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Don't go on sale to members until 9am tomorrow, apparently.

True. But in this case, Long quite obviously wasn't impeded trying to get to the ball. He knew he wasn't going to get to it so he tried to buy a penalty by falling over in front of the incoming slide instead. Ref got it absolutely right IMO.

Nope. It was a clear dive and the ref got it spot on. Long got a very heavy first touch (imagine that!) and realised he wasn't going to get to it before it went out of play, and you can see on the replay he was quite blatantly off his feet and going to ground well before any contact was made. The disallowed goal though - that's another matter. Redmond was quite clearly onside watching the replay.

FFS - That was onside. Bad call from the Lino.

Inter 0-2 down now!

He's having a very typical Shane Long performance really... Being a proper nuisance to the defenders, making intelligent runs and getting himself into really good attacking positions, then completely going to pieces when he has to actually do something with the ball.

Inter losing!

What's he done wrong then? Played a couple of delightful balls from set pieces so far.

Seeing as we got knocked out in the qualifying round last year, technically he's right.

I was wondering how much longer we would have to wait for the customary dodgy back pass from Yoshida.

Matt Le Tiss?

I don't think we've got any worries there Steve. I was expecting to get one through our company's corporate box but I have now been told we can't have them because of the high demand.

Disgracefyl from the officials. Blatant foul on Long right in front of the lino, then a stupidly harsh penalty.

I think we've looked a fair bit better since Hojbjerg came on.

Great finish from Koscielny, but anywhere else on the pitch it would have been a FK for a high boot.

That was his first goal for England after 36 attempts. 36 shots, 1 goal (which a decent PL keeper would have saved) = a terrible record whichever way you look at it.

Don't go then

And would undoubtedly have been sold to Liverpool long before now

Edit: posted twice

So I've cleared the Milan trip with the Mrs and found some cheap flights from Manchester. Just got to see if I can get a ticket through our company's corporate box now. All being well I'm off to see Saints at the San Siro

7pm local time (6pm UK time)

Group K it is then. With Inter and Sparta Prague. Brilliant draw that is! :-)

Ajax, Inter and Fiorentina all still possible for us then.

Where can I watch the draw live?

He can tell pals he wants to go all he likes, but if the club don't receive a worthy offer for him, or we can't find a suitable replacement before the window closes, he will have to just suck it up and honour the contract that he signed in good faith last year.