Kid Icarus

North London appears to be black and white

A fitting end like, 2 of the best defensive displays I can remember us having bookending his time here.

Imagine having to play up front against him and Burn when you've just got over a cold.

Burn and Botman were sublime but I think Tonali's leadership was why we won for the first time without Bruno.

He's on Isak’s wavelength nearly all the time like, it's class.

No big calls for him to make but about as bad as it gets in terms of giving one team everything and the other nothing. Everyone knows that all people named John Brookes are wronguns.

Holy shit he was good. I'm almost certain he won everything he went in for both in the air and on the ground.

Absolutely fucking fantastic. It's only half time so we can't get emotional but that's about as perfect a performance as you could ask for. Dubravka: 8 Livramento: 7.5 Botman: 10 Burn: 10 Hall: 9 Willock: 6.5 Tonali: 9 Joelinton: 7 Murphy: 8 Isak: 9 Gordon: 8

Very few complaints there. Some shakey performances, but others playing really well and all of them fully committed. Expect them to be better second half so it would be great if we could hit them on the break second half.

Someone said it yesterday, transforming that West Ham squad into one that suits Potter won't be easy, so offering him a short term contract seems totally counterintuitive.

Yeah I remember that as well tbf. We don’t have the best record for seeing potential.

Since the expansion it's not the same stadium as the 90s atmosphere-wise. I do think it's partly the changing demographic regardless of that, but that everything also goes hand-in-hand. Stadiums and 'the matchday experience' are designed to cater to ever-wider demographics, ticket prices price some demographics out, allocations aren't necessarily nurturing the atmosphere because mates find it more difficult to sit together, and then supporters who are treated like customers end up acting like it.

Does this mean there's no issue with having a problem with people in the stadium then? Because for whatever reason you can point to, new stadiums and improved atmosphere don't seem to have gone hand-in-hand.

It's just as much, if not more, about the relationships the people in the ground have with those they're surrounded by and as has been brought up a few times, the club hasn't just failed to nurture that, they've actively ruined it.

I think it's more noticeable how with the right language anyone can make being in favour of the changes that people don't want look like the progressive position that's being attacked rather than doing the attacking. Then present the defensive resistance to those changes as the side doing the attacking, that's also inherently conservative, regressive, xenophobic, bigoted, or whatever else you want to throw at it. I don't think this is some irrational fear of the unknown outsider, it's that this specific brand of capitalism and its negative effects on football are known and already inside that makes the fear of having yet more of it rational. I often think football mirrors tons of these little scenarios that are like microcosms for bigger political or historical situations, and this is just another one.

Correct

They were linked with him for ages before he came here. At one point an I5AK reg car was spotted near their ground during the transfer window aaaaaand it wasn't him

Careful, that's bigotry with some on here.

Nein, it was 9+

Often wonder what happens if you play one of these 'let them have the ball then counter' teams at their own game. No one ever seems to do it.

That's a fucking pen like. No surprise it's that Yates cunt

I guess you could say that lad's career is Strand? Larceny?

Similar to us vs West Ham this.