MikeO

JPR Williams gone today too, an absolute monster of a rugby player as well as being a surgeon. Loved watching him as a kid, despite him being Welsh. (I sometimes wonder if my international sporting allegiance would've been different had my Welsh, very Welsh apparently, Grandfather lived, but he died around twenty years before I was born) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67912287

Grandson yesterday, looks like a future rock solid centre back to me

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire him.

Does that mean when he plays there are five thousand shots every game but none of them hit the target?

Good goal as well....if he meant it.

He'd cross mountain ranges to join us I reckon.

Nice one dude...I'll await the invitation

BBC journalism strikes again Sunderland manager Michael Beale, speaking to ITV: "It's special to both sides and special to people in the north east. It's too different teams; one that has been heavily invested in and a young one that is doing well in the Championship."

Fucking ridiculous.

Defender had hold of DC-L's shirt as well.

61% possession!? What's that about?

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/crystal-palace-vs-everton-prediction-kick-off-time-latest-team-news-tv-live-stream-h2h-results-odds-fa-cup-2024-preview-b1130066.html "Michael Olise has been ruled out with a hamstring injury..." "It could prove to be a tight affair, with the quality of Michael Olise and Eberechi Eze potentially proving the difference." Quality journalism!

Are you saying the Dyche is right? Can I do the "come on down" joke?

Birmingham sack their manager in October, when sixth in the Championship, to appoint Wayne Rooney. Fifteen games later he's taken them to twentieth in the table, so gets sacked. Hiring "trophy" manager backfires again Shame for Wayne, but he doesn't appear to have what it takes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/67854712

BBC 23rd Dec... Manchester United have won just one match out of their last five in the top flight and Erik ten Hag's side have lost more games than they have won this season across all competitions. 27th Dec... Man Utd 3-2 Aston Villa: Rasmus Hojlund's first Red Devils goal marks start of new era. 30th Dec... 'Inconsistent' & 'awful' Man Utd are 'back to worst'. Fairly short "new era" then

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs

That's the most sense I've ever seen you make Haf mate

Wolves 1-2 Everton Calvert-Lewin

Great that, really bright lad (for a footballer).

Doesn't matter (I didn't see the game either). He was plainly inhibited from going where he wanted to go, inside the penalty area, possibly making a run taking a defender out of the game if not going for the ball himself.

Penalty given against Kulusevski for one of these incidents but not the other, can anyone guess who didn't get a spot-kick (clue: it's not Brighton)?

Everton 0-2 City None