Properly right here we’re; Le Grove is 16 years outdated right this moment.

What a loopy experience.

We began this website to quench an habit to soccer content material that wasn’t being met – now we’re 5549 posts in, with 3 thousands and thousands feedback, and multi-millions of reads.

This web site assist me fraud my approach into promoting, now I’m working in soccer. Don’t ever let anybody let you know producing work at no cost on the web for an viewers of largely males is a waste of your time. This bizarre little pastime has been so good to me for thus many causes each private and work associated.

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Right here’s to a different 16 years.

Okay – let’s speak about Arsenal.

I introduced up a bit of prediction about Aaron Ramsdale yesterday – I believe Raya will get the PSV sport, then the countdown to him going perm on that #1 spot will start. Lots of people needed to inform me that he’s been positive this season – I encourage to vary. He hasn’t been nice for some time now and this season he’s appeared much less and fewer assured each sport. You’ll be able to learn that he has one thing on his thoughts and I believe it’s taking part in out within the knowledge for the opening 4 video games.

… and it didn’t look good final season.

The distinction between a staff preventing for high 6 and a staff preventing for high 1 is most groups going for the highest 1 place have keepers that defy gravity to maintain the ball out of the web. We’ve seen flashes of that from Aaron. Leicester and Liverpool video games spring to thoughts. However to retain that #1 place, he’s going to need to ship that 95% of the time. Add the attention check to his distro – it’s gone from greatest in league to very iffy. He’s much less formidable, much less correct, and also you don’t want a stats sheet to see it.

I don’t assume he’s going to final for much longer.

Sharp shift of tempo…

A fast little statement. A couple of weeks in the past the world’s media was clapping the Deli Alli for talking out about his psychological well being points. Fingers have been wagged on the brutality of elite sport and the unforgiving nature of followers obsessive about roboticizing athletes that undergo the identical issues as us. This week, Jadon Sancho was dropped, a person who has confessed to his struggles with psychological well being and the response was ‘MUST GET HIS ACT TOGETHER’… maintain on right here. The place is the empathy right here? Did we overlook? Can we not care? Are you able to solely get sympathy if you happen to do a podcast?

It looks like lots of the chatter round psychological well being and ‘it’s okay to not be okay’ is only for on-line platitudes – and this looks like working example. It’s a little bit of a disgrace. Folks look to sport for cues of their life. If Jadon Sancho speaks up – and he can’t get the advantage of the doubt, the place are we as a society?

… and don’t get me mistaken. My level isn’t that EtH ought to play him. That is skilled sport. It’s simply that the protection doesn’t include a caveat and that after all of the handwringing… seems we’ve not moved ahead, and we’ve realized nothing.

Nico Pepe has Turkish golf equipment circling and apparently somebody from the Saudi League. Truthfully, it blows my thoughts he hasn’t landed a transfer to Saudi. The wages are manageable and he’ll be a bang BANG participant on the market. Besiktas and Trabzonspor are within the mixer as nicely. He wants minutes, the sticking level is the £150k per week we gave him. If he doesn’t exit, he’ll get a contract termination. My worry is a part of the rationale nobody strikes for our deadwood is that they know we’ll give in to termination in the long run.

Martin Odegaard AND Bukayo Saka have been nomiated for the Balon d’Or – an unbelievable achievement from two of the golf equipment best younger prospects. Every have been on their very own particular journey with the followers, have every set themselves up as function fashions, and they’re going to each land the {hardware} sooner or later. Simply perhaps not this 12 months. Now we have to cope with Lio Messi successful it once more. Which actually is getting fairly boring at this level. It ought to be somebody like Haaland taking the highest honors this season.

Lastly, it has been reported that Liverpool is bracing for a £210m bid for Mo Salah. On the one hand – lose him and CL locations look more durable. On the opposite, you simply take the cash and run with it. The participant is previous peak, his head may have been turned, and that money injection permits Liverpool to go large in January and subsequent summer season.

It kills me the Saudi’s weren’t round after Auba gained us the FA Cup. We’d be so significantly better off.

Okay, we’re recording a podcast later. Let me know if there are any HAAAAAAWT areas I ought to be speaking about. See you within the feedback the place I count on a GOOD pleased birthday message for this glorious website. x