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We couldn't very much do with him in the starting 11 because he refuses to comply with Benitez's tactical instructions. Not sure why that's difficult to grasp for you. If it was simply a case of accommodating him and playing him anyway then we might as well have Pardew picking the players. Benitez excels because of his system, his nous, his freakish attention to detail. If he changed any of that to accommodate Mitrovic then he wouldn't be a fucking top manager. Can we have this sink in now so that we don't need to revisit it next time he scores?

5000 going to Burton away? Life comes at you fast.

I've gotta say your attitude and comment on yourself is absolutely ace @strawb considering all you've had to deal with

He’s an odd bloke, he goes about consciously being a total cunt and then gets upset when people have a pop at him about it.

at all of that. Can’t believe they’ve cut it down though, it was a masterpiece in its original form

BBC's idea of "balance". Passing off a pub landlord's opinion as valid as the governor of the BoE ffs. The BBC have been fucking horrendous in reporting Brexit to the extent I'll not defend those wanting it scrapped now. ITV, channel 4, and Sky have been much better.

Someones been watching you, my old son

Low scoring draw I reckon.. 3 points would be great mind and it's not exactly a stretch to beat these, as someone else said Arsenal don't deal with being pressured and hassled very well which we did brilliantly when we beat them at the end of last season.

I just think saying Mitrovic is in form and scoring therefore letting him go was a mistake (which appears to be the crux of your argument, unless I've missed something) is a simplification of a situation which most other people on here seemed to have grasped is a lot more nuanced than that. As for the irrational obsession you're claiming, prior to this I can't actually remember the last time I disagreed with you about something on here. I did a quick search and nothing came up. No doubt we'll have had some disagreements but I couldn't find anything in recent months. Which is pretty much what I would have expected because we have very little in common and, consequently, most of what you post is of no interest to me.

My hair is quite simply fantastic. It’s got the kind of depth and volume only seen in Russian Literature

I played football for the first time since the chemo on Tuesday. Thought I was going to throw my lungs up for 95% of the time and to top off I was fucking shite. Its a start though I suppose.