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It's not a crazy shout but even if you want to keep Murphy as first choice, he doesn't keep to these levels without genuine, high quality competition imo. According to the manager, we are able to invest heavily this window, which wasn't possible before and may not be possible after. It makes sense to maximise the opportunity by going big on something like RW now.

this amount of expectation will do very little for your mental health this summer.

Could happily feast on Brighton hate for days, like.

Make us proud, @Kid Icarus

No recollection of my own but was Nakata considered world class? Nominated for the Ballon D'or a few times.

I always want the Italian teams to win unless it's Italy.

I've got this one among my 5-a-side options:

Some serious money going into the Bundesliga this summer if Wirtz, Sesko and Sane all go too.

That third kit collar was only stupid because of the reasons you mention. Heaven only knows why the two sides of the collar hit a dead end on the back of the neck. An actual fold-over collar or polo collar can look class on the right kit.

Tis a very good one, that Besiktas one. Incidentally they incorporated the Northumberland plaid into one of their kits a few years back, which was a cool and deliberate nod by them to the north-east:

At whose expense though?

I thought now plenty others had expressed gripes with it I might be allowed back on the hate train.

It'll be an absolute miracle if it's not the EFL teams again. It'll take a truly apocalyptic-grade self-sabotage from someone else to prevent that.

Both look fucking stupid so at least they have that in common. Just wtf is going on with Adidas and their collars? Such weird design choices.

I love that literally the soundest bloke that's ever lived plays for us.

I think you can start drafting your farewell post in the Eddie Howe thread in that case!

I'll even dig out the bow tie.

Would there be any appetite for a lockdown throwback Zoom effort over the summer?

I do that. Eata spaghetti, drinka mo'etti...

Utterly predictable from the second it was confirmed that they were in it. I feel foolish for hoping Betis had a chance. That's the sixth best team in Spain made to look incredibly poor by a PL side who've been pretty unimpressive this calendar year (can't believe we contrived to finish below them ffs). As soon as Chelsea decided to turn up in that fixture they played well and the gulf in quality of the players looked extremely stark. I thought Betis were pretty pathetic in that second half TBH. Even notwithstanding the difference in resources. Barely strung as pass together and limp as fuck at each end. Hopefully Forest's appearance in the competition next season puts the PL's inevitable dominance on ice for a year.

Conference League Final.

God I fucking hate Chelsea.

Adrian still bobbins then.

Get the fuck in, come on.