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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.

Eh? You don't win 4 Premier League titles in a row and a Champions League by being sh*t.   It is confounding as to where exactly this crash has come from. Maybe Rodri and others being injured hit them harder than expected, maybe the midfield has been too weighted towards creative players rather than play-breakers, maybe they're too reliant on Haaland, maybe they haven't adequately replaced wingers sold in recent seasons, maybe Kyle Walker has become too unreliable. I dunno.   I can imagine a lot of people are finding it entertaining, mind.

Looking at the answers in instagram, Linkin Park should be in.

Same weekend has Olivia Rodrigo and Kings of Leon at NOS Alive, plus Noah Kahan, Barry Can't Swim, Glass Animals, St Vincent, Girl In Red, Amyl and the Snfifers and Future Islands among others. We think these names have a good chance for this too?