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A first corner

I was thinking Longstaff on as well.

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Aston Villa 1-1 Everton Arsenal 3-1 Leicester City BHA 0-1 Newcastle United Man City 3-0 Bournemouth Southampton 1-2 Leeds Utd Wolves 2-1 Fulham Brentford 0-1 Man United Forest 1-2 West Ham Chelsea 1-2 Tottenham Liverpool 3-1 Crystal Palace

Boo hiss

He was a pest. That’s the positive. I don’t any other Forest player managed to do that.

Battle of the high presses.

There was a infographic floating around six month back that indicated Coady and Schaar to two of the weakest CBs in the league. (Rather weak by this one metric.) Both were outliers in the bottom left hand corner of the chart. In Schaar case, it was IMO Bruce trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Maybe Lampard knows what he is doing…

Bettering West Ham and Leicester City are the immediate goals. Wolves and Villa appear to be defeating themselves. Top 6 is possible only if Man Utd or Chelsea? massively screw up. (Chelsea seem to me to have a stink about them. Too much talent, money, etc. for it go that bad etc. But here’s hoping)

He’s shit man. You dodged a bullet.

What’s Shefki Kuqi up to these days?

Wow, that’s me. Maybe Kinnear above Souness. 1. Bruce 2. Pardew 3. Kinnear 4. Souness 5. Allardyce 6. McClaren Daglish and Guilitt are before my time. I’m not even sure I hate McClaren. He was incompetent, but he wasn’t even in the same league as the others in terms of hatefulness—- at least for me. Allardyce and Pardew were more competent than the others. Still hate both. Great affection for Roeder, Hughton, and Shearer. They were not great or even good, but there’s a real difference between being competent and loathsome.

Bissouma and Cucurella out. Anybody good in?

How many games was it before Bruno got a start? Four?

They went from dickish to reasonable rather quickly. I wish them well.

The Rafa hug.

Didn’t watch the game or see highlights, but Who Scored gave him a 5.7.

Drop Lampard and your chances will improve.

He’s young enough not to remember the glory days. Maybe top young talent are no longer under the spell. Ten years without a title.

Fraser.

If we’re going to progress, Almiron needs to be replaced. I like the guy, but he’s the weakest link in our starting 11. He looked good against a poor Forest. Match Bruno up with a quality winger who can finish and that game would’ve been over after 30 minutes.

Delighted to see Gerrard’s boys fall face first. Now for a Lampard pratfall.

Were Bournemouth that good today? Saw that they won… but Stevie G.