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Don't kid yourself. It'll all end in tears just like it did with KK.

Definitely worth a loan.

It'll be like Cisse, nobody will notice he's gone because he's done nowt for us for the last 2-3 seasons. He's already a non-factor at the club, this is just getting him off the payroll.

FIFA are no longer fit for purpose. Chuck out the fat Swiss fraud only to replace him with a more photogenic but equally fraudulent chancer. Secretary my ass. 16 groups of 3 is, to put it bluntly, a fucking idiotic idea.

"The lads were brilliant, top performance, there was just this incident with goat's blood. And it affects you. I don't like to make excuses, but when you're a professional and there's witchcraft about, and your three left backs' ankles all lock up at the same time, and big Paul starts clucking like a chicken, it makes it difficult to compete. But if we keep playing the way we did today we'll get points on the board."

E-I-E-I-O, up the predictions contest table I go...

Merry Christmas to all!

Routine win against a dogshit side, one of the worst yet. Rotherham were much better. No doubt all seven hundred Wigan fans will be bitterly disappointed at the state of their pathetic side and their tip of a stadium.

Neither is alcohol, the prohibition is against "intoxicants."

He needs to be able to provide plausible deniability for the people back home, that's all it is. I've never touched a drop of alcohol in my life and I'd fucking know if I was double the legal limit, as would everyone around me. The two Toure brothers are as genuine as a three dollar bill. One's scoffing pills, the other one's necking pints, and neither had any idea whatsoever what they were doing. Righto then There's a joke that goes "Invite two sheikhs to your house and neither has ever seen alcohol before. Invite one and he'll drink you dry."

That's pretty much how I feel about the modern versions of Forest and the Champions of Europe. Nothing clubs that have nothing to offer this division or any other. But at least they actually have history. Wigan are the epitome of a shit institution propped up by a millionaire who are now returning to the oblivion they spawned from. Nobody will miss them, not even the few residents of their particular twisted corner of the north-west.

Can't be too dreadful as the mackems are now 2-0 down.

Names of some kids I have taught: Yandeirys, Andrichson, Jadielis, Sheisyn, Dranisleidi, Jet Li, Hale, Prinsly, Zaquan (twin brother Rayquan, absolutely 100% not making this up), Rain and Legend.

The two penalty saves did it, I think, especially the second. If we'd let that in the second half would've been a massacre IMO. But keeping the penalties out really spurred the team on. Just goes to show what a difference it makes having a quality keeper, and makes it more galling that we went out of the cup on Tuesday thanks to the comedy antics of someone who really shouldn't be anything but fourth choice. As far as Shelvey goes, I think Rafa will rapidly lose patience with him, the same way he's done with Mitrovic. He doesn't want undisciplined players getting themselves suspended all the time and derailing our momentum. It wouldn't surprise me if we bought a new creative midfielder to replace Shelvey in January.

Well if there's a team and manager in this league that can get the 3 points from this position, it's us, so let's see what we can do. Not sure about putting Mitrovic on. The ref will be looking for an excuse and he'll find himself in the showers the first time he breaths on someone.

An idiotic tackle by Dummett btw, basically making this shit ref's decisions for him with that moronic move. Not actually a foul but it certainly looked like one. I didn't see the Shelvey incident but I did see the Clark goal which was 100% legal. What happened to the new rule about a foul in the box no longer meriting a red and a penalty? I thought we had decided that the penalty was enough punishment and refs were going to start issuing yellow cards?

What the fuck is this game?

Maybe we could loan Sels to Chapocoense, I think it would be a grand gesture of solidarity.

Horrific shootout, the stuff of nightmares. We looked like amateurs. Gayle has been wretched this entire game. Incredibly disappointing but the cold hard truth is that we did not do enough to win.

I especially loved the word "scum" for Man U, as if they cared one jot about what some scabby Yorkshire-pudding-scoffing non-entities think of them. Newsflash: many modern Man U fans don't even know who Leeds United are. Most would struggle to name even one of their players.

The inmates have well and truly taken over the asylum now.

I correctly predicted we'd score 2 against Barnsley, don't I get a point for that? I was wrong about the 1 goal conceded like.

I think he's given us up for a lost cause at this point.

No disrespect to Huddersfield at all, they've already beaten us. But they're exactly the kind of team that has a good start to a Championship season and then falls off to 9th or 10th place by the end. They don't have the squad depth to keep playing at this level for a grinding 46 game season.