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Weird. Arsenal looking like total bottlers against the Toon. Losing every 50/50 and half of them don't seem to want the ball. Even their facial expressions look like they're scared to be there. Yet still they're level at 0-0.

BIB: Maybe they anticipated needing cover for all the red cards they are accruing at the moment.🤣

Why can't that guy be on here whenever someone starts a "We need a song for so & so " thread.

Hover over the note indicator against the Div 1 covering 92/93 - 2002.03. That was when the premier started, Div 1 was the new Div 2. That accounts for 11 of the difference. Edit @Nordic Saint and @Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan got there before me AND they are counting season 39/40 on wiki - that lasted 3 matches 🤣 and 45/46 which was no league at all just FA Cup 🤣🤣🤣

I have a small outstanding bet on a Man City/Chelsea/Real Madrid treble. Wasn't going to risk much but it just seemed the right thing to do.

You forgot Che Adams, his confidence seemed sky high after he'd played a few MotM games for Scotland, now he's in and out of the team and looking disillusioned when he does play.

And is that any surprise? During that good spell we were effetively playing with 12 men against 11 , Romeu was covering the ground and doing the work that any other club would require 2 men to do. No way could he be expected to keep that up all season. Now his form (or fitness) has dropped back to that of a normal human being we are back to 11 v 11 and against most opposition we simply aren't good enough.

That's the only genuine part. It's something the new owner's insisted on trying out, if the shirts are printed backwards it will hopefully confuse the players into actually passing the ball forwards for once.

Good marketing ploy. Circulate a picture of the downright horriblest possible design anyone has ever come up with, then when we see the real one, whatever it is, we can genuinely think " well it could have been worse ..."

Due to land in Spain at 7pm on the night of the final. Might have to get myself a Los Blancos scarf before I go, I'd hate for the locals to think I want Liverpool to win.

Well as designs go that's 'armless enough.

Intersting views on the shoots or the kits ?

Obvously we can only start with 11 on the pitch, and for keepers it's even worse as they have no psitional flexibility, but anyone "happy" to play second fiddle in any postion should be shipped out asap. Nothing but determination to prove their worth as first choice should be acceptable.

As 0-0s go that was pretty eventful. 🤣 Good result for us too, mid table rival dropped 2 points, Everton rival increased their gap by 1 Question, the foul by the dugouts just before half time was clearly given by the 4th official. Is that allowed?

I thought that happens every year but the stats from @nta786 posted above prove it's not as often as I thought. But we've certainly been weak against lower teams for a long time now (under many different managers and playing squads) I don't think it's for lack of effort or complacency on our part. I put it down to us being a near permanent mid-table-mediocrity type team. The top teams - the regular champion league contenders - don't need to change their game for the likes of us, they are good enough to play their own game against anyone outside their little closed shop. We know what to expect from them and are able to raise and/or adjust our game to compete, usually (but not always) giving them a good run for their money if not coming away with the odd unexpected point or 3. The relegation battling teams see us as a "free-hit" team that they have a chance against and raise and/or adjust their game accordingly, and if they are really up for it are usually able to bully us (if not out play us) into defeat. And in most of those games - including yesterday - we start well but at some point the opposition seem to suddenly realise "we could have these" and we're gone. Seems like something none of our managers have been unable to combat or counter. Had those 4 defeats been the victories they should have been on paper we'd be just a point behind WestHam right now, and look how well the media tell us they are performing.

Maybe he's not noticed he's still on the pitch either.

Typical women, they've got an answer for everything 🤣

I've admittedly only seen highlights of Everton's recent games but every commentary seems to consist of "Richarlison.........Richarlison.........Richarlison.........". Can't stand the guy but he appears to be trying to keep them up on his own.

A couple of years ago someone either copyrighted or trade marked "man of the match" thinking they could charge a fee every time it was used. Everyone came up with new names for it instead. Can't be arsed to find a link but you can google it. In other news, was in Covent Garden this afternoon, a right royal Crystal Palace party was in progress.

Apparently they amplify the vibrations of the eardrum, without them we'd all be deaf

In the unlikely event that we score one , is 1-10 considered a better or worse result than 0-9? (Asking on behalf of Ralphs interview script writer)

Half time. Clutching at straws here but we at least we can't let any more in for at least 15 minutes

Hmmm, all sounds like a double bluff to me. I can picture the team meeting now. RH: " Right lads, Mo's throw ins, they are shite, the opposition always get them first and head them clear, what else can we try?" JWP: (raising his hand excitedly with a shithousery grin on his face) "Let's get the Echo to print a story saying that's exactly what we want them to do" RH: Great , that should fool them. Ok next, who's turn is it to play the 10 role this week? Who'll be first to react as no-one from either side goes for it and the throw is left to just slowly bobble it's way across the penalty area. 🤣

Is that why you have him as your avatar?

Whatever we do from now on we're finishing mid-table mediocrity. Can we add weekly Everton matchday threads just so we can support the "Anyone but Everton" team that week and add some end of season excitement to the forum.