SteV

Ah yes, I always get them confused with Maritimo for some reason, so was thinking we’d played them.

How do Braga fall into that category for you?

As an apropos to nothing, here’s the teams currently on course to be in the ECL (and no, I can’t be arsed to find out why there’s six pots)

You’re right of course, but the differential between EL and ECL is tiny compared to the differential between EL and CL, so the idea of it being ‘easier to win’, has a fair bit more sway.

I don’t think we necessarily have to win something in that period, but we have to be genuinely competing to win things. So we have to be getting to semi-finals and finals, qualifying for CL etc. Further down the line, I’d probably say, yeah, we genuinely have to have won something.

Obviously this doesn’t really mean too much with a few league games still to go, but it gives a rough indication of where we’d be placed should we qualify.

Prefer Caicedo getting booked tbh.

I assume you mean won in three FA cups in your lifetime? Which would be 1950/51. Otherwise you were born about 1927, and I doff my cap to your continued forum usage in your late 90’s.

As a fanbase, have we ever been as collectively wrong in our expectations of a players character?

Tbf, if Gazza had stayed in and around Newcastle, he’d probably have been dead before he was 30.

Doesn’t look like that was the case when Roma won it and finished sixth two years ago?

It’s not that often I read a word that I have absolutely no idea as to its meaning, but “phantasmagorical” is definitely one.

Study must have been done by a Mag marra.

So are the one-year deal players free to move to a new club in the same way the men are?

Wharton went off with a knock yesterday, although doesn’t sound overly bad. Would be a bonus if he was out though.