Optimistic Nut

There we go.

Aye, 7th was brilliant in the circumstances.

We could have easily been having a Spurs season last year if it hadn't been for Howe, like.

That's absolutely shocking.

They're still competing with and being better than clubs with way bigger spends and budgets this season though. (Spurs, Man Utd, Villa, West Ham...). Around 11-12th is probably around their "par".

Going to be sad as fuck when someone like Arsenal, Spurs or Chelsea poach Iraola in the summer and the likes of Semenyo, Kluivert & Kerkez are snapped up because PSR means their small ground and revenue mean they can't have the audacity to go toe-to-toe with the big boys. They've been a revelation this season.

Home points: 20 Away points: 21 We ever finished a season with a better away record than home?

We seem sorted at home against the big teams and the fodder. Then Brighton, West Ham & Bournemouth come along from the middle bunch of teams, sort of like Fulham are. Need to start finishing off these sort.

At what point does Michael Oliver stop getting put in the top team games due to conflict of interests?. 🤪

Will miss him. Favourite Miggy moment. Middle of his hot streak where everything he hit with his left was going in, Spurs away Joelinton bows to polish his boot...Miggy the gormless twat lifts his right foot up. Joey's reaction like, "not that foot man you daft twat".

Bournemouth's hat-trick scorer today was signed from an associated club. Would have been ructions from the Sky 6 if we'd done that. Going to be beautiful if he helps keep 1 or 2 of them out of Europe next season.

This could have been a Keegan quote tbf mind. "I've got no issues with that. That's absolutely what they have to do, and I want the environment and the atmosphere here to be as good as it can be for us and as hard as it can be for the opposition. The supporters were magnificent today, and they have been for a long time now. Absolutely, dream.".

Watching Psych on Netflix. Came out a while ago but brilliant easy viewing.

Must be bloody awful signing £70m players while only needing a home win in the last CL match of the group to reach a Play-Off, all from the comfort of a top 5 position.

Two games to go in the CL: Only 1 team guaranteed a place in the last 16 so far. Only 2 teams guaranteed to finish in the top 24. Only 4 teams definitely out. Can't be arsed to check what it's normally like at this stage in a normal Champions League campaign but seems good there's not going to be many dead rubbers and should be a lot riding on the last day? Wouldn't normally get a tie as important as City v PSG this early either. I like it.

Krafth can play RCB I guess, so would still mean 4 senior CBs?

Punditry on the whole is a bit shite imo. You could show a goal where a defender is tight and on MOTD it'll be "you can't be so close and allow the striker to turn use you to spin like that", then the following game a defender will have dropped off in that scenario and you'll get, "he had all the time in the world, the defender has to get tighter to his man". I know programmes like that need filler but just a pet hate.

Was similar to the first-half of Bournemouth, Wolves & Forest away tbf and he came on and changed things in each.

Karen Carney. Her whole shtick with our goal at Spurs about how she knows it's not handball under the laws but should still be disallowed anyway was something else. I like Alex Scott, think she's one of the best out there. I remember her one World Cup game given a great bit of tactical insight in her HT analysis. Phil Neville was sat next to her nodding along but clearly not listening, because when she finished, Neville basically repeated her point for his own but in nowhere the same depth.

2-2. Dyer & Bellamy for us, Marsden & Le Tissier for them.

I'm surprised either last summer or this January we haven't done a "loan to buy" like with Hall just to kick the PSR issue down the line a bit? Someone like Tomori from Milan would be ideal if they're looking to get rid. We could do the same for Kelly with Juventus in that case and it'd only show another £10m or so down, but on a big upgrade.

Perfect example on Saturday of why he's an important player to us. If 3/4 of our "A-listers" have an off day, we don't have anyone else who can drag us through. He was the one at the start of the season bailing us out when we weren't playing well and pinching us results. Also think back to West Ham at home last season . Perfect player to put on at HT or 55-60 minutes when you're behind.

I bet the Premier League are this week trying to figure out how they can tweak PSR enough to let Man Utd & Arsenal to spend again, but still stop us, Villa & Forest from doing the same.

Hopefully we forget about that quickly. They're a very good team like. Botman & Schar next week please.

Just seen Kuol scored for our u21s yesterday. Forgot he existed.