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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • The problem is that basically every player who left this season wanted out. Vieira decided he wanted to go back to Porto. ESR was done trying to get minutes here. Ramsdale needed to play too. Nketiah was never going to fit our setup. We’ve arguably kept these players for too long, and not moving them on would be a terrible mistake.

    Now, for Ø, there’s just not many players who can play his role. I’m so glad that Ethan got some minutes in this match, because he might be trusted more going forward, but you have to remember that if he sees himself at the right 8, signing a player at that position would basically force him to leave. And we desperately didn’t want that to happen.

    I think the only criticism the club deserves here is for letting Ø go on international duty. He was already limping v. Brighton, there was no need for him to play more.








  • Even if the ref “had no choice”, as in he was told at halftime that if there is ANY incidence of delaying a free kick, it’s a yellow, why is the Veltman kick completely ignored?

    When the ref pulled out the card the entire bar I was in applauded thinking someone was being punished for physically lashing out at an Arsenal player (for what seems to be the 10th time in 3 matches). But no, not only did he punish Rice for something he let go in the first half, he completely ignores the context around the incident.

    So sure, the ref “had no choice”. He’s also a blind cunt.




  • I think we’re going to see more of this as we go on. Clive from AV said something like “if we want to improve on last season, we have to turn losses into draws and draws into wins”. Well, I can 100% see us conceding three or four playing with 10 men against Brighton for an entire half and dropping all three points. It hurts, because I’m pretty sure we didn’t get a single red last season, but I highly doubt anyone other than City will keep a clean sheet against us, and that gives us a fighting chance to draw/win.