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Why is Redders doing an impression of Mr Bean, I wonder?

I can't agree with your assessment I'm afraid. Everton have already lost more games than Burnley. In fact, only Norwich and Watford have lost more games than them. Burnley's defensive record is much better than Everton's (and better than ours even). Following their decent start, Everton's form since October is bottom of the league, worse even than Norwich or Watford. Burnley's points record over the same period is more than double Everton's. Since the beginning of 2022, Burnley have made up 7 points on Everton and are now only a point behind them. I really don't see them beating Wolves. They might get something against Newcastle, but then they play 4 of the current top 5. If they really do have too much quality, it's about time they started showing it because they haven't so far. I am 99% confident that Burnley will finish above them and stay up. I'm just not sure about Leeds.

My brother's wife is originally from Russia and her father was in the Red Army. Despite not living there for many years, she remains utterly convinced Putin is the Messiah and has been sharing the most horrendous propaganda videos online recently, essentially claiming Ukraine brought it all on themselves.

Couldn't be anything other than Agent Orange, surely? 😉

Anthony Gordon would be a big upgrade on Redmond and probably available for a realistic fee. If they go down they will be in serious financial trouble and will need to sell some major assets sharpish.

I'll be amazed if they're still outside the drop zone after that run.

It's a stretch to claim he was 'right' about it when it's so painfully obvious he's reading a speech written by someone else and stating the bleedin obvious.

They are only a point behind Everton, and they have a manager who has survived numerous relegation battles and knows how to grind out results. Not sure about the new guy at Leeds but they have enough goal threat to win games even if their defence is still crap. Everton are just a mess from front to back. At no point this season have they shown the slightest hint of quality or cohesion. Their attacking play is weak and too easy to defend against, their midfield is lightweight at best, and their back 4 is a shambles. People have been saying for months they are too good to go down, but they just aren't.

Keane is seemingly trying to beat Bednarek's OG record.

I don't know about geological impacts, but well casing failures are alarmingly common (mostly due to cost cutting on the construction materials) and have lead to widespread groundwater contamination and massive methane leaks. The economic and environmental cost of it is just too high to make it a realistic proposal. The level of investment required in infrastructure to begin mass production would be much better directed towards renewables.

Think you might be getting your facts mixed up here. Firstly, ethnic Russians made up less than 40% of the population in Donetsk and Luhansk at the last census. Second, the claim that 14,000 of them have been killed by AZOV is false. The UN puts the total figure of deaths in the conflict at around 13,200, of which over 4,000 were Ukrainian military and nearly 6,000 members of armed separatist groups. I have no love at all for the ideals of the AZOV volunteer force, but to claim their existence / actions is any kind of justification for what is currently happening across Ukraine is just pure Kremlin propaganda.

The general level of competence (or lack of) among the Russian ranks will give Ukraine an advantage though...

You mean apart from having our only shot on target that forced a good save from Martinez?

Not really. Yellow more than sufficient.

and today's Brexidiot award goes to...

Just like that Forster performance at Arsenal, everything was pretty much straight at him. I even managed a similar performance and clean sheet in a local 5-a-side league game not so many years ago. I was embarrassed to get the praise I did afterwards.

Why did that young Boreham Wood fan have a Pompey flag?

It's been suggested in the past that the 'seeded' teams have their balls warmed up so the person doing the draw can feel which ones they are. No idea if there is any truth to it (probably not), but it's theoretically possible.

Perhaps this should go in the bad takes amnesty thread, but after this game I genuinely thought Tadanari Lee would be amazing for us. That cushioned header to tee up SRL was sublime.

If Lawro's predictions always came true we'd be bottom of the league. Happy for him to call it wrong - again.

Yep. Hot ones.

Of the 3 of them I would most fancy our chances against Chelsea right now.

I also remember Saggy chops won it for March in 2005, and everyone was convinced we had turned the corner and would stay up. We then went and got one point out of a possible 15 in April, and we all know how it ended.

I believe so, cos one of them was trying to congratulate JWP after he had scored the pen.