The Toon WhatsApp chats have taken a whole different slant these last two months as our pre-season ambitions of being ‘best of the rest’ get giddily re-assessed every week.
A couple of points behind Man City and a few more adrift of Arsenal; ahead of Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U. Two of whom we have beaten in the last five games. Again, while battling injuries and not being as fluid as we have the potential to be up top. The plan would surely have been to build slowly over the next two or three years, hoping to creep up on the teams above, ready when a few of them slipped up. Well, that time is now.and Arsenal, in a state of transition or stagnation. We have built a platform so far this season and I think it would be false economy to rest on our laurels come January.are all unlikely to splurge then, for a host of different reasons.
I don’t want to seem ungrateful to them. They have found levels I didn’t know they had, but they will need to find another one, if we want to take this next step and they want to play an important role in it. Howe might look Nice Guy Eddie in front of the cameras but the Bournemouth players admitted he had his ruthless side too.
'...Man City and that boy-monster of theirs...' 🤣🤣💪💪💪