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You say that, but he might actually not know the law as someone who is not from here. I’ve no idea if it’s something the club educates the players in but it’s not like it’s plastered across adverts or anything. It’s very feasible that he thought he wasn’t over the limit (he may also have known he wasn’t, but we don’t know). I lived in Singapore for 3 years (approx same time as he’s been in England) and I couldn’t tell you what their drink drive limit is (assume it’s 0 knowing their deterrent system).

Just par for the course in social media reality. Everything can only be incredible or appalling. Nuance is poison because it requires active and conscious thinking.

@Manxstbeat me to it basically

The life-risking stuff is a bit OTT until we know that he was genuinely impaired. There can be a difference between what your body is perfectly able to do with a certain amount in your system vs the point at which the law (necessarily) draws a mathematical line. The stupidity is, absent further information, needlessly attracting negative headlines. It’s not beyond the realm of reason that he thought, for example, 3 beers is fine to drive on. None of us know what he knows or what his physical reactions to different quantities of alcohol are. I expect he’ll miss a match and get fined if Howe is of the view that he knew, or should have known, better and that will be case closed in public.

imagine that’s where he’ll land

Depends on how over limit. Best he can hope for for a little bit over is fine and ban, yeh.

Underappreciated wordplay there

Has Mitrovic been up to SJP since he left? I can't remember the other times they polluted the division whether he was injured / suspended. Hope people don't go in on him, he was always extremely complimentary about the club, fans and area.

Nope, no need at any stage, cheers

It’s lining up nicely. Saints may be a very different proposition from when we thrashed them before; that’s a potentially season-changing result for them.

Be a good watch, they’re a good team and in form. Last time against them we benefited from an (entirely correct) red card and no Palhinha or Mitrovic, so should be competitive. Agree with the post above that they’re more likely to come at us. We’ve got to be more clinical than we have of late. Hopefully no wood or Murphy polluting the occasion.

That was a beautiful moment, really wish I’d been there.

Howe looks exhausted

We’re in a weird spell of not being clinical. Lots of very presentable chances missed, again.

I'd say the fact the Moukoko link from the German journalist mentions signing on fee and salary suggests that (i) it's the journalist doing a favour in return for exclusives / access and (ii) it's not credible, as that isn't how we do business. Very happy to be proved wrong.

For Christ’s sake, man. Have a sit down and a packet of wotsits with Xanax sprinkled on top.

Where’s your pre-match meal General Von Paulus? Expect the heartburn special

I’d imagine it’s an agent planting it.

Would like to hope we’ve been practicing our finishing, it’s been sub-par last 3 matches. I hope Chris wood doesn’t get near the pitch, same re Jacob Murphy but suspect he will sadly pollute the occasion with his subbuteo impressions.

I think they're supposed to have quite a significant injury list. A cursory scan says: Justin, Evans, Ricardo, Maddison, Praet, Dewsbury-Hall, Soumare and Bertrand. That's quite a big list but they have a deep squad. I think they have some players badly out of form as well - I read an article on F365 about Ndidi looking lost, and (I really don't mean to jinx) I think Vardy is slowing down.

Oh Aston Villa - who’s your messiah now? Ings or Mings? Abject bunch of mouth breathers.

Having thought about it far more than I should and discussed with @LFEE, I don’t think he genuinely believes he belongs here. In my view you have to be confident and self-assured to be a striker; and also able to shrug off a miss. He looks like a deer in the headlights in front of our fans. I’m overthinking it but when I saw him celebrate away at Saints this year he looked surprised that he’d scored.

I agree with your sentiment about the excess reaction yesterday but I don’t think he gave his all yesterday.

We desperately missed him today. The gulf in class and usefulness between him and Murphy is incredible.

I’m not convinced about him at the moment; he’s made enough mistakes over the last 18 months to have the jury out. It’s compounded because we’ve been treated to 6 months of a great keeper, and it makes his shortcomings more obvious. I thought the Manchester United move was bizarre and it’s not done any favours to anybody, except loris karius’ bank balance. But yeh, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to include him and make it 16.