Also not the only manager defending a player when he does something stupid and illegal. Fondly remember Wenger "losing his glasses" when an Arse player did the same. Coquelin was a prime example. Same old.

Edited by Booted Eagle (19 Aug 2022 5.09pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Oh my goodness.... "dark arts"? - he's not suggesting something like voodoo, juju, hoodoo or witchcraft is he?

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

That article has a photo of Andersen, underneath which is the caption:

"Andersen was unjustifiably physical with Nunez all game until tempers boiled over at Anfield"

I'm sorry? "unjustifiably physical"? Whose words are these? Who has decreed that Andersen's play was "unjustifiable"? What the f*** is going on? If an Italian player puts himself about in a Euro final, or Sergio Ramos kicks and roughs up his opponent for 90 minutes, it's called a "defensive masterclass", but if someone playing for plucky old Palace "has a word" with an opponent (basically for being a c***), all of a sudden the rules of football have changed.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Everyone knows that if VVD was the defender everyone would be singing his praises & slagging off the abusive attacker -