Virtua Stiva

Smashing into the VAR glass ceiling in the summer a relentless media in which everything is overanalysed and sensationalised a relentless media which is actively in service of a select few clubs Relentless fixture pile up, a lot of which are shuffled to daft times for TV overlords The shambles of VAR and the general standard of officiating Inescapable social media stupidity bleeding into the real world Fletch on commentary Put all that together and I’m feeling pretty distant from it all tbh. It’s no wonder people turn to non-league

Sublime to the ridiculous

Nice one, Elanga. Pleased for him, at the very least

Feels like a repeat of last years away game in the league. 11 players who look absolutely shit scared whenever they’re in that stadium

You’d be hard pressed to find a harder run of games in our entire history than the start of 2026 tbh. And he’s trying to navigate it with a team above him that are fucking allergic to signing players unless they satisfy some insane standard.

Fuck me, this stadium. At least they finally knocked The Dell down, this bastard will be up for another 100 years

Typical Etihad start

I think we’re down on both of them

Not sure I’d be putting Ramsdale in when we need a clean sheet but into these. They’ve dropped a fair few big guns too

Which jobs are going that he could be interested in? That’s usually the reason he pop up

Not sure I could hack playing a final against this Arsenal team. Anti-football, cheating cunts that would get away with all of it

I think we’ll give another good account of ourselves here but I just can’t see an outcome where we manage knock 3 or more past these without conceding ourselves. No Guehi is a boost but they’ve already shafted us with Semenyo being able to play so you’ll excuse me if I’m not over the moon

Shameless from Hope

If Baku is looking dicey, we should simply play both legs at home.

Feels like one we’ll knock back now but will get revisited in the summer when we have time to actually sign another central midfielder

This game will be twice in a week that we’ve played against 12 men considering it’s Simon Hooper AGAIN after he refereed the home game Pawson on VAR duties too so make that 13 men. If we get a draw out of those two, we’ll have done very well

What made Palace, Palace? They’ve still got a set of fuckwit fans, braying a drum and watching a scabby pigeon fly around the pitch before kick off. Maybe they can get back to appointing a string of gobshite managers who play hoofball while Wilfried Zaha scores the odd raker as they hover around 14th every season. That’s certainly how I picture them

The “foul” from Burn when we had that free kick at the death would be barely believable if not for what preceded it. About the only surprise was that he blew bang on 4 minutes

Anyone have a fucking idea who we’re playing next yet?

Insane standards of corruption

The formation change was a nice idea but we are not catching these on an off day

Suppose we HAVE qualified like

Fucking into these. I think I’m guilty of the same thinking as the players this year where I’m caring more about the Champions League. We haven’t had too many famous evenings this season, time for one tomorrow IMO

Team full of scuffers, it’s sad to see

Sure the reaction to this will be suitably sensible. Let’s all recognise this is, probably, the hardest run of fixtures we’ve ever had but let’s also expect nothing short of perfection