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This is similar to our case last season re bench. PSG away a good example. Hall was during his non playing phase. After that it was two keepers, two youth team players who I’m surprised are still at the club that I’ve not heard much of since, and a current Carlisle and Ashington player. Hence running Isak until he was barely able to walk. It was after this we began to lose significant amounts of the starting 11 on top.

Constantly getting dispossessed.

Poor start

Not sure you can trade like that in more recent centuries…

Lasted until he said Isak looks like Thierry Henry as part of the justification. Just, wow.

Having seen him several times, it’s an astute move on Chelsea’s part. Just had following from Chelsea season ticket holder: ‘Awful business by them. He’s a lumbering oaf who’s full of mistakes’

Confirmed off

Fucking goal

Feeling like the money we had for Olise or Guehi was perhaps based on Almiron and flipping Kelly and/or this lad. Tenuous but would have enabled a purple in and none out

Getting shithoused. Hard to complain

This is dire. I don’t actually think Bournemouth look that great, we just aren’t at the races

You did a stellar job getting through every verse in the pub after too. No wonder your throat was fucked! Definitely need a few more of you dotted about with that level of commitment to really getting the atmosphere going and maintained.

My memory is shit these days but was there a brief period under Rafa when Miggy, Perez and Rondon were almost like a budget HBA, Cisse and Ba? One of the few times during the Ashley era we had a genuinely exciting attacking outlet. It’s easy to forget he came in under Rafa and survived the hellscape of Bruce to then flourish under Howe. He’s one of the genuine old to new era connecting players and I think that alongside the PSG goal as well as the ‘purple patch’ that was key the winter before in getting us those wins that took us into Europe afford him cult status. My own personal fave memory relating to Miggy was meeting a blind toon fan in the Fulham end next to the away section, the radios for the blind folk were not working for some reason, so he asked me to describe to him everything that was happening on the pitch, while all the Fulham fans around got gradually more irate. Eventually the bloke sat next to him and in front of me tells us he works in the Fulham ticket office and he’ll get us seats in the away end if we agree to fuck off and leave them all alone. Excitedly agree, walking underneath the stand to the disabled gantry by the away fans (not quite the away end seats I expected), we hear the crowd erupt above us. Miggy had just scored his side foot vollied masterpiece and I was arm in arm with a blind dude I had never met underneath the stand. What a day.

I'll be derided for this, but I actually think he would do quite well at a lower table premier league team who play with a low block and counter attack. I think he's a massive confidence player and with a consistent run in the team would regain some form. If I looked at the Chris Wood thread before he was sold, I think we would find similar comments about not capable at all at any level, let alone premier league. Anyhow, we won't find out, as he'll be off to MLS, Saudi or similar I imagine.

When was the last time we comfortably rested the majority of our team and won an FA cup tie? It’s not perfect but things are progressing