By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
You surely aren't serious in crediting him with Brum's potential relegation? They were sixth with 18 points from 11 games when he was sacked for the Rooney circus. Without those points they would already be down.
I think if Blackburn lose this and Brum beat Hudds next weekend I think they might be in serious danger of dropping. Cov at home then Leicester away the last day.
80s/early-mid 90s - West Paddock terracing Mid 90s-circa 2000 - Upper Loft (first time with a season ticket) 2000-Mid 2005 - West Paddock seating (season ticket) Various random games down the years in SAR and SBS
Just a reminder of the moments we would’ve missed out on without FA Cup replays pic.twitter.com/ciAJtvFgnz
— 71/72 Football’s Greatest Season (@71Season) April 18, 2024
We've had our own down the years of course. A few examples: 6-1 vs West Ham in '78 Two epic replays with soon to be league champions Forest in '78 Three replays in the '82 cup run The fourth round replay with Arsenal in '90. Every round we made that season had a replay.
You miss my point Terry. They have IMO helped (with BT and the other broadcasters of the PL) make the Premier League the all consuming money obsessed beast it is today whereby the bigger PL clubs now see the FA Cup (and the League Cup) as just one massive inconvenience in their quest to qualify for the top four and the Champions League.
"The FA Cup is our biggest asset," said FA chief executive Mark Bullingham.
"This new agreement between the FA and the Premier League strengthens the FA Cup and gives this very special tournament exclusive weekends in an increasingly busy calendar.
Their mathematical chance of the playoffs is microscopic. They are eight behind Norwich in sixth, effectively nine with a 20 worse goal difference and they also have the worst GD of that clutch of three clubs around them on 63 points. Hull and Coventry above them, also have a game in hand. Their season is done.
If we can't get a home win in that situation, then we deserve relegation.
Shilton still used the same tactic as a younger man in 1974 and still wasn't getting anywhere near them. Have a look at this from an England friendly against Argentina in 1974. Mario Kempes' shot is hitting the back of the net pretty much before he moves. 5:34 in on the video...
Brilliant bowler with anything in the pitch and even on flat decks you could chuck him the ball and rely on him to tie down an end.
I can remember in the long hot summer of '76 at the Oval test match when Viv Richards et al were flaying England's attack to all parts for nearly 700 on the flattest of pitches, he toiled away for sixty overs, fifteen maidens (three more than everybody else combined) and three wickets (the most wickets in the innings) at less than three an over when nearly everybody else was going for at least four. RIP Deadly
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
Mind you, Derby who we signed him from have as well and he was at the time their record signing. 
