Kenny<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re happy and you know it\u2026<\/p>\n
Appreciate there is cause for complaint for a lot of fanbases after the weekend results, but (so) I just wanted to gloat about a wonderfully relaxing day at Villa Park on Sunday. Comfortable win, players coming back from injury, first look at The Warehouse\u2026<\/p>\n
Lovely stuff, and long may it continue. Can\u2019t wait to play again this weekend. Oh no, the one after? Nope. Surely the one after that?!? FFS!!!!! Okay, can\u2019t wait for April 9th in the Europa League. It\u2019s going to be a loooooong 2 and a bit weeks. Will have to take in some lower league games over the break.
Gary AVFC, Oxford (It\u2019s so much calmer with Tielemans and McGinn on the pitch)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Americans and Everton<\/p>\n
Been swamped the past weekend so just got here to find out the Americans have been taking a kicking in the mailbox. What did I miss?<\/p>\n
Everton. Where in the heck has that type of performance been, at home??? Not once during the match did I feel Chelsea were going to threaten to take it by the scruff of the neck and punish as they usually can do. That\u2019s rare. It\u2019s rare even more that Beto scores two. Evertonians have been crying out for a proper striker but if Beto keeps this up, then perhaps he can do the job after all. It\u2019s clear he loves playing for the club and the supporters, just a bit more consistency would be nice.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to see us somehow qualify for Europe but are we really ready for it? I still think we\u2019re weak in our right and left back positions and quality opposition would pinpoint that weakness. That said, beggars can\u2019t be choosers, and we\u2019ve been begging to get out of the relegation battles and back to at least midtable.<\/p>\n
Moyes can infuriate me sometimes, but he got it absolutely right for the Chelsea match\u2026and a special shout out to one Dwight McNeil. On his way to Palace, transfer falls through, and his partner rightfully has issues with how Palace handled the matter. What does Dwight do? Forces his way back into the starting eleven and proceeds to have a series of his best performances in a good year or two. No one saw that coming. Players take a good kicking from fans and the media when things aren\u2019t going well for them. So, it\u2019s only right that when a player does well, that he gets praised for a job well done. I honestly wanted Dwight sold because we could use the funds. Well done Dwight McNeil. You\u2019ve proved me and a lot of Evertonians wrong.
TX Bill (the derby match should be interesting and Eoin from Ireland just has to be Aaron Ramsdale\u2019s father) EFC<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stop with the anti-Yank talk<\/p>\n
Just want to follow up on the sudden burst of US v UK sentiment with AK, Drainer, Eric and the guy from Alabama exchanging barbs. There was a soccer show on US TV in the late 70\u2019s\/early 80\u2019s featuring English Football. All-Star Soccer hosted by Mario Machado had 1st division highlights and a featured game of the week.<\/p>\n
That show, along with the aforementioned Soccer made in Germany, were requisite viewing for all of us soccer starved youngster enamored with the beautiful game. It made fans of English teams for many of us growing up in that era.<\/p>\n
England should be proud of their history and current Premier League status; we can only dream of that over here. That\u2019s no reason to \u201cpunch down\u201d on us for sharing your love of the beautiful game.<\/p>\n
Enjoy.
treilly, Maryland USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2026I was a bit surprised to see that over the weekend there has been some vitriol towards Americans (who I will concede are a very punchable punching bag right now).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure most of us would like to see the USA removed as World Cup host for a number of reasons, especially the cringe levels of servility of Infantino in giving Trump the FIFA Peace Price Prize, but FIFA\u2019s longstanding commitment to corruption and embezzlement aside, and the Trump regime\u2019s obvious and glaring failures and cruelty notwithstanding, football and sport is beautiful precisely because it can be enjoyed and participated in by anybody and this is particularly true of football where you need a ball and some way to mark out goals. Jumpers were the classic goal post when I was growing up.<\/p>\n
Maybe now more than ever the USA needs football to realise that the Mexican pool boy they\u2019re about report to ICE to illegally detain is just a normal kid who plays football with their boy. Maybe football will show MAGA that the Sudanese refugee is just another person who fled a war-torn country and just wants to do his job and watch the football when he\u2019s done for the day, and he\u2019s not someone that will eat their dog when they go on holiday. Maybe football will demonstrate that the Afghani girl their daughter goes to college with is there because she\u2019s a human being that did not want to give up her dream of kicking a ball around when the Taliban shut the lid on the dreams of girls when they took over, and that she\u2019s not a terrorist waiting to happen.<\/p>\n
Yes, this is possibly both a naive and rose-tinted take on the power of football to bring people together, but I\u2019d rather that than trying to police who can and can\u2019t play or engage with the sport. Of course, Americans can shove it if they insist on calling it soccer instead of football, but football is for everyone including Americans.
Daniel (AK of the xG got owned. A simple Google search before you post\/send will make you appear exponentially smarter).<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Comedy corner<\/p>\n
Absolutely fantastic comedy has to be recognised for the art form that it is. Like Marge vs The Monorail, Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes, Eddie Murphy Raw with the purple jumpsuit etc.<\/p>\n
Dave Tickner\u2019s Carabao Cup article<\/strong><\/a>, amazing<\/p>\n\u201cAre you a league or a cup, you confusingly named mystery\u201d, \u201cBig Milk\u201d, \u201csyrupy rule over the cup naming rights\u201d it was gold, I snotted in the pub at least twice reading it.<\/p>\n
Thank you Dave, bravo and I needed that laugh today.
Mike Bean<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Alexander-Arnold might be this generation\u2019s Paul Scholes as we venture lightly into England territory. There are still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,4507,793,794,19,17,11138,30372,5004,132,10173,35350],"class_list":["post-401513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-england","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mailbox","tag-paul-scholes","tag-popular","tag-sports","tag-trent-alexander-arnold","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}