Recent content by Sewelly The Geordie

This kind of thing is always likely to happen when a club has an enormous global scouting network, stockpiles talented players at an insane level, but demands a certain standard and immediate consistency from its first team players. Chelsea run a model now where player recruitment is more like...

That's exactly what he is. The club has been ran parasitically as a tool to support Sports Direct during his entire tenure. Our commercial revenue has shrank year on year in an era where the sport is ballooning financially. This is because sponsorship and advertising deals have been replaced by...

Why do clubs need these B teams? If they want to give talented young players first team experience, then here's a revolutionary idea: play them. That's what clubs throughout the football league have to do. If they can't offer chances to players, loan them out. Or a better idea, have a system...

Destroy the best thing about English football, the one thing we have that is absolutely unparalleled anywhere else in world football - the lower league system - to feed the greed and dominance of the few wealthy top clubs. No, simple answer.

From Ashington and loved Maggie Thatcher. Denied.

If anybody really thinks Ronaldo will win it, they should put their money where their mouth is. You can get 5/1 with most bookies.

He's rubbish. No ability on the ball and no physical attributes to compensate. Half our fans seem to like him because he tries hard, but much of that is because he spends half the time running trying to get where he should have been in the first place. Honestly, half the reason we're so bad at...

That sounds like a laugh. God I hate that useless bastard.

Sissoko is no doubt an effective footballer when he can be bothered (usually when we're playing Chelsea on Sky) and the game suits him (ie playing on the counterattack), but the bastard can barely control a ball half the time and doesn't ever seem totally at home in any position. He's also a...

He turned up straight from the Spanish 2nd division looking like a strong gust of wind would knock him over and thrown in alongside an absolute pile of shit, while being coached by a carousel of morons, yet has still played consistently well for us. I'm amazed how good he is technically...

Surely Fergie is partly to blame for this. You had an aging side of VdS, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney that had carried you to success. The replacement generation was supposed to be Phil 'Duncan Edwards' Jones, Smalling, Evans, Cleverley, Powell, Zaha, Welbeck...

I was surprised by how few players you had who could take people on or stretch us. Everything was through Depay. Rooney and Mata seem extremely once-paced and easy to defend against these days. Put it this way, I haven't see Coloccini or Taylor play well for about 2 years and they looked like a...

Mad how everybody said for years that Xavi and Iniesta carried him then it turns out he's a better midfielder than both of them

You could have easily said that circa 2003 or 2004. Things can change quickly in football.

Nah, the 2007 one was brilliant. 3.31 goals a game which was obscene for an international tournament. Every game could be 0-0 and it'd still be better than watching women's football, though. The lack of intensity and quality makes the women's game practically unwatchable if you don't have a...