Other club football

This isn’t really “other club.”

But I did see Coventry beat Newcastle 4-1.

Oh shit. I'm with Russ.

You're at the Fall Farmers Market?

Are you his date?

But we're still top of the Class o' 2022 league, so that's alright then.

I hope he's the raging alcoholic one who steals wine.

He's had his teeth, but not his hair, done, hasn't he?

Back in the day, it was pretty normal for promoted teams to have a decent start before they started getting injuries and other teams worked them out a bit. Maybe we've just reverted to that.

Ignoring Man City, bookies still have the them as the most likely to be relegated.

This isn't particularly insightful as many have said the same, but I do think Sunderland are going down. Second season syndrome is tough, then they've got to cope with Europe too.

Any three of the current bottom five would be great for football.

Interesting article from the BBC on the impact of City's cheating on other clubs' finances. Interesting in the sense that it's total bollocks.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cmq5nljx7972o

Still, if we're going to play that game then let's start adding up what we're owed by Liverpool as a result of Heysel getting us barred from Europe.

Didn't the stats nerds have them down as wildly over-performing their XG (or summat) last season? I guess the logic being if they revert to more like the mean this time, with the added pressure of European football, they might be slightly fooked?

Yep. They "should" have been third from bottom if you put any stock in it.

Personally I take it with a very large pinch of salt, but think that as your sample size gets bigger it probably becomes a more reliable indicator.

2nd Forest game of the season, 2nd in the Pavis stand