Recent content by The Colonel

What concerns me is that if you give Everton and Forest their points back then every team that will be in the division next season bar Forest and Brentford finished within two points of us, so it's an incredibly tight pack from 9th down with very little to choose between any team. I'm therefore...

Agree. I like Igor. I'm not sure he's a first choice every week, but he's a good player and perfect for games where we're expected to dominate possession. But there's no getting away from the fact he had a shocker at Luton (along with six or seven others)!

Igor definitely played at Luton as I clearly remember them playing the ball in the gap between him and Estupinan repeatedly in the first half and us not having an answer.

Crawley are unlike any other League 2 team I've ever seen. Credit to them. They play some great football.

Agreed. In the last 10 years, Man United, Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal all have a net spend over £1bn. Liverpool's is £450m. To win all the major trophies with such a budget deficit to all your main rivals undoubtedly makes Klopp a world-class manager.

Has Pascal ever won POTS with us before? Struggling to remember all the previous winners during our PL era. Caicedo and Cucurella the last two but I can't recall whether he may have won it during the Hughton years.

This is a question that needs to be analysed and answered by a NSC tournament.

No chance. Thomas Frank has done superbly at Brentford but our players would not suit his style so I doubt we'd be interested. And why would he be interested in leaving Brentford for us? Moves between any clubs in the bottom 12 are all pretty much sideways.

Watching Everton makes me feel nostalgic about our time in the lower leagues.

I will never go to Newcastle again as the view from the away section isn't acceptable.

Palace thoroughly deserve the win. This has been a textbook away performance.

Palace are going to regret not making more of this first half. They've played well enough (and Liverpool have defended appallingly enough) for this to be 0-3 and game over at half time.

They would if they are needing to sell Bruno Guimares this summer for PSR reasons. If they cash in on Guimares at £60m or £70m and then buy Gilmour and spread his fee over five years that's going to be very healthy for their PSR.

Has anyone ever met a Simply Red fan? I don't think I have.

Agreed. They had one good run and picked up something like half their points in December and January. Their run ended when they thrashed us. Since then they keep throwing away results in bad ways, including losing at home to the awful Sheffield United, in the last minute at home to Villa having...