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Hendrick scored a cracking goal in the opener but has been anonymous since. He's the Colback replacement and Colback didn't play on the wing either. Another baffling decision from the Fat Pardew. Having such a pedestrian player on the opposite wing just focuses the defence on ASM even further. Almiron would have a field day with the gaps left by a defence struggling to contain both ASM and Wilson's movement. It's obvious to everyone except the manager, I suppose. And the less said about Joelinton, who Bruce has clearly been told to select, the better. I can't find a lot of blame for Bruce in my heart. He's never professed to be anything but the dinosaur he is. We knew exactly what we were getting and, well, we've got it.

That's a penalty only when Man U are playing. Laughable really.

The problem is that everything that comes out of the mouth of these liars is suspect. We're guessing at the meaning of smoke signals and it turns out they're just coming from a trash fire. Conley - another grade-A liar - tried to explain his earlier foot-in-mouth moments (where I suspect he actually told the truth, which is of course a major faux pas among these people) as that he didn't want to share anything that would "steer the course of illness in another direction." What the fuck? It's a virus, you fucking scam artist, a parasite not unlike yourself. It doesn't respond to public pressure. Either he's fucking sick or he isn't, no matter what you say. What he of course meant is that he didn't want to share anything that would further harm Dear Leader's already holed-beneath-the-water-line campaign. And of course every single politician lies, spins, and tries to put up fronts to keep the public from learning the facts - that's nothing new. But this lot have made a science - no, make that a religion - out of it.

They are simultaneously too ineffective to stop Trump when he succeeds and too powerful to overcome whenever he fails to deliver. Just like "antifa", which are both a terrifying scourge that law enforcement are powerless to stop from burning cities down, but also laughable and weak enough that a bunch of hillbillies with varmint guns could defeat them in the case of a second civil war. COVID is both not real and a Chinese bioweapon, election fraud is real except when Republicans are doing it, black lives matter except when you need the white supremacist vote, "science" matters when it's hydroxycholoroquine and voodoo doctors talking about demon semen, but not real when it pertains to climate change or quarantine...I could go on. Failure is success, facts are fake news, murdering dictators are allies and friends, up is down. I've spoken to a number of people who want the COVID to kill Trump off. Absolutely not. That will only continue to fuel the insanity of the cult he's coalesced around himself (not created, because these lunatics have been around for decades, but he's definitely their figurehead.) We need him to LOSE the election and lose the Senate as well. America needs to repudiate his wretched presidency and everything it stands for. If he dies, the job isn't done. I wish him a speedy recovery.

This is essentially a PL-strength team, if we weren't thrashing these there would be a real inquest. Fair play to Bruce for using first team players.

Blatantly doesn't fancy it. Fuck off, that's pathetic.

He's making us look fools, half the team will be on a yellow by halftime from trying to get at him.

What a whimpering whingy little twerp Neymar is, is there anyone as odious in modern football?

Top finish that, cracking stuff. He hadn't contributed much this match but it was a great moment to pop up in the box and the finish couldn't have been more crisp. I think Almiron could've been on ten minutes earlier. A bit of a nitpick since the performance and result have been very good (then again West Ham have looked very poor.)

Extremely. Hendrick is going to play on the right side of midfield? I don't think he's much of a winger, we're going to be flat down that side. And Hayden...we all know his limitations.

34 for me (well in a few hours.) Happy birthday! Balancing the fact that 9/2 gave the world the two of us, it was also the day KK walked. Birthday firmly ruined that year I'm afraid.

How about you just go?

For some reason he didn't respond particularly well to the best coach in the Premier League.

He was fucking pony. And if anyone needs me to spell out why that is, I'll be happy to.

We needed to replace Colback, after all.