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100% Spurs. Mainly for the apoplectic meltdown that Ange with have saying "I told you so" to anyone within earshot. He may hold a press conference and go around offering to fight each and every cunt in the room the brass-necked galoot.

Prediction alert!

2-0 Brentford. This is the result that matters tonight. Great stuff. Improbable runs from near relegation one season to CL qualification the next aren't for everyone.

Looks like we’re heading to a ManU v Spurs final. That’ll be hilarious. Wait. A red card. I thought if the pen was given in these situations that it wasn’t a red anymore. That was the explanation for Van Dyk on Isak last season.

Schade puts Brentford ahead. That’s a shame* for Forest. * “too bad”. Hehe. German skills coming in handy.

He's merely pointing towards the far right winger position.

Totally agree. He looked very good at RW last game. The best he's looked possibly and winger does seem to be his position. I'm mostly saying he's "reportedly" more of a striker because that's what has been said about him by the likes of Waugh at the Athletic (most recently). Personally, I think he looks more of a winger/inside forward type. I guess it's a matter of whether or not they believe the potential is there with him to develop into a first team player. There's still talk in the media about him potentially going on loan next season so I don't know what that indicates. It's all a bit strange. I like him. He does seem to have a lot of potential. I take the "he's very raw" rhetoric we're getting from the media via the club to be basically "we don't know let's wait and see". I'd be more than happy for the club to wait a season and let him develop without going in for another winger. But if you think that's going to stop me stirring the pot on the RW debate then dream on! "Bad for my mental health" describes most of my hobbies in one way or another.

I think we all know where the most important position to strengthen is ...

Brentford? For sure. It's written in the stars since that Aston Villa boat sank on this very day during Toonpack's youth.

That'd be great if they won it. It's always a team effort but that was especially the case last month. He has a brilliant team around him which is further credit to his ability. It's still something to get used to adjusting from the 15 years of Ashley deliberately employing buffoons and yes-men so he could parlay blame onto them for how shit the club was run. Ah memories.

Not to dig this back up for the 10,000th time, but hasn't it been established that last year the interest in Olise predated the interest in Guehi? So the priority was a RW until that target went elsewhere and then it shifted to a CB? It seems like it isn't necessarily positions being targeted as it is specific high-quality/high-potential players. We've been linked to Cunha quite a bit in recent weeks. But you'd imagine we'd be prioritising a left-footed wide player (in that position). I can't see the Cunha move happening. He's too similar to what we already have. Trafford and Huijsen/Guehi would be a great window. But Murphy's performances means we have way more options for a young left-footed winger with heaps of potential. I'd also be surprised if we don't see a left-footed winger come in given that Osula (who is reportedly more of a striker) is the only one in the squad at the moment.

Agreed. It'd be great to see Miley get the start. But it'll almost certainly be Willock imo (at least until we lose a game). Hopefully for everyone's sake he can recapture some form sharpish because he has looked off the pace for sometime now every time he comes into the side. Miley on the other hand has looked class every time he gets the opportunity. And the more he plays the better he'll get at his age.

That sounds fucking lovely. Itd be great if we're coming into a window where we have money to spend and theres teams desperate to do business to avoid a penalty. Time for us to take the piss like we had done to us last year. Hopefully. Time to sell Odysseus for 50m to some fucker.

It's undoubtedly very lucky for Chelsea to play Liverpool the match after they've sown up the PL. On paper it's the best time to play them all season. But Chelsea are shit and have gone off the boil lately. For reference, Chelsea were 2nd after 16 games only three points behind Liverpool. Since then (between 17th and 34th games) they are 11th. It basically lines up with Palmer going off the boil. Hopefully that continues because since December they have not been playing like a team likely to get CL football. Not to mention ACFC too much but he also had a video recently about how Chelsea have been getting worse since their run of good results to start the season. All that is to say that @Craig's predictions are looking good in terms of where everyone finishes if the season finishes the way its been going.

I'd say they're maybe the greatest PL team ever assembled. But I'd only say that to add shine to the fact that we beat them to win our first domestic cup for 70 years. In fairness to them, for me, it is hard to judge their quality without seeing how they would go in a close title race. City and Arsenal shit the bed. And particularly City were worse than they've been for years and years. But Liverpool also won the league by an absolute country mile so they were clearly clearly better. In a close title race things would possibly have been different. Probably would've been and between a top-top City side and this Liverpool side, you'd have to say that City wins every time. All that said, the most recent ACFC video was about Liverpool and very interesting. His vids are top quality. Showed how Slot made some clever adjustments relative to Klopp's last year.

Liverpool have pulled a perfect yank ownership manoeuvre. Trading authenticity for cash. Modern marketing is so lame.

Two big defeats with the FA Cup exit. Three with the recent CL exit. Let's count them! One, two, three big defeats for Count Chocula. Who mentioned he'd be in with a shout for the RM job? Was that you Gemmers? I hope that happens because in all seriousness he is a very good coach and it'd be great to have him out of the PL. Villa would struggle to replace him with equal or better you'd imagine.

100% mate. I've said it in the past that anyone that wants to be in a position where they're given the authority to make decisions that are to be treated as law in a completely subjective area is bound to be a twat. It's 100% a horrible job for a normal person. I imagine these eternal virgins absolutely love it since people have to listen to them for once. Let's be clear: I do not feel sorry for referees. They do a difficult job poorly.

Oops. Misspoke meant their defeat against City in midweek. That result has all but cut them adrift now you'd have to imagine.

Interesting, sammy. I honestly don't watch much outside of CL & PL. That's that German efficiency again. Alles in ordentlich.

For me some of the sausage waving has descended into something a bit over the top. Taking over from the legitimate wang waving of the forums true chads, these mimics are like a kind of Toontastic cargo cult filled with impersonators waving around big plastic dildos in the hopes that they're doing it correctly. A true wang waver does not reject pragmatism. Any hole is a goal, lads, all true sausage squad members know this.

Sending the referee to the screen is pantomime at its finest. Look at the video below for an example. Refs need/want to be seen as the authority figure. But it isn't fooling anyone at this point. Sport was better before VAR. But all video review systems are really just the product of action replays and high resolution video introduced into broadcasting imo. Everything is analysed to within an inch of its life. To be fair to the refs they do have an enormous amount of pressure on them. It'd be a horrible job. But as far as VAR goes, we're never going back and it's never going to be anywhere close to perfect with so much subjectivity involved. Ultimately I think the problems have been identified: the refs are sub-standard and lean on VAR as a crux in a lot of cases. It's only human to behave differently when you're basically living in a real life panopticon. But still the refereeing standard could certainly be much better than it is.

Its a joke. Their keeper wasted close to a minute the first time they had a goal kick!

Yep. For sure. Ange's suicidal dedication to this style shows the weakness of him most of all imo. He's like a religious zealot and perhaps not too bright. Nothing works all the time or forever (unless you're City or RM). But he's just like fuck it play it out more, mate! We're bein' brave cunts! Embarrassing. Makes me want to remind everyone I'm originally from NZ.