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He'll have seen a few positive signs here. Yet even now the commentators are fawning over him! Unbelievable.

It's a critical game for Brucey's West Brom. And yet, there seem to be multiple flies buzzing around the Sky cameras. I can only imagine the great man has a leftover kebab in his coat pocket.

Hopefully a dog runs on the pitch soon to liven things up.

It's hard to tell who is outplaying who, the quality is so bad. Sky are ruining everyone's bank holiday with this shambles. NB I thought it was the TV chef Tom Kerridge on commentary.

Boro is a weird one. They're not really a rival, and I don't mind them. I'm not really sure they do have a rival. But it's usually a decent match-day atmosphere when we play them, and it's not that far for away fans to travel, so I'd be quite happy to see them promoted. In fact, there'd be extra fewm if they went above the Mackems on Look North coverage, so get them up.

But in seriousness, it should be a personal choice for all players. Thought Shelvey had an OK game yesterday. Drifted in and out of the game a bit, but a few telling balls and he's stopped being the liability I thought he was even a few months ago. See also: Emile Krafth.

It's good that our only skinhead didn't take the knee.

Bruno is a genuine superstar, isn't he?

The exciting thing, for me, is that any time we've ever had a good player or manager in the past, you'd suddenly start getting paranoid that they'd get poached by a bigger or more ambitious club. I think we should be able to give him whatever he wants here to make the most of his potential. Why would he go anywhere else?

Deflection off Kasper's bollocks for that goal

No, but having said that an official partnership with, say, Botox for £10m a year would probably raise a few eyebrows.

I liked the tale of how one of them was talking to a Shrewsbury fan in the pub, and they were embarrassed by the (totally made up) mags supporting them in the away end. You're a Shrewsbury fan who has come for a day out to support your team and have a few pints. And the first thing that happens is that you get accosted in the pub by some swivel-eyed obsessed madman with halitosis and are forced to talk about 'mags' and to talk how bad they are.

The owners and directors' test (and FFP for that matter) was supposed to have one main point - to stop clubs going bust. Yet this leveraged buyout was approved seemingly in days, whilst one of the richest organisations on the planet was held up for nearly 2 years. If you're a Burnley fan, I think you'd have a few hard questions of the PL right now. Because if they get relegated, do these owners have the funds and/or competence to bring them back up?

There's only one man for this job. The most important English manager of the last 100 years.

Just realised I'd forgotten to panic about Norwich getting out of it. I'm back up to a 7.

If ever we win the league, I look forward to all the lucky results being disallowed by the eagle-eyed RTG Pools Panel, thus proving we didn't.

You're allowed to draw a foul. There's nothing even unsportsmanlike about it, it's just another way of beating your opponent. Grealish did it all the time for Villa. I was chuffed for Wood - had a few decent touches prior to that too. He does seem better playing it on the deck than as a header-merchant.

Oxford level. I imagine Sunderland fans are chanting is this a library? But they'll be genuinely asking.

I'm still not exactly a fan, but thought he had a decent game last night. I think it's pretty impressive that he's gone from a liability to someone quite dependable recently. That has to be credit to Howe. With Joelinton, it turns out he needed a whole different position. With Krafth, he's managed to get performances out of someone playing in the same position - a position that from all previous evidence I didn't think he was capable of playing in. Nice work.

That was a £25m penalty right there, at least.

Be great if Graeme Jones turned up and photo-bombed it.

It was quite an achievement when they finally won at new Wembley to win a pizza.

We're 7 points clear of the relegation zone, have 5 teams below us and with arguably our best player to come back from injury. My main takeaway from last night's game was how truly dreadful both teams were, there's not much to fear from either. Both would snap your hand off to trade places with us. Famous last words, but I really do think it's between those two for the last relegation spot. With just a point between them, a better looking run in, and an experienced manager, I think I'd rather be in Burnley's shoes than Everton's right now.

The Fry Who Loved Me.

Found his training plan; 10am - Introductions 10.15 - General banter 10.45 - Lap of the pitch 11.00 - Tea and biscuits 11.15 - Let's play! 11.45 - More banter 12.00 - Tombola 12.10 - Steves to bring the cones in 12.15 - Lunch 12.45 - Siesta