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Reply | Dr Michael Mosely RIP
at 20:39 10 Jun 2024
One of the few TV presenters you can imagine sititng in the pub with and not feeling irritated by or talked down to.
A genuinely lovely man whose health advice was both easy to follow and firmly rooted in the science.
RIP and you will be much missed. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 09:38 8 Jun 2024
Can we just keep the MC is going made up rumours to a MC thread so I can ignore them? |
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Reply | England 🏴 v Iceland 🇮🇸 Match Thread
at 22:08 7 Jun 2024
Didn't look like we had a strategy for breaking them down or to deal with the counter.
We didn't really look like he'd addressed issues coming out after half time.
Bit disappointing. Crossing poor. Too many touches when we got a chance.
However, early days and we should improve before the tournament. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 18:27 6 Jun 2024
Ebs has scored against Spurs, Liverpool and Villa - who finished in the top five. In total he scored 11 goals and four assists in the equivalent of 22 full matches. Grealish has scored in total against Spurs, Luton and Palace and scored three goals and one assist in the equivalent of 11 full matches. Grealish is in a team where you'd expect them to make far more chances.
I think Eze provides something different more than Grealish in 2024.
Maddison has also only scored four goals against Bournemouth, Burnley, Fulham and Villa. He's had more assists - nine - but mostly against bottom half sides and only one goal against a top half side since his injury. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 11:29 4 Jun 2024
That's what drives me mad. If you've picked Toney for the squad give him a chance of a few minutes at least in a friendly rather than bringing on your most capped striker.
As for Grealish yes he looked good but it was an entirely different phase of the match when their high press was fading and there was far more space. Eze had to play against two or sometimes three players who were fouling him every time he had the ball, and sometimes multiple times, and playing a low block. It's a bit like when we bring Sincs and Smyth on at the end of games when the defence is flagging. |
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Reply | A season of three thirds: how Cifuentes and QPR beat the drop – Analysis
at 11:19 4 Jun 2024
This was brilliant.
Satisfied my nerdy little heart but nourished my keeness on the importance of mentality too.
It makes you see why data-driven football is so significant these days: if you know how the other team is successful it must be so much easier to overcome them. Also there's really no argument about a player's effectiveness over more than ten matches if it makes so much difference whether or not they're on the pitch. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 17:07 1 Jun 2024
Gosh Pat that's quite a few close calls. Sounds like someone is looking out for you. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 17:04 1 Jun 2024
I remember you talking about it when you first split up and it's good to hear how it's all turned out better than okay.
I hope your visits last season coincided with the end of the season rather than the beginning! |
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Reply | ITV
at 09:10 1 Jun 2024
It probably won't be worth getting a great team of pundits/presenters together for ten matches so it really will be bargain basement time. Even on Sky the pundits are a step down for the Champioship. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 09:01 1 Jun 2024
It's hard to think of what to say to you Loftgirl but I'm so sorry this happened to you.
I hope you're getting the support you deserve.
How parents could not only not fiercely protect their kids but actively harm them just mystifies me. It's literally heartbreaking. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 08:57 1 Jun 2024
My parents stayed together and most of the time argued with each other and took all of that out on me (being the youngest and home for most of the time and being less of what my parents wanted than my siblings). It's affected me hugely too and made me lack confidence for most of my life and get involved with the wrong kind of friends and partners because people not being nice to me seemed very familiar. Also I had no template for a loving, respectful relationship so wouldn't have recognised that if it had hit me on the head!
I think that's part of the reason I put up with many of the players being crap for longer than I should because I find it hard to see people being attacked (I know they probably don't read this - I really hope not - but it sometimes worries me). I think I have a natural propensity to back the underdog!
When some of you talk about lovely times you have had with your mum or your dad taking you to football I feel very touched by it but also rather envious and sad.
