NJS

Jim Jeffries has a good piece on US gun laws where he says Australia had a mass shooting at somewhere called Port Arthur which led to huge gun reform (I suppose like Dunblane/Hungerford) and this is certainly the biggest they've had that I can remember so it'll be interesting to see how they got around it if that's the case.

There was an article in The Guardian today which I didn't read which had the title "If Farage is a racist why is he leading in the polls? " I presume it didn't consist of one line which said "Because a shit load of British people are racist and proud". Same in the US.

Might be result affected but my current thinking is that it won't be a bad thing if we lose on Wednesday. I just can't see us beating two from the remaining teams as it stands. It's a shitter but that's how I feel.

Slightly less serious than the recent stuff in here but I've just had my first "Hope you're doing well and had a nice weekend" Teams message of the week. Well you can fuck off and wait for your peer review then can't you?

As I alluded to in the match thread, I think we're seeing the consequences of how we saw out the first semi against Arsenal which was 100% right at the time but now seems to be our go to plan far too often. We'll see it in the semis if we beat Fulham and we'll see it at PSG and my worry is it's not even working. I'm not saying we can go full on press for 90 minutes twice a week but we need to find a more possession based way of saving energy rather than the 5-5-0 or variants of it because if it's not working it will be the results which will cost us and Eddie in the long term.

Sorry Rayvin but fuck off.

That was like an early Reid derby - they wanted it more and there's no excuse for that. However the gameplan is 100% down to Eddie and he deserves to be shot with shit for it. What the fuck is the point of beating Fulham when we know exacty how we'll setup against Man City, Chelsea or Arsenal? He's doing this far too often and it's fucking shit.

Exactly what I said about Thatcher.

Unlucky overall I thought. Two against the post and a couple of excellent saves from Flekken. Joelinton should never be picked ahead of Miley again.

Mackems will lose their shit over that.

Soft.

Out till boxing day according to Downie.

They're worried that Sadiki and Xhaka are both one booking away from a suspension and hope they are either rested for one or both of their games this week or pickup a tactical yellow against the scouse vermin tomorrow to ensure they play against us.

CN has posted on X that he's been left out of the DRC squad for the AFCON - not sure what his source is and if it's legit but if true we're "free" to play him when he's ready and also have him for the whole month which would be excellent.

Fucking hell Spurs have only won 3 of the last 20 home games in the pl.