Recent content by jeff_goldblum

I know there isn't an easy answer, but you have to admit there's a double standard at play. We're happy to accept that sport is unfair in 99.9% of cases. A short, stocky guy could train every day for a lifetime, develop world-class technique and still be slower in the pool than his lean, 6' 3"...

My mind boggles at these people who are seemingly old enough to be able to use the internet and write in full sentences, but who sincerely believe that the criminal justice system is the one true oracle of whether someone is a wrong'un.

We desperately need a natural centre-forward to make this particular set-up work work. That centre-forward doesn't have to smash in goals left, right and centre (although that would be nice, and is definitely a requirement if we want to challenge City), he just needs to do the basic things a...

At the moment I think BlueSky is a really mixed bag. The functionality seems fine to me but it's undoubtedly jankier than pre-Musk Twitter. On the other hand, I hadn't realised how much adverts and algorithms on Twitter affected the user experience until I used BlueSky. Even exclusively using...

Utterly mental

I would never have had Mount on my wishlist for the window, but he undoubtedly improves the team. He splits the difference between Eriksen, who is good on the ball but can't really run, and Fred, who can run for days but is incredibly inconsistent in possession, as well as offering desperately...

Maguire is case in point of how a lot of fans are incapable of preventing their frustration at our poor squad management over the years from boiling over into borderline-obsessive personal hatred of players who are at the club as a result. Obviously Maguire is the prime example because he was...

Unless a very good option become available for a reasonable price, I don't think we should be looking to offload either. Neither is as well rounded as I'd like, but between the two we have right back covered in most tactical set-ups we're likely to employ.

In ecology there's a phenomenon called shifting baseline syndrome which is basically that as we've continually hammered biodiversity and the natural environment over the last 150 years or so, each successive generation has grow up with an increasingly skewed impression of what "normal" looks...

Yeah Qatari ownership and bringing Greenwood back into the fold are red line issues for me. Sad to see that so many fans are being put in a position to choose between their moral compass and the club they've supported since childhood.

I'd say there are plenty of players out there who, despite being worse players all-round, are a lot better suited to the role Casemiro was being asked to play yesterday than he is. One of the reasons Casemiro was such a difference for us last year was that he brought a lot of quality on the...

Casemiro just isn't mobile enough to hold down the midfield on his own when other teams break at pace and our attackers played so poorly and gave away the ball so unpredictably against Wolves that he was put in that position too often.

Mount and Bruno are good defensively for attacking midfielders, but their defensive attributes are fitness and workrate rather than any sort of positional nous. When Wolves broke they were generally the wrong side and only Casemiro was in the middle to keep things solid and he's simply not...

It wouldn't be a new Premier League season if everyone wasn't screaming about United getting a decision every club has gotten multiple times a year every year since I started watching this sport quarter of a century ago

The double standards from the pundits, and some fans, is mental. The big difference between the two teams was expectations. We were poor compared to what you'd expect, Wolves were very good compared to what you'd expect. Wolves were absolutely the better team, but anyone watching with a truly...