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Cole Palmer is an interesting player, like a better, less whingey Bruno Fernandes. I don't think Chelsea will miss him tonight, he's not built for the job required. He's a player that's found his level, like a James Maddison. Go to man for a club that will entertain but ultimately fail and the weeks he does nothing will be blamed on the other 10. Not for me Clive, doesn't work hard enough.

Szoboszlai, Jota, Endo, these are lads that appeared on a Monday evening and signed on a Tuesday. Absolutely no reason to suspect the manager appointment will be any different. Everything will be silent until its not, panicking over people we don't want makes no sense. We're getting a worse manager than the one we have, that's just a fact we all have to get accustomed too.

He's never reffed a Luton game, I think it's fairly safe to say he's listed as a Luton fan.

I didn't, he's behind Howe, just ahead of Orange Tindell.

It was offside but they didn't spend 4 minutes looking at 8 different angles to see if may have skimmed Bamfords arm. Swings and round abouts, give me mistakes like that in exchange for instant celebrating.

I'd have Rodgers, Moyes, Solskjaer, Mourinho or Usworth before Eddie Howe.

Great game on now, Leeds 3-2 up away to Middlesbrough. Reminds me of the PL pre-Pep before he sterilised it.

Frank seems like a good egg and the gig probably requires that trait above any other. The club has it currently stands doesn't need a radical overhaul, its needs continued stability. The squad is built, it doesn't require some tactical genius that is a clown or fraud like Rodgers, equally someone that falls out with everyone is no use. It's Hughes and Edwards job to establish if the football he plays his based on resources or his natural inclination.

If we want De Zerbi then tell him the interview is on Thursday evening at 8pm on all our tellies.

I think Arsenal need to drop points before City do. I can see a situation where City drop points and then Arsenal win out.

Delighted with my decision to invest zero minutes of my time on Amorin.

That's a statement that will always be true, not sure of its relevance here though. With your constant GOT references I can only assume you think these calls are insane. I was on the same page until very recently. Incidentally the decision that sent me over the edge was the one Dave references in Pod and its from months back, a goal not disallowed for City against Fulham, very similar to Wolves last week, Mo away to Burnely and countless others, main difference being this one was allowed stand. That's just not a goal anymore, the one time out of 100 it slips through and it's Man City and Michael Oliver again. Michael Oliver and his crew, since his trip to referee Sharjah and Al-Ain has been appointed and directly influenced the outcome the 3 biggest away games Man City have. 1) As VAR, directs ref to to the screen for a penalty for a grab by a Man Utd player on Rodri. Technically a foul but we're in 10 penalties a game terrority here. Happy to be corrected on this if you can point out other times dragging as been pulled up by VAR, particularly interested in occasions when Oliver was reffing the game and had his extra eyes point out an error. 2) Doesn't send off Kovacic away to Arsenal. Both tackles could be perceived as red, as yellows they are indisputable so a red card. 3) Doku kicks Mac Allister in the chest, no penalty given. 4) His mate Darren England say fuck off play on at Spurs. It's not a good look when you come back from Sharjah versus Al-Ain and started giving City decisions like that. I've repeated the names of those teams so people can familiarise themselves with them. They're not famous clubs, they don't appear to be attempting to grow the league so the idea that the top ref is needed over there is a tad suspicious in my view.

Clattenburg quit the PL in 2017 to go to Saudi, to replace Howard Webb, who had earned his coin already. Added to that Michael Oliver didn't go to Saudi, he went to Abu Dabhi, which doesn't appear to have had any kind of investment in football terms. How anyone can look at Olivers decisions in City's favour and not scream corruption is beyond me. City fans used to have him down as a City hater, I know I used to have him as my ref of choice for big Liverpool games, he was the best by a mile. City knew that come the big games he's the one they would roll out so they bought him.

I gave Ait Nouri my boy status in 2021. He's quality but seems to have the stamina of a wet paper bag. He's probably best signing for a team that can afford 90m on a 60 minute player.

That's why I questioned the relevance of any time line? What's different about now to 2019?

What has your reference to 5 years ago got to do with anything?

That statement has a lot of truth in it but completely misses the point. Forest's statement wasn't about a referee that can make mistakes on a football pitch. It was about a guy watching a TV screen. A guy with access to multiple replays, angles, speeds. He's comparing apples with oranges. Like the Diaz one, nobody I can recall anyway had much of a go at the actual linesman that missed an easy call, these things happen. You can't miss things that obvious with access to a screen.

Luton were deducted 30 points in the year Atwell became a professional referee. Looks to me like a career decision thinking Luton would be out of existence and he was free to do what he wanted.

I'm glad Forest have shone a light on this although I think they have chosen the wrong target. Yes Luton are rivals with them now but Luton have been rivals with Burnley, Sheffield Utd, Everton, Brentford, Bournemouth and so on at various stages this season. He can't be ruled out of reffing all of them, just like Oliver can't be ruled out of reffing Newcastle's perceived rivals. Couple of caveats to the above, I haven't seen today's incidents and I don't believe for a second he supports Luton.

I need a shit, meant to say pitch.

Solid 3 points, we were fairly ordinary in the most part, Quansah was good, as we're Cody and Diaz, Ali and Virgil very comfortable. I thought Harvey done exceptionally well to stay on the shit, he was pure muck.

Just seen the clip, he's give a goal kick too. Money well spent that.

Good pod lads. What a weird game, first half we were good I thought, Mo's miss was criminal but the bigger issue is how we folded after that. It was like last week, we looked clueless, flummoxed was the word I used last week and I think it applies again for the 2nd half. We simply didn't know what to do, I assume Atalanta dropped much deeper to stop those Trent long passes and after that we literally had no plan. The management team have to share as much of that blame as the players. Every change we made us worse, Gakpo at left back? What was that about?

I'd agree Jones and Jota look rusty, Mo, Ibou and Trent don't look fit, Trent over stayed his welcome last night by a good 10 minutes, I thought Jurgen was poor on that one.

No hypocrisy there, she's pointing out that real people live in Jerusalem, Israel has stated and shown many times that the "people" in Gaza aren't really people, they're human animals, terrorists, vermin, whatever suits your mood.