Mattyblue

I’m not claiming anything, it’s my opinion, as that’s what a message board is. I’m talking about the UK, couldn’t give a feck about the stances of other nations, good luck to them. Im sure ITV’s re-showing of Euro 96 is pulling in the viewers too, it’s a novelty at the moment. A year of behind closed doors football will see that novelty wear off very quickly.

Yes, most fans (Cue, ‘well me and my mates and family want to watch every single behind closed doors game, we can’t wait) Yes, rest of UK football. Scotland, League 2 and non league. League 1 will follow soon enough. Of course the PL and Championship clubs want to play on, that was kind of the point of my post...

This long ago stopped being about ‘sporting integrity’ in the PL. They know most fans aren’t particularly arsed if they just put a line under this season and point per game it like the rest of U.K. football will be doing, in fact it would just be a relief all round as we hear increasingly daft conditions placed on the matches - further diluting the sacred ‘integrity’. Yet, they stagger on creating an ever bigger PR disaster, absolutely desperate to grab as much cash as possible to pay their mind boggling wage bills. It’s all so very unedifying and I believe the game will be in for an all mighty shock when crowds dwindle away in 2021, they are just very, very lucky that the TV deals aren’t imminently up for renewal or the whole house of cards would have come crashing down.

Seen him on Sky. A run of the mill stopper that didn’t particularly stand out in League 1. Certainly shouldn’t be first choice at a Championship club with aspirations.

‘Class’? He’ll be 33 by next season and he’s spent his English career at Harrogate, Burton, Bradford and third division Sunderland. Looks like the expectations of Sunderland fans have fallen even more than ours.

Loving the baggy 90s suits

I can pretty much remember every game between 1992 and 1996. Yet if you asked me about most matches this season I’d struggle...

I was going post war, the other time records began (after 1992)

Get him on a podcast. Be like Fear and Loathing in Parochial East Lancashire

I saw Tugay vs Shearer the other day. Did surprise me when a few folk picked Tugay, largely down to ‘loyalty’. Fair enough, but for me Shearer has to be number 1. The bloke was the best striker in the world (or one of) In the mid 90s - and he played for us.

Sure I read that it isn’t a legal requirement to socially distance, nothing in the new legislation that can enforce a two metre gap.

The club was on the verge of cementing itself as a major player for the next decade, the fanbase was expanding rapidly across Lancashire and beyond. However, we totally messed up recruitment that summer and we never made up the ground lost again.

To judge we won’t have a vaccine in 3 months isn’t a particularly controversial viewpoint.

Ok if you think the NHS and elderly will be rolling up in 3 months etc... (And even if those groups did receive them by some miracle in a few months time, the likes of me and you would be way off receiving one, so that would still mean many, many months/a year + of behind closed doors football)

Yeah think they did, from memory.

I don’t doubt their best endeavours, God speed to them. However I like to look at past examples. Vaccines are renowned for failing at clinical trial. Now obviously usually they don’t have anywhere near this amount of finance and scientific manpower behind them, but it is still extremely difficult to pull off in this timeframe, despite the positivity. If you seriously think we‘ll all be rocking up at our GP’s in just over 3 months with our sleeves rolled up just because a scientist at Oxford is making progress in his lab, then you are going to be very disappointed.

Not a chance there will be a vaccine ready for use in September. (Feel free to find and quote this post later as I’d like nothing more than to be wrong).

In a team full of leaders, I always found it interesting that it was Sherwood that ended up captain.

That might say more about PNE and the players/standards they have...

I had to check, 2002 that came out. Had a little panic there as I remember watching it, was sure it wasn’t 30 years ago!

Happy Title Day everybody. Good piece on The Guardian... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/14/blackburn-rovers-won-premier-league-title-liverpool-manchester-united-25th-anniversary

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I was just adding my view of what makes a Derby, with this being a message board and all...

What does a derby really mean to a set of players who will largely have no connection to the local area? It is the intensity of the crowd that makes a derby special.

Aren’t you confusing him with the mighty Patrick Valery?