Oliver is definitely not having his best season compared to his previous status of being the best in the league. I think a lot of refs are being confused by VAR interventions. How did he miss that red card.
Roberts deserves a bigger ban as you said.
How can the FA not look to punish those dreadful Millwall fans chanting of ‘Let him Die’ at Meteta. Terrible. It’s far worse than what was said to Chilwell. But that’s the WOKE FA for you these days. Embarrassing.
The De Bruyne contract situation is an interesting one. His best days are long gone and clearly has a physical issue and although he did play well in Saturday it was against a deep lying Plymouth team who allowed him loads of the ball. Has struggled against the bigger teams. I would let him go and try and get in Wurtz from Leverkusen. What a player this lad is. Love to see him in Premier League soon. Perfect replacement.
Take the point, John, about KDB except if he’s going to go into coaching and stay under the City umbrella it might be one way of doing it. They are definitely considering offering him a one-year deal.
I will be sharing Henry’s views with those around me on Sunday who insisted Roberts had no choice but to go for the ball. Not with your foot when the ball is so close to someone’s face.
1982 is my favourite World Cup finals (if only Brooking and Keegan were not so indispensable when clearly injured) but Schumacher’s despatch of Battiston still makes me feel ill for sporting and humanitarian reasons.
Talking of Millwall fans always reminds me of Dai Davies, the late golf correspondent of the Guardian. In his younger days he worked for Hayters, the London based news agency. They often reported for provincial papers and Dai was sent to The Den to cover Millwall v Burnley for a Lancashire paper. He was on to a copy taker with a report that was necessarily Burnley centric when a departing middle-aged Millwall fan lent across the low wooden barrier which separated the press box from the fans and stubbed out his cigarette on Dai’s face.
My God, I never got that working for Hayters. Apart from when I had to do the Chelsea programme in 1985 and was utterly hopeless and John Hollins, God rest his soul, politely told me to ring back when I had some proper questions. Lovely man.
After a cup tie at the Den v Grimsby in the early 80s, a Grimsby fan took a wrong turn outside the ground, walked into a pub to ask for directions to the Elephant, found himself in the middle of a few dozen Millwall supporters. They held the guy 'hostage', poured beer down his neck until the lad thought he'd missed his last train home. One of the Millwall guys threw the Grimsby lad in the back of his taxi, took him to Kings Cross. That after a Millwall 1 Grimsby 6 result. They have some morons - who doesn't? - but the majority of the Millwall people are decent folk.
Excellent post as usual Henry.
Oliver is definitely not having his best season compared to his previous status of being the best in the league. I think a lot of refs are being confused by VAR interventions. How did he miss that red card.
Roberts deserves a bigger ban as you said.
How can the FA not look to punish those dreadful Millwall fans chanting of ‘Let him Die’ at Meteta. Terrible. It’s far worse than what was said to Chilwell. But that’s the WOKE FA for you these days. Embarrassing.
The De Bruyne contract situation is an interesting one. His best days are long gone and clearly has a physical issue and although he did play well in Saturday it was against a deep lying Plymouth team who allowed him loads of the ball. Has struggled against the bigger teams. I would let him go and try and get in Wurtz from Leverkusen. What a player this lad is. Love to see him in Premier League soon. Perfect replacement.
Take the point, John, about KDB except if he’s going to go into coaching and stay under the City umbrella it might be one way of doing it. They are definitely considering offering him a one-year deal.
Hope he stays. I have loved watching him. A winner. Proper player. Just hate seeing greats be a shadow of themselves at times.
Agreed
I will be sharing Henry’s views with those around me on Sunday who insisted Roberts had no choice but to go for the ball. Not with your foot when the ball is so close to someone’s face.
1982 is my favourite World Cup finals (if only Brooking and Keegan were not so indispensable when clearly injured) but Schumacher’s despatch of Battiston still makes me feel ill for sporting and humanitarian reasons.
There was no excuse or reason for going so high with his foot. Good he’s since reached out to Mateta (and only right).
Talking of Millwall fans always reminds me of Dai Davies, the late golf correspondent of the Guardian. In his younger days he worked for Hayters, the London based news agency. They often reported for provincial papers and Dai was sent to The Den to cover Millwall v Burnley for a Lancashire paper. He was on to a copy taker with a report that was necessarily Burnley centric when a departing middle-aged Millwall fan lent across the low wooden barrier which separated the press box from the fans and stubbed out his cigarette on Dai’s face.
My God, I never got that working for Hayters. Apart from when I had to do the Chelsea programme in 1985 and was utterly hopeless and John Hollins, God rest his soul, politely told me to ring back when I had some proper questions. Lovely man.
After a cup tie at the Den v Grimsby in the early 80s, a Grimsby fan took a wrong turn outside the ground, walked into a pub to ask for directions to the Elephant, found himself in the middle of a few dozen Millwall supporters. They held the guy 'hostage', poured beer down his neck until the lad thought he'd missed his last train home. One of the Millwall guys threw the Grimsby lad in the back of his taxi, took him to Kings Cross. That after a Millwall 1 Grimsby 6 result. They have some morons - who doesn't? - but the majority of the Millwall people are decent folk.
That’s what I tried to mention…that Millwall are a really good community club. Sadly with some idiots.