Renton

Brighton's record at the Emirates is insane like. That'll be 4 wins out of 5 if it stays like this.

Not sure that match in August is relevant. They've just scored though, that is.

I'm watching Brighton with some concern here. May need to join CT on the commode come Thursday.

And here is a journalist I massively respect, who I suspect, along with the excellent John Soppell and Lewis Goodall, couldn't stick the BBC anymore. I can't recommend their podcast enough at the minute.

Just seen this. Worth a watch. People might not like Campbell, but he's right here and Derbyshire has no answer.

He gave us 2 pens and and them a red card like, albeit too late. You're straying into mackem like behaviour with this post.

What if the girls were called Christa and Tara, and the lads were called Udo and Nils?

Talking of which, I wish Bruno would get his hair back to the natural blond colour. He's been shit since he dyed it brown.

How are we going to cram Ward Prowse, Rice, and Maddison into the current side alongside Miggy, the Targayens, Willock and Ciggy?

Are things that are yet to come invariably defined by things that have gone before? I mean, I'm not expecting you to be an expert on Bayesian probability like myself, but I do expect a bit more from you, Mr Spreadsheet man.

Aye. This pisses me off too. We're more likely to concede than score from a corner which is a shame considering how many of them we get. I'm guessing we won't improve in time for this season though.

Not just possession. Twice as many shots. More shots on target. More successful passes. I'm not an xG man but reckon we'd beat them on that too. It was an absolute bear pit, and but for a fluke goal we would have won. Wilson had an excellent chance but his foot was clipped just at the wrong time. I tlhink ewerk mentioned Gordon doing fuck all. He was in on goal and taken down just outside the box. Trippier should have done better with the free kick. We had an offside goal disallowed during a period of utter dominance imo. People taking their penalty which was a world class save by Pope as a negative ffs! Odd way of thinking iyam. Yes, it's all opinions but I just can't understand the negativity about this performance at all. A point away in these circumstances is not the end of the world. I wonder, if that ball that ricocheted off Trippier had not hit the net, would you feel like this? As for average points from the next few games, howay, have you applied that logic to ManU or Liverpool? Have you adjusted for home games? Have you adjusted for top 5 teams etc? Possession stats don't tell the whole story of course but they do give you some information on how a game was played. I'd suggest that quoting average points gained over an arbitrary three game period is a lot more of a nonsense than anything I've said.

This is patent nonsense though. We were better all over the pitch than Leeds, who booted us off the pitch ending up with 10 men. Twice their possession. Twice thwir shots. Their equaliser was a fluke. Take away that, we would have won by the same margin that Man City did last week except we were playing at Elland Road. Villa was much, much worse and we bounced back from that in style. We'll see what happens but personally I'm confident.

Sweden now equalling Ireland's record. Meanwhile at @ewerk's house.

Fucking hell, second last thanks to Germany saving us from humiliation. Normal service is resumed after Sam Ryder.

It's a unicorn horn?

Get tae fuck. I think we may have diametrically opposed eurovision tastes. 👍

Looks like Pork Barrel Ben is a lying cunt. What a surprise.

Come across any staffies in prams called Callum over there AA?

Oh dear. Mae Muller can't sing live. Oh well. I think the Israeli lass wins it like, she was fucking smoking.

Who started the spurs thread? Let that man come forward imo. The wisdom of Soloman me like.

66 points. Everton. And just then you've even fucking jinxed the mackem match. You're lucky you're not banned tbh.

And Everton are relegated don't forget.

Agreed. The other thing is playing them together limits our options from the bench. I'm not a fan but would be interested to see if it would work with Isak playing centrally with Wilson but slightly deeper.

Go ahead and do it if you think you have the cajones.