Paullow

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx1AP6ktyT6/ Giving away his shirt to a random comment on his Instragram. Pretty sure this is the first time his comments have been open to anyone since he joined, as before they were always limited to those who he followed. Not sure if it will go back to limited after this, or if this was the opportunity to finally leave it fully public and that he is much more confident and happy with where he is at and how things are going.

I'm not particularly worried, hence the addition of the emoji, just pointing out that he seems to have developed a bond with the club he's currently representing.

I just hope he doesn't get too attached to the club and push for a permanent move there . He does come across happy there which can surely only be a good thing for his development.

Crystal Palace finally moved ahead of them in the all time Premier League table today after their shock win at Old Trafford, pushing them to 18th. Wolves are the closest to them of the current PL sides, but are only on 396 points, so they won't drop any further for many years, if at all. It obviously doesn't really mean that much, but the PL forming does almost completely coincide with when I was old enough to get into football, so it is quite interesting to see how teams have done in my lifetime. Their -292 goal difference is also the worst out of all 51 clubs who have competed in the league.

I was gonna say game over, but then forgot what happened the last time Liverpool went down to 10 men...

PSG currently drawing 0-0 (into injury time) with Clermont who were bottom of the league with one point from their first 6. They have the same amount of points from their 7 games as us (12), but they are 2nd in their league, not 8th. Mbappe started, so will surely be fine to play here.

Still think Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool will be pretty clear of the rest come the end of the season, and it'll be us, Spurs, Brighton, Villa, Man Utd (in no particular order) battling it out for the other one or two CL spots, so Spurs win would be the worst result for us IMO, but that said, it's still early days, and sometimes it's nice just to watch a high level match and not be overly fussed about the outcome.

Should be, but not officially.

0-2 Luton. Morris. Captained him this week with their double game.

Probably switch over to Southampton vs Leeds soon. Fair play to Villa, didn't see this score line coming.

I like to see all local non league sides do well, but at the same time, I do like the fact that Newcastle are the only league side in one of the UK's biggest conurbations, so would probably prefer Gateshead to continue playing great football, surprising people, stay at the top end of the league for years to come, but always keep falling short at the 6 team playoff hurdle.

Villa are slight favourites, and them being at home helps from a neutral perspective as they have won 9 leagues games in a row there. Very intriguing match and one I'm looking forward to. Probably hoping for a draw as only 2 points will be dished out, but I'd rather just see a good game of football, so not too fussed on the outcome really.

Tomorrow is a great day of live football. Villa vs Brighton at 12.30 and then Tottenham vs Liverpool at 5.30. Two, close looking, hard to call matches featuring half of the better 8 or 9 teams. Even Southampton vs Leeds at 12.30 looks decent. Bit of a shame (from an armchair POV) that the early PL match wasn't at 8pm like Burnley-Man Utd last week - there was nothing really on at 12.30pm last week, whereas here there's two good matches.

Shocking that Benfica vs Porto isn't even on a random app type channel. Classic fixtures like that should be individually picked up by someone, even if they don't own the rights to the full league. 0-0 heading into half time, but Porto have had a man sent off. It is on betting sites so will probably find a stream in the second half with the Championship match and the rugby being one sided.

Some bookies would have paid out already.

Christ

Aye, one up inside 5 mins, doubt it'll be long until switch over, similar to the recent Southampton match.

I expect Sunderland to win, thought they'd be shorter than 6/5 though. If they go 2 goals ahead I'll switch over to the Rugby World Cup.

Annoying, but I wasn't expecting to still be in the hat. I guess we'll see how the league / CL form is at the time in terms of picking the team. Still pretty early on in the competition.

Unless Dummett gets 'injured' in the warm up and it was just a front.

Dummett spoils it, and ultimately makes it much tougher to progress, but along the lines of what I would have picked. Joelinton back so soon is a boost, but just hope it's not too soon.

Good stuff.

It's probably the first match since Sheff Wed where I'm not too fussed of the result. I'll be looking forward to watching it, hoping to see some newer / less familiar faces involved, and obviously would like to see us win and play well, but I'll definitely be more relaxed watching it, and much less pressure than usual. As Craig Hope said on his recent video, it kind of is win-win. If we win then we will have had a bit of a scalp and a big favourite would have been knocked out, but if we don't then we can concentrate on elsewhere including two massive matches at SJP in the next 7 days I guess Chelsea away would have been similar on the final day.

Yeah, the only ones that haven't been are Brentford (A), Southampton (H), and Chelsea (A), all in the league last season. We've always had a reasonable amount of games on TV, even when finishing 13th was 'magnificent', and more than we should for a bang average bottom half side due to the domestic fan base and profile, but it is getting to the stage now when it feels strange if we are not selected, ha.

Tonight is our 34th match of 2023 in all competitions, amazingly 31 of them have been televised.