CB Fry

They need an incredibly solid second half of the season - 25 in 19 is lower mid table form - around what Villa and Leicester are doing now. Difficult but not impossible. If they get some points from those next four they will start to believe and then just hold on and hope for a stunning end of season run. We need to hope that pressure to win these next few will be too much for a squad that is, right now, not good enough. It's really important that we beat them. Because them staying up could be at the expense of us.

A point to build on yesterday's Boxing Day win would be a fantastic result going into the Newcastle match. And at least we're not playing a team who have engineered a little Covid holiday for themselves. They're as fresh/not fresh as we are. If we can go into that game on 21 points with Newcastle still on 10 there is going to be huge pressure on Howe. And yes I do want Man U ro win today.

I felt a little bit culled Christmas night but I'm okay now 👌

There's lots of goals to see on tonight's Boxing Day Match of The Day, covering all the games played today, Boxing Day. Looking forward to it, a great way to round off Boxing Day.

As long as we don't take the lead, we'd basically win every game.

This.

Great result and a great way to enjoy Boxing Day which is today. Gave away the lead twice and still won: insane.

Second half feels as inevitable as a turkey sandwich on Boxing Day.

It's a shame so many Boxing Day games have been called off because it's always one of the highlights of the year, the Boxing Day games played today, which is Boxing Day. I love Boxing Day. Bring on today's Boxing Day games. Also we won't win. But a point would be nice.

People still take a dump on Christmas Day. Generally without friends and family surrounding you.

Feels unlikely that any Premier League club would be sold for not a lot more than one years worth of TV money.

On the Virgin box I put BBC wales on (864) last night to check and it was broadcasting (basically the same film as normal BBC 1).....I know what you mean about BBC Sounds which will just not broadcast some matches if they don't have the online rights. But I would think in this case it will be fine. It'll be on. Yaki da.

It appears only on GiveMeSport which is just churning out clickbait in the style of "xxxxx could be a great signing for....". They do that in various combinations for loads of clubs and players over and over again. If you Google Dele Alli plus any other club and there are similar stories: far more rumours for other clubs like West Ham, Newcastle, Everton and in far more sources. Anyone looking at the rumour mill and thinking that Dele Alli to Southampton "keeps coming up" is deluded. We're barely in the top five clubs linked to him.

Oh, that's good news. Channel 864 on Virgin.

You're such a pendant.

Getting the hell out before additional import rules go live in two weeks time.

I went to the Theatre in Nottingham tonight and absolutely no Covid checks on the door or anywhere. Which for a dystopian "papers please" police state just-like-Nazi-Germany which we apparently are now, it seemed a bit lax.

I thought they were gaining the mass extermination of the global population? Pretty big win, right?

Indeed. "Why doesn't someone give us all the information" says someone who couldn't possibly cope with anything remotely approaching "all the information".

I got bored after he said "we've got to stop giving people half-truths to scare people" before then both of them proceeding to dish out a load of half truths (or worse) to scare people.

Nice to see a victory against the old Westminster establishment. Hardly a fatal blow but a big blow nevertheless to Boris and his old guard.

More realistically Covid causing BBC (or someone from the Press Association) to incorrectly type in a number. It won't have been 13k, they probably twice that many as that as season ticket holders alone.

The good news is there is no way they will ever report 1m cases a day. There simply is not the testing capacity to achieve that level of processing and reporting.

Not a bad game-in-hand to have in our back pocket. Although to be fair there are games dropping like flies so probably not much of an advantage now.

I would think the government would prefer the games to go ahead. A weekend of cancelled Prem games is an incredibly high profile indicator that we are in lockdown in all but name. Which exactly the kind of message that the government is trying to wriggle out of (because they don't want to start forking out furlough money or admitting the scale of the issue).