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It's far from needless. Pass it back and keep the ball, or hoof it long and lose the ball.

That was McCarthy's fault. Came and stopped.

Their line up suggests a different shape from them, possibly 433. Will be a decent game, and if we can keep Fernandes quiet, I think we'll get something out of it.

I can't speak for others Del, but so far as I could see the only actual criticism people were making was a) that he can’t / won't throw cash at the club, and b) that he doesn't make public statements / noise. There's also idiots that assume he's a crook / money launderer.

Agreed. In addition to that, I like that Gao stays out of the limelight and gets on with it quietly. On his watch we've hired Ralph, Semmens, Crocker and ditched Reed and the hockey man. Whilst he's pumped in his own cash, it's obvious from the accounts that we've spent as much as we can. I'm happy as we are.

Hairdresser

When you write "he was Argentinian and he cheated in the 80's, that was enough for me to dislike him." people who can read will take that to mean that you disliked him because he's Argentinian and cheated in the 80`s. Sticky patch. Bless.

That's the spirit, bear a xenophobic resentment for over 30 years. On the first point, addiction can flow from use, not abuse. Abuse does not necessarily lead to addiction.

Society also needs to move away from seeing substance addiction as substance abuse. The fella was unwell.

Knob

Yep. Pathetic. Ditto the other thread. The fellas died, have a bit of class

Absolutely. All players cheat, whether its a cynical foul, asking for a corner when they got the last touch, diving for a pen, whatever. He happened to cheat on the biggest stage against England, but there's nothing normal about focusing on that when the fella dies 34 years later.

Cheating at footy. Killing loads of people. Similar.

Boys

He had an eternity and should have scored imo.

Long isn't good enough as a goalscorer but yesterdays change was about having a threat down the left to hold back their right flank and moving Walcott over was our best option. We also needed to stretch the game and of the 3 options on the bench, Long can do that. We weren't chasing a win, rather we were clinging on and I'd be surprised if anyone really wanted to see L'undulu or Obafemi come on to help us do that.

Tella is not good enough, at least not yet. Walcott to the left and someone else through the middle was his only option really. On that, we weren't getting up the pitch so Long rather than one of the others made sense.

Pah. Never bet against your team. Just wrong.

Wrong. Someone could be waiting to get jabbed, but catch the virus beforehand from someone who could already have had the vaccine but declined.

Absolutely nothing in there at all that suggests antisemitism from Starmer.

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Roast

Yep. That defence looks like its never been coached. Whipping boys.

I partly agree, but players need confidence to perform and develop. Getting beaten 3 nil each week won't help with that.

I'm pretty sure Obafemi is eligible now after his ban. Didn't play for the u23's yesterday. I suspect he'll be nowhere near the squad, but that we'll instead see L'undulu. My monies on a loan in January. If he's really pissed them off, somewhere overseas like Belgium division 3 or similar.