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The table is split into four groups now - Man City and Liverpool, three CL contenders, eight also-rans and seven strugglers. Obviously there's a long way to go, but it might just stay like that all season tbh.

My three Liverpool players . Plus I have Arnautovic up front. My one saving grace is that I already have the 12pts from Fraser.

...and now Arnautovic FFS.

Three defenders injured/out. Anybody interested in a trade?

I like that Sweden, Norway and the Faroes are in the same group.

For all the money spent, that's a really underwhelming West Ham team.

Dropped There may have been an element of sarcasm in my post.

Go go Captain Aguero!

It's so weird to think that Ginola was only at Newcastle for a couple of years and at Spurs for only three. He is irrevocably linked to us both. You clearly had him at his peak and in a stronger team - by the time he got to us he was over 30. He was playing in teams with such luminaries as Justin Edinburgh, Dean Austin, and Stephen Clemence. We finished 14th, 11th, and 10th, but he was Player of the Year in that middle season - he was that good. We ran out of forwards at one point IIRC and played him up front. Surprisingly big and strong, beautifully balanced, two-footed, clever - he was an absolute pleasure to watch, and I think it's fair to say he was universally loved here. You can get a pretty good idea of the age of a Spurs fan by asking them their favourite player. I think the list runs something like this - Hoddle -> Gazza -> Ginola -> Berbatov -> Bale/VDV -> Kane. I think that speaks volumes. There were other great contemporaries, but they were the ones who - Kane aside, arguably - brought the magic. They're the ones that stood out, although you could argue that part of the reason Ginola stood out so much was that the team he played in was so mediocre. That's certainly why he stood out more at Spurs than at Newcastle. I do have a lot of good memories of Ginola - after all, he scored over 20 goals for us (as against seven for you). I think they are slightly tainted by how uninspiring we were at the time, and my age - I grew up with Hoddle, Waddle, Ardiles etc etc, and even Gazza was my sixth form. By the time Ginola came along I was a bit jaded, and also recognized that we were getting a player who was just past his best. By way of contrast, I completely fell in love with Berbatov. That said, Ginola was fantastic to watch, and like VDV and Berba after him, felt like a bit of a throwback. He was the guy in your Sunday team who smoked like a chimney, drank like a fish, then went out on the field and took the piss. The nice thing about Ginola compared to, say, Hoddle or Gazza, was that you wanted to be like him off the pitch as well. Hoddle was slightly strange, Gazza was...er...daft as a brush, but Ginola was - and is - cool as fuck.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1066028520047034372 Apologies, it's Adrian Durham, but I enjoyed it.

Fucking mint. Inter are a bunch of conniving, timewasting bastards. They deserved that. Although they're still going to go through, but whatever. That was ace.

This has been a somewhat cursed CL campaign for us. Not sure how we’re not winning this, but I am sure how it’s going to end.

Andy Turner. I was at that match too. Does that make you feel old? It made me feel old when he scored the goal FFS.

Andy Turner. I was at that match too.

Oh wood you leaf it alone.

I genuinely feel bad for people who watch England games in a perpetual state of existential crisis and self-flagellation . I enjoyed that.

I still feel bad for Graham Taylor that the ref really did completely cheat him out of his job against the Netherlands.

Wild card incoming.

I wasn’t concentrating and actually thought you meant this .

Apparently we're waiting on wiring and testing.

Completely forgot about this this week.

Football as a whole, sadly.

I think there's a number of people who play that way IIRC.

Jose Dominguez?