David Edgar

Isak Fuck me.

It isn't getting any better with Almiron and Anderson coming on. Willing to take the hit for the comment on the latter for the time being.

Howe would've subbed Krafth off again if his name as Hall.

We wouldn't concede either goal if Pope is playing.

Dubravka

There is the Bruno yellow. Incredibly not given.

Antonio didn't jump with Schar, he jumped into Schar which is surely a foul.

Emile Crap.

Gordon utterly stinking in the last 10.

Can't play that line when Dubravka is fucking rubbish at sweeping.

Lascelles being an idiot playing on here. Groundhog day.

Why is there a debate over the penalty? Schar goes to take control of the ball, gets tackled (by a deliberate attempt to play the ball, which hilariously needs pointing out) and the ball ends up with Gordon. Gordon being stood offside is completely irrelevant as a result. Unless there is another farcical layer to offside rule I don't know.

Thanks to Antonio being a needlessly oafish prick.

Nonsense.

Is there any actual contact?

Far too slow upstairs to be able to play anywhere away from wide areas where he has the time and space he needs to be able to see and execute event the most simplest of passes. The man has a built in 2 second lag. The passage of play today where he dribbled the ball 40/50 yards directly towards Miley who had overlapped wide was abysmal. He closed down Miley's time and space before nudging the ball poorly in his direction. Loads of other examples of tripe play. Felt like he gave the ball away the majority of times he got it.

He does not do enough in general play and suffers all too frequently with lapses of concentration. His exceptional talent allows him to score high quality goals fairly regularly, but that isn't really going to be enough for a team to climb to the upper echelons. We need a striker who is going to both score goals and help us in defence and ball retention. Although, part of me wonders he is playing with an injury and that explains his inability to impose himself against any defender when challenging for the ball in the middle of the pitch.

My interest in football has taken a big hit this season with the continued artificial constraints being put on our ability to grow. Having to sell Bruno to enable us to buy players and simultaneously being unable to improve the playing squad to the level which would match Bruno's ambitions just makes the entire sham seem pointless. I'm not super interested in sitting back and trying to take small chunks of pleasure from the heavily controlled product that is modern football.

Botman's knee just went.

His first touch and technique is a real barrier to him being a genuine top level player. Absolutely rancid at key moments today.

Howe starting Burn again is funny at this point.

You get what you fucking deserve with Duflapka.

Gordon's touch is really poor. He's all sprints and effort.

Almiron is absolutely rubbish.