Rival watch

To be fair, Watford have never conspired with the then-Mayor of London (who happens to be, as of 12:20pm, Prime Minister) and UK Athletics to defraud the entire nation

 

Kloppy has a history of avoiding such things though hasn't he. A few seasons back didn't he keep on running on the pitch for various reasons without censure while other managers were punished for such transgression?

 

To Wat(ford) too woo.

 

Hodgson when he signs his contract with Watford, happy being back in football, only to then get sacked 6 weeks later...

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Roy Hodgson gives up his short lived stint as compare on British drag race to manage Watford, best of luck Roy , don't unpack your suitcase

 

Of that list of "talent" only Fernandes has been a success - and he hasn't been at his best recently.
For the level Utd aspire to compete none of the others have been good enough; some have looked good at times, but none have consistently delivered.
And there have been a number of short term signings, which have smacked of panic, made in the hope of an instant return - di Maria, Ibrahimovic, Schweinsteiger, Cavani, Falcao and now Ronaldo. None of them bad signings, but all designed to create the impression that Utd are in the market for big star names - albeit that their stars faded a number of years previously.
SAF knew that you couldn't just buy a team of all-stars. He had a definite policy for recruiting players as follows:
1. Big money signings - two at most per season; established but young, who were likely to get better and give the club 7-10 years e.g Rooney, Ferdinand.
2. Players with potential who the club could develop bought for middling fees e.g Evra, Vidic.
3. Youth players - recruit the best young players at a early age, preferably local, and develop them.
Not all signings were a success, but many were - and the key signings were usually spot on, like Schmeichel, Irwin, Cantona, Ferdinand, Evra, Vidic, Keane, Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, van Nistelrooy, Sheringham, Solskjaer, Cole, Yorke, Bruce, McClair, Pallister, Ince, Valencia, Hernandez, Carrick, van Persie, Young, Berbatov plus all the young players. Some of those were inspired. All of those would get into the current team.

 

I've just heard the stat that Watford have had 6 managers since the kept a prem clean sheet ,can that be true ?

 

That was from December. I think their last clean sheet might've been against Liverpool.
The 3-0 that ****ed their unbeaten record and seemed to come from nowhere.

 

Manchester City FC has announced a new partnership with Aldar Properties PJSC which sees the company become the club’s official real estate partner:
https://insidersport.com/2022/01/27...sponsorship-with-second-mubadala-backed-firm/
It's the second firm to do so that's run by City's chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak.

Premier League response:

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Incestuous

 

Well, that's not very nice, is it?

 

Can Wolves go back to being Portugal FC, please?

 

Their Sat Nav's f***ed.
SW Europe coming up as SE Asia

 

Not much use to us if they do, we don't have any Portugeezers to dump on them

 

Not bad. Not bad, at all.

 

English to Jimmy Liddel :

That was a cross !!! I'm not having that, mate !!! And he was offside !!!

 

Rangers fans being Old Firm again

At least we won't see Stevie G wearing a tshirt for Mac and Dave