Kid Icarus

I think it's a popular myth (and popular topic on here) that Tino was a poor signing in 95/96. We had a reputation for having a poor defence and insane attack in but when we signed Tino the goals were drying up and by the end of the season we had the second best defence in the league. Having said that, if we had a What If machine it would be interesting to see what would have happened if our summer signings had been Flowers and Hendry instead of Hislop and Barton.

I generally hate the attendance chat, but something surely happened for them to have so few people there? If that's just the natural attendance for the match and there's no real reason no one showed up then that's truly shocking like.

Brentford 1-2 Man City Chelsea 2-1 Bournemouth West Ham 1-1 Fulham Forest 1-2 Liverpool Everton 1-1 Villa Leicester 1-1 Palace Newcastle 2-2 Wolves Arsenal 1-1 Spurs Ipswich 1-1 Brighton Man United 3-0 Southampton

Not a good thread title for people with no memory of this happening

This is really boring, but I'll continue to bite and put you right about what I said. It was 9+...in a row...in the league. We're still 4 league games and 3 weeks away from that. And again, nothing to do with pure probability in the way you're implying and everything to do with applied probability based on real-world evidence.

It's just always, always fickle and clownishly over the top to the point that I don't think it should be taken seriously.

With friends like these.. (N-O, not him )

Took me ages to decide who I'd prefer to go out, like. Mad how much I can't stand Arsenal now considering how much I admired them under Wenger.

That must be the worst left side we've ever put out like.

Poor Huntington, he never stood a chance.

Is Raya a bit simple? Diving like 2 strides before they even reach the ball.

Couldn't have put it better myself

Wouldn't omit Shearer either, but yeah Beardsley 93 to 96 is about as good as we've had it in my lifetime like, like Ben Arfa level wtf moments, but more regularly and with an extremely high work rate.

It's not either or though, just hoy them all in! Beardsley's our best player in the PL era. A genius.

Hold on, it's happened a few times. What's going on?

Beye was comfortably better than everyone pre-Trippier for me, but Debuchy would probably come second in that era.

Better all round 'keeper at his peak imo. Can totally see the argument for either though.

Like a new signing

I took a look at it in Fenwicks today. I have the original so can compare and basically the parts that can be considered a downgrade are the thinner material and the fit, even then it's down to personal taste. The rest of it looks fantastic and better quality. £90 is obviously a rip off, but it's not poor quality at all like, it looks and feels class.

That would be absolutely fucking ridiculous Would go for Pope and would need to find a way of involving a non-nutcase Ben Arfa, but as a serious XI that would be incredible like.

Not necessarily the teams with the most cohesion, just these are the best players I've seen in these positions at their peak. Pope Trippier Schär Woodgate José Enrique Ben Arfa Lee Beardsley Ginola Shearer Isak Manager: Keegan 2nd: Given Beye Botman Albert Beresford Solano Guimaraes Batty Robert Cole Ferdinand Manager: Howe. Very close between Bruno and Lee for which team they go in. I think Bruno will be in the first team soon.

Love the effort and the write-up but Hamman, Cabaye, and Tonali over Rob Lee is absolutely outrageous. A latter day Kevin Nolan. A shame because I agree with a lot of the rest, but that's insane, he was much nearer (for a time) a latter day Frank Lampard at his peak.

No Burn is absolutely mental.