Chris M

PNE fan.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@DarkCube22 @KVanValkenburg Absolutely. 90s/00s English female soccer players went to the US. Plenty of our tennis players still do as US college is *the* best pathway into the professional game. Unfortunately for you to dominate, all sides of society will need to aspire to being a soccer player.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@DonteStallworth @KVanValkenburg As a Brit, I’ve got it marked in my diary for 2030 to enjoy this again. I wish I had their confidence, then I’d share my views on NFL (the fact I’m a Bengals fan since 1993 condemns me enough)

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@KuperSimon Not so much in England - my son is 11, and kids in his year have been told to leave local junior football teams because they were never going to make the first team. In the 80s/90s my two left feet could still go to training even though I didn’t make the D team.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@MonsieurPiddly How? Tow it to the East Coast Mainline?

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@MonsieurPiddly Bloke was a grade A, gold-plated bellend. Fingers crossed his girlfriend is fine and being comforted by her family including the line “he wasn’t worth it, you can do much better”

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@2ndMichalm10697 @MittensOff Exactly this - both father and son are mere pawns in the games the people they look up to are playing. Farage/SY-L/Lowe/Musk/Vance/Thiel don’t give a toss about them, and the younger man now has his life wrecked because he (following his Dad) got whipped up by the wrong people.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@JohnBoyHastings @Watson_SLdn Absolutely, opposition scouting far more difficult than just logging into Wyscout, only seeing national teams ever couple of years. Champions League now is designed for entertainment and moneymaking. You can pick six teams at the start of the season, you’ll get 3/4 semi finalists

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@Soccer_Stats @OcBen @MartinCald77022 Still wrong mate - North End are the only ever present football league club (not Premier League) so however you are counting things we’re on the number of seasons there have been.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@robfordmancs @residentadviser If you’re coming in as a “King Across The Water” candidate, but don’t back yourself to convince your three figure majority MPs to back your platform for three years to be in a better state in 2029, then I’d question what the heck you’re doing in the first place.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

As Coventry #pusb return to the Premier league, I think back to the Strasbourg days watching Barnaby Pell getting more resigned to relegation. None of us expected it to take this long, and the journey to have so many twists and turns, but goodonyamate.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@chrislepkowski Don’t think they’ll go down, but after the way their fans were the last time they were “down here” (“only on loan, should never have come down”) it’s hard not to see them leaving this division in the opposite direction to their expectations as anything other than karma.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@MonsieurPiddly One of my friends’ Mum was a chain smoker, used to have to wear different clothes to go round the house. Hated the morning after the pub laundry as well. But outside it’s so much better than sweet-shop vapes.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@MonsieurPiddly The inspiration for Palm Islands in Dubai I believe….

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@chrislepkowski Same goal music they had when I was at Uni there (I left in 2002). Assuming it’s Carnival De Paris still.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@Key07270611 @secondtierpod Nick Park is from Preston, quite a few Preston references across his work.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@UnderSneege @Damocles561 I was on a bus from Leeds to Otley when the story was coming out. There was a woman in her mid-50s behind me talking to her friend “I dont’t believe it, it’s all lies. He came to our work 20 years ago, didn’t show any interest in me at all…”

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@chrislepkowski Absolutely tone deaf. New manager, not getting results, whatever he means, fans hear “I don’t care if we end up in league 1”. He perhaps doesn’t realise (and I say this from bitter experince) that League 1 is where football goes to die. Get out in a season or stay for years.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@SwedishRumble As you say, every manager is a risk. If Carrick can use the current squad to get into the Champions League, surely that puts him ahead of <insert random big name manager here> who might want/need to make massive changes to the squad.

[Chris M @poshwhite]

@MonsieurPiddly I was wondering if you’d taken a shovel with you.. 🫣