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First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

Half the time men don't even hold the right body part that's "injured" at first. 
Anyone see the potential ankle breaker in the England game the other day?
Straight over the top of the ball and down on the ankle. Nobody surrounded the ref, no dramatic scream, no 10 man "brawl".
She just got up, accepted the free kick and apology, rubbed her ankle and jogged on. 
There is no excuse for the men. They're fecking pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. There's more injuries in football than Rugby, Hockey(it's full of little sore welts) and anything else. Imagine a combat sport where one guy keeps appealing to the ref feigning low blows and illegal elbows every two minutes. 
I've no doubt the women's game will get there when there's more money and greed in the game. But right now they're playing for fun and you can tell. 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

Watching paint dry is far better than watching men’s internationals. Especially friendlies and the Nations League.

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

First off, you get around 80 minutes of football to watch. The throw-ins get taken from where the ball went out, and quickly. No five minute wait for the towel to come out for the monotonous long throw and no appealing for it when the player knew they had kicked it out. Same happens with corners, they admit it was off them last. Corners, no shoving, pulling shirts, waiting for the ref to intervene and another minute wasted for a pointless, unpunished ticking off. 
The manliness the women players show when they get fouled is a delight to see, give it a rub, get up and run it off. Rarely does the trainer need to be involved. Jack Grealish take note on that point, it was not a leg breaker, it was tickle, man up next season.
Then the crowd, how involved they were at both games I've been to, no swearing, and certainly no 'f*** the EFL' throughout the whole match bellowing in my ear. It's lovely that a whole family can attend and feel comfortable, and everyone sat down in their seat, there was no need to stand up the whole game as happens at just about every game now.
Then the officials. The authorities considered females were good enough to run the game, and what a delightful job they do. No back chat going on, no tellings off. If they are good enough for this tournament then they are desperately needed to officiate in the men's game, full of substandard officials for 30 years now.
This should be the template for the future of football. I hope it is, that a club is brave enough to want this, ask players and supporters to behave in a similar way instead of feeling obliged to copy what others do.
 
 
 

Agree with everything you say, and over 9 million views according to tv, so everything okay until Sky become involved with the money and they will and the ladies game will be destroyed like the PL, so must enjoy the ladies game whilst we can.

It is interesting to note that since Jordan Ibe's transfer to Adanaspor, on a three-year contract, he has yet to play for them. You can only imagine how bad it is for him right now, stuck in Turkey, with no end to the suffering.
 

It is interesting to note that since Jordan Ibe's transfer to Adanaspor, on a three-year contract, he has yet to play for them. You can only imagine how bad it is for him right now, stuck in Turkey, with no end to the suffering.
 

Isn't it odd, we tried to get him ahead of Jacob Butterfield many moons ago (as well as Lewis Dunk instead of Jason Shackell) but Brighton would not budge. Both Conor Hourihane and James Chester had been targets previously but we could never compete against Villa's buying power. When news broke out Derby were after Joe Wildsmith a few seasons back it got him a new contract. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing was all but signed before Boro stepped in, and Matt Clarke's last minute loan three seasons ago happened because we were pushing to get Haydon Roberts instead. Now that's what I call the long game.
Serdar Dursun next I'm guessing.
 

I honestly believe we will win the league - I’m almost tempted to have a bet on being unbeaten in the league all season.

Our current team is a better  team than last season 

But it will be top 6 wage budget definitely. Hourihane, Smith and McGoldrick could’ve signed for championship clubs for more money. Barkhuizen, Mendez-Laing, Collins are proven at this level and above. We will hopefully keep at least one of Bird Knight and Bielik, Thompson and Cashin are great talents. We’re a right back away from from having the best back 4 in the league. 
 
Yes we should be disappointed not finishing top 2, there are other clubs who can compete with us but top 6 should be our minimum aim, particularly when you realise that 6th place would be the second lowest league finish in our history.
No one is getting carried away but we have good reason to be confident.

If I had just signed for Derby County, took a look at those we'd got here and been able to attact and a manager hungry to prove himself, I'd want the conversation around the training ground to be let's win the league, let's put on a show for the fans. Remember, we were more than a match for the top teams in the Championship. People should listen to Rob Keys' talk on the radio the other day, how having a positive mindset can make such a difference. He was appalled how England gave up a run chase against the West Indies recently, that a draw would be okay, and never wanted to see that from his side. He took the job because he wanted to know if what he was saying as a pundit could translate into managing the national side. That's what I want, players, owner, staff and manager being positive, and especially from the fans too. It rubs off, some need to stop hiding behind the sofa, which appears to be more than half here.

Bird is not a defensive midfielder. 

If I had just signed for Derby County, took a look at those we'd got here and been able to attact and a manager hungry to prove himself, I'd want the conversation around the training ground to be let's win the league, let's put on a show for the fans. Remember, we were more than a match for the top teams in the Championship. People should listen to Rob Keys' talk on the radio the other day, how having a positive mindset can make such a difference. He was appalled how England gave up a run chase against the West Indies recently, that a draw would be okay, and never wanted to see that from his side. He took the job because he wanted to know if what he was saying as a pundit could translate into managing the national side. That's what I want, players, owner, staff and manager being positive, and especially from the fans too. It rubs off, some need to stop hiding behind the sofa, which appears to be more than half here.

If I had just signed for Derby County, took a look at those we'd got here and been able to attact and a manager hungry to prove himself, I'd want the conversation around the training ground to be let's win the league, let's put on a show for the fans. Remember, we were more than a match for the top teams in the Championship. People should listen to Rob Keys' talk on the radio the other day, how having a positive mindset can make such a difference. He was appalled how England gave up a run chase against the West Indies recently, that a draw would be okay, and never wanted to see that from his side. He took the job because he wanted to know if what he was saying as a pundit could translate into managing the national side. That's what I want, players, owner, staff and manager being positive, and especially from the fans too. It rubs off, some need to stop hiding behind the sofa, which appears to be more than half here.

We’ll the bookies have us down to finish third but I think we’ll finish one higher than that. With the quality of signings we have made it would be disappointing to not make the playoffs as a minimum.

We are really going to miss Tom Lawrence’s dead ball skills
 
 
 
said no one, ever.

Hourihane is a brilliant set piece specialist.