Paullow

It was much better when one of the PL and Championship TV matches were on at 12.30, and the other at 12.45 so that you could switch on to the other at half time. I guess if you were planning on watching the 12.45 match and the earlier one started frantically with all sorts going on, you may be tempted to stick (unless your team), but still like it better.

Wor Toney

BHA starting to get a foothold here. A couple of decent saves from the Brentford keeper.

Leicester vs Palace (tomorrow, 12.30) also looks good to me. Leicester are one of my favourite teams to watch - a lot of good attacking players, but also vulnerabilities at the back, which often makes for some exciting matches. There's been 39 goals in their 9 matches thus far, the 2nd only behind City, and most of Cities are one sided beatdowns. Hopefully Brentford can bounceback and get something tonight, and a big performance from Ivan.

Crazy to think we're as short as 23/10 to win here, and had it have been at SJP, we'd have very likely been the betting favourites. I think I said it earlier, or possibly another forum, but 23/10 is surely the shortest price we have ever been to win at Old Trafford, including those 1995-1997 years.

Heartbreak for Omonia

Crazy how McTominay didn't start, with him being suspended for Sunday.

Yeah, he's easy to listen to, although a lot what he is saying was said during his first interview

It won't be ideal because those in their 50's will be able to remember all sorts, whereas those under 20 will have only witnessed a few managers, but it would be very interesting to have a poll for least favourite manager in the PL era (I was getting into football during the first Keegan managerial years, so that works perfectly for me ) Definitely Bruce for me, and by some distance.

Any particular reason why Wigan play Blackburn tonight (live on Sky), and Bristol C play Preston tomorrow (not on Sky)? They're not games in hand, and all 4 of them play on Saturday. They probably can't play the fixture further down the line for whatever reason, so getting them in now, but seems random just to have 2 Championship matches in midweek.

Was just coming to bump this thread to post this. Love these vids.

'Erm'

He's obviously managed Sunderland, had that scuffle with Shearer, and just never really had a good word to say about Newcastle throughout his time in the game, but all that aside , I do quite like listening to Roy Keane.

Happy with that.

Gibbs-White has had a solid match.

It would be a better point for Forest IMO, but you'd then have to question where the wins are going to come from. Hopefully they at least hang on.

Time for J-Lingz to earn some of his huge wages.

I do think Villa look most likely. I think they'll get a bit better in the second half, and it'll be one of those matches where you hope the other side hold out for as long as they can, but the breakthrough will come at some point. Forest have already lost at home to Bmouth and Fulham, so given Villa's away record, there's not many better chances for 3 points, but I get the impression they'll see a draw as a point gained.

Can't not see Villa scoring again, Forest do look very vulnerable at the back.

Shite. That didn't last long . Good hit

Good stuff, big goal. Not massively threatening, but Villa did look the more likely in the first 15 mins. Something for Forest to hang on to / build on.

RK says he doesn't score enough goals. 7 in 23 (not all of them starts) is pretty good going IMO (obviously boosted yesterday, but still).

Forest vs Villa tonight on MNF. Interesting match. You'd think Forest would need around 25 points at home if they are to have any chance of staying up, and tonight would certainly be one where they would realistically be targeting 3, however, Villa are the even money favourites and they'll certainly be thinking it's as good a time as ever to get their first away league win. it does feel like a match where the first goal is crucial.

Just had a quick look at his posting history and of the 5 pages of 40 posts that you can easily see, literally 197 of 200 stretching back to Aug 28 have been on the NUFC thread, which is pretty astonishing. Only 3 in 6 weeks about Sunderland for an active poster (and they probably had a link to Newcastle in some way). Mind, saying that, I also have had a quick look at my own history and 12 of my last 16 posts have been on the Bruce thread, so I may need to reign that in