The View From Churchmans

You could put a fair case to say this game should have been nil-nil. You can also, with some justification, say it should have been ten-nil. Were we a class above, for absolutely dominating the match? Or did we put on one of our most frustrating, wasteful and tactically inept performances for years? Or both? Let's put things into context. We were playing a team two divisions below us, at home, who had no ... More...

Burley said afterwards "we are not being outplayed by anyone" but I'd beg to differ for the second match in succession. Sure we have a lot of possession, sure we work incredibly hard, but the ease with which the Leicester and Aston Villa defences dealt with everything we threw at them was indicative, in my mind, of being outplayed by better teams. There's still plenty to do. There were no signs of the ... More...

Sorry for the delay in the report, we took the (very) long way home from Leicester and got back at 5pm Thursday. Anyway, hardly the eye opening Great New Experience of the Premiership, was it? More like a visit to a third-world venue. We went with a Leicester-resident friend who, on the way to the ground, said: "I apologise now for the state of the ground, in terms of quality we have one ... More...