Recent content by StillBluessinceHydeRoad

I certainly agree 100% with that.

I think all this is true - I notice that Ancelotti, for example, has a much better record in the CL than he does in the domestic league which doe indeed suggest his team and his own talents lie very much in planning the "one off" big game. It's clear that a team has to be an excellent football...

The problem with the view that RM are "Kings of this competition for a reason perhaps" is that no-one can say what that reason is! They have won the competition 5 times in the last 10/11 years and 14 times in all, going back to 1955. Even if we confine ourselves to the years since 2014 and...

All the tactical analysis in the world cannot get round the facts that Real scored 4 goals in the tie, of which two were cruel deflections and one was a shinned finish which came straight back to the eventual scorer. Their other was a worldie but it only ranks with the three great goals we...

If we're speaking about the same report it was from the European commission. It accepted that UEFA was a suitable body to "regulate" (I can't remember the actual word used) European football but it stressed that regulations must be within the framework of European competition law. Their...

I'm sure this will have received attention but I've just listened to the BBC Sounds podcast on last night's two matches and in particular to Gillem Balague's remarks. Whereas the Brits (Shea Given and Robinson) spoke of Madrid's "perfectly executed gameplan" and praised RM for their knowhow and...

Real Madrid have won the CL 14 times in all, and 5 times in the last 10 years. This team is very talented and has exciting skills and destructive pace. Yet last night Manchester City had 67% possession, 33 shots to 8 (9 on target to 3) and 18 corners to 1. Real did not take these statistics...

If I remember correctly - and there's no guarantee of that over the years - but the maximum wage was a kind of FFP in reverse in that it was the "smaller" clubs which wished to maintain it to the letter in the name of competitive balance. The chairman of Preston appears to be one of the...

I have read your (Domalino's) two posts from this morning and was intrigued by them. The only regulations from the 1960s which I can recall which dealt with cost control are those concerned wit player pay and signing on bonuses and fees. These were actually wide open to abuse by payments paid...

The most likely explanation is that he's stark raving mad.

I'm sure every word of this is true! But why did Liverpool come out in sympathy and lose to Palace ?

Try the Irish Independent article by Sweeney. Pure unadulterated, poisonous vitriol. I believe Twitter (or whatever it's called now) is full of it.

I was amazed, and still can't be sure that I actually heard the commentator describe it as a match "between the biggest club in the world" (surely he'll have to apologise for this to calm the outrage in certain run down parts of NW England) "and the best team in the world"! In the event I think...

I notice that the Guardian is prattling on again that it is the level of irresponsible spending of PL clubs which makes these P&SR necessary and that those (17) PL clubs which have published accounts for 2022-3 so far have run up losses of £600 million! This suggests that 10 years of financial...

How could I ever have hoped that that load of rubbish could do us a favour.