It was. I was just making a cheap gag.

They should have played more pragmatic football. Oh wait.

Mask off moment.

Surely nobody is asking for Dyche. Surely.

It’s 100% got to do with the fact that one is from Australia and one is from Denmark

I have. I’m just saying.

It won’t happen. But it should.

ANGEBALL by @vincerugari.com GOATED BOOK if you like soccer at all do yaself a favour and read it

Made me love Ange all over again

And made me hate him for the 2018 World Cup saga again he was such a prick (Albeit a justified prick)

Thanks bruz

Typical Yank comment.

I guess it must be the training facility right?

Not to keep going on about it, but I hope everyone who blamed Ange’s training methods last season — despite knowing zero about those methods — is embarrassed and ashamed of themselves for their lack of intelligence. You were stupid.

The club that gives Musky a go, wherever they are, will be grateful they did. Confident of that.

Let me rephrase that. Frank is a good coach. I don’t like comparing: who’s better, who’s worse etc. But Muscat is clearly ready for a top-level job and carries an Ange-esque ethos with a little more (ironically) defensive stability, which is what Spurs wanted here.

They not only could do a lot worse, they already are.

Not only is it boring, but it doesn’t work. The pragmatism has not addressed the defensive issues. It’s not doing what it says on the tin, and even worse, has come at the expense of the front half. So it’s not only worthless, it’s demonstrably worse.

Suicidal high line vs living on your knees

I have read today that Thomas Frank simply “doesn’t look himself”. Whereas finite judgments were happily made against his predecessor, whose ideas it was agreed were incompatible with the EPL. Make it make sense.

Some of the hopelessly superficial and naive commentary from last season is being exposed, faster than I could have predicted.

When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.

I realise that. I’m also a journalist and creating text is my job. So that’s why I’ve done that.

I don’t think there’s ever a fair way to do this stuff. But my point was more about the defending. Despite having the best defenders available, despite the shift to pragmatism, they are not more ‘defensively solid’ to me.

And it’s almost like having Romero and VDV fit is more useful for a manager than Gray-Davies, but nobody cared about that last season.

Theres no perfect way to do this stuff. I just call it as I see it. I’ve not ignored any facts!

Just catching up with the highlights and did I see a Thomas Frank defensive line on halfway? Did anyone call that suicidal, or question whether it contributed to any injuries?

Why don’t Aussie sporting crowds sing like the Brits do? Blame the Beatles We’ve borrowed so much from British sporting culture – but their fans sing with gusto, and we’re so sheepish in comparison.

Such a good article from @vincerugari.com on why we’re just not that much into singing at sport.

www.smh.com.au/sport/why-do...

As you mentioned, it's subjective. It depends on how you assess the league position and losses, and to what extent they are explainable/excusable by injuries and the focus on Europa. If you blame it all on Ange, you sack him. If you think he played a bad hand pretty well, you keep him, I guess.

Given one of those seasons was a 5th placed finish, and that the other can be explained by the focus on Europa and guarantee of non-relegation, and that it led to a trophy, I just can't agree that it was rational to get rid of him on the totality of his reign