Jolly good (though a pity it wasn't increased).
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0mjx7wexnvo
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Obviously the Championsandfriends 'league' is an ever-expanding hateful TV cash-cow. Until we qualify next season with our Europa triumph of course. And perhaps even still then. Nevertheless, after the minimum 51% fan owned club that I follow beat a club that Guru dislikes even more than I do last night this evening's results were quite pleasing as well. As long as you overlook that 1 of tonight's winners are a petro-state club who somehow managed to get their 1st v 2nd league game postponed to focus on their Championsandfriends league game. And the other winners were a side know for kicking (the opposition rather than the ball) under Diego Simeone.
In other news I cannot wait for Forest to return tomorrow. Can you tell?
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How can we be playing tomorrow if we don't have a match thread?
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What a good point.
Where is everyone?
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Opta have Coventry at 100% chance of promotion.
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At this point we probably have to have the good grace to admit that tricky was right about Lampard. He's done an outstanding job with a relatively inexpensive team of players no one had heard of, and the few times I've seen them this season they've played excellent football.
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Yeah but Nathan Tyson vs Savage with a corner was funny as fuck.
Are you doing a mental?
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Stopped clock twice a day, monkeys with typewriters and Shakespeare, lottery odds etc.
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Thanks for sustaining the appropriate level of confidence in my opinions. Reassuring.
There could have been a much lower level of outcome, and me still having been correct. It's fair to say that even I didn't expect that sort of clear domination from an average base, in the most competitive league in the world. Arguably it's the best managerial job since the first miracle of Cooper.
There are lots of factors that go into club success, and the coaching/management is only one component. There are a lot more good gaffers in the english game than are appreciated....it's just that many of them are toiling pushing a boulder uphill, or never get the right opportunity.
Lampard really knows the game, is absorbed in it, has good footballing standards/values, has the respect of, and can communicate with, players. He has experience of the elite levels of the game, and can operate at championship level. When you listen to him talk, he also has the ability to keep it simple (unlike, say, the current Chelski manager who is a classic example of 'overkneeding the dough' to demonstrate his own brilliance). There will be a number of things that have aligned, to get that outcome....it wont just be Lampard. Nevertheless, what Coventricity have achieved in the face of the competition is pretty notable.
I wouldn't expect what he does to work at Forest, for example....long term it's hard to see how anyone is. I do wish he, or someone else English, had been given the international job though. Currently the FA have put us in a guaranteed lose-lose situation, being run by a german. Given how most clubs are now structured, and the discrepancies in the ability to compete in the player market, the days of dragging a club to the top of the tree are over. It's all about engineering a move to a higher platform on the greasy pole.
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Possibly, but it was made slightly tongue in cheek. I just don't enjoy the Forest/Derby games.
However, going with the Guru Calculator of Probability, I think the chances of us going down and them coming up this time are slim. Now I've done it...
If Derby were promoted, then surely they'd be using the financial bonanza to clear all their previous financial problems. I just can't see their more conservative chairman going all Marinakis and throwing £200m at staying up. Therefore they'd surely just be fighting to beat their 2008 record, which would be fun to watch.
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Ive also been impressed with Lampard. Has got on with learning his trade at less obvious clubs and by some miracle is likely to get one of them promoted.
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They have a record to continue first of all. The most PL matches without winning remains ongoing and will do until they finally manage a victory. Some sort of nice target like 42 matches (to begin with) would be a good marker. Of course, I'm hoping it's many years before they have a chance to extend their record.
