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Last 8 games against them at SJP there’s been 8 goals in total.

We beat Newport on pens under Bruce live on Sky. Don’t blame anyone for banishing that game from their memories mind…

Yeah, unfortunately cup games do seem to attract a larger amount of these type of clowns. I seem to remember our Thursday night Europa games being particularly bad for it *compared to your average league game. Not implying all cup games are frequently by loads and loads of idiots off their nut on whatever. Just seem to be enough to make them more noticeable.

Sounds ridiculous, but getting Man City at home in the next round maybe wouldn’t be the worst thing. Chances are you’re going to have to beat them at some point if you want to win it, so you’ve got a much better chance of doing that at home, than at Wembley. Also the fact that the vast majority of their squad will have been at the WC and some only back shortly before the game, would be another advantage.

Looking at Palace’s team from the previous round and it was relatively strong, so doubt they’ll end up being particularly weak. Can’t see Zaha playing like.

Aye, Waugh saying on the Athletic podcast that the Palace reporter for the Athletic reckons they’ll play a load of youngsters.

I think it’s 75% of international matches over the last year (not sure whether that’s appearances, minutes or whatever).

His communication skills are absolutely first class. I’ve noticed in his pressers as well that sometimes he says something, pauses for a second to process how it’s come out, then he might rephrase it in a different way to add clarity.

Almost like our recruitment is actually targeting players that would fit the way we want to play, rather than the scattergun, ‘he looks decent’ approach of the past.

Already Saturday morning here…

Probably correct. And therefore increases the likelihood of the ‘biggest club in the world’ winning zero trophies again.

Interesting little thread that shows the fixture congestion some of the other teams (particularly Man Utd) could face. This is definitely a season for us to take advantage of circumstances… https://twitter.com/dalejohnsonespn/status/1588288713330597888?s=46&t=x87HJ_FX87T2HPr0V_Ydgw

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11374301/Sunderland-ban-away-supporters-bringing-VAPES-COINS-Stadium-Light.html Whilst there’s clearly been some incidents, it seems bizarre that they’ve had to resort to such draconian measures. Do we have the same issues, given away fans are similarly located? I actually sit underneath the away fans, albeit quite far towards the front, so would have to be a fair chuck to reach me, and the only time I can recall an issue was, ironically, the derby game where the flare hit the disabled lad.

Did he occasionally take free kicks for Lille when they wanted someone to thunderbastard it, or have I just made that up?

When everyone was celebrating Bruno ran back to the halfway line and was pointing at someone on the bench (Tindall?) as if to applaud them for coming up with the routine.

Miggy > Salah right about now

Panic over…

Just to add to the wages discussion… might be a bit of guesswork involved in these numbers, and we’ll already have increased quite a bit given our signings in the last two windows, but shows how far away we were from CL-level teams. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation mind as do you pay CL-level wages to get into the CL, or vice-versa.

You would sincerely hope, and I realise the recent Chelsea-Man Utd debacle suggests otherwise, that they’ve spoken with all the relevant bodies involved before announcing/confirming the date and ko time.

Originally it was. Two weeks ago…

Was always getting moved unfortunately

December and January TV fixtures finally getting announced this afternoon…

Agreed. The journey to the top is always better than the status quo of being at the top. That’s not to say you can’t have brilliant days when you’re an established top team, but right now EVERY win is great. A hard-fought, not that exciting, 1-0 home win over a mid-table team like Everton won’t feel like it did last week in 5 years time I suspect. That’s why I say we really need to savour the feeling at the moment, especially if you’re lucky enough to get to games, as it won’t always be like this.

Including pictures of the two players who absolutely won’t be there ?

And you’d think the fact there’s no European games during this period would actually make things easier than has been the case for the last couple…