18 Oct 2024 12:43:41
Back to the serious stuff comrades, the return of Premier League action. It seems we will be missing MGW after all, as he was still on crutches and wearing a boot last Wednesday, according to his partners footage online.
That begs the question who replaces him as attacking midfielder? Yates will anchor the midfield imo alongside either Anderson, Jota or Dominquez. Perhaps Jota alongside the skipper and push Anderson into MGWs role? Or reverse that, Anderson further back and Jota pulling the strings behind the front three?
Either way, in Nuno we trust to solve the midfield absences, Sanghere, JWP and Danillo. Palace are in a false position in the bottom three. They look very expansive going forward but a bit shaky at the back. Like all our games at this level it's not going to be easy. MGW will be a big miss.
18 Oct 2024 14:20:23
Hopefully they have Jota training in that position as we speak as he is clearly not going to get a start on the wing.
The weekend is finally here after the tedium of international footy and we still don't have a fecking game until Monday! It had better not be a boring game.
18 Oct 2024 16:43:26
Jota deserves a start, he is in my mind a like for like replacement for MGW.
18 Oct 2024 18:15:14
I actually think Jota looks more like a goalscoring number 10 than MGW, but maybe less creative. Hard to say. Nigel Clough got a lot of goals playing just off a No9 back in the day. He definitely deserves a start.
18 Oct 2024 21:33:47
Comrades? Makes you sound like Pescov Stokey!
19 Oct 2024 13:34:13
Ah Pescov, undoubtedly Putins heir apparent and a consummate corrupt chief of gangsters.
I recently read Antony Beevors book on the fall of Berlin in 1945 “ Berlin The Downfall” Legless where he uses a lot of Archive material and conversations involving “Comrade Stalin” particularly where he deliberately plays off his 2 Marshalls Zhukov and Konev against each other in order that they compete to get to Berlin first. This might be considered a good incentive but it did lead to them both sending Infantry deliberately through minefields to clear a path for tanks. Apparently the cannon fodder were not fully fledged “Comrades” just expendable ones….
19 Oct 2024 18:22:50
Stokey - life has always been cheap in the USSR/ Russia. I think Pescov will make his move as leader when he sees Putin as weak - physically, mentally or politically. He's just a devious gangster with a rather expensive collection of watches.
19 Oct 2024 22:05:49
Legless, my friend, the reason Pescov wears all those expensive watches is because he is just biding his time……?
As for Putin “ Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
I’m sure, with your military background, you’d love the Antony Beevor book. Ok, he’s an ex British Army Officer ( or “Rupert” as I believe you call them) but he knows his stuff. Apart from describing the movements of huge Armies ( the Russian Army attacking Berlin numbered 2 and a half million for example) he also creates Hitlers last days.
I was staggered by the last concert given by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as the Russians advanced and they were evacuated westwards. They played Max Bruch, of course Beethoven and finally “ Gotterdamerung” the Twilight of the Gods from Wagner as you would expect. Then, as the audience left the Concert Hall the Hitler Youth were offering ( free) cyanide capsules. Quite surreal
Personally, I’ve never been to a concert that was that bad …….
19 Oct 2024 23:24:31
I do love your posts Stokey. An education!
20 Oct 2024 11:20:49
I’m always amazed at some posters on here Legless routinely denigrate our country. Whilst I accept that, as a nation, we are not spotless, particularly with the dreadful Governments and political incompetents of recent times. But our transgressions are tiny compared to some other states, particularly Stalins Russia.
Beevor ( and many other historians) point out that when Russian POWs ( and civilians particularly Jews and Communists) were liberated as the Russian Army advanced, millions were immediately sent straight to the Gulags or executed on the spot on the grounds that they were traitors because they must have been “re educated” whilst in German custody. According to Stalin, they should have tried harder to escape, joined the partisans or committed suicide. Can you imagine any British Government doing that? Sending our POWs straight to prison or executing them?
The real reason was that the bulk of the Russians were killed or captured into brutal slavery to be worked to death was that Comrade Stalin and his henchmen had sent them into battle in 1941 poorly equipped and with a third of their Officer Corps executed on the entirely ungrounded fears that they were plotting a coup. Such is the paranoia of dictators that he didn’t want millions of returned Russians spreading the word of the uncomfortable truth.
If you get 5mins ( or the 8 that the song lasts) have a listen to Al Stewart’s “ Roads to Moscow”. Just brilliant and heartbreaking The final lyrics when the Russian has to go to a Gulag rather than home when the war ends are desperately sad
“And its cold and damp
In the transit camp
And the air is still and sullen.
And the pale sun of October
Whispers the snow will soon be coming
And I wonder when
I’ll be home again
And the morning answers “Never”
And the evening sighs, and the steely
Russian skies go on for ever”.
20 Oct 2024 17:53:27
Mrs Legless has just elbowed me in the ribs as I was dropping off again. She has told me to let you know that I think it's a fascinating post Stokey!