The View From Churchmans

What's the mark of how far we've come this year? Beating Tottenham? Beating Tottenham easily? Or beating Tottenham easily and nobody being that surprised? OK, so Tottenham were rubbish - probably the worst team we've played all year, although Middlesbrough might run them close. But let's keep reminding ourselves, they might be just about the worst team in the Premiership at the moment, but we were expected to have that honour all season. Let's ... More...

Cracking game - from a neutral point of view, perhaps the best game yet this season. If you're fascinated by watching a succession of teams pitch different styles and strategies against us each week, this was another one to add to the collection; Chelsea are a team with a lot of skill, limited game plan and no team spirit or motivation. Almost diametrically opposite us, in fact. Giving away two goals at a point ... More...

Ah well. Can't have everything. Having taken grateful receipt of three Old Trafford season tickets, we found ourselves in the directly-opposite corner to the Town support, right at the top of the tallest stand in Britain. To say the players were tiny was an understatement. But to say the Town support was superb was equally an understatement. Take it from those of us seated two million miles away lads, it was fantastic. The thing ... More...

It's like watching a game of chess really, first teams can't handle us, then they work out how to do it, then we work out how to beat those tactics in return. And that's exactly how it should be. Certainly another Derby looked on the cards in the first half, the difference being that with a slightly different lineup there was no Johnno to carry the can for an overall lack of imagination ... More...

Oh no, no, no, this was a bit rough. But with the pro-Ipswich media hype reaching silly proportions (how do the players find time to train in between interviews and newspaper columns?) and of course the Manager of the Month Kiss Of Death, well, what else were we expecting? I don't think we should worry about having lost, but we should worry about not having scored against a tediously efficient Derby side. Sometimes ... More...