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    England players and selection discussion thread

    I'll admit to a personal bias here but I really don't think it is a part of my thinking when I say that I find it incredible that Sam Cook didn't go to the West Indies and indeed rarely gets a mention in these discussions. If Broad and Anderson are being picked then it's relative non-issue...
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    The Football ATG General Arguing/Discussing Thread

    I'm repeating a point I made recently here, but for years after Cole left Arsenal he was seen as being out of form and everyone acknowledged his lack of form, but it seemed to me that no-one noticed that the lack of form has lasted about three seasons. He had the odd good game in that time but...
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    Your All-time Premier League XI

    Yeah European performance would be a pretty poor barometer of the strength of the Prem in the early-mid 90s for this reason IMO. It's probably no coincidence that the first season we played in the CL after the rule was done away with was (the 96/97 season I alluded to earlier) we reached the...
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    Your All-time Premier League XI

    In which case I think we probably near enough agree. He was a France international for about half of his time with us, though; he was captain of France until the Selhurst Park incident, after which he was never picked again. The Europe thing is fair but it's actually quite a small amount of...
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    Your All-time Premier League XI

    I think he was a bit overrated at the time tbh. I remember in around 2000 he was voted the greatest United player ever. But still, he was a genuinely great player. I read recently that until KDB came along, he had the best assists to games ratio since the Premier League began, and his...
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    Your All-time Premier League XI

    You're right about Neville but not about Cantona who might've been a bit overrated in his own time but is now underrated IMO. Not that he'd get into my side, but. The RB problem is solved by just picking Irwin there, which means the Cole vs Irwin debate is avoided. On a side-note I remember...
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

    17th in 1976 their lowest post-war finish apparently. Stayed up by 6 points. 12th (out of 22) in 1995 their worst finish of the PL era.
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

    Probably this for me too if I had to pick three.
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

    There weren't ever many seriously on this bandwagon I thought? Unless I just move in massively unrepresentative circles. Mourinho just really really needed to go, whoever we replaced him with. Had become too toxic.
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

    I think Bayern are favourites too but I don't think it's massively clear-cut. They're an excellent side but so are you. I think both Liverpool and City were better last year tbh. That said, Liverpool are still the 2nd best title winners ever IMO, behind only City in 2018 and 2019. Not that that...
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    Flattest you’ve felt after a sporting success

    I don't think winning a title without playing has all that much to do with it. Some of our more enjoyable titles weren't won on the field. 2003 and 2007 spring immediately to mind and of course we ended our own 26-year wait with Ferguson on the golf course; I don't think anyone has ever...
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    Your team's favourite five matches

    Yeah I often forget 02/03 when thinking of teams blowing a lead but it's up there, not quite matching the previous two though. The Leeds game was a great game actually, yeah. City's overhauling of us in 11/12 was very unexpected too, albeit they did it over a far shorter period. I recall us...
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    The most depressed you've been after a sporting event

    Ha, yes, good times indeed.
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    The most depressed you've been after a sporting event

    Haha yeah, in Varsity or whatever it was I believe. I don't recall exactly what I said about the Modric sub at the time, I imagine I was still too pissed off about the red card.
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    The most depressed you've been after a sporting event

    City in 2012 the obvious choice. The only time in my life I've gone for a walk to nowhere in particular out of anger. I ended up at Southampton Airport Parkway station with no real plans on where to go then had to get a cab home because I'd calmed down by that point and cbf with another long...
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    Your team's favourite five matches

    Probably second in the Prem era but whilst it was an extremely impressive achievement, I don't think it was quite as unlikely as the Arsenal one a couple of years later. I think I'm right in saying that Newcastle only ever reached 12 points clear while we had two games in hand, and I don't...
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    Your team's favourite five matches

    This would definitely make my five least favourite ftr. Probably the most impressive reeling in by a team chasing a runaway leader that I can think of, especially in the Prem era.
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    Your team's favourite five matches

    I think mine would all be very predictable tbh. Man Utd 2-1 Arsenal (AET) 98/99 FA Cup Semi Final Replay I don't often go back and watch games in their entirety, and when I do I usually remember why I don't do it, but this is the one exception. A game that got uncommonly near to justifying the...
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

    Tranmere's solution is absolute bollocks, but straight PPG is an even bigger load of bollocks. I have some time for the idea of whacking Tranmere in with the L2 playoffs. But I think my posts on this are at risk of becoming repetitive as I think all solutions that don't involve completing the...
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    ***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

    Yeah exactly this. It's why null and void is better to me than ending the season based on PPG. Finishing it is obviously far better than either though.

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