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Fuck no. The unidentified footballer in his 30's should be left well alone, except by prosecutors.

It says a lot that they're a massively superior team after Mbappe left. Coincidently, Real Madrid are worse.

Absolutely hopeless performance when it really mattered. I really hope that Gordon went off injured because I have no idea how Barnes stayed on ahead of him otherwise. Barnes had a very poor game, couldn't do anything on the right in the first half and then vanished for most of the second. I pray that this was Willock's last game for us. We may have well brought a traffic cone on instead of him for all he did. He deserves a lot of praise for the work he did a few seasons back but he's been dreadful for most of games he's played this season. Time for a new challenge. Same goes for Wilson. Pointless bringing him on, completely past it. Howe got the lineup wrong in the first half but the players were the ones fucking it all up. 2 weeks ago we were in with a chance of finishing 2nd in the league and today we needed Man Fucking United to save us. Embarrassing stuff.

FFS. Champions league in our hands and we're determined to fuck it up.

Don't think it's panic, more frustration than anything else.

Spurs have been absolutely dreadful but somehow Man Utd have been worse. If there were any justice in the world, both teams would be fined for being this terrible in a major European final.

We also play these players to death. I doubt that Gordon has had more than a week away from playing, training or rehab since 2021. Add a newborn in there as well and it's no wonder he's starting to look knackered.

3-4 players in the starting XI definitely. Our problem is that the drop off from our strongest players to our backups is massive. 2 years ago having Wilson come in for Isak wasn't a problem, now it's just embarrassing. Our midfield subs consist of a child, an Arsenal reject and a player so low on confidence that he needs therapy. The defence is a guy who hasn't played in 14 months and an inconsistent full back. We won't be able to challenge properly until we can add some serious depth to the squad and not just the starting XI.

If he could stay consistently fit and finish half the chances he gets he'd be one of the best midfielders in the league. But he can't, so he's more often a passenger than a threat.

Failed to score when we were on top in the 1st half and then were never in the races in the 2nd.

Congrats to Palace but they got away with that handball decision. It was a clear red card and Henderson should not have stayed on the pitch.

Chelsea have always been Millwall-with-money. They may have added a bunch of new fans in recent years since the Abramovich takeover but their core fanbase have always been utter cunts.

You don't like the Simple Jack look?

I know some reasonable Sunderland fans who are very uncertain about promotion because they believe they'll struggle massively in the Premiership. And then there's these fuckers.

Great win

Sky Sports are actually reporting that Dortmund are interested in him. Fuck knows what they've seen in him beyond his surname but stranger things have happened.

If they go up I'd say there's a massive chance that Louis-Dreyfus sells up. He's not there as a fan, he's there to prove to his family that he's a big boy and by selling up he can show that he can take a distressed asset and flip it for a profit.

Painful stuff to watch but I said to my dad this morning that a point would be a good result considering our history at Brighton.

Every single one of them drunk calls their ex whenever they have an argument with their partners. They never seem to have new ideas for managers, it's always someone who did the job previously.

Nice, comfortable win. Great to see Osula getting his goal.

They wouldn't get it in any case. There's no way to figure out where players might have moved to which other clubs or what results might have been different in the absence of City. If they hadn't played Man City in the final they could have ended up losing against Liverpool, Arsenal or any of the other big teams.

Well that was shit. Too many players just didn't turn up today & we don't have the squad depth to cope.

Derby games are the worst way to measure a team. Teams always raise their performances in those games.

I think he does better when he gets explicit instructions on his role in the game. Which players to mark, where and when to make runs, who to pass to, etc. When he comes on as a sub he doesn't get the level of instructions and it's usually at the same time that the opposition is making changes too and he can't adapt to those changes on the fly. He's shown that he's a capable player under Rafa and Howe, both of whom almost certainly give him that level of instruction, but was crap under Bruce and his Let's just kick it about style. Either way, it's time for him to move on. He's not getting much game time now and doesn't look great when he does get on. If we ever want to really start to complete for the league we need to be much more ruthless and move on those players that aren't capable of keeping up any more.

That's where Wilson is with us now. He was brilliant for us in previous years, helped us stay in the league, propelled us into the Champion's League, got himself England caps on the back on his great performances. He's risking all of that being forgotten now and being remembered only for his poor performances.