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These footballers wouldn’t know arduous if it jumped up and bit them on the arse.

Surely if the bald fraud wanted to fly from Newcastle to Manchester, Etihad could have sorted a plane out for him and his squad? It’s not like they’re short of planes and they are the main “sponsors” of City after all. Expect a team plane delivered to Manchester very soon, purely to keep City competitive of course in the face of all the exhausting travelling they have to do.

And we are relying on these cunts to oversee fair and equitable financial dealings to keep a level playing field between competing clubs. Just fuck off.

The only thing about Allison I could possibly have a criticism over is that I sometimes think he could take more responsibility in the six yard box. For such a big, athletic guy he should be winning more of the ball there than he does. But it’s not debatable that he’s the best in the Premier League, and probably in Europe. It’s a testament to him that he makes the job look easy a most of the time and therefore isn’t having to throw himself around like, say, Pickford does and because of that, he doesn’t get as noticed by others.

Very, very good today. Looks a proper player. Just keep clear of……….. no I won’t say it.

I think Mo was fed up playing in a side that was going nowhere last season. He looked and played at times as if he couldn’t be bothered. This season he’s seen the spark is back in the side, and it seems to have put the spark back into him. The new players are a definite upgrade and his efforts are being rewarded with like minded players (in their positions) making his efforts worthwhile and he’s obviously liking it. Very possible he can see silverware in the team before he moves on next summer.

How many fouls will McTominay commit before he’s booked I wonder.

Kudus looks decent, Benrahma played well when he came on, but, according to my WHU supporting mate, he’s too inconsistent, Antonio is a handful and Ward-Prowse is pretty good at dropping the ball into dangerous places, as Soucek’s goal proved last night, it looked right off the training ground. They’re only West Ham though. Perhaps we should just let them score from the kick off and get on with it. It’s worked so far.

They’ll do what they want. Of course.

The way West Ham’s defence and our defence have been playing, there’ll be a bucket full of goals on Sunday. 0-0 then.

Never liked us playing “weakened” teams and then relying on bringing on senior players if things aren’t going well, but I appreciate how resting important players works before league or CL games too. LASK will be right up for this game and will probably come at us from the kick off, it’s probably a big deal for them, and while they aren’t the same quality as Ajax we’re back in 1966 (with Cruyff, Nanninga etc.) we shouldn’t underestimate them too much or we might find ourselves playing catch up, especially with our propensity for giving away goals. Klopp will surely know how to approach this best, and will name an appropriate team and if we play to our strengths we’ll be good. The competition has second priority to the League, I expect, but still has a big shiny thing to win and we are about winning big shiny things. Dublin beckons and what a party that would be if we get there. Make it so Reds.

….and Neymar is a cunt.

Why sorry LTW? It’s brilliant!

Salah has been ace for us and we’ve been ace for him too. Without sugar coating this too much, I think he wouldn’t want to leave under a cloud and would want a deal that benefits him and the club as much as possible. I could be wrong though, he might not give two fucks about us ultimately, after all, we don’t really know him, do we? But he at least appears to be an honourable man in a profession where there are some who are just cunts (yes Antony and Greenwood, I’m looking at you and your like) so perhaps him leaving next summer, for £100m+ or so, would be the most appropriate way he and the club could benefit. He’d still get top wages from the Saudi’s and, if Egypt were to win the AFCON with him as Captain, his stock would be that much higher again. A good season with us, and a trophy or two to wave goodbye with, would finish his time with us perfectly and we’ve got a full season to find as good a replacement as we can.

I could manage Celtic.

And then he woke up. Sweating.

Ok, so the tackle wan’t the “scything down” that some numpty claimed in the press, but it was clear that Virgil’s attempt was for the ball, which he won, but he also caught Isak’s leg first and so it was a foul. The official felt it might have been a goal scoring opportunity so red carded Virgil. Fine, that’s the rule of the game. Whether it was a goal scoring opportunity or not was possibly/probably why it went to VAR for clarification, plus whether the official had called it right for a foul in the first place. Once VAR had concurred with the official, that was it. He was off, whether we liked it or not. I disagree he hardly said anything to the official, from what I saw, he gave him a mouthful, then followed it up with another before he walked. In the heat of the moment, perhaps he felt hard done by, perhaps he felt that, after Macca got off last week, we were going to be hit back, and he was the fall guy, we might never know. In any case, he was fucked once the official got confirmation from VAR, and he should have walked without aggravating a situation he was never going to make better, but only worse, for himself and the team. Had he done that, then, perhaps with justification, it could have been argued or commented on after the game, by Klopp or Trent (as vice-captain) as being an excessive reaction by the official to what, at best, was a clumsy challenge in an area that wasn’t giving Isak a clear goal scoring opportunity. Virgil was wrong to pick his battle out there in front of the cameras and as captain, should have known better. I absolutely agree we should compile a running dossier on what happens to us, and what happens in other games, to give some kind of evidence of bias, or not, and to allow the club, not Virgil or Klopp, to nail these fuckers in any way it can if they are proven to be corrupt. Possibly by going to CAS, because once you start something like that, you really are making yourself a target and you have to see it through.

We exist to win big shiny things. We tend to do it better than most.

PS, I hope Shearer is on MOTD tonight.

The situation when he was put on was right up his street. What we saw with the two goals was him as I expected to see him, played in behind a pushed up defence, not thinking too much, instinctive finishing. Problem is, we don’t often have games where that situation arises, usually we’re pressurising other teams and so he has little space to run in behind. Those goals will hopefully be a big boost both for him and the team as a collective. As has already been said, hopefully the dawning of a new set of mentality monsters. Oh and yes, money isn’t everything you shallow geordie fucks.

100 fucking %

What the fuck would sly do if it was condensed into 7 days? They’d be lost.

Let’s be honest, it’s a job to most of those able to play at the highest level. Not much different to Top Class engineers, consultants, CEO’s, whatever. Arguably better paid per hour than any of them. We’d like to think that they’d want to play for the shirt, the club, the fans etc., because that’s how we think we’d feel if we had the ability to pull on the Red shirt and get out there. Occasionally, there’ll be a player who comes across as a “fan in a shirt” but they are few and far between. In your daily life, and if you have one, your job, would you seriously turn down the money that some of these players are being offered? I think not. It’s a business and nothing more to those in charge and those that play it. You pay your money……..and all that.

This is all just a series of coincidental financial misunderstandings, it’s an impossibility that one of the most successful and storied clubs in the English game, a founder club no less, with a list of firsts as long as Stretch Armstrong’s arms and with the most state-of-the-art stadium in the northern hemisphere, on the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey no less, could ever be allowed to sink into the Championship depths. It just won’t happen. There’ll very likely be a saviour in white flowing robes, on a camel, come riding over Everton Brow to save the day any time now (no, not Jesus). Then the power shift will truly be on.

She stepped forwards and was well off the line when she went left for the shot. Should have been a retake. Maybe the ref thought the handball had been contentious, so gave the Spaniard one chance, it was a poor pen though.