@Jaw I jump to no conclusions about how the season will eventual end up, just rebutting both TS and CliveO's assertions that this match was "entertaining", it was anything but, lacking in excitement, goal mouth action, even some argy bargy, false handbags, the most you could say about it was that the players were committed, if limited..
And that Barney Ronay's got a good turn of phrase, this encapsulates the match for me
"English football taking its own revenge for a month-long barrage of fruitless intrigue by dishing out an old-fashioned meandering mess of a match"
@Jaw I jump to no conclusions about how the season will eventual end up, just rebutting both TS and CliveO's assertions that this match was "entertaining", it was anything but, lacking in excitement, goal mouth action, even some argy bargy, false handbags, the most you could say about it was that the players were committed, if limited..
And that Barney Ronay's got a good turn of phrase, this encapsulates the match for me
"English football taking its own revenge for a month-long barrage of fruitless intrigue by dishing out an old-fashioned meandering mess of a match"