Recent content by Paul Cannell

Imagine Chris Wilder's face if we almost lost to them.

Eh? I don't see why have "robust players, playing aggressive but fair football on the front foot with the accent on attack and and doing it with pace and energy from the first kick to the last." implies 'brick shithouses' who 'can bully'. Appleton's teams played their way out of L2 while...

Not sure I ever heard an Irish person say they were proud to be Irish. If they did, and were securely contained, of course I would.

Ah well now. He was Georgian, Bettany Hughes told me in a most interesting program on TV on Sunday about Georgia. "He won't live in my world, and I can't live without him in mine." She sang,

It's not an argument. It's a question. And I didn't make the statement I was questioning.

You can't think of a reason to be proud of being English?

Yes, whatever, but being of any nationality is an accident of birth for the vast majority. It's like being left-handed, white or heterosexual, you haven't achieved anything, helped anybody or shown valour by being English so why are you proud of it? Are you proud of being ginger as well?

It's an argument, not really one I'd subscribe to. Smyth is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, McGuane seems to have completely gone off the boil and to me McEachran is as likely to show up as not. I dunno, maybe more work on them was needed but they weren't the only fire Des had to fight on his tod.

Which elements in particular?

I struggle to think what he could have done, too. I think you're right that the formation played to both Lincoln and Stevenage's strengths and expectations, that both teams management set up for it, and that you & I could see that much before either kick-off. I think it would be very unfair to...

With rare unanimity to boot.

Yes. (I am ignoring this nativist cant thread forthwith).

WTF's wrong with being 'provincial', metro-sexual boy?

I'll never forgive myself for this, but I agree with you that Boro was a strong signal of what Des is tactically capable of. As for "seeming a bit clueless" for the next 2, they were different challenges being physical and defensivel solid but what would you have done differently with the...

I think they're after Karl Robinson now that he's kept Salford up.