I'll put this here as we don't have a footballers on rape charges thread. How bad does that sound? Greenwood looks to be in a whole world of trouble. It's hard to to presume guilt before a trial but it's looking pretty damning for him. Another blot on his character is that Southgate kicked him out of the England squad last year. He and Foden broke Covid rules by bringing a couple of Icelandic girls back to their hotel. What does that say about the standing his girlfriend has with him? Benjamin Mendy is in deep water but is getting less attention. Can the Everton player who got arrested last summer be named? It's all gone quiet with him. As to Ched Evans, his conviction was overturned at trial; BBC - Ched Evans not guilty Not to be a moralist but he had a girlfriend (maybe fiance?) at the time and asked his mate if he could "join in" with him and another girl.

I watched Rovers lose 3-2 from the Kippax. 1992-93 season I think. I remember that Patrik Andersson played. I decided to tag along with a couple of my dad's mates. They had decided after a few beers the night before that they were going. They asked me. I went. We got to Maine Road, tickets only for away fans, no sale on the day. For some daft reason we decided to pay to go on the Kippax. An interesting afternoon.

It's low risk though. Bruce is solid and unspectacular. He won't be a bad appointment yet he won't he be the next Guardiola either.

That is an excellent succinct summary of post-Moyes Everton. They have signed some utter rubbish. Here's transfermarkt; Everton signings 2016-2017 is mightily impressive. Theo Walcott, over the hill Rooney, Mangala from City to name 3. 2019-2020 is up there too; Fabian Delph, Andre Gomes, Iwobi, Moise Kean in that venerable class. Chaddy (has he really done one from this site?) reckons that home town boy Rooney would have come in and fixed it all though.

The Luca Toni links always made me laugh. As did the perennial Ray Wilkins has bought a house in Wilpshire.

Confirmation of the arrest from the BBC; Greenwood arrested Not a good start to 2022 for him.

Another clean sheet. Not losing at Luton isn't a bad result under the circumstances. Not many on here were confident of a win. QPR and Bournemouth winning makes today looks bad but they'll have hiccups too. Fulham drew, and West Brom lost again. Plenty of games to go. The most surprising aspect of today's game is that Cameron Jerome is still playing. What wasn't a surprise is that he still can't shoot.

I agree with you, but clubs are a selfish lot and they aren't concerned with the greater good.

I agree with you that 7 & 8 years old is far too early to go to a pro club. I've told the tale of my young nephew who had to find a new team last September as the majority of his old team went to pro academies. None of them will be pro footballers, but parents are sold a dream by a smooth talking upstart in a fancy tracksuit. Clubs could also chip in to provide coaching courses so club sides have qualified staff. The argument from clubs is that how it is now works. England youth cup winners, a semi final and a final for the national team. Good players all over the place. Why change? However, would those players still thrive in a different environment? Each future star needs 10 other players to play with. Parents need to be aware that more often than not their kid is there to make up the numbers so that the one that the club thinks will make it gets a game.

I thought that he played for Rangers. Here's his Wiki; Shota Arveladze - Wikipedia. He scored loads of goals. I'm with you on his management skills though. It looks like they got rid of a better manager in McCann. Call me cynical but does anyone know if the fit and proper test actually exists? A Turkish gameshow mogul buying Hull City. It doesn't sound right at all.

I read yesterday that the Premier League has instituted new rules for asking for games to be called off due to Covid. "From now on, if a club applies to postpone a match on the grounds of insufficient players due to COVID-19, they must have a minimum of FOUR positive cases within their squad." With omicron seemingly on its way out will it matter? The Prem also said that fans won't need Covid passes to go to games anymore. Has the EFL done the same?

It's superb. I grew up watching football Italia, Saint and Greavsie, The Match with Elton Welsby on ITV, and then the Premier League so it's right up my street. I'll have a look at the others.

I agree with you. It's harder to compare game to game as well. With consistency comes fairness, and when everyone agrees on that it makes the job easier. I watch much more premier league than championship but VAR is causing the most angst there. However, I think that the Prem bigwigs need to alter the rule. A clear and obvious error needs to mean exactly that. 50 views, 5 minutes, then asking the ref to look at the monitor shows me that it's neither clear nor obvious.

I don't have a twitter account but have found out that I don't need to to be able look at it. I have spent far too much time on this page over the past few days; https://twitter.com/sid_lambert I think that it's absolutely brilliant.

It was Darren England. He's on the "select group 1" ie. Prem list. He was streets ahead of the lad at Hull. Years ago a mate of mine played in an international youth tournament. It may have been UN sponsored or some organisation like that and somehow got a load of top referees' to do it. He played in one game reffed by Paul Durkin (short, ginger ex Prem ref). He said that he was brilliant. On top of everything, no wrong decisions, always up with play, constantly talking to explain what he was doing. There was another local ref (Andy?) who did football league games when I was growing up. I had him a few times an he was good too.

Maybe they could be fast tracked due to experience? They should not struggle with fitness, they understand the nuances of the game, therefore with a bit of coaching they should be effective. Then they can report to other players what the experience is like. The other side is how many want to, or how many need to? Current Prem wages negate the need for a post football career from a financial standpoint (discounting stupid decisions), but I think that a lot of players would like it. It keeps them involved in the game, keeps them fit, don't have to move around, and unlike the coach/manager route are unlikely to get sacked after 18 months Consistency comes up a lot with refereeing. What is better; if a ref is consistent game to game, or within a single game? One week he can let teams kick 7 bells out of each other, the next they blow up more frequently.

Oh dear, a late night for that ending. If Allen stays fit it looks like Buffalo will get its day in the sun at some point. I think that they shouldn't have booted the ball out of the end zone on the kick off. A rugby style donkey dropper landing in play would have wasted time. It's KC v. Bengals and LA v. San Francisco this weekend. KC should win, as should LA, but who knows.

Bad news for Burnley if you ask me. He'll get a tune out of the Watford players, and I'm sure a nice bonus if he keeps them up. As has been said on here often Woy came to Ewood at the wrong time. He is a good manager.

I'm assuming that I got the same commentary on ESPN then. I don't know who it was but it was a single man booth. He spent the first 20 minutes banging on about how Rovers were going to miss Brereton-Diaz, when if he was actually watching the game and not using his talking points he'd have seen that Gallagher was doing a decent job up top. Hull was worse though. That was awful.

All I can think of is Alan Partridge.

An excellent result Rovers played very well in the first half but again lacked a final ball. Although he's a menace Khadra misplaced far too many passes. Gallagher was a different player to the one who did nothing at Hull last week. Well done to him. Crooks missing that header late on was just desserts. How the linesman missed the ball going out is beyond me. Zeefuik looked very good. Pace to burn.

I know that there are a few NFL fans on this board. Saturday and yesterday had the divisional round of playoff games, knows as the quarter finals anywhere else. They were all absolute crackers. The Bengals, 49'ers, and Rams all won away from home on last second field goals, then the Chiefs beat Buffalo in extra time with a touch down. It was brilliant to watch.

ESPN published a preview of sorts; Rovers - ESPN FC Some old stories, and some comments from Waggott that will probably annoy some.

I missed that post of yours. I read the article. The takeover sounded a bit off at the time, it is now looking well dodgy. From it; "ALK have found Burnley a difficult sell given the club’s limited commercial clout. The chances of bottom-placed Burnley losing their Premier League status makes the task of attracting investors even more difficult" How naiive were ALK? Thinking that they could cash in on marketing opportunities with Burnley. Seems like a case of a lack of due diligence.

I'm sure that I contributed to it too 😃