StevieMax

Ozil is the very definition of a "flat track bully" - he should have taken a game like this by the scruff of the neck and seen Arsenal home - but he didn't.

All of a sudden it started to feel much more important than it was. Arsenal were acting like they were beating Big Virg, Bobby, Sadio, Robbo, Mo and the boys. In reality, they were facing half a dozen teenagers and some senior lads who needed game time. Hearing the gloating coming from the away end just made me want us to stick it to the fuckers, and we did. Repped for this para - so good I want to rep it twice!

Love the way Troopz answers (most of) his own questions! He could have an argument with a mirror.

Or a French thing? (is that racist, by the way?)

Or Graham Poll............... But not (SAF's mate) Howard!!

I did say in a post over the summer that the PL was going to have to (over)promote a whole load of Championship/League 1 referees just to man all the video screens.

When did Suarez ever kick a fan in the head? And before the game had even started: https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2017/nov/03/patrice-evra-appears-to-kick-marseille-fan-before-match-video

Still, it could be worse, he could be Danny Murphy who put Choudhury’s foul on Mo down to tiredness, even though the fucker had only come on the field five minutes earlier. I think that you missed the point that Danny was making there, Dave. He meant that Mo must have been getting tired for Choudhury to even get close enough to clatter him.

Onto Sunday now, and what a great day that was. Unless you follow a Manchester team of course. I work in an office in Stockport and I don't think that I heard any talk about football until Wednesday - and then it was some guy trying to get rid of 2 tickets for Utd v LFC (I kid you not). Whilst me and a couple of Reds I know were walking around permanently smiling. I knew that Wolves would do okay - I even kept Coady in my Fantasy Team.

And he generally kept his mouth shut after he saw Bobby's pearly whites!!

This was partly due to Salah not "going down easy" and party due to the useless liner in front of the Main Stand. I don't know why he even bothered carrying a flag as he didn't seem to use it (unless it was to keep the flies off him)

I think that Everton were actually dazzled by Citeh's new away kit for the first 20 minutes - it was a bit day-glo!

Is it me, or has Gini been a bit so-so of late? Hence the midfield not functioning as well as it should - I'd like to see Milner in the starting XI tomorrow.

I have to agree with you on Pickford - Lloris is also one of the more overrated 'keepers as well. Ederson's neck tattoo makes it look like someone has ripped off his second head (which may well be true).

Salzburg's manager Jesse Marsch is the first manager from the USA to manage in the Champions League and is tipped as a future USA National manager: https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/10/02/jesse-marsch-rb-salzburg-liverpool-champions-league

The funny thing is though nobody gives a fuck about it. And why should they? It’s not like we hacked into their system. The daft bastards didn’t follow the first law of business. When an employee leaves for a rival, you make sure you change all your passwords and disable all their log in privileges. We don’t know exactly what went on here but if it had been a hacking then they wouldn’t have just accepted a settlement, because that’s really serious and it’s the kind of thing you get heavily sanctioned for. This just looks like City being careless. Let be fair, if you’re a scout that has moved to a new job and you log in to your account and you still have access to everything from your old club, of course you’re going to have a look. It would be weird not to. Here’s the thing though, when you look at the players we actually signed that year then we either took no notice of who they wanted, or they should be fucking paying us for the shite they inadvertently recommended. Too right - what got to me was the fact that The Times made it a Sports section Front Page issue with a further two pages inside before making the throwaway comment that it was a common data base used by clubs all over Europe - implicitly saying that it wasn't a hack (the initial headline) at all, but someone using a login/password that hadn't been cancelled when that person left City.

I see that St Erling has now come out in support of Silva.

That's a well made point - but I'd say Fleetwood are better than MK Dons - they spent a fair bit in the summer (for League 1) and have mad Joey Barton as manager.

Repped for the Federer - O'Sullivan analogy!! As for the Biff comment.............

Going back to the Arsenal game - for me it's a Villa penalty. It's a goal bound shot which Sokratis makes no attempt to get his arm out of the way of, despite it travelling 8 metres to hit him. The winning goal was dubious as well as Arsenal had 1 or 2 (1.5?) in the wall at the freekick and that was a rule change this season.

The space that Firmino had for his goal it looked like David Luiz hadn't left Chelsea's defence.

By the by Tammy Abraham (real name Kevin) was always going to get some games this season. He's the main reason Villa got into the Premiership (25 goals in 37 last season) so he was bound to be given a chance - and he's probably exceeded all expectations.

Great round up Dave. Worth reading for the "Derek Trotter of football managers" quip alone, but there's so much more........

That’s how I was in those six months too as I had to listen to my dad constantly moaning about him. Funny thing was, I had Emile’s back at the point. A couple of years later I hated him even more than my dad did. Yeah - but you didn't hate him as much as Ron who sat behind us did! Ron would having a go at Heskey in the warm-up. We thought we get a "rest" from the moaning when Emile left - but then Ron started picking on Dirk Kuyt. It was priceless when Dirk scored the late winner in the FA Cup at the Kop end against United! Actually shut Ron up!

Regarding Owen, I thought that LFC were interested in getting him back, but didn't want to pay any more than the £8 million (the price LFC sold to him to Madrid for) and then the madhead Souness went and offered £16.8 million and scuppered everything - especially as Owen was, by then, desperate for regular first team football leading up to the 2006 World Cup.