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Marinakis will totally take his time and consider his options over the next few weeks. He definitely doesn't have the appearance and history of a man who (over)reacts wildly to relatively minor setbacks and bumps in the road

Pretty sure it rules out the (vile) prospect of Forest and Chelsea playing out an agreed draw and us missing out, yes?

Whyaye. But you also need to know when to put the brakes on too like

He's a bit hefty like, isn't he? Loves the gyro

Ryan Mason is a shocking omission from that list of cunts

Changes nothing - we still need 3 more points. If anything it means there's more at stake for Chelsea in 2 weeks time

Second half was a bit dicey, not a massive fan of just sitting in tightly and destroying everything - only takes one mistake, one trip, one misplaced pass and you're fucked. I do think the early goal had a big part in how the rest of the game developed though. Tonali gave us a cushion and moved the onus squarely on to Chelsea to to the pressing and make the running. They had to push and take chances and that meant we could change the way we played, conserve a bit of energy and hit them on the break to wrap it up and that's exactly what happened. Jackson's stupidity also cost them and it's telling they looked better when he was in the shower than they did with him up front. The red meant Maresca had to change it up and go for it even more. We defended well, held on and did what we needed to do although a second goal shouldn't have been left that late, we had chances to settle it Overall, the result was all that mattered and we got it done today. 3 more points to get and 2 chances to wrap it up - today was the big one though and we deserved it

Another game where the ref loses control over it because he's too spineless to book people when it's deserved. As soon as that happens the players go looking to settle things out themselves, as we saw today. Inconsistent from one minute to the next flopped between giving everything and nothing, players don't know what's coming so they push it as much as they can. What a cunt

Ref overcompensating this half, the Chelsea complaints have worked

That's not even controversial either. No idea how that took so long to clear up, it's as clear as an elbow as its possible to get, his head snapped back with the force of it

If he was called Jobe Smith then they'd not be looking twice at him. He's not shit obviously but spending approximately 20 million pounds on him purely because his brother is mint doesn't seem like a very Dortmund thing to do.

The equation hasn't changed for the last month or so - win the home games and get a point away. We got the point at Brighton and we still need to beat Chelsea and Everton. The complications some people are bringing into things is now borderline ridiculous - we're on track but tomorrow is must-win. If we fuck it up tomorrow afternoon then we're in the lap of the gods - do the business then we're looking good. All favours from other clubs are welcome but we need to win those 2 home games and we always did

Quite like the current badge but it is a little 'busy' for want of a better word. Can totally understand why they would want to either simplify it or change it completely, it's just natural progress over time, things and trends drift in and out. Not quite sure why there's as much outrage before we even see any official suggestions though. I can understand why people are a little annoyed because they're more attached to it than I am but one or two have gone waaaaay ott about it. Just going to wait and see what they come up with tbh, might like the new ones, might hate them all? Who knows yet I'd also be interested to see if there's a correlation between the people who hate the idea of a new badge and also hate the idea of moving away from SJP? Maybe some people just hate the idea of progressing/moving on/hating change? I'm not one of them but some people are obviously thinking differently

If Sunderland get past Coventry and If they then beat Sheffield Utd and If they spend £100m+ on the squad.... they stand a chance of getting 20 points next season. The gulf has never been bigger and all 3 promoted teams face a huge battle to finish above just one of the current 17 PL teams. My money is on the 3 of them all going straight back down again with a large bag of parachute cash, the humiliation seems to be worth it for many fans

Hope the Cov nail them to the fucking wall tonight. Smash them into oblivion before you can say "when's Wrexham away?"

Would something like this work?

Not strictly true like unfortunately

Can only hope they kick the utter fuck out of each other in the final. It's a despicable situation to find ourselves in and only a rash, nay - a plethora, of serious injuries will satisfy me

Mute button beats the pair of them tbh

If we're now in the business of flipping players then this is the blueprint. Sign in the summer, park him for 6 months then move him on for a (relatively) filthy profit. That cash goes straight into this year's accounts and, I assume, mean we're in the clear for PSR this summer. Throw in the Almiron money and it should mean we can strengthen with several players we can actually use next season. I'd still like us to carry on looking for more players in Kelly's situation and repeat it. It's obviously difficult but it's clearly possible. No axe to grind with him really, he's decent at best but seemed to try and didn't whinge about it, he's also landed up at a huge club too so he's won too. Juve are the only losers in the whole affair tbh

You'd be just moving the line 2 yards back towards goal. Goals would still be chalked off because they're 2cm offside but it's probably easier to live with as it would give the benefit of the doubt to the attacker. I know it's the laws of the game but I still have massive issues with defenders playing attackers onside when they're 40 yards away on the opposite touchline - I know they're playing the same game but it's fucking miles away and they're never getting back and stopping the goal anyway

Early PSG goal to kill the whole thing stone dead within 15 mins

This one ISN'T making the collection

Can't see the 'bubbles' thing mind

Feels like Barca are going to get 1 more big chance and then that'll be it