David Wyatt-Hupton

Very rarely to be honest. A couple a month usually as it's not my territory.

Currently working the Eintracht Frankfurt vs SC Freiburg game and had to share this double save from 23-year old keeper Noah Atubolu in the away goal. He's an outstanding young keeper. #Bundesliga

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This is a strong strike from Matheus Jesus who now has 2 goals and 2 assists in 4 games with Nagasaki recording back-to-back victories. But Kosuke Nakamura (中村 航輔) has to be getting a hand on that in goal. Kosuke is a capped international, this is very poor. #セレッソ大阪

I'm running our of superlatives for Phillipe Clement and what he's going at #NCFC. Injury ravaged squad and we've won 5 of our last 6 away games including a 2-0 win yesterday at Leicester and 9 wins from our last 11 including 2 clean sheet in a row. Absolutely mad when you think about it.

Phillipe Clement basically blaming Liam Manning for the injuries: "No comparison to any of my other clubs (amount of injuries). We are digging into that. I don't want to go too deep into it, and I don't want to point the finger at people who are not here anymore." - Players weren't ready.

Great win for Kyoto Sanga today who scored twice after 80 minutes to come from behind and take 3 points against Hiroshima. That puts Kyoto top of the west, leapfrogging Sanfrecce. Winning goal was scored by Brazilian Henrique Trevisan who arrived from FC Tokyo in the transfer window. #KyotoSanga

Very good point David. The Attanasio's have pinpointed it as an issue. Some of the problems this year may be attributed to Manning's conditioning not preparing the players properly for the rigours of Championship football. Some may be that players brought in from Europe etc are not used to it.

Kobe made that much harder than it needed to be, conceding this goal in the 90th minute, a great strike by Yu Hashimoto. We had numerous chances to put this game away in the 2nd half after going 2-0 up, but we squandered some good positions. Regardless, it's another 3 points. That's the key.

100% That's the only priority. A late season charge to the playoffs was always unlikely, but it's near impossible with that injury list.

Right now at Norwich we have 14 injuries to first-team players. 6-7 of those are starters or impact subs in a first-choice XI/squad. The fact we continue to pick up points is a minor miracle. I can't wait to see what Clement can do with a full squad next season. #NCFC

Got a busy work weekend with J1 starting with Kobe vs Avispa and Machida vs JEF United.

Kobe looking to get back to winning ways after the defeat to Shimizu last week. Avispa been poor so far.

Machida threw a 2-goal lead away to Verdy last week and will have eye on the Gangwon game Tuesday. #J1

Always the way with us. I do like Darren Mougey but he's busy tearing down Joe Douglas's team. Another former first rounder traded today.

5 Free Agents: Underrated Edition #1036: The new league year is just around the corner, so I wanted to highlight five free agents who are flying under the radar, who I'd like the Jets to target.

A lot of talk is about the top tier free agents on the market. If you’re lucky, you get one of them. But the real building of a team comes through the draft and by finding free agent steals. Here are five free agents that barely anyone is talking about. #NYJ

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😂😂 Strange how that happens so frequently. We'll see if it's a purple patch or the start of something special

Solomon Sakuragawa (櫻川 ソロモン) scored his 2nd goal in 3 games for Cerezo following his winter move from Yokohama FC after they were relegated, and what a goal it was. He's never been a prolific scorer, wasn't at JEF, Okayama or Yokohama FC, maybe in Osaka he will be. #セレッソ大阪

Here is that Tulio goal. I rate Yuma Obata, liked him when he was at Vegalta Sendai and he's done well at Avispa, but today wasn't his finest hour. Only 24 and keepers tend to get better with age. #アビスパ福岡 #京都サンガ #J1

I'm not sure how we lost to Birmingham yesterday. We fell asleep for 15 minutes and gave away two silly goals. Then dominated the rest of the match and should have scored 3-4. These things happen, we go again on Wednesday. Still believe we're heading in the right direction. #NCFC

Avispa have a few issues to try and sort through, but they're not being helped by individual errors like this one from Yuma Obata (小畑 裕馬). Obata's positioning for Sanga's second goal was very poor as well. #アビスパ福岡 #京都サンガ #J1

Kyler Murray Rumours Persist Edition #1031: Is this a case of a lot of smoke without any fire, or are the Jets seriously considering Kyler Murray?

There are so many reasons why Kyler Murray to the Jets makes absolutely no sense. But that won't stop the rumours from circling as they continue to do. #NYJ

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What a great test for this revitalised Norwich team.

Nope. Good for teams like Nagasaki who look as though they'll take time to settle..

Home and away against everyone in the division and then it goes to a strange playoff system

Just for the mini league. Back to normal from August. No draws in this mini league either. Goes to a penalty shootout instead

So there is a special half-season that started last weekend because J1 is transitioning to a European style Autumn-Spring schedule. So we have this vision league until June, break for the WC and then the J1 26-27 season starts in August 👍🏻

As soon as Aaron Glenn decided he wanted to call plays, he needed someone familiar for DC. Enter Brian Duker. The hire isn't the problem, Glenn calling plays isn't a problem, but the journey to Duker raises plenty of red flags about process. #NYJ

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Not heard the stadium like that since Farke's days. Also not seen that connection and cohesion between fans, players and manager since then either. Absolute joy going at the moment.

When things are going well you can't beat a win under the lights. Carrow Road was rocking last night as Norwich completed their 3rd win in a row and this one against the league leaders. We were sleep-walking to relegation, new manager has us dreaming of a late playoff push. #NCFC

Based on what the Jets need and some of the things Glenn has said about Anzalone in the past, I'm fully on board making the soon to be FA an off-season priority. #NYJ

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Kusini Yengi has left Aberdeen in Scotland and signed his contract with Cerezo Osaka. Looking forward to seeing him next season. Australian striker with plenty of talent.