Recent content by bluenova

Sure - but Salah has been stuck (mostly) on the bench for seven whole days. In fact, that Leeds game was at 5.30pm, so it's been MORE than a week.

Most assists in the Premier League this season - and he's been on the pitch for just over a quarter of the time!

They *could* be true, but they're not :) As far as I can see, Haaland has scored 3 of his last 5. Marmoush missed one during that time, but it's still not 1 in 5.

Against Liverpool I think that is. I remember Mahrez and De Bruyne missing important ones.

He was overplayed last season when we were struggling, and seemed to be identified as part of the "old and slow" group. When he's fit and rested, it's clear he can still put in a huge shift - covering more ground that any other player, and often by a significant amount. I think people forget...

The quote was directly from the Athletic article. Perhaps the touts accounts were being identified first, and then they were flagging up those tickets at the gates. I just wanted people to be aware, that if using a phone that's passed around is common with touts, then anyone planning to use...

No idea if it's true, but the reluctance does have some sense behind it. The reason they're giving is that if they'd said no it could have gone to court, and they thought the rules weren't clear enough to ensure they'd win. If they lost, it creates a precedent, and it's open season for games...

It was average age of players who played, rather than just the squad. Last year they were 26.7 and we were 26.6. They've dropped to 26 this season, but we're down to 24.9. They're not massively different numbers, but because it's an average, everyone is clustered in the mid-20s. Take out...

I was looking at the average age of teams a few days ago. Last year there were only about three teams with older squads than Liverpool and ourselves. We're now playing one of the youngest teams, with an average nearly two years younger than last year (and that's with some recent, very young...

The funding issue is one they may get away with. They've already used two multi-billion pound figures that they say will come from deporting people, and cutting net zero. Both have been immediately rebuffed. The net zero one they quoted was for hundreds of billions, but it included all the...

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I know a lot on here have talked about having a phone just for the ticket. Liverpool had a big crackdown recently, and gave out 1000 lifetime bans, but this quote from the Athletic article might frighten a few... "Almost 500 people were denied access to...

Some interesting polling. A significant majority of non-Reform voters think Reform's policies, and their voters, are racist. Perhaps, not surprisingly, a very high number of Reform voters don't agree. Given where we are at the moment, I doubt Reform are going to be persuading people that they...

Can anyone direct me to my local branch of this "antifa" group that he keeps going on about?

They did this at the last election, and is a significant reason why they both got so many seats. If the other had the chance of winning, they put very few resources into their campaigns, so it was easy for people to know who to vote tactically for. It's likely much more effective than a formal...

That was last week... every 63 minutes after today ;)