’t developed by that stage (which it hadn’t), talk about something else. Maybe Neville could have discussed the players mindset in the first game, or Wrighty could have discussed the pressure of a retaken penalty. She was given a rough gig, but made a complete and utter horlicks of it.

It’s good one of the fairer sex is willing to say it’s pony, it shows how bad it really was. It’s condescending & dumbing down. The fact she’s not a bloke (as far as we know) doesn’t come in to it. It was basic tactical analysis that anybody who has watched the game for more than 5 mins could have worked out. A complete and utter waste of everyone’s time, just box ticking. If you’re going to have a tactical section put somebody credible doing it, somebody who has managed at the highest level of the game they’re discussing & somebody who will give us some insight we can’t see for themselves. In a proper setting, not using a bloody blackboard in a friggin Wren showroom.