Wolfcastle

Not for extra games but do think its fairer. GD can be skewered by playing teams with nothing to play for, already relegated, teams playing 2nd strings etc. Its not a new thing, been around at least 30years(Padova and Genoa had a relegation play-off then). Seen some piece slating it in the papers this week, just hope he applies the same to the playoffs here but would be surprised

I know, its like that's the final proof he didn't have a clue, wasn't even a remotely decent guess, the other stuff was at least up for debate.

Must have been 20seconds per VAR check and for the substitution

Looks like he's completely lost the plot, like each of his own decisions has further thrown him off the next

Miss this and it is 01/02 and 94/95 all over again mind

Refs done great to get two VAR stoppages, a red card, a substitution and other stoppages down to no more than 60seconds mind, fair play

Hallmarks of a frustring afternoon building

Ben Jonhson caught again.

Managed to make an already poor game tragic

Villa Park is probably the ground I've been to most. Think I'm most impressed by how it still looks like Villa Park and different despite upgrading two and half of the stands since my first visit (93) more than anything else because aside from debating whether the old Holte End was bigger than the Kop at the time it didn't stand out then (had Anfield, Old Trafford and Ibrox fresh in the mind however)

Think they're claiming there's something profound and especially special about them after all because another club chose the same colour and shirt design exclusively because of how inspired they were by them, despite the finite amount of colours and shirt designs to go around several thousand football clubs. Though turns out it was Southampton Bilbao's first colours were blue and white halves ala Blackburn. Bet not one Blackburn fan gives a shit either way.

That they so desperatey want something to be true that isn't and would be no more than adopting a similar colour/design shirt anyway is tragic stuff. There probably will be some club somewhere that did copy the mackems shirt design and every other English clubs (Real Madrid copied Corinthian's ffs) but something as simple as typing 'Bilbao original colours' into google gives the Southampton based student story (and the fact its the City's colours)

Don't think that'll make any difference. Conference league is absolutely meaningless to them in comparison. Manager probably gets sacked if all they do is win that

Ballsed up the same situation against them in 01/02, pretty much thought of it as a gimmee, so all the talk of how big this game is, is good

Its no good not overlooking Chelsea but overlooking Villa. We finish behind either were likely not making it, so Villa losing is good

Well, always had City making it, Villa and Chelsea as our concerns, City deserved it more and f8ck Villa tbh so will take that

Offside but obviously let it play on for a bit first for no good reason

Rashford's bound to score mind

I thought it was initialy but at some point it seems to have became canon again - and the stripping never gets mentioned

Yeah, of the school of thought that a draw keeps both ticking over nicely in what's probably each's hardest remaining game, so wouldn't be as good with it as normal.

Marseilles were champions of Europe when demoted to the second tier on technicalities (well bribery charges)

Forest might have tailed off but couldn't have had a better opponent to stop that.

Got to keep reminding myself that the minute Spurs go out of Europe Ange gets sacked and if they don't go out of Europe then Man United will.

Don't think you go from 2-0 being a standard non-descript defeat/victory to 3-0 being a thrashing

Can't see them not finishing above Man U and Spurs.