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Ooh, we managed a touch in the Arsenal box!

Brilliant. A prolonged period of just passing it sideways and backwards, and as soon as we inevitably give it away they get through and have a shot on goal. This is beyond turgid to watch. It's fucking pathetic

DCC was very lucky not to concede a penalty.

Far too easy.

Can't for the life of me work out why he didn't follow through with that run.

Did Sky just crank up the volume of the Arsenal fans? Absolute c*nts.

Yay. I seem to have worked my way onto Turkish's vendetta list. I'm going to wear that as a badge of honour.

Thankfully, the club physios will be in a much better position to make that decision than you chaps. It's entirely possible that the tightness has eased and they don't consider there to be any risk of damage if he plays a part of the game today.

Some people seem to be going to extreme lengths to bash Ralph here. It's very simple. Che ran himself into the ground on Wednesday and had a tight hamstring (not the same thing as a torn hamstring which would obviously rule him out for a few weeks). As a result of his tight hamstring he hasn't trained with the rest of the team during the preparations for this match, but is fit enough to play if called upon from the bench. What is it about this people don't understand?

It's not. Southend News Network is a parody site.

Do you honestly trust the membership to make the right choice after last time? It was plainly obvious to anybody with even a modicum of intelligence that Sunak was by far the better option, but they still voted in Thick Lizzy. If he couldn't beat her then what chance does he have with the blue-rinsers against Johnson? They will never admit to it publicly, of course, but there are just too many of them who could never bring them themselves to vote for a man with his ethnic background. If it comes down to them as the final two, Johnson will breeze it.

Do you think you could - just once - bring yourself to respond to the content of one of Soggy's posts objectively instead of just attacking him personally? Your obsession with him is just plain fucking weird.

And how is that working out for them exactly? No point signing players just for the sake of it. We will have had targets who we believed would have improved on what we have. It's frustrating that those deals all fell through, but I'm glad we didn't just go and spunk that money on more dross.

See now I know you're just trolling, because it simply isn't possible that anybody could actually be this fucking stupid.

I find it absolutely mental that anybody is talking seriously about Johnson returning. He was forced to resign in disgrace because he was so fucking corrupt and incompetent. How could these fuckers even dare to suggest he could stand again and potentially win? What do they think will happen? This is a man who was so totally deluded that he genuinely thinks he did a brilliant job and couldn't bring himself at any point to apologise for his actions. The notion that this colossal prick has learned his lessons and definitely won't make the same mistakes a second time round is beyond laughable.

The result of the Brexit vote suggests otherwise.

Great idea. Then who do we play in CM?

The subs made us much better but Bournemouth had burned themselves out by that point. Did well to play keep ball and see it out for the last 10 mins though. Very welcome 3 points though, even if it does paper over the cracks a bit.

JWP's passing has been utterly gash tonight.

It's just like watching Brazil 🇧🇷

So much time to think about it and he does that!

Finally got our feet on the ball and managed to keep it for a few minutes. Unlucky Che! Have Bournemouth burnt themselves out?

10 mins left. Get Edozie on to give their defence something to think about.

He's clearly not a DM. So what is he?