Things we were very wrong about in 2024
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I think that’s very unfair. Fabhino didn’t put in a good performance once he started to slide.
Robbo while making some big errors along this season had two great matches vs Madrid and City back to back and then got MOTM in the CL. He was back to his best. He then took a very bad knock and should have been subbed before his sending off. He’s nowhere near finished,
Forest have been a huge surprise, nobody more than Wood.
There's a really good joke in there somewhere.
On what evidence?
20 is probably too hight but Diaz has half the minutes per premier league goal to Doku.
That's because Doku has Haaland playing through the middle. And because City have been shit most of this year.
Anyway, Diaz might be better than Doku but I'd say it's arguable. Regardless, they serve the same overall function - look dangerous but flatter to deceive.
Tony Pulis football
Not to disagree about Pep but IMO even a (somewhat) lesser manager could keep winning with them if he continued to get backing on that scale.
Qatar or Abu Dhabi?
Dubois vs Usyk next. Usyk should win but i have been wrong for the last 3 fights, i could be wrong again
There’s zero chance of it happening.
No way @Athens admits he was wrong about Chesies wife.
We’ve already got as close to an “I was wrong” when he said he’d still give her one.
Additionally @Jürgen4PM is smarting too much from his defeat yesterday to admit he always gets Prepare4aHumping FC stuff wrong!!!
New father, new job - haven't had a lot of time to focus on football this year.
I was completely wrong about Slot. Never expected him to be this good. Curious to see how he fares in the post Salah and VVD era. Given his tactical adaptability, there will be a dip but we should be fine in the medium term.
I watched Mark Gonzales against Madrid and thought that he was going to solve our left wing problem. I watched Borini in pre season and was sure he was our Kuyt replacement. Completely wrong on both fronts.
But none of the incorrect predictions you all have made matches up to this. Bascombe on Ronaldo.
"Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago," says Chris Bascombe
In most cases, paying #12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from.
When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius.
According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it.
I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit.
It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was #12m.
Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago.
No doubt both Gerard and Sir Alex watched those same youth championships in Argentina a few years back and noticed the same players.
Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United.
Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu.
Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise.
Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to theman dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premiership. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back.
The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property.
It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page.
Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard.
So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game.
One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different.
The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit."
Not sure how his career survived this article.
I was completely wrong about Slot. Never expected him to be this good. Curious to see how he fares in the post Salah and VVD era. Given his tactical adaptability, there will be a dip but we should be fine in the medium term.
I watched Mark Gonzales against Madrid and thought that he was going to solve our left wing problem. I watched Borini in pre season and was sure he was our Kuyt replacement. Completely wrong on both fronts.
But none of the incorrect predictions you all have made matches up to this. Bascombe on Ronaldo.
"Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago," says Chris Bascombe
In most cases, paying #12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from.
When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius.
According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it.
I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit.
It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was #12m.
Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to Le Tallec's talents. Let's not forget who was named Player of the tournament in the World Youth Championships two years ago.
No doubt both Gerard and Sir Alex watched those same youth championships in Argentina a few years back and noticed the same players.
Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United.
Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu.
Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise.
Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to theman dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premiership. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back.
The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property.
It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page.
Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard.
So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game.
One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different.
The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit."
Not sure how his career survived this article.
We are, I think, but I don't reckon the simple fact of Harris losing would qualify in any case as the election was widely described as too close to call. The margin of Trump's victory, on the other hand, was a surprise.
The margins was proof that polling often struggles to capture the full picture in polarised elections, especially when right-leaning voters are less likely to disclose their intentions. Left-leaning voters tend to declare their preferences more openly, while many right-leaning voters, particularly those supporting controversial figures like Trump, remain undecided or conceal their intentions. Harris probably needed a substantial ten percentage lead to offset these hidden biases and polling errors. The main surprise for me was the polling failure than the Trump victory. It simply failed to account for a phenomenon that's been known about for decades. It was even more surprising this seemed a shock to the Dems and Harris. They were naively living in a fairy tale world of celebrity endorsements without connecting with the electorate.
I know right… you’d have thought if he went to the trouble of not only getting one patsy to clip his lug hole with a bullet, but getting another one to break his concentration on the 16th tee… he’d have won by more… especially with Elon controlling social media.
I don't often say this with DB, but I'm in 100% agreement. He also started this season with an injury which meant he didn't come into the season with a proper preseason, and then he has picked up some knocks up along the way. I still think there's a brilliant player there, but we do need a top class understudy to take minutes away from him and allow him to bring his best to important games.
I was right about this by accident. I apologise to the site and will only be wrong in this thread from now on.
City, last season's quad winners, one win in last 13
Utd 4 places from relegation
Forest 17th last season, 3rd midway this season
Definitely a glitch in the matrix/multiverse/space time continuum.
Utd 4 places from relegation
Forest 17th last season, 3rd midway this season
Definitely a glitch in the matrix/multiverse/space time continuum.
I didn't. One or two individuals aside, 90% of that squad is just not good enough. I'm beginning to get the impression that even Amorim didn't realise what a gutless bunch of Big Time Charlies he'd be taking over at that club.
I never imagined Slot would be so good BUT I did have an inkling that It'd be reet. I did think Salah would be mint this year. He just doesn't seem the type to down tools. Wow. I absolutely never saw City imploding though. 2025 is going to be a fun year I think. I turn 50, I get to revisit Japan ( @juniormember ) 😉 in May to celebrate 20 years of wedded coolness and I might get an MA in Music Pruduction Whoop!
I’m in Okinawa these days. Stick that into your itinerary!
I really wanted Lenny Yoro this summer but not for the fee and wages Utd paid in the end. So far it looks like a bullet dodged. He has been really bad for them and I cant figure out if its just him being at the wrong place at the wrong time or if he just isnt as talented as half the footballing World thought. Probably a bit of both. Although it doesn't help being shoe horned into a 3 at the back when you have been playing as a CB in a back 4 up until now.
