Paullow

Great 1-4 away win. This c*nt should be nowhere near my radar, but I was more pleased with Swansea's winner than disappointed with Fulham's consolation which almost happened simultaneously.

It is in a way, obviously the situation from the other week, and gets a bit boring if the top two win every week, but realistically, we'll be a hell of a lot nearer Brighton's points total than we are Liverpool, so good that they're probably no longer getting any unexpected bonus points.

Luton ahead in side 6 minutes, unlucky own goal. Hull currently on a bad run of forum. Edit - didn't realise Hull had gotten rid of Shota Arveladze. He sounded a broken man during their last defeat, and gave a poor interview, so not a massive surprise.

Yeah, switching over to Hull vs Luton now that the Bayern match looks done and dusted. Always had a soft sport for Leverkusen stretching back to CM 97/98 as a young'un and remember getting a strip at Penrith market not long after, but they're well off the pace this year. This Championship match is not very appealing on paper, probably among the 10 least attractive on paper IMO, but hopefully it'll deliver. At least there's some very eye-catching fixtures over the rest of the weekend.

Bruno, Pope, Trippier (probably), Schaar, and now Kuol - any other NUFC players that will likely be off to Qatar? It will be really interesting seeing Garang if he gets his chance in cameos.

This was a good interview with BT Sports Lynsey Hipgrave. I was almost going to put it in the Steve Bruce thread because her face around the 46:00 mark cracked me up with he was referenced

I do like his Bruce impressions

Fair play to him for going down. It's a trek down to Lincoln and much different to getting a Metro to Kingston Park where you might see a few famous faces, or get an interview with Amanda or Mehrdad. It's obviously part of his job to keep putting out content, particularly during the international break, but still a good effort especially when it would become apparent very early on that it wasn't much of a contest.

Italy not qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, winning Euro '2020', and then not qualifying again for the 2022 World Cup, must be one of the most peculiar things in world football. Absolutely crazy.

A local young lad getting a few questions there before the anthems. Couldn't quite tell what part of the north east he was from.

There's 7 or 8 others who haven't started as well as they would have liked, it's certainly not just worselves...

Atleti vs Real live on ITV4 at 8pm tonight as part of the 10 game deal. Definitely feel far more obliged to watch with it being on a free channel for some reason

Fair play to Wolves fans. Miserable afternoon, worst possible start, just conceded a third goal a minute ago, but still gave a very good applause on the 70th minute.

If you type in Forest Fulham on Twitter one of the first posts will be the match with English comms and perfect quality. 2,700 currently watching. Not been watching it all, but it's been there whenever I have checked - very surprised it hasn't been taken down.

Missed the deadline again - I got like only 31 points last time when I forgot. I started the campaign quite well as well, but after two years of not bothering to do one, I'm still getting used to it.

Bournemouth's defeats have obviously been well documented, especially one of them, but for all that, they are still on the same amount of points as us and have had a tougher start - we've shared 4 common opponents from our 6 games, but they've also had Arsenal as well. Still fully expect us to win (and hopefully well), as I would for most of our home matches, but they might not be the pushover many are expecting.

2-3 now. Probably win 4-3, and that'll shut a few folk up!

They've done pretty well generally. Won 4 of their 9 matches, +5 GD, and already played Sheff U, Norwich and Boro, losing to them all by the odd goal, and competing well. The teams they lost to, especially the first two, should be up their at the end of the season, but there's not too many after that, Burnley and Watford probably, but WBA (with Bruce) should be, but are MILES off the pace, and have only won one of their 10 matches (assuming they don't score 3 late goals tonight). There's no reason why Sunderland shouldn't be targeting a playoff spot this season IMO, unfortunately.

The cross was class as well.

Just watching BT's CL Goals Show, and the goals really are flying in at the moment.

West Brom behind again. Sunderland 3-0 Definitely bittersweet because WBA should be right up there, but they won't sack Bruce, and they're going to miss the boat in terms of promotion. Sunderland lost narrowly to Sheff U with 10 men, and to Norwich where they were the better side, and those two should be up there, probably Burnley and Watford as well, Boro if they can finally get something going, and you'd usually say WBA, but they're currently nowhere near, but after that there's no one that stands out, so the playoffs could be a real possibility for the Mackems.

They lost their only recognised striker in Simms on 37 minutes, and then scored 2 quick goals. Probably won't be too far off the playoffs, possibly even in them. They've been competitive in most matches I've seen of them this season.

Bacon losing at home to one of his many, many former clubs, Birmingham.

I'm still watching Rangers, but Sunderland seem to be dominating possession in their match. Odds were like 6/4 Reading vs 9/4 about 15 mins ago, but now 11/5 vs 15/8.