Football Daily | Late drama at Wolves as the Gomes/Gomez Congestion Index causes chaos

​ Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In recent weeks, the Premier League has descended into a full-blown existential crisis. VAR is increasingly bobbins, various teams are ruining everybody’s fun by Arsenaling about at set pieces and Arne Slot has made the grim admission that he finds “no joy” in the current lack of swashbuckling action. Naturally, the usual suspects are clutching their pearls, wailing that everything was better back when pitches were bogs and tackles were felonies. Desperate for a Tuesday night shot in the arm, The Best League In The World™ offered viewers a choice of four matches so turgid they bordered on the offensive. One was a goalless void; another’s solitary highlight involved a Leeds substitute pilfering a strategically placed towel; a third saw an Everton win so routine it made a documentary on the history of beige paint look like Mad Max: Fury Road. Ultimately, the only drama to be found was at Molineux – and even there both sets of players decided to wait 70 minutes before bothering to engage in some actual football.You can only go to the coffee shop so many times, you can only feed the chickens and the ducks so many times, and, you know, it gives you that edge. I had the heart pumping, nervous before the game, things like that, and you forget really. I even feel quite stiff if I’m honest, and I’m not really doing much running, but it’s the adrenaline. It was nice to get a result with the fans as well, because they’ve been superb” – Neil Warnock, back in the dugout at 77 as Torquay caretaker, reflects on their 2-2 Conference South draw with Farnborough.No, I just won’t believe it. Football Daily supposedly won a match 17-0 in Championship Manager 01-02? (yesterday’s Football Daily). Nope, don’t buy that at all. My memory is a bit fuzzy about whether 2001 was the an older era, or even the time of the long-lost ‘TV and Radio’ listings. But there’s no way that Football Daily’s crack staff [erm, OK – Football Daily Ed] was around way back then. Also, Woking?” – Mike Wilner.Just to follow up on the original Stroopwafel mention (Monday’s Football Daily), lukewarm is really the optimum temperature. Too hot and that caramel is taking the roof of your mouth off and cold is also suboptimal. Derek Smalls it all the way” – Matt Leuw.Wolves are the modern-day Robin Hood. They rob the rich and give away to the poor” – Krishna Moorthy.I don’t know how often Football Daily can be described as required reading, but you achieved it on Tuesday. Your inclusion of David Squires’s take on Gianni Infantino’s ‘accomplishments’ in his 10-year reign, followed by a link to Barney Ronay’s – as you aptly described it – ‘excoriating’ column on this same man, offers us all an opportunity to reflect soberly on what we enjoy about football and what, instead, we should wholeheartedly reject. Thank you” – Mike Fichtner.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading… Read More