Get that away end away from the tunnel. Maybe today people will understand why. Away fans have won that penalty when the ref went off at half time. #pafc
@NTT20Pod@MattWatts96 I'm glad you noted Derek Adams coming in. The PPG before and after DA is incredible. The support and advice he's given TC must've been brilliant and fair play to TC for not being to stubborn to accept the help. Made him a top coach after looking completely useless earlier on.
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 ✍️
Boxing Clever: How Plymouth Argyle turned their season around 🔄
@MattWatts96 shines a light on Tom Cleverley's Pilgrims and their rise up the League One table. 📈
Link 👉 ntt20.com/p/boxing-cleve…#PAFC#EFL
This has been bothering me for sometime, and I feel like I need to get it off my chest.
The World Cup is meant to be football’s moment to unite the world, but right now, it feels like the opposite.I am sadly old enough to remember the 1966 World Cup, when England played West Germany in the final only two decades after the end of World War II. That game, at least to me as a young lad, felt like it was helping the healing process of a conflict where millions of lives were lost…
So as this summer approaches, on one side FIFA continues to push pricing models that put the tournament further out of reach for the very fans who built the game. The soul of football isn’t in corporate sponsorship packages, it’s in the stands, in the communities, in the people who live it every day.
On the other, the current stance of the United States government is making that sense of welcome far less certain. When visa access becomes more difficult, when the tone towards parts of the world feels more closed than open, it sends a message, intended or not, about who this World Cup is really for.
That really matters. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to attend five World Cups, and each of those were hosted by countries that made you feel welcome and invited you to enjoy the beautiful game in the most amazing manner. Mexico 1986, Italia 90, USA 94, France 98, Germany 2006…all amazing, and those countries greeted you with open arms, and were proud to welcome in the world to enjoy the game at its highest level
But you can’t call it the world’s game while quietly narrowing who gets to be part of it.
At a time when football could be a rare force for unity in a world that so badly needs it, we’re allowing it to become more exclusive, more controlled, and more divided.
This tournament has the chance to be a bridge, like it was in 1966…Instead, it risks becoming a symbol of the very barriers the game is supposed to break down.
That’s a profound missed opportunity, and I’m saddened we here in United States are struggling to replicate the welcome and open arms we showed back in 1994. I sincerely hope my fears are misplaced, and that everything will be spectacular, but I can’t help feeling we are on a path towards scoring a huge own goal…
Sunday's Carabao Cup final was Declan Rice's 50th game of a relentless season.
Virgil van Dijk reached that landmark last week, while Sandro Tonali achieved it in the first week of March.
Atletico Madrid's Julian Alvarez has played at a World Cup, a Copa America, an Olympics and a Club World Cup in the last four years, amassing 274 appearances for clubs and country since February 2022.
The schedule is brutal. The workload is incessant. The risk is elite players will suffer at the summer's World Cup.
📝 @PJBuckingham
🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71429…
£30 cap on away tickets to continue for two more seasons, excellent news for supporters and for broadcasters wanting noisier atmospheres. Kudos to the Premier League for agreeing to extension. Fans now want clubs to listen to them over home ticket prices which “are often unaffordable and pricing out loyal fans”.
"The extension of the away cap is great news for travelling top-flight fans,” says Tom Greatrex, chair of the Football Supporters' Association. “The cap was an FSA idea which wouldn't have happened without our members' campaign work. Credit to the Premier League and clubs for listening to supporters on the importance of away supporters and keeping the cap in place for the previous 12 seasons. Long may it continue.
"We all know how much away fans add to the atmosphere in our stadiums and anything which helps them is welcome. Over the past 12 years this has saved supporters millions of pounds in total. We'd also encourage owners to listen to the voices of supporters' groups at their clubs who are telling them that home ticket prices are often unaffordable and are pricing out loyal fans."
The transformation in this side has been nothing short of incredible. In individual performances as well, not just the overall picture.
The praise should be just as loud as any criticism before it. We might have given ourselves too much to do but this is fun #pafc
@CP2199@OfficialTomKirk And he stopped slagging off the players (recruitment) and since we've seemed to have far better spirit in the camp. Whether he was told by Adams or not doesn't matter. It's improved us and him as a coach.
@OfficialTomKirk Honestly the guys won me over tbh looked like a different team since christmas think the signing of curtis and kane have had a big impact
I have a huge amount of time for this.
Tom is almost unrecognisable from the man in the dugout for the first 15 games.
A real redemption arc for the ages, that I was convinced he wasn’t capable of.
Well done Tom, and his staff. And to the club for sticking with him.
#pafc
@jonathangrade@Antni_b It used to be a big rivalry due to all the Portsmouth fans that worked in Plymouth dockyard and vice versa. Not so much these days but it stills get referred to as one.
@olpafc_@PAFCNewsHub We got to be realistic. Think their top 5 strikers play for Juventus, Villarreal, feyenoord, swiss premier league and eredivisie. Hopefully they give him a chance because he offers something different and they might pick up Injuries
@PAFCNewsHub Travesty if he’s not tbh. Understand he’s not one of their players playing at the highest level, but he’s scoring for fun, surely Marsch will take the punt for two friendlies that he can keep that up for the NT
Tom Cleverley has said there’s ‘Always a chance' striker Bim Pepple could be called up to the Canadian national team this month for friendlies. 🇨🇦📋
Canada have two friendlies lined up, where they will face Iceland 🇮🇸 (March 28th) and Tunisia 🇹🇳 (April 1st).
#pafc
@AtalantaBC_News@Jsize18 Yes I saw it in Plymouth once before a game against Madrid. It was heading towards the ferryport to Santander. Was well weird.