Tyrone Shoelaces

Al Green - Take Me To The River

I agreed with the Rice mark. I feel he’s paying the price for a long hard season at Arsenal. He’s just that split second behind where he used to be. Trippier will never shine at left back, he’s not got the tools to play there. Bellingham was pretty quiet and lost the ball several times by over elaboration.

Scores in my paper today - Pickford 6 Stones 7 Saka 7 Rice 5 Foden 7 Kane 7 Walker 7 Guehi 7 Mainoo 8 Tripper 5 Bellingham 5 Watkins 9 Shaw 6 Palmer 7 Gallagher 6 Konsa 6 I don’t where the 7 for Kane came from. Great penalty but that was it.

I like him when he’s playing for Arsenal but he’s been disappointing so far.

He’s got some big decisions to make before Sunday.

Best team in the first half, back to walking football in the second half. We looked like conceding when they broke on us. Great strikers goal from Watkins. I thought Kane hardly touched the ball, he can’t be fit. Rice has struggled all through this comp for me. Mainoo vanished in the second half. The lads at the back did ok. Shaw has to start on Sunday. We’ll need a goal start on Sunday.

That’s 100% better than the previous performances. Playing with a bit of tempo. We just need to shoot more and not be trying the thread the eye of the needle.

Bonus for Suhail.

Unit Four Plus Two - Concrete And Clay

Richard Hell And The Voidoids - Blank Generation

O V Wright - That's How Strong My Love Is

He’d have played as many minutes as Wharton has.

The Four Seasons - Beggin’ Timebox did it better.

I know absolutely nothing about cycling, I never had a bike when I was a kid. Why is it I find watching the Tour De France fascinating ? All the tactics and finer points go right over my head, I just like watching it as a spectacle.

The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me

The Temptations - A’Int Too Proud To Beg

Rex Garvin And The Mighty Cravers - Sock It To ‘Em JB

The Byrds - Eight Miles High

Is he walking back ?

It’s the quality of the football on display that gets me. We’re really poor to watch. With the players we’ve got we must be able to play better than that.

Paul And Ritchie And The Cryin’ Shames - Circles. I was down the front at my local Fire Station watching these back in the day. About 3 numbers in they stopped in mid song and starting packing up their instruments ! When I looked around behind me a massive brawl had broken out ! Those were the days.

There’s a photo on the internet of him in Blackburn town centre walking with a stick looking completely lost. I wonder how much support he got from the club back then. He never played another game after leaving Rovers. He’d mangled Tommy Smith in the Youth Cup Final when he got a hat trick for West Ham. What might have been ?

Britt came to Rovers with a serious knee problem. He was on his way to being a top class player until he did his knee. This was before medicals. Gilliver came with a back problem. It was a result of the Gilliver case that medicals were brought in by the Football League. I believe he eventually had a disc fusion but he was never the same player I saw at Huddersfield as a young striker. I used to see the physio that treated Gilliver when I did my back. Somebody once told me this about disc problems - “ You’ve Got A Friend For Life “ and he was right.

Go on the fans sites of most clubs in the top two divisions. None of them would want him.

Next stop Chorley.