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I think they'll do a cheeky warm-up show in Manchester in June. Something like the Apollo or Academy.   Would be a bold gambit to come back and go straight in to play to 70k in the Millennium Stadium tbf. Although if any band is arrogant enough to do that, I think it would be the Gallagher duo.

Hahaha I have thought this on more than one occasion if I'm honest 

They've been known to do that tbf.   Linkin Park would only work if they have a July 13th date given they have a habit of not doing shows on back-to-back nights and they have a Paris show on the 11th.

Don‘t know if this is them fooling around.   Gotte be the announcement next week I guess? Wouldn‘t make sense to create hype that fades away again over christmas.

This has been a constant in Russell Martin's career tbf. Back at MK Dons years ago, he was asked about a Plan B following a sticky patch and said "I don’t understand what a Plan B is. It’s not happening. We aren’t putting a big man on and lumping it."   I do wonder if a generation of coaches has come up seeing the success in playing this way and the fact that bigger name clubs are gravitating towards this style and think this is the way to go, even though many of the managers of these big clubs have demonstrated a certain flexibility to be able to workshop solutions rather than rigidly sticking to a plan. I guess it's part of a bigger conversation about why it is English/British coaches aren't getting the gigs with big clubs and haven't in years. Indeed pretty sure it's now just Howe & Dyche as English gaffers in the top 20, with only McKenna and (for now) Martin added when stretching that to British.