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Spot on. When you look at McCarthy's career before he came here, there was nothing whatsoever to indicate he'd be a first choice Premier League goalkeeper. His reflexes always looked a fraction of a second too slow. and, of course, he's always had that glaring weakness at the near post. He wouldn't even be first choice at a Championship side. He appeared to find his level at Yeovil:Youth careerWimbledon–2006 Wycombe Wanderers2006–2007 ReadingSenior careerYears Team Apps 2007–2014 Reading 70 2007 → Woking (loan) 1 2008 → Cambridge United (loan) 1 2008 → Team Bath (loan) 2 2009 → Aldershot Town (loan) 4 2009–2010 → Yeovil Town (loan) 44 2010 → Brentford (loan) 3 2011–2012 → Leeds United (loan) 6 2012 → Ipswich Town (loan) 10 2014–2015 Queens Park Rangers 3 2015–2016 Crystal Palace 7 The stats show that Forster is a vastly superior goalkeeper to McCarthy. We concede fewer goals per game, keep more clean sheets and win more games when he plays. They are not even close.

This is not the first time I've said this and sadly it won't be the last: I never want to see McCarthy or Walcott play for Saints again. They cost us so many points over a season.

He should never be playing at this level. Why can't Ralph see that?

I've just been speaking to a Danish fan who was at Hampden. He was very impressed by Che Adams and also said it was the best atmosphere he'd ever experienced at a game.

I listen to Lang Lang's Goldberg Variations all the time. I'm looking forward to seeing him perform them live at the Barbican next month. Lang Lang - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria - YouTube

True. This is the first time for 90 years that Scotland have won 6 consecutive games and Che is spearheading the team.

I've been quite impressed by what I've seen of him so far, so there are some grounds for optimism. It will be interesting to see how he does when he gets his first Premier League start.

As another one bites the dust, I wonder if more managers have been sacked after losing to us than to any other team.

Block 43, directly behind the goal, used to be left empty for fan segregation. Now, it's been given to away fans. The fan segregation zone now is just half of Block 42, as it was for the Leeds game.

Brilliant. I still can't stop smiling after reading that again.

And the left hand (the dinosaur's claw under the pumpkin-shaped ball) is much bigger than the right. To fit all of those comic details into one statue has to be world class comedy.

It's comedy genius.

C.B Fry was the best all-round sportsman in the world. "Charles Fry was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age." John Arlott.

Vestergaard and Bertrand were Leicester's worst rated players again (they are every time they play). "Jannik Vestergaard: Even in the middle of a back three where he has more protection, his lack of mobility is exposed": Leicester City player ratings v Brighton: Barnes and Lookman take their chance in cup success - Leicestershire Live (leicestermercury.co.uk)

Forster was MOTM. Chelsea had 14 shots on target. If McCarthy had been in goal, we'd have lost that game comfortably, at least 3-1.

We look so much better without McCarthy and Walcott. They are our two big weak links. Unfortunately, Ralph brought Walcott on.

Tuchel is obviously taking this match very seriously. The bulk of his team featured in their 7-0 league win on Saturday: 5 in the starting lineup and 3 as subs.

True. The way McCarthy plays it certainly looks like that. The last Saints goalkeeper I can recall who was quite that bad was the one we signed from Wolves after putting 9 goals past him: Dave MacLaren.

McCarthy is a League One goalkeeper, at best. He is easily the worst goalkeeper in the Premier League and that alone is probably enough to see us relegated in spite of the fact we have great players like Livramento and Broja, who would grace any top six team.

Burnley haven't won any of their last 14 Premier League games. It's half a year since they last won a league game. They are in the bottom 3 and almost certain to be relegated. About the only team with a worse record than theirs in that period is...? Today, we made them look good. Drawing at home against them is as bad as drawing at home against Norwich. That has to be a massive wake up call. No more Walcott; no more McCarthy; KWP at right back, Livramento right midfield, Stuart Armstrong starting alongside him, Broja as our main striker with all of our other players instructed to get the ball to him at every opportunity - it's time to cut the cr@p.

Saint-Maximin is one of the nicest people in football: a brilliant footballer and an absolute diamond geezer. Newcastle are very lucky to have him in their team.

Like you, even though I made the sugggestion, I'm ambivalent about bands too. I also hate the England band and the Pompey bandstand was embarrassing but our Saints band is something different. I've been surprised and impressed by how they've galvanized our crowd before kick-off at recent games. It might be worth experimenting with them in the Chapel for one game, like an early round of the League Cup, for example, just to see what effect they have. If they got the Chapel, supposedly our home end, singing it would certainly improve the atmosphere because right now the only team with an end at St Mary's is the away team, although with so few Burnley fans coming, we might, temporarily at least, see a return to how it was in League One and the Championship, with most of the Northam, including the block behind the goal, full of home fans.

It works well enough in Brazil and there's not much else going on in the Chapel, is there? It would also motivate our team a lot more than songs about hating Pompey do at the moment.

They are really good and they have such a positive influence on the atmosphere before kick-off that they deserve a spot in the Chapel during the game. It's about time we had a proper home end and they could be the catalyst for it.

There is a lot of confusion among TV commentators and pundits about how to pronounce his name so I did an online search to find an Albanian pronouncing it and it is pronounced: BROYA, a bit like Phil Boyer.