John Greene

Why would a lower ranking Premier League team go and play Liverpool or City or Tottenham or Arsenal and allow them to play?

So I think the answer to what Gordon is saying is kind of pretty obvious.

But...

I did the Bodo Glimt Manchester City game last week.

Bodo Glimt were absolutely amazing.

And they played the exact same way they would play if they were playing Molde the following weekend.

They don't change the way they're playing.

So City had the opportunity to play, but they just weren't interested emotionally.

Yeah, I did a lot of St.

Patrick's athletic games last season.

They weren't out playing teams.

So I'm going to have to.

Now, Stephen loves an awful lot more about the game than I do.

But from what I saw, they weren't out playing teams.

But that was the reason they finished outside the European places for the first time in four years.

Who amongst us can remember a time when set pieces were vitally important to any team in football?

certainly in my lifetime, there were always goals being scored from corners and free kicks and penalties.

And you have to go back 17, 18 years to a Stoke City team that built their entire Premier League existence around set pieces.

So this is not anything new.

I think what...