Football Musings

[sniffer66]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs ...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

How did Rudyard Kipling, a century ago, know Max Dolman would come on as substitute?

That was some serious composure at his age. He still had a good bit to do after the clearance reached him. The cross for the first goal wasn't too bad either

[firlandsfarm]

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[firlandsfarm]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs ...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

How did Rudyard Kipling, a century ago, know Max Dolman would come on as substitute?

That was some serious composure at his age. He still had a good bit to do after the clearance reached him. The cross for the first goal wasn't too bad either

I thought it was the forethought to head the ball past the defender and then outpace him to carry it to score! You have a tremendous future my son, don't screw up!

[firlandsfarm]

Reading an article in the Guardian about PL teams in Europe (https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ons-league) and was astounded to read "Wolves may be bottom of the Premier League but they are the 29th-richest club in the world by revenue"

[firlandsfarm]

Arsenal to win the PL, Spurs to be relegated! Discuss.

[wearthefoxhat]

Arsenal to win the PL, Spurs to be relegated! Discuss.

Arsenal now 1/10 on.
Spurs were 6/4 v West Ham 11/10, Notts Forest 11/4, Leeds 7/2.

Arsenal keep finding a win when they might drop points, Man City find a draw when they should win.

Spurs should survive, but, it might go down to the last game (H) v Everton.

Note:

As I write, Leeds just missed a pen and then had a man sent off....

[wearthefoxhat]

Reading an article in the Guardian about PL teams in Europe (https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ons-league) and was astounded to read "Wolves may be bottom of the Premier League but they are the 29th-richest club in the world by revenue"

Yep, over the years they keep selling their "best" players at minimum of £40million+ a time. That's one of the reasons they're in the shitter right now.

[jamesedwards]

Arsenal to win the PL, Spurs to be relegated! Discuss.

Arsenal now 1/10 on.

Had a small lay just for fun. Arsenal are perennial bottlers.

[firlandsfarm]

Arsenal to win the PL, Spurs to be relegated! Discuss.

Arsenal now 1/10 on.

Had a small lay just for fun. Arsenal are perennial bottlers.

I would expect you to have many opportunities to trade that for a small profit with the see-sawing between the leaders this year.

Not sure if they have been bottlers in the past, they seem to have always run out of squad around this time. Maybe a mix of the two. But no excuse this year! They could suffer from fixture exhaustion. Theoretically each round in cups should get harder. There has only ever been one triple winner and never a quadruple winner.

The point of my original post was would Spurs fans ever be able to show their face around North London if that double happened?!