Deuce

There’s not an XI we could put out to avoid that.

Dubs Schar Fede Manq Lewis Hayden Shelvey Big Joe Maxi Almiron Wilson

I’m not sure this is true at all.

Leicester are good, we’re shit. On to next week.

We’ve been linked to him a fair amount since the takeover, but I do wonder if he’d even want the chance to be a first-choice striker somewhere considering what he’s got going for him as you highlighted.

Why would Burnley sell either of their starting CBs to us when we’re in the middle of a relegation fight with them?

I think they’ll beat Arsenal today.

Sounds like “here’s a terrific opportunity to sell our crap to a naive club that’s newly flush with cash.”

Bit of a catch-22: the better Gerrard does with Villa, the louder the calls for Liverpool to bring him home will grow. No such problem with Howe.

Fred puts ManU up

Spurs 2-0

Managers matter. Simple as.

Can’t help but pull for West Ham tbh. Moyes has them in terrific form.

3-2 win

I look at the Brentford and Norwich games and see two games we could’ve easily gotten 6 points from. We weren’t outplayed in either. We’ve a high hill to climb, but I’m not without hope that Howe can keep us up.

What difference would it have made had we won the league with 115 points instead of 94? And like I said, we *were* comfortably promoted. We finished 9 points above the playoffs zone.

feels like some are being contrarian for the sake of it. We won the Champo in our first season back and finished 9 points above 3rd, promoted with ease. *sees Rafa struggling with Everton* “Not surprised really, he only *checks notes* won the Championship and *checks notes* took us to 10th in our first season back in the Prem.”

4-3-3 Midfield of a deep-lying playmaker and two box-to-box titans. Pirlo-Schweinsteiger-Vidal in their respective primes. Ryan Shawcross c. 2011-2014 at CB to marshal my defense @Ronaldo

love HaycheTT

We’re not, fortunately. Joining Norwich put him on a hiding to nothing, particularly as he gets shunted out wide for them.

Did I miss something re: Jorginho? Was there some kind of campaign to push him into Ballon d’Or consideration?

Whenever I think of Birmingham I always remember that documentary about the pub that serves some kind of gnarly cider and the patrons that chew on glass