I want to go up for the boost to the finances but it is likely to be a painful year unless we go and do a Leicester!
It would be a hell of an achievement to make the play-offs but realistically I think it would end in disappointment. That said it would be a glorious change from looking over our shoulder at the other end of the table...
It would be great if the spuds got relegated with all their whining fannies and a trip to their new cathedral. like when they play the "Spurs way"
Millwall are on a good run away from home (1-0 up at Pompey). Like Sheff Wed they may well prove to be another one of our ”bogey" teams at the Den.
Europa League Dynamo Kyiv 1 Riga FS 0 played in Hamburg’s excellent stadium which has a 55k capacity. So the 3,600 crowd had plenty of room, and us 60 or so ‘away’ Riga fans had acres of space and no queues for beer etc. Meaningless game at the bottom of the league and not great entertainment but good fun and great chatting with the Riga fans, who were just delighted to be playing in Europe and are hugely excited by Latvia playing England in the WC qualifiers. Football is well behind ice hockey and basketball in popularity in Latvia though. Some good bars and brau houses in Hamburg which is a gritty kind of place. Now off to Zwolle in the Netherlands for tomorrow’s big match against Utrecht.
Dutch Eredivise PEC Zwolle 3 Utrecht 3. Great entertainment in a friendly 14,000 sold out stadium. Both teams played positive, skilful football, fast but under control and always looking for the forward pass. Very Dutch. I’d love us to play like this, although it’s hard to tell how good these teams actually are. Zwolle play in blue and white hoops so some affinity (although it’s actually blue and white horizontal stripes and a plain white back to the shirt). Plus they threw away a two goal lead and again after going 3-2 up, so felt like home. Downsides complicated beer buying system which involved downloading an app, and low quality frankfurters from a jar. So refreshments were skipped at this venue, and the Dutch can’t really compete with the Germans in this aspect of the match day experience.
Went to Goodison yesterday just so I could tick it off while I had the chance. Went with 9 other LCFC members of their london fan club. A great day out once the annoyance of letting 4 sloppy goals in had passed. Goodison, I know they probably haven’t done anything to it for the last two years but never hear again anyone slag off our old girl. I thought rickety wooden seats and floors had been banned after Bradford and with more pillars than a Roman temple, Elleslie is nowhere near as bad. The turnstiles should be in the V and A. Just to add to the seventies feel lots of people smoking and police charging in to remove identified naughtiest. Leicester were awful, nothing to fear next season. I like Liverpool, nothing like the place I first went to
My L My LCFC mates, who I am sitting in a bar in Rotterdam with, agree with your assessment of them ‘we’re doomed’. We watched the game in a bar in Zwolle yesterday, which was thankfully a good bar so I didn’t pay much attention to the game.
PL becoming more of a closed shop every season. Even with the additional funds the club gets, it's no fun for the fans watching their club getting pumped week in, week out. And the football is sterile, with VAR killing the flow. The Championship is a far better league for the fans IMO - not that I wouldn't want us to be promoted, but I'd be under no illusions it'd be nothing but grim if the miracle did happen (it won't, not this season anyway).
Totally agree, I think it’s sad but looking likely that the three promoted teams are coming down and only Luton not going up
There's a mini-league developing between the PL & Championship where seven or eight clubs will yo-yo between the divisions. One or two clubs may gatecrash it as an occasional one-off but when the bottom club pick up £100 million for total failure our chances of getting back are receding annually. Just look how the top two or three can cherry-pick in this window to maintain their challenge and blunt the opposition...
My weekly campaign for defenders to clear their lines rather than fanny about with risky passes to ‘beat the press’ continues at Arsenal today. There’s no shame in playing safe after two minutes away from home when you’ve got a 6’4” forward to aim at.
