themanupstairs

Would love for the holy trinity to win it. No one deserves to win it more than Buffon. Failing that, I'll settle for a surprise Monaco win. Such fluid incisive movement and beautiful hard-hitting attacking play. Been a decent CL this year, and I'm delighted that twat Suarez is getting nowhere near the trophy along with his sobbing mate. Messi isn't himself, and sadly Iniesta is no longer what he used to be.

It was Bruce Lee who said: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times".

Mitro shouldn't have given the ball away by aimlessly crossing it into the box. He successfully won a corner just before that playing it off the man. Not sure what he was trying to do blasting it into the box with no one there. Still not entirely his fault obviously as there were ten men behind him who should have stopped the goal. The blame lies with the entire team and their lack of focus. Instead of playing to the whistle, most were too busy speaking to the ref about the 5 extra minutes.

IMO it was a symptom of us not keeping our shape. This has been a problem recently. Most of the goals we are conceding from open play are due to us being totally out of shape. Keeping the shape of the team is what has allowed this band of misfits to be on course for promotion with the best goal difference etc... Something's not right. Has it coincided with losing Clark?

That deflected Derby goal is absolutely massive. Happy it cancelled out Huddersfield's offside goal tbh. Will help me sleep better for sure.

Yup. One can actually catch something rotten just reading some of the stupidity in this thread.

IMO He has made one glaring mistake, which was to bring Gayle straight back into the starting line-up so soon after his injury, which resulted in him missing even more games.

Are we really going to fuck this up now?

Reminds me of keeping someone in your fantasy team hoping that THIS week he'll come good. Diame and Lascelles shouldn't be starting, and Mitrovic shouldn't be on the fucking bench. Sort it out Rafa ffs. Throwing promotion away would be unacceptable at this stage regardless who the manager is.

Probably to avoid burn-out seeing as Hayden had never played a full season as a pro, and had limited appearances, even at Hull.

You have the memory of a goldfish, we had to buy a new keeper because we had Darlow and Woodman, Krul and Eliott were both coming back from serious injuries. Of the players that come in Sels has so far failed and he has still got time on his side to come good. Add Lazaar who has so far failed but could still come good and Gamez who was brought in on a free. Gayle has been a success, Ritchie has been a success, Clark has played better than anybody could have expected, Hayden for me has been excellent, Diame has played a lot and couldn't be seen as a success, Yedlin has done well, Murphy has come in and scored goals when needed and Atsu has done a job for us at times and Hanley likewise. That transfer record has almost certainly allowed us to gain promotion at the first time of asking and I would say that his record is as good, if not better than the one of Carr. Aarons came back from a foot injury and done his ankle, Gayle came back from injury and done his other hamstring, it's not as if they came back and had the same injury. Thank you Mick

Fucker below me in second place in my league has lucked out with his captain for the past 5 weeks and has blown past me. The double game-weeks are such a fucker as well with very few teams with much left to play for.

It was one game and he played well. No one is claiming he has suddenly become a rock overnight. But it was quite telling that we defended much higher up the pitch against Leeds and it seemed to suit him well, which wasn't really that much of a surprise. But you can't say he played well for just one game. Unless you have been banging on about the same thing over and over and over in every thread, you don't have permission to suddenly give an opinion on a player's performance in a match he played in, unless the opposition consisted of Zlatan, Messi and Cristiano, and he put them all in his pocket.

The bloke on the pitch was in stoppage time. No idea where the extra 2 mins came from then. Mitrovic and Shelvey fannying about timewasting taking those 2 or 3 corners , when Shelvey got booked for it would be my guess. That was in stoppage time already.

The KOAC

Do you bring him up in every thread and talk down to people in the process? No. You can do one, IanW.

Aye. Stop talking about Mbemba and how he played. It's not like he played Barcelona or owt. Daft fuckers with fickle opinions club this place.

Borini The very definition of a thick talentless mackem prat.

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I think we have missed him badly while he's been out. Probably more than we have missed Clark and even Gayle. He helps us keep control of the game and allows Shelvey to play his natural game. He's no world beater, yet, but he's absolutely all over the park, and he seems to understand the game lightyears ahead of his replacement.

A midfielder who puts in a tackle and can turn and pass forward. He can also drive with the ball, and pops up on the flanks calling for the ball, trying to create chances. The difference between him and Turdback is like the difference between Lampard and....Turdback.

What a bunch of fannies. He played well tonight, better than Murphy has of late. He was at the center of everything good we did going forward. The result is a kick in the bollocks, but making it like Mitro was the reason we didn't win is just stupid.

Nauseating. After such a good game as well. Totally feeling sick. Leeds offered absolutely nothing second half.

I fucking LOVE Local Hero Howay ffs

Also that kit is hhhhnnnnngggg