Optimistic Nut

Stupid foul, going nowhere. Canny half.

We don't have this fixture tonight without Barnes last season. Before the, "well he's been shit this season", so fuck man. Get behind him. Goal and assist tonight I can sense it.

Is Soo actually decent or is he just the same level as the rest but with a bit of flair?

Shame the 2 teams per country rule wasn't a year earlier. Would have loved to have seen Ginola, Shearer, Ferdinand, peak Albert, Beardsley play in it.

Seeing quite a few people saying it wasn't a great Barcelona side. Still win the domestic double that year, though.

He's done a brilliant job tbf. Not sure who'd have done any better.

Do you risk a small element of players having a mindset that's it's not a big game if they're not in white with that? Even just a little bit could lead to a slight drop off.

He had them swimming in Loch Lomond earlier in the week so that'll sort them.

Aguerooooo. Was in a pub watching our match v Everton then they switched over to this at FT. Think it was still 1-2 at the time. It was in Felling and whole bar cheered. Don't think it was any hatred of Man U or love of Man City, just the sheer spectacle.

PSG just scraped through the year before in a 4-team group tbf. Normally though they'd have got an easy run in that format to the knockout stage.

Had a look earlier to see if Salia might be playing in the Academy game. Hamstring injury. Obviously.

They're only 3/4 points ahead of the two other promoted clubs. Normally after 7 points and 4 games you'd expect that to be 5/6 looking at recent seasons. I think the likes of West Ham & Wolves will eventually get going. If they beat Villa, I'll start to believe they can do it.

So €15m less than the closest English team before a ball is kicked? It's absolutely rank, isn't it.

Sorry that was what I was getting at. If we'd been given the same as Man U, would we be in this position? I can't find the figures now but I remember seeing them at the time, and the gap was pretty big given we'd performed better than them slightly.

PSG away on paper is an awful last game, but could be different if they're already top 8 by then.

Any idea if us winning the same CL prize money as Man Utd a couple of seasons ago would have made any difference to this? Appreciate they have their rules but if they're going to give more to clubs based on historical performances, then it's shady as fuck.

Flying this year (top of the league!). Plenty time to correct things for my usual 100-150th place finish.

Not sure if goalkeeping errors in their favour and goalkeeping blinders by their keeper is a sustainable model, like. Will still be very surprised if they don't go down pretty comfortably.

Really wish I hadn't spent 20 years on this thing and could walk away because there's some right fucking pricks.

Fuck off with that bollocks, man. Add Burn to that.

He not just taking a step back letting the players who got the win take the glory?

Think he'll be more pissy about lack of matches tbh.

Hearts 9 clear of Rangers.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B1aeP9P4H/ Sam Fender on in background. Great wummery.