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It's fair to say that clubs like Palace, Leicester, West Ham, Stoke, Swansea have all leapfrogged you. Throw Watford into the mix and you'll be luck to finish outside the bottom five if you're not careful. Pulis sets his teams up not to lose. I think he's doing the right thing. Last thing you want is to dabble in the relegation places like Villa, Sunderland and Newcastle seem to be doing year in year out.
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What a wonderful day.
EDIT: 9mins? I'm starting to believe Pisti's conspiracy theory bollocks.
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The arrival of mitrovic and Perez, turned that game, they started doing to us (high press, harrying, chasing every long ball) that we'd done to them in the first half.
Perfectly winnable game that we've thrown away.I'm Out! of the prognostication game. Just gonna take it one game at a time from here on in. Not going to get too high or too low.
Hoping we get a favourable tie in the Europa league knockout draw.
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That's what's frustrating, Lamela had two chances saved by the keeper in the first half, we get the goal from dier, then 2nd half we take our foot off the gas, Newcastle make changes, inject some urgency and we never get back on the offensive, Eriksen slid out of the game, dier left isolated, squandering possession and a game we could have won, or at least got a point out of slips away.
Only good thing that can come out of it, is that it gives The Sheriff a chance to put a rocket it amongst the youngsters and force them to keep switched on and pressing from first to last. -
Jaw I know as a Chelsea fan you are prepared to put up with shit football for survival but not here. What's the point in surviving if you only get to see shit football? You make a fair point, several teams have passed us in terms of quality and performances as well as league position. They prove that adventurous, pace based, attacking football reaps the rewards.
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Ouch, bit of a low blow don't you think.
Not knowing the ins and outs at WBA but when you look the club these days it seems that they've lost direction, whether that's down to your man that left for the FA or because the of the owners I don't know. WBA were more or less the template for a new club to enter the the PL. these days it's Southampton, Swansea and possibly we are going to add Leicester to that list as well.
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From the graun:
Port Vale pandered over HasselbainkNorman Smurthwaite is an old estate agent with a name that sounds like a villager from Last of the Summer Wine. He is actually Port Vale’s owner and, having put the club up for sale, it is doubtful the sport will miss him greatly judging by his explanation why he turned down the chance to appoint Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as manager last year.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, Smurthwaite might genuinely have good intentions when he says it was because he did not want to put Hasselbaink in a position where he might be subjected to racist abuse after a run of bad results.
It doesn’t say a lot for his opinion of the club’s supporters but, yes, he is correct to point out there was an investigation into some racist chanting during a home game against Bradford City in February 2013, even if that was a good 18 months before Hasselbaink was recommended to him. Five men were arrested and charged but all were acquitted in court.
“I didn’t take him [Hasselbaink] because of the racial issue the club had got,” Smurthwaite said. “I didn’t think it was fair on him. Can you imagine the poor bloke getting abuse, along with the normal abuse if results were going against him? He would have been right for the club, without doubt, but I don’t think the club would have been right for him.”
What he does not seem to comprehend is how impotent it looks to pander to what he describes as “a very small minority”, or that he has in effect given a tiny clique of dunderheads what they want: a white manager and now a level of publicity that leaves the impression this is a club where skin colour matters. Smurthwaite has employed black players and not worried, apparently, about how the crowd might react. But a black manager? Too risky.
Smurthwaite has issued an apology of sorts “if any Port Vale fan feels I have labelled them as being either a racist or thug”. Yet there is a wider issue here. When the debate comes around about the low number of black managers in football, there are still people who think it cannot be true, in 2015, that a chairman would discriminate against someone for being black. Now we have an admission. Plus a flaky explanation that it was for Hasselbaink’s own good.
Smurthwaite, accepting that “99% of our fans are excellent”, had his chance to appoint one of the game’s bright young managers and, in the process, deliver a message to the small element that might or might not be among the crowd. He had the opportunity to make a difference and it doesn’t say much for him that he doesn’t seem to grasp this part.
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Everton, Spurs, Liverpool, Utd all pissing about the last few weeks, dropping stupid points.
When we finish 9th and Watford and Leicester get European football, I'll be looking back at the last 3 games thinking 'useless bellwhiffs' but Lukaku, Stones and Barkley won't give a shite as they'll have fucked off by end of July😒
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That's from May 2014, might have to ask the guy for his prediction for the euro millions numbers...
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Oh dear 😒
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We've been a joke for the last four years. Terrible transfer market business coupled with the 'let's just do anything to stay in the Prem' attitude which shows fear. I love the cavalier attitude of those other clubs you mentioned.
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