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Are there any decent midfielders to get in for this gameweek? I have 2 free transfers and don't want to transfer out Haaland or 2 Brighton lads. Already have 3 Arsenal players. I'm currently considering Maddison + Havertz but both seem like total punts I have no faith in whatsoever. Leicester and Chelsea are flaky AF.

"Can I shock you? I like Nazis"

Nice Tory U-Turn, BBC

Agree with the high ratings for Willock, he was very good at carrying the ball today and making stuff happen. Great assist too. We were brilliant from about 20-45 minutes, back to our best in an attacking sense. Second half it was about squeezing out a result. Hopefully this is the start of a good run of form for us now

thought Pardew wore that DVD out, they must be streaming it these days.

We're mint, man. Did that without even trying.

It seemed a weird decision to make it only 20 minutes long so can only assume it's either a) BBC execs wanting to provoke this kind of discussion about overpaid lefty loonies adding fluff to MOTD, or more likely b) realising it was going to be a shit programme without presenting or commentary, and wanting to put something, anything out to meet their contractual obligations. The commentary was the bigger miss and the bigger problem for the BBC, they could have put a show out that lasted 45-60 minutes with that on. As it was, it was like the half time highlights you get on a dodgy stream. For clarity, I watched about 2 minutes of it this morning on iplayer out of curiosity about the format

the first 2 or 3 games usually seem to get about 10 minutes coverage, the later ones about 5 but may be 7-8 as you say, Disco. A lot more than 3 anyway

Was always going to happen due to curiosity, with this story being all over the news. I can't believe people are saying "Wow there must usually be 1+hour of studio patter". There were 6 games last night, do they really think they normally show only 3 minutes of each game? No.

It's dead amusing when people with political views that amount to "fuck everyone else, as long as I'm alright" get offended when people imply that means they're probably not a particularly nice person

Bad news and irrelevant news.

Rolled my transfer, stuck with Salah over Rashford cos I couldn't be arsed getting the latter in for one game when I have to navigate BGW next week.

Can everyone stop fucking panicking about Liverpool now please? They've been flaky as fuck all season long. They might put a run together but have shown zero evidence this season that they can or will. All is not right there, or at Spurs, or at Chelsea. If we can sort our shit out we've still got a chance of 4th.

Kin ell, I'm 29k in the world now! Flabbergasted Was shitting it a bit without Rashford today but didn't think it was worth getting him back in for 2 games before his BGW. And still had Salah from last week so got quite lucky but did think it wouldn't be an easy game for Man Utd with it being at Annfield.

Man Utd's goal difference is now +6. Arsenal are on +34 and Man City +41. We're still +18. Gives you an indication of how many of their wins were squeaked out 1-0s etc, and that they've taken a good few pastings this season as well.

People saying we can't get top 4 or 6 are the same as those who used to say 10/10 for relegation when we were 1 point off 4th bottom with 10 games left I assume Maybe some people do it to reverse jinx the situation but look at the table and the chances we're creating and the 100+ years of football where teams have gone on good runs and bad runs. And our rivals aren't going to win every game either. The next 2 games are massive. The turnaround in form needs to begin very soon and if it does then we've got every chance of finishing 4th-6th. We were always going to have a bad patch, hopefully ours is nearly done with. Way too soon to be saying it's all over.

Man Utd have been due a result like this for a while, they've been squeaking out results without being particularly impressive with crazy frequency since about October.

4 excellent chances and we've not connected with 1 of them!

Good summary, agree with all of it. Man City definitely haven't dominated, although we have looked on the ropes a few times. The finishing needs to improve man, it's killing us. Especially in games like this when chances are scarce. Hope to see Isak, ASM and Willock get plenty of minutes in 2nd half.

It's no wonder Grealish hasn't been as good for Man City when he's having to ref the game as well as play these days.

Fuckin hell, I'm 42k overall

"Too nice" is a meaningless cliche uttered by men with very red faces who are obsessed with Jeremy Clarkson. It isn't even remotely accurate or relevant with Howe: - There are no disciplinary issues in our squad - He has us playing smartly re game management etc - He's refusing to back down when challenged on our "antics" Yes he seems a nice bloke and is respectful towards other managers etc but I see no evidence whatsoever of his demeanour affecting us adversely. It's a pathetic and ungrateful comment to make actually, given what Howe's already done for us. Hopefully it's not one of those things that gets picked up by more and more thick fucks, and becomes accepted as fact.