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Reply | Derby v Leeds
at 20:15 11 Jan 2026
Yes, you're right: not all. Ward-Prowse hasn't even scored from a free-kick for West Ham. |
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Reply | Bazunu off this window?
at 19:23 11 Jan 2026
Johansson is out for the rest of the season so Bazunu will be their 1st choice goalkeeper. It could have been worse for Stoke: they could have taken one of our other goalkeepers.
But, unfortunately, nobody will take McCarthy, not even a non-league team. [Post edited 11 Jan 21:36]
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Reply | Why would you dress as a clown
at 16:24 11 Jan 2026
To be fair, he is the main reason Pompey fans always get talked about by TV commentators. They focussed the TV cameras more on him today than they did the Pompey manager. Before he turned up in the late 70s, after his family had moved down to Petersfield from London, nobody ever talked about Pompey fans or Fratton Park's 'special' atmosphere, which wasn't very good. He goes spare at the fans around him if they stop singing. He's like a sergeant major with them. [Post edited 11 Jan 16:25]
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Reply | Derby v Leeds
at 13:11 11 Jan 2026
Yes, you're probably right. Brereton Diaz looked slow, overweight and unfit when he was here; he looks much sharper now.
Also, even though Charlton lost to Chelsea, the TV commentator praised Bree's work rate, saying in the 90th minute, "He's a real machine. He's been up and down that wing all game." [Post edited 11 Jan 13:36]
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Thread | Derby v Leeds
at 12:59 11 Jan 2026
Brereton Diaz seems to have rediscovered his scoring form again. That's 2 goals in 2 games, after a long drought. His goal against Wrexham was a very good one but his goal against Leeds was a real poacher's goal: with him quicker to react than the Leeds players. He's looking fitter and sharper than he did here so the loan is doing him good.
Why do our players usually look better when they play for other clubs or their national teams? I guess they have better players around them and superior training. [Post edited 11 Jan 13:01]
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Reply | Bazunu off this window?
at 12:55 11 Jan 2026
It could be good news, but you just know what's going to happen next season: McCarthy's going to creep back in goal again. |
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Reply | Wrexham v Forest
at 09:34 10 Jan 2026
What a good manager Southampton Academy product, Phil Parkinson is. He was the FA Cup Manager of the Year in 2015 and could be again this year, as well as possibly achieving yet another promotion: he's won 4 already and also got Bradford all the way to the League Cup Final, beating Arsenal and Aston Villa along the way.
It's surprising he's gone under the radar of Premier League teams. One of Forest's players cost more than his entire Wrexham team. Very modest post-match interview from him too. He really didn't want to take any praise for himself at all. [Post edited 10 Jan 9:57]
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Thread | Wrexham v Forest
at 22:20 9 Jan 2026
The magic of the FA Cup was definitely on show tonight. What a brilliant game that was. Good to see Jay Rodriguez score the winning penalty and what a great goalkeeper Okonkwo is. |
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Reply | Arsenal v Liverpool
at 14:31 9 Jan 2026
The throwing the ball part I agree with you, but I can understand the dragging part. Bradley suffered from 'boy who cried wolf' syndrome. 9 times out of 10 when players go down supposedly injured like that nowadays, they're play acting, either to waste time or to try and get an opponent a yellow or red card.
We also nowadays have this regular break at around 70 minutes when the goalkeeper goes down pretending to be injured so that the rest of the team can go over to the touchline to have their energy drinks and get instructions from the manager.
It's as if dishonesty and cheating have become accepted parts of the game. [Post edited 9 Jan 14:38]
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Reply | Arsenal v Liverpool
at 14:11 9 Jan 2026
He was over the touchline. I've changed it to half off the pitch. Happy now? This is just a messageboard, not the world news, you shouldn't take it too seriously. You'll end up having a heart attack, the way you get wound up over nothing.
Why are you so concerned about Bradley anyway? [Post edited 9 Jan 14:13]
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Reply | Arsenal v Liverpool
at 13:52 9 Jan 2026
If you're that concerned about him, ninja, you should send him a card and some flowers. |
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Reply | £120 for a '76 Anniversary shirt...
at 11:34 9 Jan 2026
Because they're greedy. But by pricing it so high, their sales will be so severely reduced that they'll actually make less money than if they'd priced them at £40. How much does it cost to make one of those plastic shirts in China? 50p? [Post edited 9 Jan 11:35]
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Reply | Arsenal v Liverpool
at 11:29 9 Jan 2026
Bradley was injured on the touchline, half off the pitch, and got himself back onto it so that he could hold the game up. At the time, it just looked like more time-wasting. Most incidents like that are.
Fair play to the Liverpool manager:
"Liverpool manager Arne Slot defended Martinelli after the match, suggesting the wider issue of time-wasting in football may have led to the flashpoint.
"I don't know Gabriel Martinelli, but he comes across as a nice guy," said Slot.
"I think the problem for him - and it's a problem in general in football - is that there is so much time-wasting and players pretending that they are injured in the final parts of the game and during the game, that you can sometimes be annoyed if you want to try to score a goal that you think the player is time-wasting." [Post edited 9 Jan 14:08]
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Reply | £120 for a '76 Anniversary shirt...
at 10:55 9 Jan 2026
Yes, for a club of our size, we are in terms of major trophies won, the most underachieving club in the country, if not the world. Like you, I continue to dream that one day we will at least win the Championship, which would just be a run-of-the-mill thing for other clubs of our size.
There is not one club above us in this list that's won fewer major trophies, and many smaller clubs have won more. Most of them have won the Championship a few times too:
https://www.englishfootballlea
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Reply | £120 for a '76 Anniversary shirt...
at 10:50 9 Jan 2026
Sport Republic in getting it wrong shocker! Who'd have thought it? They not only got the pricing wrong, they couldn't have timed it any worse, just after Christmas.
It's almost like they've got someone in charge saying, 'How can we do things in the worst possible way?' |
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Reply | Peretz finally signs on loan
at 12:49 8 Jan 2026
"I gotta believe he has been given some good reason to believe he can attain #1 status pretty quickly."
They probably showed him videos of our other goalkeepers playing. [Post edited 8 Jan 12:59]
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Reply | Armando Broja
at 12:45 8 Jan 2026
What he had when he came here, like many players who come here on loan from bigger clubs, was a superior level of fitness and a willingness to run at the opposition goal, which made him stand out alongside our regular strikers. He also surprised opposition defences initially, as many youngsters do when they first appear on the scene.
I was talking to some Albanian supporters when they played England at Wembley, and they regarded him as a real superstar.
But a striker has to score goals and he doesn't any more. |
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Reply | Peretz finally signs on loan
at 11:51 8 Jan 2026
I'd never even heard of him before he was linked with us, but we have to hope he's good enough to be our first choice goalkeeper. [Post edited 8 Jan 11:54]
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