Kid Icarus

They've already got more points, but I think this lot at their worst are the worst I've seen in the league. More hapless than Derby and the Mackems, definitely.

Doesn't Bellingham play further forward now?

Bruno and Anderson completely not understanding the game.

Watched this earlier. Think we spoke about this the other day but it's been such a strange season like.

The Dutch league is a difficult one to take much from I think. Kezman, Babel etc, and probably even more so these days, but everything I've seen of Minteh has looked very promising.

Aye, he didn't get permabanned did he?

I loved Acuna like. Brave as anything and absolute nails. Definitely one of those cult players who doesn't get enough of a mention.

That sounds exactly like someone I sat near a few times. I used go red with second hand embarrassment at some of the shit he'd come out with. His favourite one was "hold him up, hold him up...PINCH!" usually directed towards Steven Taylor. In his view the best way to defend - often with an acre of space behind you - was to hold the attacker up, then go in for a tackle. I hated him, an absolute Kenny Sr level bullshitter but without ever being funny or endearing.

Huge if true

Just seen Wissa's goal, absolutely lush. Seem to remember Gavin Peacock scoring one like that for us. It's very rare you see scissor kicks like that anymore.

Ugh, fucking Villa. They're really not even that good as well

Missed some of the second half but thought during the first especially we looked more like the team we know and love, with Joelinton being the only obvious absence and the midfield looking better with Willock in there. Excellent win, really happy with that. Dubravka: 8 Trippier: 7 Schär: 8 Botman: 7 Burn: 7.5 Longstaff: 6 Bruno: 8.5 Willock: 7 Murphy: 6 Isak: 7 Gordon: 8 Livramento: 8

Hold on a second. He's accuses of spreading rumours about players in return for money... That's literally the business model for the industry he's in.

My uncle's very good mates with his dad. If I hear anything I'll let everyone know. I already know he'd jump at the chance to come here if we were genuinely interested though.

Brentford 1-1 Chelsea Everton 2-1 West Ham Fulham 1-1 Brighton Newcastle 2-3 Wolves Forest 1-2 Liverpool Spurs 2-0 Palace Luton 1-2 Villa Burnley 1-2 Bournemouth Man City 3-1 Man Utd Sheff Utd 0-4 Arsenal

On the Black and White video when Cole's sold, the narrator says something along the lines of 'Keith Gillespie comes the other way as part of the deal and is a player who Keegan sees as the best of the crop amongst Man United's youngsters' - I watched it recently and was just like arrrrgh for fucks sake man. Gillespie was decent, but obviously Scholes was the best in that group.

I feel like from a fan point of view, Hull City at home was a big sliding doors moment for a lot of people involved in SackPardew/Ashley Out and their perception of our fanbase as a whole.

Nobby as well, but agreed. It was obvious straight away that even one of the better replacements that season, Ketsbaia, wasn't going to cut it for a team supposedly attempting a title challenge.

Good to read a positive one.

Honestly, just Tim Flowers instead of Hislop tbh.

Signing Tim Flowers and Colin Hendry in '95 instead of Hislop and Barton.

I think I've realised what this whole ignoring injuries to the point of gaslighting and instead talking about the minutae of everything else to within an inch of its life is really about. The people doing it just want something to talk about.

That's usually the nature of fatigue like. If nothing changes (ie bringing other players in) it gets worse as time goes on, not better.

And Blackburn obv

Thought it must be a forum joke. It has to be, surely not. This fucking season has been an absolute piss take. I'm beyond laughing about it now, it's ridiculous.