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Well technically that was a shot on target. Woo!

Comical.

Not looking too great defensively are we.

OK so the disconnect here appears to be that you are arguing about the seriousness of offence almost pedantically in terms of the sentencing guidelines. Whereas I, and seemingly everyone else on this post, am arguing purely in terms of morality. The reason the crime to which HE has pleaded guilty is generally punished less severely is because, at some point in time, a body of lawmakers made an arbitrary decision that it should be. But looking along moral lines, I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone, barring perhaps a few closet paedophiles, who doesn't think there is a clear equivalence between raping children and paying to watch the raping of children.

Yes. If you pay someone to provide videos of children being raped, then morally you are no better than the actual rapist. Fucking hell Soggy. How do you even need that pointing out to you?

I'm really not seeing the logic of playing him so wide when we have other obviously better options in that position. He doesn't appear to have any of the attributes you would expect from a winger, like pace or dribbling ability. I want to believe he is actually a better player than we have seen from him so far, but he needs to be played in the right position to prove that, and LW ain't it.

The start of our unbeaten run last season coincided with him getting injured. Just saying.

Normally when a team goes down to ten you see them retreat into a defensive shape to deal with an onslaught from the other team. But Utd seem happy to just let us have the ball and knock it around, safe in the knowledge we won't do anything constructive with it.

Well, at least we won't have to see Stephens playing for the next 3 games.

A quadruple change, no less.

I don't want to write him off completely just yet, but he's just an empty shirt playing out on the wing. I'd think about swapping him for Cornet or Fraser.

Wasn't he quoted as saying he sometimes loses focus in games? Maybe he came to us because he knew he would be far too busy to ever zone out.

Another giveaway from Stephens leads to a Utd chance.

Utd 8 shots on target is their best in the first half of a PL game for 5 years, apparently. Speaks volumes, that.

Tater just mentioned BBD. First time I've heard his name for about half an hour. Seems completely wasted out on the wing.

Fucking hell, how did they not score a third there? Shambolic defending.

Stephens - managing to play them all onside while marking FUCKING NOBODY!

Not entirely disagreeing with you, but who else on the pitch would have been a better option? Great save from Ramsdale.

Well BBC Sport has us down as playing 3-5-2 but the lineup suggests otherwise. Stephens obviously kept in due to his ability to wind up BF. Really excited to see what that midfield can do. Dammit I'm actually excited and cautiously optimistic now. Wonder how long it will take for them to rinse that out of me!

I think JWP disproves that.

Head, shoulder... What about his knees and toes?

Took me a while to work out why the Finnish national anthem sounded so familiar. But of course it's from watching all those F1 race wins by Hakkinen and Raikonnen. What a dreadful atmosphere at Wembley so far. I know the weather is crap, but even so. Shockingly quiet.

Or maybe the whole thing is a deep fake! It's all part of the Loch Ness Drogba conspiracy

Been so many years, I had forgotten that one. That was a Tom Clancy novel as well. Was he playing the same character? Edit: just checked IMDB and yes he was.