Pilko

Hogg and Garner cards 18/1

Richards basically making a punditary career out of having a loud laugh and being the cheerful foil to misery guts Keano. He adds absolutely nothing of substance. There's probably only Jenas ahead of him in the queue if you gave me the power to start cancelling some of the regulars on Sky, BBC, BT etc. Truly awful.

Maguire is such a fucking carthorse

Done Partey and Sissoko cards at 16/1 too.

Some mega SOT prices on Coral for this early. Got 17/1 for Martinelli and Odegaard 2+ each, was about 8/1 PP. Tierney 2+ SOT 29/1 Coral, 12/1 PP.

1-1 draw.

Lejeune was a mega 3/1 card with PP today, was barely above evens elsewhere. Took the single as well as the 11/1 double with Colback, here's hoping.

Seems a long price, have followed that. Your favourite cardy keeper Lee Nicholls and general yellow card machine Jonathan Hogg are 75/1 the double too.

Melou and Byram 25/1

Kabak and Williams 18/1 I like if they both play.

2 shots off target in the first 10 mins seems desperate to bag.

Soyuncu card single at 7/2 is canny on PP.

Bet he mentions the fact that it's "only the second time wuh've lost here this season" despite only taking charge of two home games, losing one and drawing one. I'd also expect a "need wah luck to turn", "saw some positives for sure" and "keep bashing away" in the post-match.

What a result that is

Downes and Molumby 18/1 carded

We've reached that magic point per game marker which more or less guarantees you a place in the league, that feels significant. From Brighton (h), Southampton (a), Chelsea (a) and Everton (a) I'd probably shake hands on 4pts as it stands (WLLD), which would give us 29 from 29. I reckon 34-35 probably does the trick this year, so we then need 2 wins from 8 to (hopefully) make the Burnley game a dead rubber, as I wouldn't fancy needing to go there under pressure and get something.

We never ever ever beat these. 1-1, keep the unbeaten run going.

Spurs can fuck off. Bunch of absolute wasters, including their manager.

I think we all do. 5th to 11th after four games under his expert tuition. If Stoke win tomorrow, 12th.

Ah was theya when wuh drew with Burton

"First half I couldn't be more pleased about the way wuh went about wah work. Wuh had chances to put the game to bed, but wuh didn't take them. It seems like it's been that way since I walked through the door, wuh've not took wah chances in games. And that's the Championship for ya, if you don't take them, ya get punished. Look, wuh've conceded a couple of soft goals and wuh'll look at those and analyse them. I've been knocked down many times as a manager in the twenty odd years I've been going or worrever it is, but I'll take it on the chin, batten down the hatches, roll wor sleeves up and dust worselves doon and get ready for the next one, that's for sure."

I hope Northampton go out of business. Scunthorpe lost 8 of their last 9, sat bottom, and they go there and fucking draw.

Boro Rotherham Bristol Rovers Northampton 18/1

Joe Willock against Villa was a free kick and that's a pen

Then you must have a very short memory, because beyond the ~12 or so good games he's strung together under Howe, you probably would do well to count another 12 good ones at the top level since he signed in early 2016. He's contributing well at the moment but the unfit, slouching pointless-long-ping merchant who loves a lunge and a red card is still burnt into my memory. Now we have the ability to go and get someone who still ticks the box marked "range of passing" but who can also run, get about, tackle, win headers and score more regularly, he should be out of the team come the summer and hopefully sold soon after whilst his stock is still high. I think Howe's done well to bomb out some of the other knackers more urgently (Clark, Ritchie, Gayle in particular) but I'd like to think upgrading Shelvey is near the top of the list come the summer.