Told you you'd beat Prague comfortably with those players from your bench, by the way. It's a good way to get through the group and keep everyone fit and firing. Too many games to play full strength sides in it and on the weekend in the league. Good luck over there. I doubt they'll be as compliant as they were for us in the pre-season. They sacked Mancini after this, but have some highlights anyway:
You did indeed! I don't mind being wrong on that one trust me Though Sparta were very poor! I'll watch those highlights when I get to work later (6-0 wasn't it?) but reckon we've got a chance. They lost 2-0 at home to Hapoel Be're Sheva (sp?) and have had to leave loads of players out of their EL squad due to ffp.
We've done this Europa lark a load of times and I picked up a few things! There are right and wrong ways to go about it and we've seen both at White Hart Lane, often in the same season.
Is anybody brave enough to predict the Man Utd v Leicester score? I know I'm not. I feel that at the moment Mourinho's a little like Poch inasmuch as he doesn't know what his best team is. I have to say that I don't know.
That's more than a little unfair, given how Poch knows which positions his players should start in while Moronho clearly doesn't.
I'm still waiting for The FA to explain the gaping hole where logic should be, namely why they are punishing Burnley for tweets Grey posted when he was contracted to Hinckley Town.
They're not banning Burnley, they're banning Grey. Perhaps the club should've checked his social media contributions before they signed him? He's made other offensive tweets more recently, hangs around with drug dealers and has an even more sinister side to him. He's an Arsenal supporter.
Leicester 3-0 down at Old Trafford and struggling to deal with set-pieces, bizarrely. Two games a week too much for them?
They look a shadow of the side who were so resolute defensively last season. Just completely switched off from the set-pieces.
Except the "punishment" is that Grey gets three/four weeks paid vacation while Burnley have to play four matches without one of their key players for something that player did four years ago when he wasn't even playing for them.
You'd expect them to fine him for the ban, though I'm not sure how that would work, to be honest. It's something that they should have caught, though. Part of the modern game, unfortunately.
Ranieri will be furious. Really basic stuff. What's happened to them and West Ham? Gone from impressive to crap for no apparent reason.
Thing is - if you look at the core of those sides, they had inherited a solid back four/five from their predecessors. As good as Ranieri's man-management may have been, the bulk of the Leicester side were signed or were used to playing under Pearson and apparently he was interested in signing Kante before he resigned. Likewise with Bilic and West Ham's defence that he had taken from Allardyce. Let's see how good they are at trying to build their own defences.
