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Two strikers plus Armstrong who is very much an attacking player. No Redmond in the squad - is he injured again?

Yeah it was always going to be a big ask for him o come in today and shine, in his first PL start, on Boxing Day, against a resolute team playing primarily to avoid defeat. In the circumstances I think he did really well, coming in to replace one of our most effective players so far this season.

We've won 2 of our last 7 games. One of those was because of a very lucky late penalty decision in a game we didn't deserve to win, and the other was against the team bottom of the league with 1 point from 11 games. No team that is forced to start Shane Long when they have one striker injured is going to challenge for the PL title.

What is the fooking point of waiting until the 91st minute to make a sub?

Oh FFS!

THEEEEEEEOOOOOOOO!

How was that not a foul on KWP?

The one and only time in the match Long shows a smidge of quality, and of course he is offside.

So according to this ref, putting two hands on someone and pulling them off their feet isn't a foul.

The spin on the ball took the bounce away from him. No way he could have judged that.

10 mins in and we haven't mounted any kind of serious attack yet, but Fulham have got in behind us on numerous occasions. Troubling.

He did

A German airline flying in emergency supplies of food for us. But I'm sure they still hate us and just want to punish us (or some other ill-informed and outdated nationalistic bollocks).

Interesting. Your argument here is that Brexit is being enacted by the very people the voters chose to represent them. Except when they didn't, of course.

Like Zac Goldsmith?

And yet that lot combined got a larger share of the popular vote than the Tories and Brexit party did.

Another of our former academy products, Jason McCarthy, has managed 2 OGs in his last 5 appearances for Wycombe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55284003

I think you know full well that is not how cabinet appointments work, and they have nothing to do with democracy. Case in point - Zac Goldsmith lost his seat at the last election. So what did Johnson do? He made him a lord instead and parachuted him back into his post as an environment minister despite his constituents deciding they didn't want him in that role anymore. Why? Because he's a loyal Brexiteer. What is democratic about that?

I'm not talking about the people who voted for it. I'm talking about the people charged with carrying it out. In order to "get Brexit done", the ERG extremists had to seize control of the party by purging all of the more moderate and intelligent MPs. Thus we are left with pinning all our hopes of a decent exit deal on the likes of Johnson, Truss, Gove, Raab, Davis et. al. None of whom are in post for any level of aptitude for their role, but solely because they are loyal to the cult of Brexit and will simply do what they are told.

No, I mean they would recognise what a terrible idea it is and choose not to do it at all.

That's not a paradox though is it.

You mean like the one with Japan? The one that the terminally dim Liz Truss has negotiated that will leave us worse off than if we had just rolled over the provisions in the EU-Japan deal? Sorry, you're going to have to explain to me how that qualifies as a 'clear benefit' of leaving the EU.

This puts me in mind of something I saw posted somewhere recently - the Brexit Paradox: Any government with the required degree of competence and intellect to actually enact Brexit properly, wouldn't.

Gutted. Really took the game to them but the gulf in quality was evident. Losing Ings is a massive blow. When Adams went off and we had Tella and Nlundulu up front we just lost any cutting edge in attack. Not the kind of game to be blooding these player in. City will be very relieved they held on for the win. Not often you see them parking the bus and time wasting. We should take heart from that. Walcott was excellent and I would like to see him keep his place there instead of Armstrong. Vestergaard was immense again and deserved his MOTM award. Another excellent game for KWP as well. Getting JWP and Romeu booked in the first half maybe cost us a little in aggression in the second. Djenepo and Redmond both very poor today. Ref - Mike Dean innit. How he didn't book Gundogan for that cynical foul on Walcott was disgraceful. Then a minute later couldn't wait to get the card out for JWP. Terrible display from him today.

And again. No-one able to get on the end of that one but it was a lovely ball.