I can accept the team not being good enough. I can't and will not accept the total capitulations, being out fought week after week after week and the defeatist attitude that permeates the whole club from top to bottom. We need to strengthen and build up what we've got but that is not a license to just give up when we go a goal down. If you aren't prepared to give 100% for every single game then you can just fuck off as far as I'm concerned. Blackburn Rovers, the easiest job in football. Fuck that.

I'll remedy that then. Fuck off Burnley you inbred twats.

Certainly in the 2000s they won more than one league title simply because of generous refereeing decisions. But the point still stands that they never stopped until the final whistle went.

The majority of people who work at the club look like they are there because they won third place in a raffle.

It is possible that he was a great manager and a twat. To be honest a lot of the success he had was down to the fact that his team always gave 100% and always played to the whistle. The amount of games they won in the last ten minutes just because they never stopped was unreal. (Yes I am well aware of the 15 minutes of injury time they would get when drawing or a goal down) It was so infuriating seeing us always concede points and goals in the last ten minutes because we'd always switch off. Ferguson's teams never did that.

100% this is it.

Ferguson changed tactics all the time to suit the players he had and the opposition they were playing. Ancelotti, who has won every major league title in Europe doesn't have any philosophy or set style. He just uses what he has the best way he can. I was hoping JDT would have had this approach given the time spent playing for him but unfortunately he has been stricken with the Dutch disease. Also, all of those managers have had huge budgets with which to build the teams they want.

None of that was a mistake though, it was all deliberate.

Fuck them. Small club from a big city. I'm with Chaddy on this one. Give Lampard a ten year deal.

That is very true. However, the total contempt that the people running the place on the ground show towards the fans and surrounding community cannot be soley pinned on the owners asthey are totally absent.

As has been stated numerous times before, the average age of the Premier League title winning side was 24. As you quite rightly point out, age has nothing to do with the bullshit tactics and the weekly capitulations.

I was actually just making a joke about JH Rover being in the pub during the Rotherham game. Have a good one 👍

The problems at Ewood are definitely down to the people that work there.

The goal that cole scored to win the league cup was first class. At first it looked a bit messy but when you see the replay and the way he placed it right away from the keeper it was absolutely top drawer.

Before during and after.

It's because our fans are so shit. Oh, wait, what?

Coz chaddy fuckin sez so!

I'll tel you what winning doesn't look like for this club, laying down and being completely bummed by Burnley and Preston.

But but but but FFP!

20th of January and still no sign of anything coming in. Two of the three windows are nearly up and so far we've signed one and a half good players.

That was a good article. What about this passage though..... "During those rare passages of actual play, prevailing tactics have done little to increase the entertainment value. Whereas tiki-taka has been used by elite clubs to elude opponents with snappy, progressive passes, the lower-league parody has seen the centre-back pass to the other centre-back, to the goalkeeper, to the deep-lying midfielder, to the centre-back, to the goalkeeper. Bored yet? If you’re not, try a stab of acute despondency instead, as that same centre-back is caught in possession and the ball gleefully thrashed into your team’s net." Remind you of anything?

Out of all the things that have happened over the last twelve years that is amongst the most bizarre.

I've been trying to point out the flaws in their argument since they showed up.

We'll probably win. Then the we're 3rd brigade will show up in full pomp.

It's all just to use the club as a financial tool. However they do that, tax write offs, money/debt washing or whatever. They put a lot of effort into getting us down into this division and made damn well sure we stayed here. The story of them being "mislead" is utter bullshit. Everthing they have done has been with purpose. Once they're finished with this grift they will either offload the club to whoever will take it or just close it down completely.