Tiresias

Rashford will miss and he public enemy number 1 again

Very good pens all round i still wish that if it went past all players the managers should take them then the mascots

0-0 wouldn't shock me but we should be turning over these guys. I don't even have any animus tbh sure to watching a lot of footy with Everton fan mate whom is in permanent despair

He's just howes football philosophy made manifest isn't he, relentless, doing the hard yards and getting up and at the opposition

I am in toon for once but chose to be social with a friend who doesn't do sport. Fuck him. Nice to hear roar from stadium though

Mount is good but it's easy to get rinsed for price and wages for these type of overhyped english players. We do need homegrown talent for sure but I am more than happy to buy smart, it's not any of them will be as good as Bruno already is and if we start giving people huge wages over the top of him? I am not sure you hire Dan Ashworth to do the kind of back page of the sun transfer shopping Man U do.

Isn't that every club? Also it's absutely mental that £8m buys you a football club or 2/3rds of Dan Burn. Crazy stuff.

It doesn't need the money though, Journalist gets tips off players agents to help sell the players, journalist's career is helped because he knows about transfers sooner than others so journalist gets rewarded, agent gets to put player in shop window, agent gets what they want, it's a win win for them. Agents don't need to send any money to any journo (who would be being profoundly unethical in accepting it and would have hoped put career on line to do so but doubt it), because if a journo says pay me money they can just go to the next journo down the line, there would be no need to spend money as there are an unlimited number of journos who would appreciate the tip for some exposure. What Romano probably has is a lot of long boozy lunches with as many agents he knows where he comes accross is a nice guy and they reward him with tips, and because he just reprints whatever spurious bollocks they keep going to him. Means he's right more than most but only out of volume.

It seems to be a thing now noticed with us too, some fans will just boo any returning player no matter the happenstance of their return. Some returning players deserve some stick sure but fairly sure a large section now would boo shearer if he was playing a charity game against us for some reason

Howay man they've been better than us in every position and had a goal chalked off for a 1mm offside, refs would have to be outrageously biased to make a difference in this match

Well that's that. Defenders could not cope with Watkins at all.

I have faith in howe improving him, knee jerk reactions are a load of crap, although I wasn't especially convinced by the signing writing him off is ridiculous

Poor performance but also villa have been excellent, really impressed with them, no need to wet any beds just improve, move on

Well deserved villa, we deserve that

that one will count, ffs

thank fuck for the awful VAR system

Looks onside to me actually

Looks could be offside

FFS awful defending

Close

Should have scored

This has been a very good half for Sean longstaff

Good kept them to 1 goal, need a lift Gordon been poor

Villa look really good in all fairness

Murphy there... What was he doing