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Fret ye not squire... I've only let the serious one out of the box for a couple of hours. Normal service to be resumed shortly p.s. it does genuinely annoy me ever so slightly though when players trot out the "we're really fired up for this one" line.

They should be equally "fired up" for all 38 games. Maybe that's why Leicester got c.20 points more than us? They played every game like it was an end of season decider? (Ooh-er... Trousers actually expressing an opinion rather than waffling on about nothing in particular )

Cause and effect. I would venture that most 'speculative' stories are by their nature, going to be 'negative' in some shape or form. Cage rattling stories sell; lovey dovey 'everything is tickety-boo' stories don't. Take yesterday for example. Two stories about Koeman... One from the Liverpool Echo linking Koeman with the Everton job (according to a mystery 'source') and another article penned by Simon Peach where VvD says he's convinced Koeman with stay at Saints. I wonder which one of those stories made the back pages this morning...? Its human nature to disbelieve negative stories that appear to hold no tangible substance. A bit like when the media publish a negative story about Jeremy Corbyn, for example, some people's natural reaction is to automatically disbelieve it....

I refuse to disbelieve this story until Crook publishes his 'exclusive' on it later today.

http://talksport.com/football/liverpool-fc-news-reds-shouldnt-want-finish-higher-eighth-and-here-we-explain-exactly-why

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Do away goals count in the playoffs?

First contact was just outside the box, surely?

That Plymouth player will surely get a ban for that partial head butt? (Not that I'm here to say anything pro-Pompey of course!)

Why is the ref allowing Paul Cook to sit within a few feet and earshot of the bench? Hardly 'sent to the stands'. Same old Pompey, always cheating.

Nice

This Jordan Cross fella has been working with Factless for far too long... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/place-in-pompey-annals-the-greatest-of-spoils-1-7377653

BBC Look North ‏@BBCLookNorth Breaking News: The manager of Sheffield United Nigel Adkins has been sacked.

So, Kane didn't "gain (his team) an advantage" as a result of him "interfering with play"...?

That would be fantastic and frustrating in equal measures