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It was Granit Xhaka saying at half time "We are playing like a second division team, we have to play like they're playing, guys we have to play like them" that I always remember from that show.

Howe said yesterday that Christmas may be a bit too soon, but he'll hopefully be back in a match day squad in January.

The game that always sticks in my mind from that survival season, which was the moment I was thought "oh we've got something really special here with Eddie" was actually after we'd survived and where just closing out the season. It was the "Wet the appetite" Arsenal 2-0, they where challenging for the Champions League and had everything bit of motivation to put on a performance, while we where safe and could have arguably been on the beach, but we battered them throughout, we had the desire,the determination and the fortitude to put on a display, while they where the ones that looked like they'd been in a relegation scrap all season.

Just watching this, by christ has Eddie aged over the last 3 years

What a thrilling time to be a West Brom fan:

Really interesting video this:

Chelsea are going to have a flood of goals in Armenia tonight.

How long has the MLS play-offs been a best of 3 match series? Is it new for this season? I'm not sure if I like that or not, for sports like Baseball and Hockey it works really well and produces some great drama, but I'm not sure if works for Football.

If he wasn't in the England squad he'd have been with the U21's, so from our perspective it makes no difference tbh.

Quality news

I mentioned it in the Managerial Sack Race thread, but Mark Robbins getting sacked may be the most mental decision any EFL club will make this season.

Thats a ridiculous decision, I know they've not started the season amazingly, but he's done an outrageous job and surely he'd earnt more than enough good grace to allow him a 14 game bad patch, which he was actually starting to turn around.

I don't really bet, so I can't particularly comment, but I'll take your word for it

Love that podcast, both of them are so informed, it's a great way to get a picture of what's going on in the Football League.

Just seen Millwall beat Leeds and are currently 5th in the Championship. It's kind of be funny in a morbid kind of way if they ever managed to get up

Halfway through the group and PSG aren't even in the playoff spots

Just seen the Mings penalty incident, that a bit ridiculous like, surely a bit of common sense needs to be applied in a situation like that.

Mohammed Kudus's suspension extended to 5 games, meaning he'll be out of our game.

Wrong thread mate:

Plymouth are away this weekend, they've only scored 1 goal away from home this season and didn't even have a shot last week against Leeds. So a Derby win to nil is a good bet this weekend.

Lille are having a mad one this Champions League, have already beat both the Madrid sides and now beating Juventus.

It's Truro in fairness, which might as well being the north with how deprived Cornwall is