GideonShandy

2 subs at half time -- Hall and Murphy.

Great name for a Welshman. Sort of like having a Scotsman called Jimmy Thistle or an Irishman called Paddy Shamrock. Ken Leek was born and raised in the vowel-free village of Ynysybwl. Not a lot of people know that.

Turned to him in desperation after Cabbageheed took the Blackpool job .

Wilson v. Arsenal At 8:33 on here.

And any one of us can quote at least a dozen of the well-worn phrases he will roll out at the post-match interviews.

Blackpool Illuminations started last Friday. Blackpool Abominations start today.

Lewinho

Great in-depth journalism. Hard to take it all in on a first reading.

Horrible weasel.

I guarantee that, since that article was published, dozens of the finest criminal minds in the northeast have been trying to figure out the best way of stealing it off him.

Starts against Forest. Sprints around like a maniacal dervish. Tears his hamstring or gets sent off. Or probably both. Gets straight on the phone to his bookie. Phone is being tapped and he gets suspended for life. Returns to Italy with his dog and his £400,000 watch. Nailed on.

Yes. Wonder what's up with that.

Hoped we'd seen the last of the "Mexican" shit.

If he hadn't stayed on after the relegation and brought us straight back up, if he hadn't got Amanda Staveley interested in the club, if he hadn't kept us up for two more seasons on a tight budget under a malignant apathetic owner . . . doesn't even bear thinking about. Honorary Geordie for life.

The more I watch the incident, the more it looks like a prearranged plan. "Clatter Schar, get in his face, see if you can get him to react and, when he does, milk it for all you can." Pawson had already blown for a foul near the halfway line and everyone including Diaz knew it. Schar was basically just retrieving the ball. Diaz barges into him, hard, when he's not expecting or braced for contact. On the close-up you can see that when Schar is on the ground, Diaz leans over him and evidently says something. (If he'd spat on him I'm sure we would have heard about it.) When Schar understandably moves towards Diaz to respond, Diaz stands his ground when the natural reaction would be to take a step back, and then leans in so that Schar's forehead makes contact. And down he goes. Reckon he'd probably rehearsed the whole performance.

Schar should have hurled himself to the ground clutching his face as soon as he felt contact and left the ref to decide which of the two writhing bodies to send off (or both or neither).

One game closer to Tonali's reappearance.

Transfer fee (per release clause) of only £3.4 million (4 million euros). Decent bargain for Villareal (although not as good as when we got him for £1.5 million.)

Horse on a Mag?

This is absolutely awful.

The thing about unseen work is that you don't see it.

Hauled off after 70 mins.

Mikel Merino to Arsenal for only 25 million? https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-mikel-merino-33373577

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