thick cobwebs to make a house look spooky, mysterious and untouched in decades? yeah. full on whacking great big spiders? fuck off

Definitely agree. It just... wasn't very Palace.

v true

"we're the boys who will win your little game" though

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

Love that. It's taken me three years to lose roughly 7 stone. Lot happier for it too.

Also can't work out which part of Nketiah that wasn't his arm was offside

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!