However I did start to see a therapist in my fifties and it's made a huge difference. I'm not saying it was a magic cure. I didn't walk into there and walk out six months later a new person. I've had to really work at changing bad habits and people who were bad for me bit by bit and I've got largely some lovely people around me now and I can generally spot a toxic person from ten paces. But for me it's taken years. So there is hope but it's not easy and is a lot of work and pain. I still struggle with believing I deserve nice things or am a good enough person - but then being a QPR fan which I fell into in my thirties after loving sport all my life - it seems a natural fit...
It's lovely to hear the sobriety stories as they're similarly life changing and a choice for a better life.
These threads are amazing and make it worth it being on the site over and above Clive's wonderful writing. It takes so much courage to admit what's happened to you in your past that's given you a lot of pain. |
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Reply | Marti Contract??
at 12:45 31 May 2024
Trouble is annoyingly those clubs like Chels have realised you don't just nick the manager/players you go for the backroom staff. So they've taken the Brighton backroom team and Man U have just poached the Ipswich head of recruitment (admittedly he started at Man U but only as an intern. Ipswich gave him a real chance). |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:56 29 May 2024
Yep, and good for them. Not saying they're not allowed to. Just that as soon as I read someone saying they are 'independent thinkers' I see it followed by some weird theory presented as fact.
I'm not presenting my opinions as fact. Reading something on FB is not evidence. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:22 29 May 2024
Even worse is getting your politics from social media.
I thnk there's an awful lot of sustained campaigning disguised as normal conversation. I also follow a predominantly female forum and nearly every day at the moment there's a political post shoe-horned into a completely irrelevant subject area. For example, someone talking about cheeky f*ckers and there's a post about Cheri Blair getting freebies. It doesn't happen outside of an election, so I really think it's a thing.
It worked really well for Brexit or anti-vaxxing - you just repeat a made up fact ad nauseum and eventually normal people start repeating it as the truth. It's very dispiriting All those people who want to appear in the know or who want to believe they are 'independent thinkers' - for that read conspiracy theorists - lap up all this stuff. |
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 09:11 29 May 2024
I hate that.
It really is quite scary when cyclists are going so close up behind you at high speed and undertaking and overtaking at the same time. Even if you're only going at 20 miles an hour it seems so dangerous in case you had to do an emergency stop which is not beyond the bounds of possibility in a park where there are actual deer and lots of children.
What I find strange about these threads is I cannot imagine if there was a thread about bad and selfish drivers someone coming on and saying that it's not all drivers and most are absolutely fine. Denying people's realities just seems inflammatory. I was in Islington recently crossing at a red light to traffic and green for pedestrians so therefore checking to my right just in case anyone jumped the light that way, when a cyclist came on the wrong side of the road at great speed to cut across the junction turning right on the red light and missed me by centimetres swearing away at me. I didn't really care about the vast majority of cyclists being considerate. All I thought was he could have really hurt me. He wasn't a delivery driver, just an asshole.
I also agree though that drivers seem to have become ridiculously selfish too. No one seems to indicate these days when leaving a junction, leaving a parking space, undertaking any manoeuvre. Quite often people just stop in the middle of the road while they decide which way they're going to go with no indicator. You just have to guess what someone is going to do. It makes driving a bit like wacky races. |
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Reply | Leicester’s Maresca to Chelsea
at 07:17 28 May 2024
On the face of it this seems a bit like if they'd appointed Vincent Company at the end of last season. If anything Leicester have underperformed given their ridiculous wealth of playing talent compared to most of the Championship clubs.
I think they should have performed similarly to Man City compared to the rest of the Prem. Yet they lost 11 matches compared to Man City's three (admittedly we play eight more games but still a big discrepancy). We only lost 20 in one of the worst starts to a league we've ever known. In comparison 16th in the Prem has lost 19 matches, nearly six times the number of Man City.
Of course he may be a miracle worker at Prem level but it would be really funny if he wasn't. Chels must be paying £10 million a year just in compensation to sacked managers. Plus they also have to pay a release clause to Leicester for a reputed £8.5 million. |
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