The View From Churchmans

Just savour that zero above: a clean sheet at home in the league. It's taken over half a season, but we done it. Right, having got that over with, what else is there to talk about? Back to the 3-5-2, although with both wide guys getting back well, I guess it's more like what we'd consider a 5-3-2. It was another in what's been a succession of poor opponents at Portman Road over ... More...

One of those games where a second-half revival was inevitable, given how poor we were in the first half, and when that happens your mind often erases any trace of how you were feeling at half-time. So in the half-time discussions, me'n'the missus resolved this time *not* to let the handful of diabolical performances we'd just witnessed go unremarked in the post-match analysis, as so often is the case. Come on, this was ... More...

Walsall on Saturday were one of the poorest sides we've entertained this season, and today we got another well-below-average outfit, of the sort we regularly slip up against. Millwall must have had serious striker-availability problems (you wouldn't start with Steve Claridge nowadays otherwise, unless it was for a bet), and when Claridge finally went off, they had to stick a midfielder up front. But after dominating an uneventful first half without anything to show ... More...