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Not the most exciting game last night. Well played to Reading for having 70% of the ball and doing jack shit with it. And yeah that "13 - Reading Fans" on the back of the match programme was really dumb.
10 games to go, and I'm willing to...
There's a post-match quote in the Telegraph from Nakhi Wells where he said that he did make some contact with Ritchie after being distracted in appealing the possible Shelvey handball before the incident. My eyesight is shit so took me a while to spo...
Several different news sources are saying Alexis Sanchez was dropped for a row with teammates that got physical.
Can't help but think he'll be playing elsewhere next season tbh.
To be fair, Huddersfield played alright, if a bit long-shot happy. But I guess it played into our plan to hit them on the counter, which we executed very well.
In thinking about it, the issue with our penalty was less the foul by Wells - which I took a f...
Clearly Lady Luck still hasn't used up the full quota yet. Which for us is a rarity.
It does look like Ritchie trips himself up, although we've had 5/6 more concrete penalties turned down at various points this season. Second does look fair - W...
That is a gloriously appalling bit of refereeing.
A surprising quantity of people on Twitter seem to think Mings shouldn't have been sent off. I'm not sure - not sure if intent given the obstacle of Rooney, but surely its still dangerous play.
My presumption is that because the ref spent an age chatting with Zlatan, he's probably not going to be banned in retrospect.
Are we expecting retrospective bans for Ibrahimovic and/or Mings? Both would deserve it for their stupidity.
Back to back Champions Leagues... great achievement. Well done.
Logan. Very watchable and the graphic violence felt justified, but overlong and Christ alive its bleak.
Just touchline I think.
Until 15-20 minutes ago I was prepared to co-opt the manner, given how much I think Bobby Madley is a tosser anyway. But as much as the award irks me, the final 10 means I don't really need to go full troll.
Diame's goal was fucking spectacular...
Interestingly, the referee for tonight's Brighton v Newcastle game is apparently a Huddersfield Town fan. And he's not liked that much anyway by NUFC fans after his officiating of the Tyne-Wear Derby at the Stadium of Light last season.
Wonder...
Sort of like that clip from 1998 or whenever Barnsley were in the Premier League of Tykes fans who were claiming a ref who sent off 3 of their players in a game was being paid to keep the likes of Spurs, Newcastle and Everton in the Prem at their expense?...
Only Premier League defeat so far and it had to be the bottom club's first win of the season. Standard.
Nice to see this carrying on for the moment though.
So MUFC won the thing.
Southampton did look & sound they gave it a decent go tbf, and very unlucky on the incorrect offside at 0-0.
Well, given the recovery to get a point and Huddersfield also failing to win, its not as bad as it could've been. Still not great though to lose 2 points to a side who have spent most of their time since October losing.
Makes Brighton on Tuesday eve...
I guess based on their form since October its understandable and if he hadn't won the league, that would've happened, but its still such a stupidly shit way to put the end on a proper footballing hero story.
Holy crap what a way to pull off getting the missing piece of the trophy cabinet. Well played.
Tony Mowbray is the new Blackburn manager.
Given his last job was with SISU in their efforts to run Coventry into the ground, he sure knows how to pick his jobs.
Just confirmed Blackburn have sacked Owen Coyle and his backroom staff.
So weird that backroom team got 6 points off Newcastle and rarely looked like beating anyone else. May well just be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic unless someone truly War...
The hell's happened to Villa? 1 point from the last 8 matches, just six points above the bottom 3, and seemingly unable to get out of their spiral. I don't quite feel the gloating that Barnsley, Forest and Brentford did for beating Villa after t...
It would be amazing if that happened. Not to mention would probably send the Arsenal Fan TV mob into fucking overdrive.
So close to Watford derailing the unbeaten run again. Weird.
Regardless, pootling on nicely once more, especially in the Champions League.
Wenger has said he'll decide his future in "March or April".
Can't help but wonder who Arsenal fans expect to get if this is the end, which I think it might well be, and who they might blame if next season they fail to even make the t...
Back to back domestic clean sweeps... neat. Well done.
Its been several years now since their Champions League adventures were anything other than one leg being decent and one leg being a catastrophe.
Its always gonna be the one you least suspect tbf. So why not somewhere in lower midtable?
Almost there though Dan. And tbf 51 games is still a hell of an achievement. See if you can bring this home.
Well, could've been worse for us and I suppose a draw against a Norwich side who have been in good form at home of late is not a terrible result. But the 18 chances missed isn't a great stat. Very weird night psychologically too, given all the t...
Ahead after 24 seconds, behind after 19 minutes. Hmmmm... not good. And trust it to be the case to go from "defending won it on Saturday" to 2 errors making Jerome look good.
Holy shit the team tore it up in January. Very good sign the clean sweep is possible.
Not a clue why but when I woke up this morning I genuinely thought 3 points might be likelier from Norwich on Tuesday than tonight. Maybe its something to do with Wolves' FA Cup run, but it sounds as though they didn't really do much.
Ho hum. N...
I have no idea why but I found the sight of Billic chucking a TV microphone over a throw-in that Antonio did (just) touch on the way out in a move that lead to the 2nd WBA goal to be very funny.
Holy moly the domestic clean sweep. Excellent achievement.
Pootling along extremely well with the double cups and the Euros, and then a decent start to season 21. Jolly good.
Blimey that Saint Etienne result is a hell of a way to bounce back from the first leg defeat.
I assumed that Ameobi's inclusion was down to Atsu being at ACON and the lack of a new winger requiring an alternative solution, and the expiry of his loan at Bolton making him provide that. Both a winger and a new CM were the ideal Jan signings (and...
9 goals at Goodison, Sunderland inexplicably pasting Big Sam, a 6th minute red card for Burnley, Liverpool and Arsenal continuing to say goodbye to their title dreams... there's been worse MOTD's this season.
Isn't it always the way the one game you would lose in that month would be one of the more winnable ones?
Still, doing excellently well so far this season and indeed in the UEFA CL. KIU
The raft of articles suggesting departure at the end of the season doesn't help.
For the last few seasons, yes. But I'm enjoying the Premier League more and the Championship less this season. Funny that.
Clearly January does seem to be a wedge between gaffer and owner. Which bodes well. While the consensus is that he's not quite prepared to walk away, its certainly an unwelcome and potentially destabilising thing.
I suppose the events of the last 48...
What the fuck was Ciaran Clark doing?
Between no signings, own goals, lethargy and all the rest, we're doing our best to throw this shit away.
Bit of a strange one, this one so far.
Dunno about Lascelles and Gouffran, but Perez has been very shit.
Dunno why but I wasn't sure Townsend would come back. Even if it initially sounds more like Palace than us being the problem.
Its genuinely odd that Burnley have such a great home record, but such an appalling away form.
Then again Leicester seem to be doing an excellent job at rivalling them in the "Shite away" corner.
Sheffield Wednesday have apparently agreed a £10m deal for Rhodes. Tbh Middlesbrough didn't really need him last season and a fair few Wednesday fans seem to think they don't need him either.
Derby are very bad at that - loaning out Martin to sign goal-shy Vydra in particular looks a fuck-up - and judging by their current main incoming rumour being a Wigan attacker, so are Norwich. Villa's attempt for Hogan by the looks of it is less accu...
Sutton v Arsenal... well I did call a big gun on the plastic pitch. Assuming that it doesn't get moved like that game Arsenal had against Farnborough in 2005.
Top 4, EL Quarters... very good stuff.
Too soon to think of a title challenge next season, or at the least evaluate what you might require for such a thing?