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Strange character. Bitterness seems to well up inside of him on a regular basis. Resented Rafa. Resented Hodgson not being loved by LFC fans. Then seemed to resent the backlash against him.

No doubt those gut-bucketed fried chicken Gooner devotees, Slobbo and Fucko, or whatever they call themselves, when they're not trying to pretend they're really from Jamaica, excite themselves, in the absence of any women venturing into their oily-paunched personal spaces, to the point where they're almost dribbling ready for Piers Morgan to do his worst with them. They can feck off into the fantastic metaverse they came from, and be haunted forevermore with celestrial re-runs of George Graham's team 'going through the motions' while their own chants of 'HOOF!' bleeds their ears.

He's making some awful technical decisions, which, added to his godawful failure to make his right leg useful for anything other than standing up, is a disgrace. The fact he has managed to keep the positive stats ticking over is, yes, a huge achievement, but for me none of that excuses the fact that, for a world class player, he's still shite when the ball lands on his right foot, when he's on the side of...the fecking right wing.

In every single game this season, we should have beaten them. I won't say 'blown them away,' but I mean that. The fact we didn't, well, that poses questions for a new manager and a new season, but there's simply no point in dwelling on it. Move on. Deal in what we can still deal with.

And to think he walked off in a sulk last game. If I see him lean back and blast over one more time I'll kick him to Dubai.

Frankly, if we can't cope against that team, we don't deserve the title. Plain and simple. Time and again we hand it to them on a plate.

Painfully predictable. What is it with these players? They've too much experience playing away in hostile atmospheres to repeatedly get spooked like this.

The ever-cunning Bielsa sat on a bucket, thus confusing the size-ists. Ruben could stand on one of those fold-out steps that you can buy from B&M. Or wear some vintage glam rock red-sparkle platform boots. I wouldn't worry about his height. The beard can go, though. Jurgen went full-Barthesian in his gradual move from dyed hair and designer stubble to anti-vanity greying chin-bush. Ruben's beard is just too bland. Oh dear, there is so much about which to worry!

I maintain that the Nunez goal is a thing to be celebrated. I love strikers who close down keepers - I hate it that it seems a dying art. Keepers get way too much time and space these days, so you may as well say they're 'gifting' chances every time they do what they do - the point is, they're hardly ever challenged. When they ARE challenged, it's the striker's initiative, not a 'gift'. If they were challenged more often in such situations, then they'll be more circumspect, but don't detract from the striker when they have the balls to go in there and challenge them - and Nunez was shoulder high in his leap. It was a well-earned goal, not a gift.

His speed of thought is as impressive as his vision. Other players were almost audibly weighing up their options before passing the ball last night, it was torture to watch, but he was right on the beat with pretty much every ball.

Mo deserved it. Yes, his assists have been good, but as a striker he's been incredibly wasteful in recent games, and needs to step it up for the final few fixtures. His usual tetchy reaction to being subbed wasn't welcome. Weak shots straight at the keeper, wild shots over the bar, the inevitable breakdown of moves when he finds himself with the ball on his right foot - if he thinks that adds up to 'undroppable' performances he's deluded.

No it isn't. We disagree. Best leave it there.

That was no gift. I wish more forwards would contest the kicks like that. That goal was down to Nunez - his leap was actually amazing.

As often happens this season, we're just too slow to move the ball on. Take Konate late on - he gets the ball, loads of space around him, but takes about four touches before passing it forwards. After the keeper got caught out we should have been bombarding his goal, but the last pass has been too slow. I feel sorry for Gravenberch - he's a promising player, in spite of the predictable criticisms, but he clearly has zero confidence. He'd be better off taking some risks rather than playing as he currently is. Oh yes, and that female co-commentator's strange attempt to sound like a comic impersonation of a stereotypical male pundit is really tiresome!

Outside of Nerdland is there an acceptable option? There seems to be dissatisfaction with whom the stat lads are suggesting, without much in the form of credible alternatives.

Bob Paisley's first words to the squad as their new manager were: 'I didn't really want this job'. The collective downer after Shankly left the building lasted quite a while. I can't see any way of avoiding something similar this time around, although, with this group of players, the right kind of results could help everyone to move on.

Yes, that was quite interesting. Apparently his keeper is about 36 and stays stuck on his line at all times, so hopefully with Alisson in goal he'll be a bit more ambitious.

Of course., they could always just look impartial. Just a thought.

When did he stop being Basque?

There was one attack in the area when he got the ball and shaped up as if to have a shot on his right foot - I mean, you really have to have a genuine threat of doing that in order for it to work! For a player of his dedication to somehow avoid working on his right foot, well, it's astonishing.

Usual biased Sky commentary - he even tried to make out McAllister had cost some kind of sensational fee, instead of being pretty much a bargain. Quite ludicrous. Decent performance against a deeply irritating side and a ref who lost it very early on.

Well, they're not playing that well. A few good movements out of defence but that's far outweighed by the ridiculous diving/simulation that's going on, combined with blatant time-wasting and awful refereeing. With a team that's as micro-managed as much as Brighton are, I think anyone who dares to run at them is going to cause plenty of chaos. Matip was great at that, but Bradley can do it, Diaz can do it - that's what we need. They're set up for predictable passing against them. It needs something cuter to shake them up.

I certainly don't regard one as more of an issue than the other. I wasn't looking forward to either versions of it coming here. I don't mind it for certain situations, but I just can't see why, with the players we've got, anyone would be that rigid.

I doubt we even needed to re-hire Edwards. We probably only needed that Josh bloke who pops up on YouTube. Tap-tap-tap...stare...Think...Tap-tap-tap...Ding: The solution. The Enlightenment has been going for about five centuries, and still hasn't delivered. Football has worked it all out in about ten years.

"Randomness is our Rohypnol". "Ambivalence is our algorithm". "Rashness is our rationality".