It may be smoke-screening, but some of the statements made by Gianfranco on Friday in the build up to the game leave me wondering exactly how progressive and attack minded we are set to be against the Mickey Mousers.
First he came out and said “I know they have good players and I am trying to [...]

Gianfranco has had an easy choice to make up front for quite some time now. With basically no choice of strikers, it has been a case of picking Cole and one other, usually Junior Stanislas / the Boa constrictor/ Dyer.
Things are beginning to change now though. We have the genesis of a selection headache. In [...]

Regardless of where you stand in relation to the Europa league and whether or not it is actually desirable to qualify for it, presumably you would accept that if we are to finish in 7th spot we will need to gain a total of 2 points from the encounters against the mickey mousers (‘pool and [...]