Kid Icarus

Taking the knee has become exactly what we thought it would end up being 5 years ago when it was co-opted by the very institutions it was brought in to fight against - A completely empty gesture that means nothing to anyone anymore and takes more bravery to not do than to do, the reverse of when Kaepernick did it. Call me cynical for thinking that it was co-opted in order to deliberately dilute its meaning, to turn it into an act of meaningless virtue signalling and to see it more as corporate wokeism that annoys more people than it inspires than an act of genuine meaning and bravery.

Oh aye, sounds like you know me well

Grow up man

Cringe

What a fucking hysterical flannel Thought Osula changed the match tbh, Woltemade wasn't protected in the battle so Osula facing them head on and running at them was a great move. Strange that he was blowing out of his arse after 10 minutes, but up until then he did everything you could ask.

He's fucking class. He got no protection whatsoever and he had to play not just against a couple of rugby players, but a ref that was like "Aye sound, that's fine" We need to kick up a fuss, if refs get this stupid idea in their heads that tall=higher threshold for a foul, it won't change until we highlight how stupid it is.

That they might not lose to. Couldn't give a shite about Sunderland

Fantastic result for us

Another thing that was quite odd was Osula really injecting a lot of energy and playing a large part in our goal, then being completely fucked and unable to close down 10 minutes after he'd come on.

I was in the posh seats today and enjoyed it overall. Strange match in that we weren't great, did that thing of being great at nil nil then weirdly lost our mojo once when we went ahead, but despite all of that the overriding feeling was that there was no fucking way that we weren't going to win this match. Step up Bruno, the player who personifies all of that. All of the hardship was because we just didn't believe in ourselves, which is mad, we're a fucking class team. The ref was a disgrace, something we're not unaccustomed to saying, but fucking hell, he was so bad that he genuinely affected Woltemade's performance, their defenders were literally bearhugging him to the ground and he got nothing, absolutely ludicrous. Pope: 8 Trippier: 7.5 Thiaw: 8.5 Botman: 7 Burn: 7 Bruno: 7.5 Miley: 7 Joelinton: 6.5 Murphy: 7.5 Woltemade: 7 Gordon: 7

Was so close to saying you can say that again until I saw that you had you little shit.

By all accounts Howe is very different behind closed doors like. You can see it in those Bournemouth training videos when he's telling them their finishing is piss poor

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What he's done is incredibly petty like, but their online fans are a special breed of utter cunts. When I was having a look for some Isakenfaude they were talking about him like he was a donkey, rather than one of their best players of all time.

Definitely one of those ones that I think says more about and looks far worse for the person saying it than the thing they're trying to belittle. Not to mention that it also just makes him sound like he's rattled by something.

It's come around quite quickly tbf. Largely thanks to our lanky streak of silk and the 7 international breaks we've had

Think it's because he wasn't as good as some of the other options and £30m under Ashley meant nothing to us. Rob Lee and Schär are clear of everyone really, with probably Burn and Trippier in the tier below them.

Easily A

There's something proper unsettling about his harmless nana-like demeanour like.

Getting hooked when it was the perfect opportunity for him to find some form against sub-league one defending.

Probably because giving a contract extension to a player in the middle of a gambling ban would add extra pressure on him and give the media and the titty twisters in our fanbase ammunition to heap it on.

Hate watch abandoned for now. It would be hilarious if the rat doesn't score in this, but the liklihood is too high.

I thought I knew bad defending

Should be 2-2, Liverpool are shite man.