BlackandWhite

It’s a shit day, but we are still in a strong position, which we should be grateful for. Fail to beat Ipswich and we’re not worthy of UCL. Beat them and we only need to win half our remaining games at most.

City virtually certain of a UCL spot now given their run in. Down to any two from four for the remaining.

Athletic Club will well beat them. Rangers rode their luck to only lose by two, Athletic were all over them from 1st to 180th minute.

It’s a retro Man’ Reds match this where a bribed referee gets them out of jail. Classic Man’ Red on show.

He always talks about how he can’t stop thinking about football; how he couldn’t even enjoy the cup win because he couldn’t stop thinking about the next game. I love his passion, but as much as someone might love their job there’s such thing as being too obsessed and overworking yourself to the point where something like this can happen. The man has sacrificed his health(hopefully, only to a minor degree) in a bid to bring us glory! Get well soon, Eddie.

To be fair, there’s nothing to suggest Emery would not have done as good of a job, he’s been just as transformative for Villa as Howe has been for us. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t win them a trophy by the end of next season. Could well be the FA Cup this year, more than likely in the semi final and only one of Sky’s six left.

When he, Bruno and Tonali play together they are the best midfield in the league, and they proved that today.

Over the line? Yes, clearly. 100% over the line and not just 90 or so? Much harder to tell.

For performances I’ve seen in the flesh: Florian Thauvin. He was a good player overall in his career, but clearly didn’t want to be at us and was forced to move for the money. His performances showed it.

It’s a common sight in the championship to see one team start like a house on fire, only to lose form and fade away as the second half of the season takes over.

Some proper knee-jerk reactions to a bad window here. The guys not been here two months yet, do you really expect him to plan and execute everything in less than 8 weeks? Let’s give him a proper judgement this time next year.

No surprise with a mackem prick presenting the game

I am hoping our fans won’t be daft enough to run on the pitch tomorrow, and let the lads celebrate and do a lap of honour, but won’t hold my breath because every fanbase has its mugs.

Please have some sympathy for serial worriers like myself, who still worry about the 0.5% chance we won’t make it lol. It’s something the Mike Ashely era has scarred a lot of us with. Disaster was always around the corner, good things were never going to happen in his era. Right now; I am stressing over us barely having a midfield for Monday. Some of us healed from the Ashely era the day the takeover went through, but me myself still haven’t fully healed from the trauma of the Mike Ashley era. Seeing us the UCL might be the right antidote, though.

It’s the absolute spawiness, jaminess, and the fact they’ve the match officials on their side every game that worries me about Liverpool. I honestly think they’ll win all their remaining games giving the sheer amount of luck on their side. That means if we don’t win at Leeds, we’re under pressure to get two more wins from three games. The lads didn’t really handle the pressure of being in a cup final all that well and let the form dip for a few games, including the first half of the final; let’s hope they can hold their bottle this time.

Last time I looked, a defender who deliberately plays the ball is playing the opponent onside. As usual the standard of referring in England is in the gutters. The best league with the absolute worst refs.

Forget we got to it and act like we exited at the second round, go for walk in the park and do some shopping now we've Karius in goal for it

I would have thought pope spent about a minute and a half down on the deck, but there was no other major stoppage. Liverpool got gifted an extra minute and a half from nothing.

They think they’re the biggest club in the championship yet their manager’s just dumped them to go to Stoke City.

Hard to think of anyone who’s had an easier debut for us. We were so dominant today, we’d still have won with no goalkeeper playing.

I see that even in friendly matches they can’t score as many goals in Europe as wor Shola.

Spurs must be trying to build a diving team for the next Olympics and all. Kane and now Richarlision.

Much easier to stop a few thousand twats running on than tens of thousands.

As if they were going down anyway. Leeds are horrendous. With Brentford going for a too ten finish in their first season, no way do they win on Sunday.

It’s a funny way for Rangers to lose. Ramsey was their big January signing, they were at his feat, Boyd wanking himself silly on SSN deadline show. He was meant to be the signing that got them champions league, that won them the title, now’s he only gone and cost them the champions league. Oh the irony.