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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 06, 2025 7:00 pm
Absolutely it matters

Unless you want to watch Burnley take on Bournemouth in Salt Lake City.

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He lost his three best players at the start of the season and accordingly had to re-construct the defence whilst facing five European qualifiers whilst at the same time losing his top scorer. The big concern is Broja. We need a forward who knows where the net is and by the sound of it he is way off ...

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According to a table shown on MOTD last night we have made the least number of changes to the starting line up along with Palace (?). Not sure what that indicates, but hazarding a guess he thinks we have a better chance of gelling using the same players plus he doesn't think the second stringers are...

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If I remember rightly they worked the same free kick in the home fixture vs City. This time Waldron et al took the defenders across the penalty area leaving Dobo unfettered at the back post to nut it in.

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I think I've got the answer to our striker problems. Apostolos Stamatelopoulos. He scored a brace today for Motherwell vs Celtic and has scored 8 goals in 19 starts. Even he is no good, think of all the fun we will have listening to match commentators trying to get their chops round his name. We cou...

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The player who might make a difference to our team is sat on the Villa bench. Ross Barkley would give our attacking play the impetus it sadly lacks.
18 months to go on his deal and he hasn't got on the pitch so far this season for Villa.

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No qualms about playing the second string in the CCCup but he should have had the first teasers on the bench as back if things went tit's up.

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I like Parker but he sacrificed a League Cup run for a 5 - 1 thrashing today. Not looking a very smart on his part.

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I am surprised nobody so far has brought up perhaps the most famous abandonment in recent Claret's history i.e. the FA Cup tie at the Baseball Ground in 1992, when the game was stopped with only 15 minutes remaining with Derby 2 - 0 up and set to go through to the next round. I'll never forget drivi...

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Only four goals in circa 120 appearances for Benfica we are going to be heavily reliant on the front three for goals as Cullen,
Hannibal and Big Les are in the same bracket in terms of hitting the net.

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Well, Slot has paid us the compliment of fielding the same starting 11 as he did vs The Arsenal.

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Truro have yet to play at Gateshead and vice versa which will be a 930 mile round trip.

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1 - 0 at half time to Slovakia.

Clean sheet so far for our hero. New Mags signing Woltemade up front for Germany!

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I don't see a thumping. We showed at Old Trafford in the second half we can give as good as we get and of course we're at home. We got a bit lucky on Saturday in that Cunha and Mount were both subbed before the second half. Mount was possibly their best player to that point. The replacements Zirkze...

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Re the stoppage time penalty: no doubt that Anthony fouls Amad, however the latter is nowhere near the ball. Even Usain Bolt wouldn't have got there, so it's a misjudgement on Anthony's part, but maybe his mind flashed back to the Spurs match when he was flattened in the box but the Spurs challenge ...

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Amorim was rambling and largely incoherent in his post match interview. However he did say that something needed to change and you can not change 22 players coupled with his remarks about what the players want, it seems they want him out and he wants to go. We need him to stay in post until Saturday...

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A draw would be best as we don't want either of our Champions League place rivals to pick up maximum points.

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Worth pointing out that they achieved over 30000 average gates for their four seasons in Tier 3 and over 39000 for their last three seasons in the Championship. Very committed and loyal supporters albeit with a very large catchment area.

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We did get one bit of luck yesterday when Ballard, a key player for them in both boxes, went off injured.

He teed up a sitter for them in the fifth minute and scored a crucial goal last week.

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Bauress starts for Accy at Salford.

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I am beginning to quite like Valerian as 1)he is refreshingly honest and 2) he appears to be not very good at football management. In a couple of his interviews he spilt the beans that his captain and "best player" Travis wants to leave the club and go to Derby. The only thing that's holding up the ...

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Will there be another Phoenix club to follow the likes of Stanley, Macclesfield and Bury?

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Look no further than Taskers. We bought three pieces from there four years ago when we moved to Tyneside. All excellent quality and value, and they shipped them up to us for £35!

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I was fortunate enough to be on the Turf for his hat trick vs Birmingham towards the end of the 62/63 & also for his header vs Liverpool as mentioned in the article. I had the privilege of the man himself describe it to me years later. One other feature of his play not mentioned so far was his brave...

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Three years ago I bought a Giant Roam for about £650 including some very neat disc brakes. It's quite slow as the tyres are quite wide but it's ideal for a lot of the off road cycleways on the old Waggonways of which there are many in the north east. I haven't had a puncture yet, I used to get loads...

