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Almost any other season we’d be comfortably top two with the results we’ve had.

Automatic promotion is (just about) in our own hands again now! What a set of festive results!

Almost completely dominated the match, albeit with a bit of luck needed to avert it being one of those days. I’m not going to complain about the three points!

Tiny bit of disappointment that Ipswich rescued a point and got a bit of a morale boost but the Christmas fixtures have been awesome for us on the whole.

Good finish for Leicester there! Hirst injured for Ipswich just before, looked a nasty one, went down with what looked a hamstring injury, got some treatment, probably would have been dragged off in a less important match, and then seemed to finish it off with his first few steps coming back on.

Brilliant performance today! Edoze absolutely terrorised them, especially first half, and a brilliant finish for his goal. Fraser’s two goals were pretty special too!

Merry Christmas All

Could have made that comfortable far earlier but a win, clean sheet, keeping the unbeaten run going and making ground on the top two is a very nice weekend.

The EU has clauses similar to NATO’s Article 5 regarding mutual defence. For Ukraine to join while this war is still ongoing those would have to be addressed. Four possibilities I can think of; The EU in effect agrees to declare war to allow Ukraine to join. Extremely unlikely. The EU allows Ukraine to join with agreements to intervene militarily after a set date if Russia haven’t withdrawn. The EU suspends the mutual defence clauses for the war with Russia for Ukraine to join, with indefinite future plans on reinstating them. The EU provisionally allows Ukraine to join, but only once the war is resolved. There could also be some sort of compromise which involves some mix of all or some of the above applying to different member states. It’s likely though, that any ascension would be indefinitely delayed by the ongoing war. More important at the moment is the message it sends to Russia that Ukraine won’t be abandoned by the EU.

Fantastic performance today, almost complete control, and (eventually) the result we deserved

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67722252 Accession talks to join the EU beginning for Ukraine (and Moldova). Orban has been one of the biggest blocks to that but apparently left the room while the decision happened.

Point away from home not the worst result. On to the next game.

Switching to claiming a lack of progress for Ukraine isn’t quite the stinging barb you think it is.

Extremely annoying to lose two points so late on. That said, most other seasons we’d have been challenging for the title with this form. Not impossible we’ll still get back to the automatics either. At the very least I’d be massively surprised if we dropped out of the playoff places from here.

Great win and the performance to match today, biggest threat to us was the match being abandoned due to fog!

Great goal, clean sheet against 12, and ten matches unbeaten. That’ll do

No easy games in the Championship, but that's definitely two points dropped. That said, there are worse positions to be in than being disappointed in 10 points from 12 on an unbeaten run of 9.

Gutting, great performance against one of the best teams in the country. Does at least suggest we won’t be out of place in the top flight when/if we get promoted.

Had to work for that one! Might have gone the other way on another day but today is ours! Perhaps most impressive is the change in mentality since last season in resilience and responding to any setbacks.

Clean sheet, win, and yet again showing we’ll push right to the end. We’re on a very very nice run of results now.

Gerrrrrrrrrin!

Properly decent performance and result there

The Kremlin has felt the need to deny the latest rumours about Putin being dead. Rumours of his death aren’t exactly unusual, but denials by the Kremlin are a lot less common, especially ones not delivered by Putin himself. Meanwhile a delegation from Hamas in Russia wasn’t allowed to meet Putin. Neither of those are anywhere near confirmation of course, but something is telling me not to immediately dismiss this one. Not just yet at least. He’s obviously not in perfect health and eventually it’ll actually turn out to be accurate.

I almost don’t care that we’ve dropped two points after that

What a save!