Is it in effective? Even if you’re giving the ball straight back to the other team, at last it’s a long way from your goal. I don’t think it’s ineffective, just not fashionable anymore.

Yesterday Allison couldn’t wait to give City the ball on the edge of his box. You see goals scored all the time due to teams inability to play out from the back, and refusal to play long. I don’t think it improves the spectacle at all.

Mexico.

They’ve got the culture and a huge population. Also a lot of guys will grow up in the States with their training and infrastructure, but will opt to play for their parents nation.

If we’d stuck hard with the offside daylight rule, benefit of the doubt always with the attacking player, we never would have needed VAR or any of this bullshit.

Oriol Romeu

I don’t really care how ‘my team’ does anymore. I know what’s going on, but it doesn’t make or break my day.

Football is relentless, it never ends, and I’m convinced it’s changing for the worse, on and off the pitch. Corruption, dishonesty on the pitch, racism in the stands. I don’t feel much passion for the game anymore.