Yorkie

Dunno how people dare. Original title had 20:00 PM as well ffs. Anyway, surely we're bouncing into this. Probably wouldn't take a point if you offered it.

Where you standing on Ange now? (Apologies if you've covered elsewhere)

Mentioned in the match thread but I just love how he inspires us to punish mistakes, especially at SJP. That Liverpool memory will linger forever but generally his teams capitalise on opponent fuckups so well. I think we win that game even with 11 but we bloody spanked them there. Without VAR it's 4-0 and the true hammering we were due. He's not perfect and who knows where his NUFC story goes but I will love big wins under him as long as he's allowed to deliver them. Plenty like that have come before today and plenty more will come after; I've no doubt about it. We win the cup this year.

Can't be bothered discussing his timeline at NUFC seeing as he's been exceptional for basically all of it regardless of where he's played; just enjoying this current flourish. How good has he been these last few games, man? Infuriated that they took that goal off him.

Very nice to see him and playing well.

It's been a red as long as I've been watching football.

Dubravka - 7 Trippier - 7 Schar - 7 Burn - 7 Hall - 7 Bruno - 8 Tonali - 8 Joelinton - 8 Murphy - 6 Isak - 8 Gordon - 8 Emphatic performance. Absolutely fucking love Eddie Howe's team of punishers. When we smell blood we can be fucking lethal.

Disallowing that Bruno goal, man. VAR such a great addition to the sport.

That was immensely satisfying.

Fucking love how we always seem to punish these fuckers.

Good performance and well with the lead but the longer we go without a second, the more encouraged they'll get. Bit nervous. Hilarious how shite Murphy has been.

Duran

That DHGate Mahrez on the right for City has a first touch to die for but his decision making is shite.

Sexy goal.

Yep, think that's probably fair. Villa are a really good side - particularly fearful of Rogers and Duran but it's hard not to be confident given how our midfield has improved. A good performance and a point from this means we can still go to Old Trafford confident enough to rattle those shit bastards.

Not a chance I'm backing Newcastle on Boxing Day. Cheap punt on Kluivert to enable gains in the forward line; Vardy peddled for Jackson.

Sunderland, West Ham and Spurs (all last season) are the stand-out matches from this year. Embarrassing the Mackems probably takes the cake for me; it's the most ahead of them we've looked in my lifetime, probably. Men against boys.

I don't think you have to look very deep to get a clue about his potential. Even if he hasn't blown anyone away with a particular attribute, for a 17 year old to hold his own during that run of games last season (which would've been taxing for even an experienced midfielder) was pretty incredible really. He was suddenly in the squad for a game at Bournemouth and then a few days later he was facing Mbappe et al in his second ever start. Then flogged to death for three months before getting injured, without letting anyone down. It was pretty remarkable really.

Pray they don't bin off that dimwit; they're going absolutely nowhere under him. Bloke is an early noughties relic.

Keep going supertoon

Fuming if we go there next week and be limp as fuck...

Should've got Southgate.

Oh, he looks like abysmal company... but that's probably not why he's out the team.

BDB wouldn't want to share a room with him.