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They were the pits as well, we were actually somehow even worse than the scorelines suggest. We do pick up the odd good result in this fixture though. Seem to remember that Given was actually MOTM for that 1-5 match as well... then he put a transfer request in afterwards. I was at that game and he was furious, proper Peter Kay hoofed it after one of the goals iirc. Could honestly have been 12 or 13-1, lots of clear chances squandered by them.

Wew that's canny good.

Should change the rule there to "If the referee did not see it or the perpetrator is Aleksander Mitrovic..."

They were the pits as well, we were actually somehow even worse than the scorelines suggest. We do pick up the odd good result in this fixture though.

Depends where we are in the table and whether Ashley gambles on our future again.

I really don't want us signing another central midfielder before a number 10 and striker that are better than we have, and even after that I'd say the same for LB and GK before we even think about central midfield.

That's a good one, it's poncey as fuck. Again you can apply the Tyldesley Law - if he does it, it's wank.

[emoji38] This is hilarious for anyone that knows what you're on about.

If there's no retrospective ban then that's a pretty clear indication that the FA only react to whatever agenda the media is pushing in any given week.

FFS man, this poppy shit again

It's going to be a long hard season when your striker and number 10 don't appear to be capable of chipping in with many goals. I like both Perez and Joselu for what they offer the team but the summer just gone should have resulted in us having better options in both positions.

Agree that Shelvey and Merino looked good together, there's promise there. Thought Dunk was immense for them btw, gobbled everything up in the air.

All of our away games have been similar tbh, fairly even games where we've played pretty well at times but had to absorb some pressure too. Obviously the first goal has won it each time too. Strange how few games we seem to draw under Benitez, would be nice to scrape a point from games like this and Huddersfield but then again we've got 3 points out of 9 on the road so far which is the same we'd have got for drawing all 3.

Atsu is extremely frustrating at times.

To a man, they all absolutely adore cous cous.

Our chants are getting weirder

Can't really complain about the scoreline here, been second best in the second half in particular. Need Shelvey and Gayle on.

Wake the fuck up, man

To be honest I'd completely forgotten about European football being a by-product of us winning the league

Superb post. It's so ridiculous yet so true. It means everything and nothing at all.

Superb post.

Soz to piss on your chips but I thought Roy was a right winger?

Hopefully he progresses impeccably, like The Horrors.