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I think Murphy won't let up in the slightest if and when we get a truly top class starter for RW. He'd keep doing his best on and off the field and be happy for the club, in fact. He's done magnificently this season. He's obviously got his limitations, but he's never played so productively for so long before. He's a starter on merit for us in our first trophy winning season in decades.

They wouldn't be doing their jobs right if they didn't.

More credit to Bunce? Can you imagine what it's like for Murphy to be spoken of in the same breath as Beardsley...

Something funny about "look, he's suddenly being good - stop doing whatever we're doing with him immediately".

Misread this as Bruce and got my head spun for a moment.

Yeah, agreed about Ginola, I don't think he's really legit, unlike many others.

It sounds like Yasir understands the boy is money and will help make the club what he wants it to be, so hopefully his underlings get it too. And hopefully promises of ludicrously overpriced post-retirement appearance fees are made so Isak doesn't feel like he's missing out on anything.

Supposedly Quansah was the one we wanted as a makeweight in the aborted Gordon deal last summer. But Liverpool rejected that idea at the time. So sounds plausible Howe thinks he can do something with him.

Proximity. Many people would rather be close for a few seconds than half a mile away from a hologram for several hours. Not sure what is hard to understand about this - a lot of people have been imagining this for half a century. Again, I'm optimistic it'll turn out alright, but when club things keep being run through a filtering process of season ticket holders and members, you can't blame people for being a bit paranoid.

In retrospect it was obvious they wanted rid of him sooner and briefs were going out to the media to that effect, but Hughton kept getting results which made sacking him unjustifiable. The first minor wobble in our premier league comeback season and they knifed him.

I'm hopeful everything will turn out great, they've generally been good about these things, but there's nothing wrong with people defending the city's interests if there's a sniff someone's trying to ration joy to only those who've bought corporate memberships.

Was the lawyer drawing up Pardew's contract, weeks before Hughton was fired. Fucking disgusted me. Was like watching a slow motion intentional car crash.

Made up to make Arsenal look silly if so.

I know, I was wondering how that worked out