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If he wins his first two friendlies with us somebody on Twitter will reveal his dad slept on a luggage rack on the train to Rome in1977.

The only thing he should be feeling is our gratitude for an 8 year long wild and beautiful ride.

Keep hearing he is like Klopp, then I hear nobody has ever heard him swear or even say goddam, and I get the impression this cannot be said about Jurgen.

I can see why some of you would jump ship and not watch today's game,but I am made of sterner stuff and will watch for the best of reasons ( It's that or shopping for garden furniture with the wife )

Big Game Beaut

Charlie George 1971, Hold my beer.

I think we were in a slightly false position and I'll be honest, I never for a second thought we would end up winning the league. I know Xg is not a perfect pointer, but I put a graph on one of the threads after the United league game which was quite interesting. Despite the hand-wringing about our finishing efficiency we were only a goal or so below the expected amount scored. The outlier was goals against where we had conceded 10 goals less than expected, and overall we should have been way back from Arsenal and Man City. A discrepancy like this was probably down to excellent goalkeeping, last-ditch defending and poor finishing and was likely unsustainable over a full season.

Maybe they'll let the Germans win to surprise you.

Don't agree, Guardiola just keeps buying players and gets rid of them until he finds the ones he wants to keep, because he can. Can you imagine FSG spending £170m on Phillips and Grealish or buying 23 different left backs.

To be fair to the 3 centre backs, every time the ball was in the air they were blatantly fouled by the Camp Ashley Barnes without a single free kick given.

Reading an article suggesting that Man United and Newcastle are £13 million apart on the fee for Dan Ashworth to become DoF at Old Trafford. 13 million pounds APART for a bean counter in a suit.

Steady.

Not sure Sander Westerveld holidays much in Portugal.

I never missed my daughter's birth, but sneaked away as soon as my wife closed her eyes afterwards, to celebrate with my mates who had clinched the Strikers 6-a-side league in Kirkby

I'm too sexy for my shield.

I mean, they are shit, like, but starting with 10 men is a bit of a pisstake.

A bit of positivity. We have won our last 12 Wednesday night games with a 33-5 goal return.

Looks like Brad Friedel's elder brother. I assume his aligning with FSG principles means he won't be asking for too many players and will let Edwardes pretend to be the manager.

With Jota injured ( of course he is ) I would play Salah, Nunez and Diaz up front at Goodison.

Aye, I'm not convinced Fury will ever share a ring with Usyk either.

Quite amusing him waffling on about the Defence budget in 2030. People will barely remember your name by 2030, you annoying little porg.

Billam-Smith v Riakhpore should be a decent match-up.

Dolly wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same afternoon. Not a bad day's work.

My mate was saying last night that if we had started the season in fits and starts, but got better as it went on, won the Worthington Cup and worked our way into a comfortable CL place, we would probably be happy enough, but we have done it arse about face.

I vaguely remember that she splits opinion on here, but I do like Jo Blythe.