Duncan Barkes

The other teams, I think, have only got one each.

So Oxford United have a greater stake in this friendly, Northern Ireland versus Wales, than any of the other relegation candidates.

However...

Surely, it's going to play such a minimal part in the overall outcome at the end of the season, that A, it's an example of Oxford getting the jitters, and B, we know that our manager...

John Massino will not be making waves about this because he is a consummate diplomat.

He knows and understands the corridors of power of the Football Association.

And he knows that nothing is going to happen because nothing will happen.

I'll tell you what, I did ask Chat AI for their verdict on this.

Chat, can you just repeat what you said to me a moment ago about this one?

What I previously said aligns with your conclusion.

Thank you.

That's what artificial intelligence has to say.

If you can stomach it, this is what real intelligence, if I dare pass myself off as that, has to say.

And it's just to say that John Messina knows his way around the FA.

He also understands intelligence.

the corridors of power at the EFL and also FIFA.

That's why for him, if not for Pompey, the sky's the limit.

Yeah, it is interesting, isn't it, that they might be grooming Farrell to be a player who can play in two positions, maybe more, but a full-back who can also play at centre-half.

Williams, of course, over on the right.

We forget about him.