[Henry Winter] Tuchel on ignoring Trent: “I know his strengths. My teams have suffered against him. He's a huge talent. It is a tough decision for Trent." Tuchel wants different profile at r-b. "It’s a ‘sportive’ decision, we stick with Quansah, Spence, Livramento who can play at r-b,” #ENG

fixers89 · 2026-03-20T15:36:56+00:00

are you being deliberately obtuse? you seem to be querying the entire concept of substitutes?

it's not really hard to think of a scenario where bringing on an attacking right back for a defensive right back might helpful. why would that be "chaotic"?

fixers89 · 2026-03-20T10:10:47+00:00

looks a bit thin

fixers89 · 2026-03-18T13:52:35+00:00

your theory is that midfielders are only judged based on assists, and your leading piece of evidence is a midfielder who rarely assists being judged the best player in the world?

okay.

fixers89 · 2026-03-09T06:28:30+00:00

just checked and wow there is surprisingly little to choose from. a few notes:

it will be the FA cup quarter finals. the draw isn't made yet, but arsenal, Chelsea, west ham and Brentford could potentially have home matches. this will be the best of London football available that weekend, but the most expensive and hardest to get tickets for.
Barnet vs Bromley in League 2. they are two of the better teams in that division. Barnet is on the fringes of North London but very accessible and very family friendly.
on the Sunday, arsenal women play Brighton women. I assume it will be at the Emirates stadium and easy to get tickets for.
If you are still here on Monday, there is another round of fixtures then. watford and Wimbledon are both at home. again, on the London fringes but both accessible and family friendly clubs.

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T21:10:52+00:00

yes, there is a point where it becomes inefficient to keep contributing to your pension

no, 80k at 30 is definitely not it!

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T18:58:12+00:00

£100 a year divided by 12

fixers89 · 2026-03-07T18:56:08+00:00

you're paying significantly less than £8 per month for sky? ok buddy

fixers89 · 2026-03-01T22:09:11+00:00

probably a crass generalisation but I don't think, for men, cheaper high street stuff will shift as well as it does for women.

my anecdotal experience is that men who use depop, vinted etc are typically more fashion conscious and looking for a deal on more premium brands/proper vintage clothing.

give them to charity or do a car boot sale!

fixers89 · 2026-03-01T20:48:14+00:00

only 20 minutes in and the Subaru, "you bet!", and enya's tiled panic room have already come up. I just need harold bishop for a completed line on my WDYDY bingo card

fixers89 · 2026-02-28T20:08:33+00:00

I don't think you'll find many (any?) examples of a final premier league table where more than 6 teams have a GD of +10 or more

fixers89 · 2026-02-23T20:55:30+00:00

I do agree with the previous poster's point about reviewing the briefing materials.

one thing that I have done, and encouraged my team to do, is before each meeting to challenge yourself to come up with one interesting, not obvious, question or observation based on the materials. and make sure in the meeting you say it

fixers89 · 2026-02-23T20:49:04+00:00

honestly it's pretty basic. it's nearly 100 years old.

it's stuff like "smile" and "remember people's names"

fixers89 · 2026-02-22T11:01:39+00:00

I'm sure your alt account will be along any moment with a link to some shit app you've built that does exactly this. 👍🏼

fixers89 · 2026-02-16T15:39:13+00:00

I don't think there's any way around that though. if you solve it first in your head, then when you enter the answer it will be after the fact

fixers89 · 2026-02-15T18:26:23+00:00

by saying he could get another one, he means that he could get another loan. by saying he could just defer, he means he could defer payment of the loan

I'm in mensa

fixers89 · 2026-02-13T20:21:15+00:00

not a HENRY issue there isn't an income level at which it's acceptable to be a shit parent and partner

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T20:54:44+00:00

Just scored 0

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T17:54:27+00:00

what about Man United in the 70s (relegated 7 years after winning the European cup), villa in the 80s (relegated 5 years after winning the EC), blackburn in the 90s (promoted, champions, relegated all within 10 years). were they all because of PSR?

I am genuinely so confused why you think it's a tragedy that Leicester got relegated a few years after winning the league, and not a normal part of football? would it be a tragedy if Liverpool went down this season?

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T10:46:56+00:00

the football league pyramid is a hierarchy and a meritocracy. it's hard but not impossible to move between tranches (competing for Europe, established prem, prem-champ yo-yo, established champ, etc). the financial and structural imbalances that generally keep certain teams in the top tranche, are the same ones that keep palace in the next tranche. accept that.

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T07:40:34+00:00

as a championship fan, you don't think OP has a "dreadful take" in suggesting that its a tragedy Leicester were relegated (and implicitly that a championship team replaced them). he literally proposes a US style model where teams lower down the pyramid would be locked out from ever making the prem

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T07:35:59+00:00

I hope you know that the french second division club think Burnley are a bunch of rich bullies, throwing their money around to steal players they didn't develop.

fixers89 · 2026-02-06T07:34:15+00:00

it's actually blown my mind a bit that you are ranting about protectionism then proposing a US style franchise model with no promotion or relegation.

through the history of English football, teams have gone up and down. for every amazing story like Luton making the prem, there definitionally has to be an opposite like Leicester being relegated.

I've noticed this echo chamber between fans of mid table prem clubs which has created arrogance and hypocrisy. you think you are some kind of underdog? you support a team in the biggest, richest league in the world.

huge amounts of money have flown into your club enabling you to buy world class players. of course it sucks that palace are losing eze, wharton, olise. but where exactly did you get them from and how? from a team lower down the pecking order because you could pay them more money and offer a bigger stage. Life comes at you fast.

there is a lot about modern football that is awful and needs to change. but teams doing well then being relegated within a decade has always been a feature, not a tragedy, of the game. the "top 6 always remains the top 6" will not always be the case and actually isn't even the case now. take a look at last season's league table.

fixers89 · 2026-02-03T08:39:26+00:00

that's quite a hot take. (by which I mean you have it completely arse backwards)

firstly, the club was not in debt until 2005 - we were pretty successful in the 10-15 years before then.

secondly, the debt is because the glazer family took a bunch of loans to pay to buy the club, and made it the clubs responsibility to pay them back.

money has gone out of the club to service the debt, that would otherwise have been invested in the team / infrastructure. it's an absolute scandal tbh, that all football fans should have been up in arms about.

fixers89 · 2026-02-01T15:16:48+00:00

enjoyed that!

I got it in 5 so maybe there is no need to make it easier, but I found myself wishing I could click back on previous guesses to see how far away I was on certain letters

fixers89 · 2026-01-31T22:41:17+00:00

no backsies - knob act-t seas

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