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Brighton’s home form is iffy… Saturday 3pm ko. We’ll get our semi-customary point I think

Dischord? Fuckin all for it

Wining the three home games since the cup final and @ West Ham beforehand has been the key. Happy winning two games from three without EH on the touchline too. Much rather be looking down at the chasing pack than up at them tbh

lol looks like the same as Chelsea ie the PL give them a pass but UEFA have pulled them…doubt if much will happen but it would be hilarious if them and Chelsea were banned from any UEFA competitions next season https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/11/aston-villa-in-talks-with-uefa-over-deal-after-breach-of-squad-cost-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Their bench was phenomenal. Amadou Onana man. He strode on to the pitch like a fuckin collosus, had a small tete à tete in midfield with one of our goons then glided up to our 18 yard line and just casually thunderbastared the ball into the net Although tbf even after selling that radged bastard to Saudi in January lots are saying Villa are still in PSR trouble? Wins for Forest, Chelsea and Villa in the next few days will make it only 3 points between 3rd and 7th. That makes the whole thing interesting. Great game for us v Ipswich to fall back on. But as I said in the week the story of this season is us being in form for a few weeks then out of form for a few weeks… hopefully this is just a 3 games in 6 days blip..,

@Gemmill did you guess the ending of Say Nothing?..

Yes I’d read the book a while ago but hadn’t realised it had been dramatised till I listened to Ireland episodes on the pod. Myself and the now semi permanent Mrs PL are going to the Empire live show at the beginning of June in Bristol, and the night after we’re going to a talk by “friend of the pod” and top Gateshead native David Olusogga in Frome which is sort of on the way home from Bristol 😎

A Spy alone by Charles Beaumont Decent modern spy thriller…. there’s a character who is obviously based on Dominic Cummings and it’s full of Russian Oligarchs and Chechen hitmen. If you have a look at the Goodreads reviews there’s one in Russian, interspersed with some English phrases, the last of which is “take with a grain of salt” by which I take that the author is pointing out some stuff which sails fairly close to the geopolitical truth

These stories pop up whenever we’re going well…they’ve tried to move on Bruno, Gordon and especially and most obviously Isak, no dice with any of them so they’ve moved on to a bairn…it’s bollocks as he’s not naming clubs and even if he did it would still be bollocks…

Truly, great minds think alike

Bodø/Glimt was the Hobbit who didn’t make the final draft

The piss poor quality of the Europa league semi finalists is purely down to the comparatively piss poor teams that UEFA have allowed into the expanded champions league

Well no, I think we’ll qualify for the champions league but the story of the season is we’re due a dip in form…

I have no fuckin idea what you’re talking about here mate

Here @Toonpack this is the job description for a football data collector. It sounds a piece of fuckin piss https://statsperformacademy.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/3/home/requisition/4541?c=statsperformacademy

How do they input all this data and follow the game after the restart?

We’ve been in (excellent) form for a month though. We had a good spell just after new year. We had a good few weeks in the autumn. We’ve not been consistent though. I don’t share your mates’ caution but I understand it completely…we’re a streaky team. Tonali played all the way through defeats at home by Bournemouth and Fulham and in the Fulham cup defeat…he’s been largely brilliant but there was a month where he was as average as everyone else..

And Arsenal immediately concede AS YOU WERE!

Saka scores in the Bernie inn

Lerma and Hughes picked ahead of Adam Wharton