Doctor Zaius

Get it up ye Raheem you little doyle

Say what you like but what a fucking booooring team City are. Far better than anyone else, with far better players and a deep squad full of top class players yet it's fucking dull watching us play against them. It was bad at SJP watching them and even that was a relatively entertaining 3-2 affair. Peak Arsenal，Man Utd or Chelsea were never as dull as these cunts. Their plastic fans barely celebrating as they passed us to death. What a miserable game. Watched it in the pub but spent most of the second half playing darts with my back to the game.

Honestly, this season has made me realise that it all seems a bit pointless. Prize money for coefficient nonsense. Man Utd earning four times as much as us despite performing worse. PL teams refusing to distribute money to EFL teams Man City having a free reign to do as they please to probably win a 7th league title out of 8. It's all starting to seem a bit pointless. An elite club and an entrenched status quo. As £44 went out of my bank account today I did start to think - maybe it's worth trying to take a step back from football.

Either way, Europa League feels like a proper trophy. Conference League is a bit meh.

So if England get the extra CL place, 7th is EL and 8th is ECL? Unless a team finishing below 8th reaches the FA Cup Final?

There's only one person Ben White should be calling im afraid, and its not Gareth

Id have Foden or Palmer as a no10. Cannot be starting Henderson like.

Squad has holes in it like. Not convinced about Chilwell at left back. Not sure about having Rice and Bellingham holding, seems like a waste of their attacking outlet - but you really really cannot be starting with Henderson or Phillips who are both done with. Harry Maguire.

Some of this shit is beyond the pale. Sellers bringing stuff to seats man. Can you not wait 45 fucking minutes without fucking stuffing your fat cunt of a face with fuckin chips or necking some shit fucking beer. Watch the fucking game man you morons. What planet are some of these clowns on. I couldn't give a fuck about what the fucking DJ plays at half time. Who the fuck suggested lyrics on a screen!? Has this half a brain cunt ever been to a match before. It's like people see shit at US sports, corporate gigs and the likes and think we should do that without actually engaging their brain. Some Muppet on twitter was suggesting a space at a new stadium for tailgating. The football season runs over the winter and we play in Northern England you total fucking idiot. All we want is more parts of the ground that fucking sing, so you don't feel like a fucking wally singing on your own. Jesus Christ it's not that fucking hard.

Offers less than fuck all. No redeeming qualities at the minute. Would drop him for Miley.

He'll be here next season, but anything other than a blitzkrieg of a start and he'll be in big trouble. For the first time I'm having doubts about whether we'll see a return to the immense pressing, solidly defensive unit we seen last season. We look so far off that, particularly away from home that it's becoming more difficult to envisage a return to it. The most glaringly obvious issue is that it's so easy to bypass that midfield. Teams just seem to play through us and smash us on the break again and again. How often do players find space in between the lines? Can he sort it? Does he bring in a defensive midfielder? We don't make up for a lack of intensity by being good enough on the ball, or controlling games either. It's cliche to say theres no plan B, but we only seem to sort of play one way, and if we're not at it we're poor, as has been the case in too many occasions this season. I don't want him gone, but I am starting to wonder whether he'll turn it round.

Fuckin Barnes out man.

Our biggest league game of the season so far imo. Think it pretty much defines the rest of our campaign. Win here, and we're right in contention for 6th. 4 points off Man Utd, with four decent fixtures before Man Utd and Spurs, then another four decent fixtures to round off our season. Lose and we remain 10th, Chelsea on our heels and 7 points from Man Utd which is a big, big ask. I guess a draw isnt the end of the world. Chelsea are always going to be a threat, given the quality of their players but we've got players back, options from the bench and we're reasonably well rested. A good litmus test of where we're at going into the last ten games. A big performance needed.

He's worth close to that. No suprise the wheels have come off when he's been injured

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68515495 These cunts better not get a single bit of funding from the government. It's not a new national stadium, it's a stadium for Man Utd. We already have a national stadium, we don't need another.

The 'High Performance Podcast' interview by Jake Humphrey is behind a £6.99 paywall. See below: https://www.football365.com/news/jake-humphrey-mason-greenwood-gazza-mediawatch

Humphrey putting the interview with him behind a paywall is peak Humphrey behaviour. Utter cunt. Cynical and exploitative.

With Trippier out, I wonder if we'll see him on for Burn? Might be Krafth instead like. #FreeLewisHall

Why did Merino leave again? Rafa not fancy him?

They wont go down like. Theyll be looking to sell Clarke for 20M+ and have to invest it wisely.

Think he'll go with this for the Euros: Pickford Walker Stones Maguire Chillwell Rice Phillips Bellingham Saka Kane Foden I dont think Southgate trusts TAA in midfield. He might drop Bellingham back as a holding midfielder and stick Foden in as a 10, but I think thatll be too expressive for Gaz and he'll prefer to have Foden shunted out wide and a bang average Phillips holidng who he can substitute for Henderson to come on and point and shout lots.

Centre of town is no one set place but you cant get into SJP within 10 minutes on a matchday. If you're at, say the Bigg Market, the time it would take to get into SJP or a stadium at the arena is negligible. Quicker from the train station too. The arena site is the best you're going to get for a location imo, without moving too far out of town or having to negotiate levelling a Grade II listed Victorian public park (which is pie in the sky imo).

Would absolutely take a draw here.

and why is Ivan Toney presenting the Brit awards?