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By the way, has anyone heard Vitezslav Jaros speak? I was not expecting THAT accent!

Those are the best Where's Wally? games there have ever been. Hours of fun for the kids.

Will Hughes is one dirty cheating weasel. It was partly down to him coming on and being allowed to do enough fouls for about three red cards that unsettled us. But shocking wastefulness for most of the match: Mo, for the third game running, seemed afraid to run and his passing was terrible; Trent once again leaning back rather than just doing the simple thing, putting his head down and shooting, Macallister going for sliced passes into the box when simple through balls were on, etc etc etc - just throwing away chances. But at least we showed enough fight to get through it, and better game management at the end than last season.

Shocking ref. That last corner we had, there was a defender with his fist clenching Jota's shirt at his waist, and his other hand around Jota's neck. The only difference between that and the pen Jota got lastvweek was that he was stationary and therefore couldn't fall down. Still a pen, though, IMHO, and the ref also, like all refs, completely ignored the free hit that is the foul on Salah, only to book Macallister straight after. He's going to make the second half a nightmare in terms of pressing without more yellow or red cards.

That woman commentator sounds like she's trying to lower her voice to imitate a really stupid male commentator.

The fact his agent immediately set up a special JK promotional team, as well as an Instagram account for him, and somehow persuaded him to start making videos of what he was getting up to, suggests that all of this 'I'm just going to chill out indefinitely' was always a tad disingenuous. But I just hope he's really having a great time and doesn't get tempted back into the madness too soon.

He doesn't look that much different.

I don't think his limited English is TOO big an issue. It would certainly be welcome if he improved on that, but Bobby was pretty crap at English and it didn't stop him playing extremely well. I really am losing faith with him, though. He doesn't seem to know how to time/bend his runs to avoid being caught offside, he seems even less involved than last season in the build-up play (sometimes I genuinely forgot he was on the pitch), and his apparent obsession with social media is the last thing he needs when he's as thin-skinned as he appears to be. Then again...His national manager seems to get (or, rather, 'got') consistently decent performances out of him. I know that's partly down to the different way they play, but all the same, it's the last thing to which I'm clinging - there IS talent there, somewhere.

But he does it when it's another player aswell. As for Nunez, I'm sorry, I've passionately hoped he'd progress, but this has to be his season, and he looks, if anything, to have regressed. To adapt the famous lines about Tony Hancock's demise: 'He started by shutting out his instagram, then his twitter, then his manager, then his club, and eventually himself'. God knows what they do to try to encourage someone like that, but it hasn't yet worked. Come on, you daft fool, just CLICK!

If you really think THAT was a good performance you're fecking ill.

Well thank goodness we at least got a second. Mo is getting almost Ian Bothamesque in his ability to grab a success while you're in the middle of moaning about all his misfires. As for Gravenberch: the irony is the oh-so-smug YouTube/podcast 'deep dive' nerds who fixate so protectively on the DM role have become just as dogmatic as those who resisted such a role in the first place: if only they'd be as open-minded as they pretend to be, they'd realise that, potentially, they're witnessing a quite fascinating evolution of the role in a very progressive direction.

Not that much different from many games last year. Loads of chances, one taken, the rest wasted, and increasingly sloppy play. It's pretty outrageous, really, they're still in the game. In the Wolves game and this one, Mo has been incredibly awful with some of his passing - just horribly misjudged stuff, which is made to look even worse by the fact that the odd time he plays such a sublime pass as for the goal. Nunez - his mind is in a different game, on a different pitch, in a different dimension. I have no idea what he's doing, and neither has he. The novelty of that has long worn off. Gravenberch, though: what a bright spot. His potential is immense.

Usual witless faffing about at the back. For the upteenth time: if you're not all 100 per cent focussed, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Also, Mo, aside from that sublime cross for the goal, has been sloppier than I think I've ever seen him. We should be about four up by now - same thing as last season, wastefulness. At the risk of a certain poster trying to suggest that I want all players to be like Jamie Redknapp (nope, me neither), pass to (our players') fecking FEET!

The media is so London-obsessed, and Arsenal's resurgence these past two years has generated more interest amongst the hacks than all of Klopp's time as manager combined. I saw something at the weekend suggesting the Arse-City 'rivalry' has become the greatest since the old Wenger-Ginsoak games. Are they on crack??? Why Sky thought either us or Hammers fans would be sitting watching a game thinking, 'I wonder how the Gooners are doing?' is a fecking mystery. A couple of times they shrank the picture showing us when there was goalmouth action going on - really awful decisions.

Nice of Sky to keep cutting to the Arse game - like anyone watching our game gave a damn.