Ralphy

Bristol City fan exiled in Worcestershire, member of the 92 Club, owner of some strange football shirts & a few copies of Fifa going back to the 90’s

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This bastard gets everywhere. 👶

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We now have a Spotify playlist of nursery rhymes for our little girl. My dad taught me the proper words to most of these, and I’d say half of them are about Twerton Park

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Decent pre-season, hearing the new signings are getting a run out. Some tougher tests against teams further along in pre-season, lessons to learn and some encouragement from the highlights

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@fulltimeopinion Appreciate I’ve got no presence on here but… we were better at keeping the ball in ‘16 & absolutely bombed, since we’ve been more pragmatic we’ve been more successful. Tonight = combination of tactics & execution, if it comes off it’s a masterclass, if not, ‘everyone’s failed’

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Have we ever beaten a world champion in a World Cup match?

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Richards in particular over analysing this, if Spence is crocked, how can he get to the byline?! Messi knows this, only has to play for 5 mins to have an impact. Players panicked, Tuchel panicked, we surrendered position of strength and were lured into a false sense of security.

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They were the dirtiest bunch of bastards I’ve ever seen kick seven shades of shit out of us for the first hour or so. I thought we were more than capable of handling that, evidently it was one step too far.

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First goal was Kane’s mistake, the bloke is practically royalty but it happens when the tactics are changed to something you are not used to. If Spence doesn’t pull up for that second, he gets a lot closer to Messi and the goal comes some other way.

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What’s Spanish for Sixfields?

[BK Sports @bettingkingz9]

Mexico will host World Cup matches here! This is actually not AI.

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Potentially leaving it until Wednesday before the final is tough enough for logistics, but making it a 12am kick off is going to be pure chaos

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One of the most fun things to watch at the end of the season is the kids of players running round the pitch at the end and scoring a goal for the fans to cheer.

Sam Bell is getting a bit old for it now though

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Cheers Del Boy! Happy end of season 🎉

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Yeah looked fairly horrendous, even from the South Stand - at one point Riis got flagged after he ran past the defender to get the ball

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Linesman’s given that for the player that scored hasn’t he? Seen him infront of the last defender & missed the fact the ball is infront of him.

2nd half was a shit show but viewers won’t be surprised to know there were another 3 dreadful offside calls in that reffing team.

[bcfc.will @RobinsTalk3]

#VAR

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@3PIAPC 6.77 a lot of the squad stepped up. Sykes’ goal very well taken, Knight unreal at right back. Vitek, wow.

Thanks have to go to Roy, whatever is going on behind the scenes he’s speaking highly of the players and actually looks like he wants to help fix the mess.

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Fair play to Roy for taking on the challenge.

But I dare say Sir Alex comment wasn’t about his age…

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

'He just said, "I think you're mad", and I think he's probably right' 😅

Roy Hodgson reveals what Sir Alex Ferguson said to him when taking the interim job at Bristol City at the age of 78

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I thought it was pretty straight forward what Roy would do today. Not playing Knight at CB, picking a formation based on availability etc.

Expected 4-3-3 before kick off because of the mids available. Sykes/Twine more narrow than wingers made sense once they lined up

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A win for Roy Hodgson, 16,106 days since his last win as Bristol City manager.

Thats nearly as long as the gap under Sean O’Driscoll…

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@Joey72735798 @RobinNestBCFC The Hodfather.

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@3PIAPC 6.21

Thought Charlton were awful & gave us a lot of room, teams haven’t done that since Pompey on 1/1. A professional job, lots of opportunities missed across the 90 tho.

Sykes & Twine seemed to play with freedom in a formation that suited them. Morsy visibly more progressive.