alles ist gut

Final league game for the Under-18s today...

That turns out to have been a typo by the Echo which should have read "Ox is in training" - plenty of Getty images of him, unlike (deep breath) Keita, Firmino, Phillips, Diogo J and Thiago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/28/illinois-man-killed-leaf-blower-antioch

Top, top Clare Balding analysis there, Dave.

Everton have already tried a headless manager

That’s proper old school

EVERYTHING MUST GO

Jerry Springer has left the stage

Top, top 50p head analysis there, Dave.

Imagine being perceived as so little a threat to Ettihad Football Holdings (U.K.) that they would contemplate selling you a player. It'd be like Chelsea loaning us someone in 2013...

Something else to get onto the side of a bus!

Top, top deflection analysis there, Dave.

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/tyler-morton-injury-update Tyler Morton is to miss the rest of the season with a metatarsal fracture suffered in Saturdays game with Preston North End.

Ummmm…. No. He is who is, he’s not getting any taller or broader. Opponents will always be able to chip the ball over him in the middle of the field, and hold him off physically in possession, and so he will need to have cover in any midfield; Aberdeen’s current base system of 3-5-2 is a good fit for him.

We’re all trying to find who did this Luke Chambers : Moved from wing-back into a nominal back three for Kilmarnock at St. Mirren. Still got forward regularly in the first half, created a couple of chances before the first half goals were scored. Less adventurous once Killie were defending the two-goal lead, understandably. Generally defensively sound. This was Kilmarnocks first away win in the league this season; still 11th, due to Dundee Utd unexpectedly winning as well, and five more games of struggle await next month. Tyler Morton : Back into the midfield from the start for Blackburn’s derby game at Preston as Jon Dahl Tomasson tried another combination to end their winless run. Didn’t see a lot of the ball in the first half. Started the move that ended with Szmodics punching the ball into the Preston net, which was eventually ruled to be handball. Subbed off in the last minute of normal time, by which time Rovers were 1-0 up; they failed to hang on to that lead as an aimless cross bounced off a defenders knee into the net, to rob them of the win in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Rovers down to eighth with that fourth draw in a row; next up is a visit from pissed-off Burnley. Conor Bradley : Bolton’s injury-ravaged squad took on Shrewsbury in a game described on Wanderers website as “a one-sided contest” with “lengthy periods camped around the Shrewsbury penalty area“. Bradley hit the bar with a deflected shot in the second half, and supplied the cross for Dion Charles to put the ball in the net, only for the whistle to go for a foul. Eventually Bolton got the only goal of the game; back up to fifth, and two wins from their last three games will ensure the playoffs. Jarrell Quansah : Dropped to the bench by infallible managerial genius Joey Barton for the visit of Bristol Rovers to crisis club Port Vale. Subbed on as part of a quadruple change ten minutes into the second half with Rovers already 2-0 down; part of a steady, untroubled defensive performance for the rest of the game, without any change to the score. Fuck Joey Barton. Anderson Arroyo : Came off the bench for Alavés in their game against Leganes for the last 25 minutes with the score 1-1; their eventual 2-1 win sends them second, just a point off leaders Eibar with five games left. Leighton Clarkson : Aberdeen took on Rangers in the final league game before the split, having not beaten them in five years. Clarkson’s first involvement was to stop a certain goal by blocking a shot with his head on his own goal line; there was quite a lot of dogged defending through the scoreless first half. He hadn’t really seen a lot of the ball in the second half, even after the wind-assisted (‘fluke’ - Mick Beale) goal that gave Aberdeen the lead, before he created the second, picking up a loose ball twenty-five yards out and slicing a cross to the back post for Miovski to head in. A lot more defending followed (one really well-timed block of a Cantwell shot on the edge of the area) before the win was secured - seven wins in a row now, and five points clear of Hearts. Third place is in their grasp.

Top, top triffic 'Ammers 'Istory there, Dave.

It finishes 1-0; we stay fourth, but now only three points behind second-placed Chelsea with two games to play.

1-0 LFC (Doak 44’)

Under-21s vs. West Ham (2pm, Kirkby, no coverage): Davies; Stephenson, Beck, R. Williams, Koumetio, Corness, Norris, Clark, Doak, Frauendorf, Woltman. Subs : Hughes, Olufunwa, Hill, Blair, Stewart.

Full time 2-2.

2-2 (Watson (pen.) 83’)

2-1 (Danns 81’)

1-1 (Danns 60’)

Half time Stoke 1 LFC 0.