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Elanga only played 64 minutes, probably with this game in mind. He's the one I'm most concerned about. If Forest finds a way to play him 1v1 on Burn we might be in for another difficult game no matter who else plays for them.

A friend of mine is a Blackburn fan, so we've booked flight, hotel & tickets in the home end this evening. Can't wait (vacation request still pending approval at work though )

That's my understanding as well. I don't see how is that an infringement on her freedom of speech though. Afaik she can still express herself as she sees fit.

She's still free to spew hate against trans people as much as she wants. Where has her speech been limited exactly?

£40m would be a bargain. Very unique player (in a positive sense) we won't be able to replace. There is a theoretical possibility that we could improve on him, but that would require a change in our playing system. He is tailor made for the LCM spot the way we play.

So the ref stabbed a player numerous times, and just continued to ref the game?

I know, hence "type of" Not the same, but on the principle that supporters/fans has the +1 majority.

Luckily West Ham exists.

It will just lead to owners with bottomless access to capital that are planning to build a new stadium to build it under another company, and when built, lease it back on favorable terms to the club or something silly like that. We already see the likes of Man City getting a 19 year old winger who's one of the best wingers in La Liga this season for a measly £12m I think I saw someone mention in another thread on here yesterday due to buying him from a club owned by another company owned by Man Citys owners. The clubs who has owners that can afford it will find a way to circumvent the rules like always, just furthering the gap from top to bottom. Scrap all the FFP related regulations and introduce a requirement for a German type of 50+1 ownership model (though I'm sure owners will magically find a lot of legal issues with that compared to FFP fnar fnar). If a club goes bust then fans won't have much more than themselves to blame for it.

I'd hate if we did that. If it takes us trying it to get it banned I'm happy if we were to oblige.

Not sketchy at all

I think he'll get better at the defensive stuff as he grows into his body. A lot of the challenges he loses now are simply due to the opponent being stronger.

Pope Trippier Schar Botman Livramento Willock Bruno Joelinton Almiron Isak Gordon Too early to call for Tonali. Prefer to play players in their natural positions, and also have options on the bench. I'll make an exception for Livramento until we have a quality left back Howe trusts. Edit: Imagine a bench of Dubravka Lascelles Burn Krafth Tonali Anderson/Miley Murphy Barnes Wilson Phoar...getting semi just thinking about it

Been without elecrticity the last 4 hours so missing all the games today, but feel confdent in saying Arsenal will bottle this and should be happy with 1 point.

Palace has a lot of quality players. Two solid keepers, Guehi, Andersen, Mitchell I don't think any of them would look out of place in better sides. Without Olise & Eze they don't have much going forward though.

I think our midfield is a bigger reason for the conceeded goals than us missing Pope. Sure he'd probably save a few more chances than Dubs have, but I don't think it would have made a big difference to where we are today.

Javier Manquillo started and played 75 mins as wing back for Rafas Celta in their 3-0 victory today away to Osasuna.

Nice bit of deflection. Not a word about his performance yesterday (unless not included in the quote above).

Can understand why they see their Cack Grealish as their best player based on this game. Got to wonder why he/they didn't try to use his pace against us.

Kind of tried that, at a smaller CL-like scale. Didn't work. Nobody gave a shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_League

yawn

I'll stand corrected. He did play well until Bailey came on. I love Burn, he brings us something unique, but he plays too much and should be used sparingly - only when we need to counter something specific towards our opponents.

Burns position ahead of their 4th that came from their right winger btw