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For a bear, he looks like a season.

West Ham have treated Lopetegui terribly like. They cancelled his press conference first thing this morning, then made him take training, and when that was complete they then fired him.

Rory Jennings whole schtick is to have massively wild takes, and to say it with such purpose an authority that people think he's telling the truth, when in reality all he's doing its making an outlandish statement to garner clicks and interaction which ultimately makes him money. Honestly I detest that form of "Content", the whole reason of doing it is rile up and give someone an emotional feeling, usually from anger, all so you can garner "interactions" with the ultimate aim of making a quick buck, it mirrors the current politic discourse in the western world and its depressing as all sin given how profitable it can be.

I find it kind of amusing that to this day we get seen as the pillar of time wasting in the league, when in actual fact we are one of the quickest to get the ball back into play in the league: Thats not to say that we don't do it, as we do, but every team does at one point or another.

This was very evident last night by the way, its so irritating:

The current talking point on the BBC Sport Live Feed is "Weird and Wonderful Trophy's teams have won". To which someone pointed out the Sheriff of London Charity Shield which we won in 1907, and its a thing of beauty, look at the size of it:

Miserable is an understatement Premier League: All competitions:

Didier Deschamps to leave France after the 2026 World Cup.

Harsh on Parkinson that.

Oh, and in the wise words of @Mike. Get fucked Froggy

Aston Villa fans probably:

When was the last time we won 7 games in row btw? I had a look and we didn't do it two years back, so I'm guessing it must have been in Sir Bobby? Incredible stuff.

So about that shit away form.... I think we may have turned a corner.

7 wins in a row. Man United, Tottenham & Arsenal all beaten away from home. 20 goals scored. 2 Goals conceded. Home against a team 4 divisions below us. We are so losing this.

If that was his last game for us, his time here have been bookended by two absolute quality performances, both today, and that debut against Man United.

That was such an assured performance, i'm actually blown away. Its not like they had a rotated side, they went full strength, they where at home, had the crowd on their side, they where unbeaten in 13 games, and hadn't lost at home since last April, and we just rocked up, without two of our best players in Schar and Bruno, and we played our own way, and controlled the game, not the possession or the shot count but the game. They had the ball, but it always felt like that was because we wanted them to, and we dictated what they did, so much so that Howe had the absolute confidence to go 5-5-0, and say "Break us down, I fucking dare you.". We are morphing into an elite side before our eyes and its quality.

Did they actually have a chance when we went 5-5-0? Its kind of hilarious, but it absolutely worked.

Man of the match, again. Absolute rock.

New Contract

Also, fuck off you Stoke impersonating, percentage playing, time wasting, diving fucking pricks. You just got fucking Howe'd in the face.

Who said he didn't have flexibility in our formation? The dude went 5-5-0 in that second half and it worked a fucking treat.

North London isn't red, it isn't white. Its black and fucking white.

Come the fuck on, what a fucking result and performance. That was quality all over, we rode our luck a couple of times, but if you're going to win a semi-final thats always going to happen. We defended so fucking well.