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Based on his performances so far, Vigouroux might just be our best value acquisition in yonks. He's good at everything that goalkeepers need to be good at. Calm under the high ball, very strong at distribution and his shot stopping is all that you could want it to be.
I will confess to having been slightly nervous after one early game where he two-fisted punched a ball away that would have been easier to catch, but since then he's been basically immaculate. I have no problem in believing that he could do a job for a team a level higher.
Probably the biggest plus point of the Williams era so far.
Interesting piece on the BBC website about the decline of long distance goals, and the death of entertainment in football as a result of a thousand stats.
Of course, this brings back memories of Russy's admission that he was screaming at Fulton not to shoot just before Jay's long distance winner Vs Reading hit the net. Kinda exemplifies the whole thing.
Another disastrous policy implemented in Scotland and slavishly copied by the Welsh Govt without even the slightest bit of evidence that it was achieving anything.
Now they're taking a story like this, which in any sensible society should be a reason to knock the whole stupid nonsense on the head, and doubling down.
Long overdue. There are far, far too many games being played at present, lots of them pointless Internationals set up to generate cash for FIFA.
Whilst the top clubs are far from blameless over their far flung tours, and UEFA has questions to answer over its ludicrous Nations League, this is a step in the right direction. Some players have barely had a proper break since COVID.
Anyone else go and see them at NRT Fest last night?
Amazes me that The Stereophonics can be mostly crap for 20 years and still sell out arenas whilst a band better in every way ends up doing smaller gigs like this.
OK. We can argue back and fore about your Coldplays, your Ed Sheerans and your Taylor Swifts. But what about the lesser known stuff? Who is your favourite artist who almost nobody else has ever heard of?
This evening I am mostly into Wardruna. If you've ever watched Vikings you'll probably have heard their stuff. They're like the Norwegian Sigur Ros. If you like your tunes built around Norse myths and performed on traditional instruments then these guys may be for you.
A big rise in the Nationalist vote all across the continent. Macron beaten into second place in France by Le Pen's mob. Substantial gains for AfD in Germany and others in Austria. The same likely in Italy.
A natural outcome of people's valid concerns about mass inward migration, the headlong rush towards net zero regardless of the cost to people's lives and the fundamental democratic deficit at the heart of EU power being ignored, or dismissed as racism, fascism, or eco vandalism?
One of the reasons I voted for Brexit, as well as the aforementioned democratic deficit, is that I simply don't see it surviving as an entity for more than another couple of decades if there isn't massive reform, and I'd rather that the UK be nowhere near it when it happens. The will to enact such reform is massively lacking as politicians will never vote to give themselves less power, so the EU will cheerfully carry on ensuring its own ending.
Interesting story on how they've dragged themselves from perennial whipping boys to maybe having the chance of qualification for a major tournament. With a population of 660,000 (bigger than I thought), they've got every chance of emulating somewhere like Iceland.
Am I alone in preferring the earlier kick offs rather than waiting until 3pm?
I get 60-70 years ago when a lot more people worked a Saturday morning in industry a mid afternoon kick off time made more sense. These days to me it's almost a waste of a day hanging around until then.
Much prefer it when the game is basically done and dusted by two/half two and you've still got the rest of Saturday to do other things, even if all people want to do is sit in a pub. Especially in Winter when it would make a lot more sense to do as much in limited daylight as possible.
Perfectly illustrates what is wrong with the way modern football is headed and why we've so often been so dull to watch under some of the coaches we've recently had. Coaches "educated" in new processes and the stultifyingly tedious and endless statistical analysis that we're expected to believe is important.
Would go a long way to explain why it was so often the "flair" players who found themselves out of favour in recent years.
The rise of Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen and the AFD in Germany (not forgetting the Italians) should be of no surprise to anyone who has actually been paying attention over the last couple of decades.
Perhaps the single biggest reason I voted for Brexit (other than the democratic shortage at the heart of the EU Governing process) was my belief that the whole thing would come crashing down within a couple of decades and that we'd be better off out before that happened.
The last few performances have been much more reminiscent of the way we played under Martinez or Laudrup than almost everything we saw in the four years previously.
Quick passing. Passing with intent to create chances rather than mindlessly racking up possession. The days of having 70% of the ball and only mustering three shots on target aren't something I'm keen to witness again.
Obviously it's less than half a dozen games so caution is required about our ability to maintain this in the long run, but if this is the intent from here on in then that'll do me.
Unless he's signed a new deal in the interim, I believe that Jamal Lowe is a free agent come next Summer. No brainer to try and complete a permanent deal for him IMO.
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