Oliver Collyer

Oliver Collyer

@ovcollyer.com

Family man, Everton fan, co-founder of Sports Interactive Ltd, inventors of Championship Manager, makers of Football Manager. PA to two daughters, apparently. Personal account.

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Can we just fast forward to the bit where England have got past Norway (tough - hard match!) and lose to some Messi brilliance in the semi final and get it over with?

I see Spurs have taken ownership of the wretched pistol that Everton have spent years using to shoot themselves in the foot whenever confronted with a shard of positivity. Keep it lads, please!

Nobody does “Big Club In Relegation Fight” better than Everton. Fans many times dragging the team over the line, years of practice (sadly)! I can’t help but wonder if Spurs the club and their supporters are ready for the fight?

David Moyes has a different view of football to me. Fair enough, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as this is infinitely preferable to the stress of recent years, but I’m about as excited as a dead stoat about that team. Now watch watch as we channel our inner Brazil ‘70 and win 5-0.

Claude Code is very impressive indeed but we’re gonna look back at the 200K context limit like we look back at the 48K Sinclair Spectrum. We’ll wonder how we managed!

The odds of one of our players crossing the ball and it landing on a teammate’s head or foot (or even arse) is about the same as winning the lottery.

Well the team sprit looked a bit dodgy when Gueye and Keane were swinging their handbags at each other but look at them all at the end after pulling that one off and sending the mancs home sobbing.

I've used GitHub copilot a lot lately for some coding experiments. It's quite good at times, but also slightly resembles someone with early stage Alzheimer's. You think you're getting somewhere and then you realise it's forgotten a whole load of what was discussed before.

I think I’ve seen enough of the striker audition to conclude that Beto is the only one really capable of leading the line in this team. He’s hit and miss - he’ll be mightily relieved Grealish scored that - but it’s gotta be him from now on. Give Barry minutes when we can, but start Beto.

Revising this! Provided we don’t just lump it forward then Barry is much better at linking up the play. The fella just needs a goal! In off his arsehole whatever it takes to get him up and running. Need to finish Fulham off

Nothing competes with the verbal abuse from a 17 year old daughter blaming me and “whatever I’ve done with the WiFi” for AWS taking down her social media.

The performance in the first half gave me hope yesterday. More than had we started slowly and gone 2-0 down and then woke up as City eased off, an all too familiar scenario. Beto takes one or both of those chances and it changes the game and gives us a real chance of one or all three points.

The Hill Dickinson effect. Show some direct incisive play, the crowd will appreciate it and get behind you. Atmosphere sounds fantastic. Up The Fucking Blues. 😂

Looking forward to the next bit where we go 0-2 down and then buck our ideas up/Palace ease off and we pull it back to 1-2 FT and all tell ourselves we have some positive momentum to take into the next game.

It’s pretty clear we’re going to have to improve if we’re to get something out of this game. Palace a cut above, better-drilled, more likely to score. Need to get further up the pitch and get Ndiaye, Grealish and Dibling on the ball.

The only thing better than a top quality Indian on a Saturday evening is a top quality Indian on a Saturday rounded off with an injury time winner for someone against Liverpool for the second week running.