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EXCL: English football agrees trial to eradicate the goalkeeper injury tactical timeout.
Coach has 10 seconds to select an outfield player to leave the field for one minute.
Applied this season across:
Premier League
EFL
National League
WSL
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https://t.co/MVSkL8G86e
@Brooke_Smedley Yeah?
To allow the coaches to speak to players and I fucking hate it
Hate it when opposition do it so it’s only right I hate it when our own goalie does it
Two Richmond enclosure tickets Goodwood Saturday 1st August
£214 value
Available for £100
Can discuss details over DM
@racingblogger give a rt ( but £150 to Arsenal fans ) please sir 🫡
#horseracing#goodwood
Kept for would of been one of the greatest
As far as English
Today’s market for English centre mid with Rice and Anderson fees
£150 million
Rice and Anderson would make good boot polishers for him
When Paul Lake began the 1990-91 season, almost every part of his career appeared to be moving in the right direction.
He was 21 years old and had just been made Manchester City captain.
A five-year contract was agreed which would make him the club’s highest-paid player.
And after being named in Bobby Robson’s provisional squad for Italia 90, he believed a full England call-up was getting closer.
Lake had come through City’s youth system as a supporter of the club.
He helped them win the FA Youth Cup, made his first-team debut at 17 and became one of the most versatile young players in the country.
During one season, he played in every outfield position.
“I had everything.”
“It was looking so exciting for me, and I was so confident.”
“I just felt as though I could do anything.”
The new England manager, Graham Taylor, came to Maine Road to watch him against Aston Villa in September 1990.
Lake was playing well.
He went into an ordinary challenge with Tony Cascarino on a wet pitch and fell awkwardly.
Nothing about it looked like the sort of incident which could change a career.
But Lake immediately felt the pain in his right knee.
He was carried off while the City supporters sang:
“There’s only one Paul Lake.”
Inside the dressing room, he sat with an ice pack over the swelling and waited to be told how serious it was.
The first diagnosis was encouraging.
There were no broken bones, and Lake was told he could be back within six weeks.
He believed it was a small interruption in a season which could still end with him playing for England.
But when his rehabilitation moved from running in straight lines to twisting and turning, the knee gave way again.
Further examination showed that he had ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament.
“At the time, I was thinking it was just a minor setback.”
“But that was the start of all my problems.”
Lake underwent surgery and spent months rebuilding the leg.
The operation was supposed to give him his career back.
When he returned to pre-season training in 1991, the ligament ruptured again.
Another operation followed.
Another year disappeared.
Lake spent so long rehabilitating at Lilleshall that he became the longest-serving patient they had ever had there.
By the summer of 1992, he had finally worked his way back.
Peter Reid compared his return to being handed a new £3 million player.
Lake started the opening game of the first Premier League season against Queens Park Rangers.
His knee felt uncomfortable, but two days later he played again at Middlesbrough.
Ten minutes into the match, the ligament snapped for a third time.
That was the last time Paul Lake played first-team football.
He still refused to accept that it was over.
Lake travelled to America for more surgery.
He tried acupuncture.
He went to a faith healer.
He even tried holy water because he had reached the point where any possible cure felt worth attempting.
“I was just desperate, hoping for a miracle.”
“And nothing was coming around the corner for me.”
For five years, he remained a Manchester City player without knowing whether he would ever play again.
“I’ve gone from being, in my eyes, a somebody to being a nobody.”
“My identity was just literally changed completely.”
Lake began suffering from depression.
He struggled to watch football because every match reminded him of the life he believed he should still have been living.
He eventually retired in January 1996.
He was 27 years old.
“I hated the 1990s.”
“Ten years of my life had been a complete washout.”
Lake later retrained as a physiotherapist and used everything he had learned during those years to help other injured players.
He also became a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, supporting footballers whose careers and identities had been changed by the game.
The England call never came.
The career everyone expected never happened.
#football
Are we meant to fucking act surprised
Old Larry Leftie would still defend this
They should be entitled to sleep
Old thick cunt Larry is
Larry needs feeding to the pigs ….
🇮🇷🇬🇧 Iran claims to have smuggled sleeper agents into the UK who pretended to be asylum seekers.
One Iranian official claimed "revolutionary people" had been positioned in London and warned Tehran could "easily make London unsafe" if it chose to do so.
Clearly the official hasn't been to London for some time, since Beirut is probably safer than most parts of London these days.
Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Ian
@DerekJMurray@jayr1972 I would prefer a blunt razor blade to his neck and watching the blood slowly ooze out so I can sit there with a pint of Guiness and cigar and just laugh
Tell you at end of season
JM deserves these kinds of funds and more
LB short
RW short
And a DM short
Keep Devlin and Murphy
Could be a 12-15th side maybe even 10-12th if signings work out
Up the blues
#pompey
✍️ Daniel Bielica - ✅
✍️ Rocco Shein - ✅
✍️ Odin Bailey - ✅
✍️ Eoin Kenny - ✅
✍️ Marko Milovanović - ✅
Portsmouth have now added five new faces to their squad this summer. 💪
How would you rate your business so far out of ten, Pompey fans? 🤔
#Pompey