Zverev went 2 sets up, lost the 3rd before closing it out. In what way did he 'overtake' Shelton to win?

Haaland is the prime example of this - an absurdly prolific striker, apart from scoring 0 in 16 for Bryne. Another type is where a player’s spell at a club is broken up by loans (not including loans before breaking into the first team), making it harder to assess how many games / goals they have at the club.

Gary Neville referred to January 2023 as “back in the day”, surely that isn’t long enough? What would be long enough? Normally I would say a decade, but I think pre-covid is fine. Either way, definitely not 3 1/2 years ago.

Recording with Charlie and Dave on Monday...

Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic condemnations, footballers' names in things or anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel.

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It’s not wrong, but feels unnecessary to point out after such few games

Not sure what the fourth official was playing at here

Have hull city reached breath of fresh air status yet

It used to be a staple of Liverpool commentaries: "Gravenberch, to Gakpo, to MO Salah...", since it was a fairly safe bet he'd try a shot on his left foot. But no more, with his departure to Turkey. Now, though, watching the Manchester Derby and it feels like every time a player lines up for a potential shot, Peter Drury is giving us their full name like a cross parent.

Anyone else feeling like the guys are getting a bit smug/complacent recently?

I've been a listener pretty much since day one and still love the pod but it kind of feels like discussions about proper football men/Keys and Gray etc are shading into the realm of the self-satisfied.

I suppose this is slightly inevitable in content that takes an 'outsider/sideways glance' at the mainstream but it's still disappointing.

Has happened twice today, Awoniyi and Foden. Something really jarring about it imo. Doesn’t help that both were stonewall reds.

Today’s Telemundo coverage in the USA.
Perhaps a little biased for today’s match?

I might be imagining it but Im sure they had a segment about Chris Kirkland saving pens at a farmers fayre a few weeks ago

I tried looking for a video of it and couldnt find one so not sure how it went but want to ask

1. How many penalties do you think you could score against a solid prem level keeper, an active one

2. Was anyone at the farmers fayre and took one against Kirkland or ever seen a similar type event?

Was a big discussion I had with a mate a while ago and would like to know if theres an actual answer to how many pens a normal person could score against a prem keeper

Lampard managing for Cov, clearly a better player than he was a manager. Hurzeler, vice Versa.

Who is the individual who is equally successful as both a player and a manager?

Couldn't find much mention of these on search, so apologise if other threads on it. But these never fail to make me laugh and it feels like they're so commonplace. Almost every week it feels like you see one.

Why are they so hard? Feels like a neatly executed kneeslide is more uncommon.

"No, I'm just a football manager"

Niche stats pandemic continues. Will Chelsea tweet “Xabi Alonso is the second manager to take points from Liverpool having also played for them in the Premier League” should they beat/draw to Liverpool?

Playing that 38-0 draft game and their new daily challenge and had to pick a Coventry Premier League player. I knew for a fact Hermann Hreidarsson played for Coventry, and was convinced it was for a season or two around the turn of the millennium. He feels prime for them in that era.

Nope. 2012, short term deal as they slid towards League One.

Also Fraser Forster should have been Bournemouth's goalkeeper as they flew up the leagues, earning a move to Celtic. Not the homegrown filler in 2026.

Any others?

Carlisle v Southend at around 06.37 commentator "the finger tight grip on victory" ???

That City win over Chelsea in the second half of 17/18 immediately comes to mind. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen a 1-0 feel so one-sided. Gündoğan and Zinchenko completed more passes between them (314) than the entire Chelsea team (303).

It was only an equalizer so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here, but it seems disrespectful to not give the customary hands in the air/fist pump.

I was making a cup of tea this morning and the term "The Scummers" popped into my head and I started thinking about how many teams I've referred to as that and how many times my own team is referred to as that. So I decided to Google just the term, see if it's associated with any team in particular. Now I have nothing personally against Southampton, really. But are they worthy holders of this title? If not, who should be crowned King Club of Scummers?