Sheaf Saint

And succeeding.

Offside boob?

No idea how that isn't a foul on Stu. Literally just pushed him off the ball.

Obviously offside, but a real warning shot for City that though.

There it is. 14 minutes for them to mention the points dropped from winning positions stat.

Only 4% possesion when we scored!!!

Not even a minute gone and Grealish has made his first dive. Gonna be a long evening.

They'd better get some soon. 10 defeats in their last 13 now.

Deserved lead for Villa. I thought Everton would be fine cos of how poor the bottom 4 teams are but now I'm not so sure. Can't see them getting back into this game.

No, Ings hasn't cemented a starting place yet but I'm sure he didn't move just for the money 😉 As for Targett, he's rightly lost his place to Digne and will need to move on (and probably drop down a division) if he wants regular game time now. Everton still look very poor. Surprised Gordon has been left out cos he's been in good form recently and spared their blushes at times. It's all getting a bit niggly now. Can see someone getting a red card in this one.

Ferguson may well have put a bit of fire back in the bellies of the Everton players, but there's nothing he can do about their lack of quality.

Holiday. Yeah, right! I can't speak for the entire public sector but believe me, with the massive backlog of work that built up when we were under staffed throughout 2020 and the huge pressure we are still under to clear that backlog, on top of all the time critical projects we have running that can't be postponed, it has been anything but a holiday. Tell me, if the offices are mostly unoccupied then how do you expect those letters to be directed to the right department? We simply advised all our applicants to stop sending snail mail and just send everything electronically instead. It saves time and effort for everyone involved.

The offices are effectively closed because the government has been telling everyone to WFH where they can. Do you expect govt departments to ignore that advice? I've no idea why HMRC think they need to operate reduced hours though. That makes no sense to me. If anything, the lack of commuting time should make it easier for their staff to fulfill their hours, not harder.

I don't hear any autistic screeching. What even is that? Sorry to piss all over your right wing indignation, but I work in the civil service and we've had it confirmed months ago that the option to WFH will remain permanently. Yesterday's announcement changed nothing.

Pretty obvious which way this thread is headed already. Get your bingo cards ready.

The meltdown on there after losing from being 2-1 up in stoppage time makes this forum look calm and rational 😂

He did originally, until it became obvious that there was evidence to the contrary.

I don't think anyone is suggesting for a second that he wrote them himself, but he was the one who stood at that briefing platform and told the entire nation what the rules were. For him to now claim that nobody warned him the party was against the rules suggests he is either a) a liar or b) an imbecile who shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power in Government. Either way, he has to go.

He's been great for us but he isn't irreplaceable. All depends what kind of fee we could get for him I suppose. I know for a fact he's not happy at losing his place. If he wants to leave and we can get decent money for him and sign an adequate understudy for Tino, I don't think it would necessarily be a bad thing.

I very much doubt we would be looking to spend £15m on temporary cover for Tino. More likely that KWP will be looking to move on, having lost his starting place to a teenager, and we're eyeing up a potential replacement for him.

I know this will never happen because PMQs is nothing more than a pointless pantomime that serves only to highlight how backward looking our entire political system is, but I would love it if, just once, the speaker actually stood up and insisted that the mealy mouthed word salad that just passed the PM's lips is in no way relevant to the actual question put to him and that he must give a more satisfactory answer before being allowed to move on.

What with injuries and AFCON, I had completely forgotten about him TBH. Showed a bit of potential in his early games - his solo goal at Sheff Utd was outstanding - but he's never lived up to it. A strange player in that he often looks like he's having a really good game and causing all sorts of problems, but his end product is non-existent. Wouldn't be at all bothered if he was offloaded.

Liverpool Echo are reporting that Everton have interviewed Rooney (as well as Lampard) for the vacant position, so there's a good chance Derby will be looking for a new manager soon as well. I was there in 2007 and, yes, it hurt. But I won't dismiss them completely because of the actions of a small minority of their fans. They are a similar sized club to us (the stadiums are virtually identical) and it would be very sad if they were to go out of existence completely. Best outcome would be if a points deduction sent them down and Wycombe get promoted (they are currently top of L1). Justice will have been served if that happens IMO.

Are neutral fans less likely to be knowledgeable or interested in Southampton than Man Utd? Hmmmm. Let me think now.... 🤔

Wouldn't be any good to us anyway if he's always suspended.