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Boooooom! Matsuki-san on a hat-trick

Larin beating them up Love to see it

His movement for the first goal, continually dropping off and finding space, was superb

Hendrie’s dulcet tones are like listening to Morgan Freeman compared to having Tessem screeching his gibberish

Ssshhh, you’ll upset pingpong

Yep. Let them have too much of the ball but they’ve done very little with it. No shots on target of any note. We’ve been sloppy between the goals but still looked more dangerous than them and created more.

Matsuki-san!! Gets up so well for a not particularly big lad But wtf is the keeper doing

Quality from Larin Exactiy what you want from your no. 9

Fucks sake THB - gives away the ball when we should be working to shoot, triggers a break all the way into our box

Oooh THB off the post Could Stephens have thrown himself at that? Edit: Maybe not

Passing has gone to absolute shit

Manning gets away with another one. Levels have dropped all over the pitch since we scored.

Scienza has to do better with that

Brilliant finish Azaz 1-0

Manning gets done, got lucky there

It’s not just the red and white vs pink that clashes - both sides are wearing dark shorts as well. Weird decision.

Is it just my eyes or is it quite hard to tell the teams apart? Edit: Not just me then

Honour the glory days of the 80s with a triumvirate of Gary Coleman, Mr T and ALF.

His record (including cup games in brackets) is W W W W L W W L D L D D L (W) L W D W W W (W) D. So putting performances aside and focusing purely on the nitty gritty of results, with a priority given to league results, his form table so far is basically an incredible start, a very poor middle, and now really gathering momentum again. All in all, in the simple terms of games won vs. games played, he's done pretty well. However the argument will continue as to whether with the players and resources we have at our disposal at this level, he should still have done better. Or, whether another realistic managerial appointment would have done better. I'm doing a @trousers at the moment and am on the fence. We've just been very inconsistent and streaky. Great one game, rubbish the next and almost impossible to predict which version will turn up. If he can find a way to grind out some consistency for the run-in and keep this current momentum going, then it could look like a pretty impressive record for a first job by the end of the season, but I'm reserving judgement until then. Or he could just go and win the Cup in which case who cares, he's an instant legend.

Poo Stain Knob End

Leicester a goal down after four minutes Strollin' Joe on the bench They are bang in trouble

Schmeichel having a complete Baz against Stuttgart in the week:

Wow, they've really turned on him. I thought he might have a bit more credit in the bank after doing very well to get them promoted last season, but it would appear that as well as the poor results they have also grown sick of his antics and demeanour in the way that everyone does sooner or later. To the point that some on that thread seem keen on the idea of replacing him with Martin - that's the only fanbase I've seen that doesn't just reject the idea of him out of hand. Not sure his ego would allow him to take over there though, as he probably thinks he's still a level above Charlton, and to be fair to him he's probably right. Now the Leicester job's taken (for the next six months at least), I think he'll pitch up at West Brom eventually, if he doesn't go abroad.

Absolutely priceless. There is a scenario here where if they just accepted the 6 point deduction (that was generally thought, not least by their own fans, to be pretty lenient) they could stay up at the end of the season. But now they are appealing, they could lose the appeal, the deduction could get increased and they could get relegated as a direct consequence of not just shutting up and taking the original soft punishment. Appealing it is such a mad, high-risk, high-stakes gamble. If it was any other club I'd think that they've probably got something in their back pocket which means they are confident of winning the appeal, but with them, I think it's more likely just to be a fit of pique from their nepo baby owner who's never been stood up to by anyone in his life and simply can't handle it. Then separately, the Premier League have also now said they're not happy that the six point deduction was sufficient, and they want at least one more point taken off. So they are appealing as well. Popcorn at the ready, this is going to be interesting

Excellent. I accept. My first act will be to abolish any future democratic processes, eliminate all potential rivals, install myself as dictator Supreme Glorious Leader of the FAB, establish a reign of terror that will last a thousand years, and run a feasibility study for a limited trial of pre-poured drinks at half time at the Chapel end Now kneel before your God or I'll have you shot