Renton

Greatly increases the chance of a pen shoot out and more mackem hilarity and japes I guess.

I don't know how these things are decided but I guess if it's not a direct CoI with one of the teams playing it's pretty difficult to manage.

It's not on record. But he's not Norwegian so maybe not?

It's been a bit more porous certainly but if you break it down goal by goal I don't think its time to panic yet by COMPLETELY CHANGING THE FORMATION WE PLAY. In Eddie I trust, In Fish not so much.

And either way, changing the best defence in the league (unforced) just before the last three crucial games of the season is..... well, what would you say?

Pump him full of morphine, cocaine, and steroids. By the time the doping charges come, we'll be clear in third.

You've got Trippier there as a left wingback and Targett as a right wingback? Interesting..... Unless you've completely inverted this and gone for Isak and WIlson as our centre backs, with Botman, Schar, and Burn providing the firepower up front? Genius. I can't understand why you're not a professional football manager tbh.

Rocco Forte, the hotelier that kept telling us how bad the EU was during the time of the referendum (and the father of that stupid bint the hotel inspector), now is moving to Italy because the UK is in decline he says. This really FUCKS ME OFF. These cunts, like Farage, who inflicted this on us, have zero accountability and just fuck off to leave normal people like us no option but endure the consequences. No retirement for me in France now thanks to cunts like this (probably always a pipedream but dfinitely is now). No EU opportunities for my kids. Just left to decline in a nation getting overtaken by every Eastern European country going. I KNOW I'm not supposed to get angry about it, it does no good and is not good for me. But sorry, I just can't help it. They make me feel murderous.

The tide is definitely turning now on Brexit when evern their cheer leaders admit it has failed. Although this is of course because its not the right kind of Brexit. If only we had done it my way (he mentions corporation tax but I don't even think that's an EU competency, not that Derbyshire will challenge it as its not on her script). This shit is not going away as our country gets poorer and poorer and the cause of this becomes ever more obvious.

Piss poor attempt that. Leeds not relegated, Big Samathon wankfest incoming.

Worked wonders against Spurs, didn't against Arsenal, partly due to bad luck (hit post and penalty over turned which completely wrecked our flow). I say go for it. As someone said, if we can't qualify from where we are, we're simply not good enough. No shame in that. Also, whereas of course I would fucking love the prestige and money CL brings, I honestly think our best chance of silverware might be onw of the lower European competitions.

I don't think so. Two home wins guarantees it doesn't it? Liverpool only have two games left and are a point below us. I mean, I know the PL are a bunch of cheating wankers, but not sure they can get round this.

Agree but that's not a head to head game so its impact right now is less pronounced. 2 points vs. 4 points. Edit: actually 3 points.

You're completely right. But you know what is niggling at me? That fucking goal we conceded at Anfield when the cheating bastard 4th official and ref gave them 10 minutes extra time. This would all be over now had it not been for that.

Looks like it. What type of commission do you think Everton are paying Gemmill?

Do you reckon Villa have got a chance at Anfield there mate? I have some sympathy for Gemmill. A winning streak for Liverpool didn't look very likely when he posted this utter horse shit, given their season so far to that point. Even if you gave Liverpool an individual 80% chance of winning every match, over the course of 6 matches that means there is a 75% chnace they will drop points. Hell, even if its a ridiculous 90% per match its nearly a 50% chance they will drop points. What he didn't factor in, and nor did I, was how abject their opposition has been and how VAR has repeatedly went for them. And now we are where we are. Fuck what Liverpool and ManU do. Let's just make this a nightime atmosphere like no other and put Brighton to the sword. If Everton can do it, we definitely can. Do that and it's effectively over. It's in our hands lads.

I think Braverman wins it for me, the tory I hate the most. Against incredible competition such as Johnson, Rees Mogg, Patel, any of these red wall wankers, Williamson, Raab, Truss. The list is endless. Well done Sue. The talk is the Nat Cons are laying the ground for a takeover bid when the tories go into opposition. I hope this is the case as I think with changing demographics, it will kill the party once and for all. Not just the hideous ideology, but the sheer lack of competence of these fuckers and just as importanltly, their lack of awareness of this. I do think they're fucked, but waiting them out is almost unbearable.

We don't need Maddison for his fight. I hope we put 7 past these bastards next week and Maddison crosses over to sit in our dug out.

Well we can improve our GD against them too. And remember what we did to Spurs after we were relegated?

VAR goes Liverpool l-s way. Fuck this.

Keep an eye on it. Start watching if Leicester are still keeping the scousers at bay in the second half. Surely stranger things have happened than Leicester drawing this. I keep saying it, but Liverpool are quite frequently shite.

They would need 8 to 10 new players to stay up, at least. And that's not counting two of their best players are loanees. Can you imagine Luke Onion in the premiership?

I mean, I don't know what to make of this. I watched half of the mackem match and yeah, tbh they played well. Not quite Brazil 1970s, Holland's turtle football, or Barca tiki tapa, but well enough for that level. That ManU player Diallo took a great free kick, something we are missing this season as discussed. But to describe the mackem's description of their side as hyperbolic is something of an understatement. They were also quite dirty, both in terms of fouls and simulated dives. They're 18th in their fair play league, compared with 8th for ours, so definitely more dirty than us. I can only imagine it's because they have been starved of anything other than absolute desperate football for years, decades, centuries even. This season, we are already guaranteed to finish higher than their best season fo 68 years after all. Wow. Just looking at these Sunderland stats, the pride they have in their 6 league titles. I was unaware only one was after WW1 (and before WW2). And half of their titles were literally in the 1800's, two centuries ago. Won't be a human left alive on the planet to have even potentially witnessed these.

No, it's not a joke. Part of their coping mechanism, like their imagined "classiness", is that we are ultimately hoofball merchants and regarded as the Luton of the PL. And they really do believe that they are 1970s Brazil. It's mind boggling.