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The drought is more prevalent in areas that rely heavily on reservoirs as opposed to acqifers hence the situation in Yorkshire.

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Opening game of the season for the Gills will be at the Crown Ground vs Accy Stan Saturday 2nd August

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Never, ever get tired of watching that goal. A thing of beauty. Made better with it being a big clash of promotion hopefuls. 8-) Good call. He took out the entire QPR defence with laser like precision and execution. Nice finish from Danny but it was on a plate for him. He wasn't just a head on a st...

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I was wandering down Grey St in Newcastle today. It's one of the most beautiful streets in the country. But so many frontages, and the floors above, remain empty. Absolutely ridiculous. Prime location being wasted. I just can't understand it However there isn't a proper Sports Shop in Newcastle tha...

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Manchester City play Moroccan team W Casablanca today at the Lincoln Financial field, a bit of a bogey team for the Citizens I would guess.

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Just as an aside, Pochettino played over 200 games for Espanyol and managed them for nearly three seasons before moving to Southampton.

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Article in the Grauniad about Burnley's attempted buyout, at the end of which, they claim nearly 400 teams are now involved in multi-club ownership.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... n-espanyol

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Zeki Amdouni played for Switzerland yesterday, he scored after coming on as a sub.

The Cuckoo Clock men won 4 - 2 & were playing Mexico in Salt Lake City Utah. What's that about?

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Watching the latest Stick to Football broadcast with Mark Crossley prompted me to think that he must have been in the nets the night that Forest beat the Clarets 4 - 1 in the League Cup 1st leg at the City Ground. Also a young Roy Keane was in the Forest side and he scored and set one up. Nigel Clou...

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I followed the link and read the article however below it is a Comments section. The first one says " is there a young player that Strasbourg isn't interested in? " !!

Can't read the rest without registering with L'Equipe.

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Great interview post promotion with Frank.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/vi ... 4z0yyj82o

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Bury lad Simon Yates wins it!

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Sounds like Besiktas are like a lot of Turkish clubs and actually haven't got any money. Also we don't want any fee in Turkish Lira given their inflation rate currently 38%.

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Did I hear Lineker say that there could be 10 English teams competing in Europe next season? Could be to our advantage, though there will be a hell of a lit of games on Sundays.

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It seems all is not sweetness and light at Strasbourg FC as their fans are not happy with being a Chelsea feeder club. Although, thanks largely to the emergence of the Pensioners loanee Brazilian Santos, their club have progressed this season. An interesting insight as to how a feeder club works. ht...

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Thought the referee was outstanding last night. The crowd were so wound up they were screaming for handball every time the ball hit a Coventry players chest. The Sunderland players were diving trying to con the referee and ramp up the crowd. It was a real cauldron in there last night. There were a c...

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The roof nearly blew off when that went in!

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Cov looking a bit shagged out here

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Cov have gone up through the gears and pinned the Mackems back. They've pinpointed the full backs and overloaded down the flanks.

Cov look well coached and much better on the ball than Sunderland. Looks like Frank has done a good job there and we fix well to beat them at their place.

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In attendance tonight at SoL. Sunderland look there for the taking but Coventry don't look capable. Missed an absolute sitter just before half time.

Sunderland fans are a very anxious lot. Very quick to get on to their players when they screw up which has been a lot tonight. Very edgy atmosphere.

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In addition to Morgan Whittaker Boro also signed Kelechi Iheanacho on loan from Sevilla after he signed on a fee for them last summer from Leicester City.

He scored one goal and looked totally out of condition almost busting out of his shorts. No wonder questions are being asked about Carrick.

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To underline his achiement Chris Wood just moved ahead two goals ahead of Denis Bergkamp in the EPL all time goal scorers chart and is level with Rashford. A couple more needed to pass Giroud and level with OGS.

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Gateshead now have a 10 year lease on the ground even though management of the stadium has now transferred from the Council to a private company.

Pity they didn't have it last season when they had a much stronger team and management.

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Absolutely true, a positive sign though is that York City, Halifax, Oldham, Rochdale are set to occupy 4/6 of the National League play-off places, You forgot to mention Gateshead who go into a shoot out at the International Stadium this afternoon with Southern Jessie's Southend United. The Heed nee...

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Also reported in the Scottish Sun.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/ ... sley-hull/

Tragic especially he is only 57. He gave all of us so many great memories and possibly soon he won't have any.

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