ChrisMcQuillan

Every other PL club has broken their transfer record in the 12/18 months. It's been 12 years for us.

Well he shoved a ref tbh. He shouldn't have, true, but howay. He shouldn't have been sent off in the first place.

Ronaldo banned for 5 matches. Kane gets booked. Football, 2017.

When you look back at the incident, Shearer properly kicks his face in, then... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/91721.stm

I think we'll have a few things to say about that like.

We're a bit like the guy who strolls into the newsagent with 5p and tries to buy a Freddo because that's what he thinks they're still worth.

£44m net outlay over 11 seasons...

They had 40 odd on loan, so assuming they have a 25 man squad plus a few still around, they're probably knocking on about 80 players. EDIT: According to Eurosport, "Manchester City have 82 players on their books with Chelsea overseeing 75 and Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur on 74."

Didn't we have a £25m bid rejected for Berahino before we went down? With money only increasing then, if the club see value in a £20-30m transfer, I'd like to think we'd make the move.

What drivel. Jesus everyone lose their sense of humour while I was away? Football serious business. While you were away? Are you a returning member, OCK? Yeah, not a very memorable one apparently.

Agreed.

https://twitter.com/TimHagueBBC/status/871746502644957184

Must get involved with one of these sometime as well.

You've added "NO MITRO" to "MITRO COMES ON". It makes no sense. Well, no, I didn't. Mitro appears + Mitro doesn't appear adds up to the entire season, so the season's stats are right. And no Mitro is correct. Mitro comes on should simply be Mitro featured, and it's correct.

Apologies, originally calculated that row as 'Mitro Appearances' so whether he'd either started or been brought on. Forgot that, later, evidently.

I just read that deaths by road traffic accident peaked in 1974; as did sales of Mars bars. Reckon people were taking their eyes off the road to get the wrappers off? You're clearly the only one having a more boring evening than I am.

Just compiled some stats now the season's over. This is for league fixtures only. http://i.imgur.com/7yignsn.png With Mitrovic starting, we tend to score considerably more goals but also concede more than when he doesn't play at all. We score fewer and concede more when he comes on as a sub (not really surprising given you'd mainly only bring him on if trailing, and looking for a goal).

Elliot Yedlin Clark Mbemba Dummett Shelvey Colback Atsu Perez Gouffran Mitrovic Subs: Darlow, Gamez, Lazaar, Hayden, Diame, Ameobi, Murphy

What is going on?

I do think the Payet/Cabella/Thauvin side of things is probably the most compelling. Thing is, that doesn't mean it's the only thing we've done wrong. Imagine what's in our files, man.

Watch the points dedication take us below the play-offs.

@SkySportsNewsHQ 5m5 minutes ago BREAKING: Newcastle's St James' Park and West Ham's London Stadium have been raided as part of a police investigation #SSNHQ

Little stat for you: Brighton have lost only 13 of their last 90 league games.