Infinitely Content

Did he love tabs? Few lads at my school, two in particular were operating at a level way beyond their age, but they couldn't resist a Lambert & Butler and a shot on the bucket set hidden behind the oak tree at the bottom of the school grounds

Definitely, although I wanted to be Shay Given. I even got my hair cut with a receding hairline to look like his and started buying Sondico gloves and Adidas Preds.

Still one of the most entertaining players playing the game. Saint-Maximin is brilliant but he's not quite on Hatem's level for me. Anyone who claims to enjoy or love football has to simply admire him.

He's also an offside little weasel.

Definitely. I don't even mind the playing style, it's the way he whinges to the ref as soon as anyone touches him. Proper annoying fucker.

Perhaps a bit like what Murphy was like in his first season here. Just needs some time to grow as a person and and as a player I guess. Potential is evident.

Rate him very highly, has such a well-rounded game. Strong enough to hold up play, technical with the ball at his feet, able to beat players, insanely good movement to get in behind defences. Class act.

He's okay, some way behind Manquillo's level and certainly some way behind what Willems offered us. Willing to give him time though as Manquillo took a while to hit form here (even though Bruce seems to have dropped him now despite being our best full back by a mile).

That's the problem when everything is so stat based as it is these days. People stop believing what their eyes see and start reading off some bullshit stats thinking they're getting a complete picture. Sports yuppies I call them, these XG lot. Dull fuckers. I presume Schar may have a lower completion rate than a lot of centre backs as he tries more difficult passes than 5 yard square passes. Truth is, he's a better passer than a lot of midfielders, especially ours.

That was beautiful.

Fucking hell, twitter is such a wretched, desperate, dishonest place.

:lol: Holy shit

Podence was lovely to watch like. Looks like some player. Can see why they have dropped lube limbs for him.

Class. As we all already know.

Didn't even celebrate... mad how little investment I have in us these days. It's very hard to get excited after falling in and out of sleep for 85 minutes trying to watch us play.

Podence is mint.

Almirón has been good. I was initially worried about our right hand side with Murphy, Fraser & Schar, but it turns out we're weaker on the left with Fede and Lewis looking poor defensively. Lewis only really offers an overlap, and you have to hope ASM ignores him and cuts inside. Sounds brutal but I'm not a fan of him on the ball (Lewis), too indecisive. Also Hendrick is proper, proper shit.

Yeah 5-3-1-1 with ASM in the hole and Fraser & Almiron either side of Hendrick in the middle.

Must be Almiron and Hendrick as a midfield two... that's the only semblance of sense I can make out of it.

In order to attack effectively, you must have a solid base to work from though, and a bit of structure. I'm struggling to see where we get that from today.

"Steve, we've seen the team news, it looks very offensive" that's certainly one way of putting it.

Any idea if Schar is in defence over Lascelles or Fede or is he replacing Shelvey or Hayden? Manquillo playing?

Awful game, the amount of talent on this pitch... you would be excused for thinking both managers are fucking useless

Stonewaller iirc, Ramos was assaulted. Sickening.