Match Day Thread Sheff Utd vs Saints, Tues 30th Sept

I'd take a win from a shot ricochetting off a stray pigeon at this point. As it is a local pigeon and won't be touching the grass does it still count as interference due to pitch ingress?

 

Sadly that wouldn't be allowed.

 

Would be saints all over though - score the winner only for it to be disallowed for killing wildlife...

 

Funnily enough we were just talking about the lack of leaders in the game these days and how in the past you'd want them throughout the spine of the team.

Also talking about how players rarely go away from managers plan anymore with me using the example of the Leicester game. Matt thinks most modern players don't want to take that level of responsibility on.

Funny story from Reuben about being two down at Highbury and a couple of players taking it upon themselves to make a tactical change. Lawrie apparently was going ballistic on the touchline before we got it back to 2-2 and he took all the credit afterwards

Reuben is a proper sound bloke to be fair, a few decent anecdotes from him.

At Northampton services now, proper Q&A on next leg. Think I might ask Matt about Nicola.

 

Any shot that is deflected in by an object on the pitch that shouldn't be there, be it a pigeon, beach ball, or in the case one particularly stupid contestant on The Chase, ice cream van, a goal should not be awarded.

 

5 of the 6 all played in the same game once apparently, with Channon having left by then

 

I know - just a poor attempt at being funny to take my mind off of writing (watching chatgpt mess up writing) SQL scripts to generate some analytics reports. zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Can see a half decent performance but struggle to create much. Either end up 0-0 or Sheff Utd 2-0

 

Reminds me of that Sunderland goal v Liverpool years ago. The beach ball/balloon was thrown on by a Liverpool fan too iirc.

 

Yeah that's why I mentioned it. And an excellent opportunity to post this:

 

I've only ever seen random snippets posted on social sites as I've never actually watched the program - I've probably seen all the funny bits without any context.

Bit like Ted lasso - I'd seen so much of it in short clips and it only made sense once I actually watched the series through last year

 

That was all down to the charisma of Lawrie Mac, he was not so hot on tactics but his man management was second to none.

 

I was pretty sure Shilton joined the year Keegan left, but I could be wrong

EDIT: yes, Keegan left in 82, Shilton joined that summer in 82.

 

I think that was the year, or the following one, when he was in our local village pub p***ed as a handcart saying he never wanted to be a footballer and should have been a boxer. Jimmy Case was in there once in the same condition but he apologised and said he'd come back sober and chat to everyone in the pub - he didn't.

 

Does anyone know if this game is available on the sky sports red button?

 

Yep.

 

I once saw Shilts being propped up by two bouncers in Fridays night club and escorted outside to a waiting taxi.

 

Here

 

Shilton, I assume, not Keegan?