Sam Smith
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Sam Smith
@sgpsmith.bsky.social
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Palace fan, former Express and SLP football reporter
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thick cobwebs to make a house look spooky, mysterious and untouched in decades? yeah. full on whacking great big spiders? fuck off
Feel like absolutely enormous fake spiders on front gardens as a halloween decoration is a totally new phenomenon and it needs binning immediately
Definitely agree. It just... wasn't very Palace.
"we're the boys who will win your little game" though
19 unbeaten can so quickly become three defeats and no wins in four
If we're the team having to control possession, I really prefer Nketiah as the striker. Whole system moves more fluidly around his movement.
Lots of the coversation regarding closing schools during Covid seems to revolve a lot around children being low-risk, and much less about the vulnerable people they would have spread the virus among. Children also aren't the only people in schools. It's very surface-level discourse.
"Liverpool last lost a game that mattered to them on 15 January..."

Bin off Drury
Been worried about today's game since Everton. It's a big test of character to respond positively to a first defeat in a long time.
Completely missed that. Think that's a good first step but I'd like to see it implemented a few more times across the season
+ More jeopardy for players who can currently miss the odd international break for spurious reasons. But if they miss one of the very few international breaks I'm proposing, they risk someone taking their place. Could lead to fewer drop-outs and probably incentivse better performance week-to-week.
and clubs can use those periods to take their remaining players to whichever random part of the world for a few friendlies. Everyone wins.
Is fewer but longer international windows not a possibility? Would mean national head coaches get more time with players, more consistency across more matches in shorter bursts, but we also don't have to break club football every three weeks at the start of every season
Second international break since leaving journalism and I've learned exactly why everyone despises them
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Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
don't think there's anyone on the left of British politics as interesting and refreshing as Polanski

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He’s Got Starmer Scared w/. Zack Polanski
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Love that. It's taken me three years to lose roughly 7 stone. Lot happier for it too.
Such a good performance that even Nketiah is receiving praise. What a time to be alive.
Also can't work out which part of Nketiah that wasn't his arm was offside
Bit silly from Sosa to throw himself into those two tackles but that's an extremely soft yellow card
Yeah, that is largely what I'm saying - apologies if it was poorly worded. Intriguing that the data has us playing that deep as anecdotally quite a few big chances seem to come from an interception as the opposition make their first few passes.

I've praised our direct play lots in other threads!
I'd only be willing to accept Guardiola, Slot and Arteta above him out of PL head coaches. I think Glasner can be a little more adaptable with his formation when we're dominating a game (esp in Europe this season), but otherwise he's walking into a top job in the summer.