The Fish

Less of a Dick than expected? Gotta be the only time anyone's suggested that with regards to Gemmil.

I bet you don't trust NFC either.

Is that why you broke up?

A glory much of the North East can look forward to.

This is like a Bat Signal for me.

Yeah, the language barrier is a hurdle that is especially difficult to get over without stumbling. For example, you said you like Michael Owen, so I'm convinced something must have been lost in translation.

That doesn't make sense, what with their incredible home support?

2 seasons away from the Champions League trough will have their owners twitchy as fuck. Klopp might also fancy a new challenge. I don't think enough has been made of their transfer business, for what it's worth. They've spent a ton of money on players and a lot have not come good. Keita e.g.

Eddie has been a huge reason for the owners finding themselves 3-5 years ahead of schedule. Steering us from 19th, to 3rd in less than 2 seasons is unbelievable. Key to that has been the owners letting Howe (and Ashworth) to build the team they want. When January window rolled by we were 3rd and rather than dumping a few hundred million on big names and star power, we signed 3 kids with potential. One was £40m, sure, but we weren't influenced by our league position to go absolutely crazy. I'd imagine that Howe would have been central to those discussions. He's recently said we need 2 teams to compete on all fronts. Now, this could mean we keep some players like Murphy around for cup games, dead rubbers or whatever, or it could mean we go off and sign a fucking stack of new faces. Whatever happens, I trust this management group to get the big calls right.

Yeah, our strength lies in working as a collective and not individual brilliance. Both of those players are amazing, but they'd both fall foul of the "No Dickheads" rule.

Ten Haag has improved them and after they strengthen in the window I think they'll be a different prospect. Also, we'll have a European competition to contend with. I dunno. I wouldn't be shocked to finish below them.

Man Utd is a possibility, but Liverpool seem miles off sustaining a title challenge.

Argue about transfer rumours? Get excited about a player, pore over their performance metrics and imagine how they'll fit in Eddie's team, watch compilations with insufferable music over the top, see him sign for someone else.

Dear Mr Klopp, please find attached those points you asked for. Kind regards, the PGMOL p.s. we've also given points to the teams who whinged about their decisions too so nowts changed and you're still not in the Champions League, you whiney entitled cunts.

Hang on, let me get this straight, the cableless connection was delivering 200-300Mbps, then you switch to Ethernet for.... reasons, and it's significantly slower. I mean, a Cat 7 ethernet cable should be capable of delivering 10Gbps, but frankly I don't know why you'd need that kind of speed for your home usage. The question surely has to be; Why don't you just rely on the faster wifi?

I'll tell her next I bump into her.

Good news

Remi Streetes won't forget

Looks like Everton might be changing ownership.

Jenny Powell

Before you were barred?

And it's the responsibility of the better team to break through the pragmatism of the weaker side. If your side is so one-dimensional that you can't change things up when teams don't afford you the time and space to play your pretty passing patterns, then that's on you. Sure we can complain when a team is kicking lumps out of Bruno and/or time wasting, but it's up to Howe and the team to find a solution. If they can't, then that's a weakness other teams will exploit. Barcelona were praised for their incredible passing play, but they could sure as shit mix it up if they needed. Instead of Liverpool moaning about our time-wasting at Anfield, they should be praising their own team for digging out a win against a difficult opponent.

Seems to be a focus on the biggest transfer, but the quantity of big signings you've made and the wages you've paid has undeniably accelerated your rise in a way that shook the established top clubs to the core. There is definitely an effort to stymie the progress of clubs not already in the accepted elite, and I don't doubt that other teams have conducted business in less than honourable ways, but I do think that Man City have used similar dark arts to get the players they want. It's hypocrisy from the likes of Real Madrid and Man Utd to criticise after they've been the beneficiaries of the nautghtiness, but I guess you ( and we) will have to be held to a higher standard.

Our record in evening games; Brighton 7 played, 10pts Newcastle 6 played 13pts

That and fucking guitar bores.