Home Tag "Fixtures"

Madness, madness, madness! The FA and Alan Davies

How can a governing body wielding that much power, allow decisions to be made by people who quite obviously have no experience or understanding of the game? It must be time to have representation on these panels from someone -anyone - who has some level of experience in football. If not, stupidity, violence and cheating will continue to go unpunished because of appalling incompetence and ridiculous loopholes put in place to enable fat, corrupt bureaucrats to have no means of overruling the dubious Nazis they allow to

The Void In The Middle

New boys train, Park’s permit & panic buying myth

It seems almost guaranteed that JY Park will not be a surprise starter as our new forward is currently in Paris trying to obtain a work permit. He hasn't trained with the team yet and having to make the trek over from France and then start tomorrow after having played for his country may well be a stretch too far. At best he will find a place on the bench subject to his work permit

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

Wolves (h) Thoughts & Predictions: Time to feed last weekend to the Wolves

I expect Wolves to play with a congested midfield, especially narrowly. The forward passes of Cesc along with the movement of Van Persie and Walcott will be important. When Cesc is on his game then the rest of his team mates are usually on their game because of the captain's influence on the pitch. Without Samir Nasri we are going to need Cesc to take a step forward and find his best form, hopefully the midweek rest will have allowed

West Brom (a) – Thoughts & Predicted Line Up: Rotation, Youthful Defenders & Away Form

Newcastle (a) Thoughts & Predictions: Diaby & Wilshere to form an intriguing combination

Like I have already eluded to earlier, I expect Diaby to be a key figure in our performance. A player who can pull out an amazing piece of skill which will open up 10 yards of space and then misplace his next pass from five yards away. Usually the latter only happens when he is not quite up to speed and perhaps he isn't at his sharpest yet but mistakes should be limited as his role maybe a little simplified

West Brom (a) – Thoughts & Predicted Line Up: Rotation, Youthful Defenders & Away Form