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As close as I’ve ever seen Eddie to telling one of them to get fucked. I mean he often looks completely bemused by Ryder’s questions, but that’s mainly because Ryder manages to ask them in the manner of someone who doesn’t have English as their first language.

Confirmed that it’s Eddie doing the presser

Shola’s like the loan player’s player liaison guy. Admin for the WhatsApp group and that.

Be very surprised if any of them played. Maybe Gordon at a push, but seems unlikely. Also not sure whether Delap’s starting.

Tbf they did have it open longer, and everyone complained and said it should be closed sooner…

I think Trafford could well start, but I take your point. It just takes a year or so with Eddie though. Tino and Hall didn’t start for us despite being in this price bracket, and look at them now.

Aye, when his dad was at Southampton. Not sure where they would have lived when he was at Stoke?

Feels like an absolute perfect MLS fit.

Sounds like they want to charge £100 for a ticket…

PressHub

Has there ever been a better recovery over the Easter period?

Yep, they don’t use language like that if there’s a chance of him coming back.

I can pretty much guarantee Sky won’t shrug move on.

Potentially in excess of £20m more than Spurs.

Crystal Palace

Yep, can see them having the wage wiggle-room for that…

I hope they do, because we’ll absolutely rinse them if they try and take the game to us at SJP.

Lloris never played for Spurs again after that first half.

Yes, three rather than one if Bournemouth were to beat Man Utd.

We’d have 62, so theoretically Fulham, Bournemouth or Brighton could surpass us (and Villa) by winning all their games. Which then means us finishing 7th and Villa 8th, but they’d get the Europa place from winning the cup. But probably that unlikely it’s not worth considering really.

So we beat Ipswich and Palace lose to Villa in the cup and we’d be one point from guaranteed Europa (at least)? edit - although I suppose not quite as Villa could still collapse in the league and win the cup to get the Europa place that way.

There’s also a point in the season where looking at what previous points totals becomes a little bit irrelevant. It’s absolutely a good guide/target when looking earlier on in the season, but once you get to the last handful of games, it’s probably more relevant to look at rival teams and their fixtures and likely points totals.

Yes

He’s a very solid defender. Pretty shite going forward like, so would be a very different option to Hall/Tino.

Tbf, if they used automated offsides properly and efficiently, it wouldn’t be so bad. Like surely you can just press a button and it says yes or no within 5 seconds. Then the lino gets a buzz in his ear and puts his flag up. Not too much different to how it was, but (hopefully) significantly more accurate. Aye, there’d be a few where it’d require interpretation, like was the player interfering, or has it been played by a defender etc, but we could live with them having to go back and revisit those ones.