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You’d imagine there will be multiple backdoors, as there are for all of the crappy rules in football.

This. He’s absolutely fantastic and his skills are outrageous at times but his contribution to the team is questionable. He shouldn’t be dropped as we quite frankly have nobody else anywhere near the level of quality that he can produce. Howe needs to find a way to get the best out of him though.

If we breach the rules, we can just ask for a telling off and 1/6 contribution of a £20m fine like occurred with the ESL.

So is this good news or bad news?

Nailed on giving at least one pen away then. I reckon Schar this week.

Rather than dragging someone through a criminal case, seems quite sensible to be able to settle it simply with paying for the damage they caused. Both sides happy and the repairs made. If they have any sense whatsoever (probably not based on their actions), they’ll currently all be chipping in and paying the £500. It’s not like he’s asking for some extraordinary amount, seems fair.

Surely we must have a few Covid cases or something that we can get this thrown off for?

Slightly tempted in the same way as I am to walk outside and throw money into the air.

At least two or three times a match. He’s great in spurts but he does have a bit of a Ciaran Clark in him quite regularly. Needs Fede next to him and he’ll probably improve.

And then the teams come out for the second half.

You think we’re gonna score?

They’re making us play again?

Dubravka RWB Manquillo CB Schar CB Fernandez LWB Lewis CM Hayden CM Shelvey RAM ASM CAM Big Jow LAM Almiron CF Wilson

Only one of the two can play in the middle, playing both means we basically have no midfield. Repeatedly said it but Hayden has to start, or a new CDM arriving on 1 January.

We absolutely should. The poor decisions by Howe (not dropping Lascelles, Shelvey and/or Willock) and the potential farce with the January window may put us into trouble though. I’m expecting them to learn and sort it.

Good job it appears we have all of our ducks in a row ahead of the January window opening then…

The worst part of today is we didn’t look like scoring against a side shipping goals left, right and centre with a makeshift back four and a CM playing CB. For all of our huff and puff, nobody looked like scoring. Was also an issue against Norwich & Burnley. We stumbled across a goal in those games rather than making one. Think we could still be playing and Leicester would have a clean sheet.

A smile to rival Papiss Cisse, but the footballing talent of a Yorkshire Terrier chasing a balloon.

He has all of the skill in the world but no brain, which is why 9/10 his end product is gash.

Have you seen how he dresses? That’ll make you love him more.

Which is what most sensible people said pre-VAR as a reason why it’ll never work. With VAR we get the same nonsense decisions, but we just have to wait five minutes for them. Pointless.

He’s trying to implement a style of football that we just do not have the players to play. It’ll never work.

Embarrassing to give that as a penalty. Embarrassing performance from us and we’d probably have fallen apart anyway, but how on Earth that’s been given is incredible.

4 points from Burnley and Norwich - neither game we were anywhere near secure. Would expect a few more batterings before the New Year if he persists like this.