S-Clarke

Would love to push on again and see another exciting display, but I think we've lost quite a lot of energy tonight and to turn that around again for Saturday will be tough. Not expecting anything, but hoping for a surprise. Will be interesting to see how Ralph plays it as there will be quite a few players on empty after tonight.

What the actual.

Bit of an extra tool received from him today in those open play assists. Such a weapon in all parts of our play. Anyone who wants to sell him for less than £100m is daft. Easily up in the Rice figures. My opinion though is that he'd struggle to win over fans at a top, top club. Grass isn't always greener and he's onto a good thing here.

He's a bit infectious isn't he, really tenacious style to his play and isn't beaten all too often. He's not slow either as he caught up with Moura and Son on a few occasions. I love the guys heart and desire, he's not flashy but he's full of effort.

One of the worst right backs I've ever seen in this league. We've done Spurs good and proper there by nicking KWP for £10m whilst they spent £35m on him.

That was a monumental performance from every single one of them, I can't remember the last time I've seen us swarm a team with so much purpose and quality. We were absolutely relentless from the first minute. We benefited massively from Spurs standing off us in the first half, that allowed so much space for Ely and Armstrong to pop up and drive into. We were relentless in our press and Spurs were so passive. It was so frustrating that it wasn't at least 1-3 at HT as we'd have deserved that to a man. You kind of felt an inventible script was being written. Second half Spurs pressed higher, they got tighter and they certainly weren't as passive. The space we had in the first half had somewhat vanished and we were struggling to get the fluidity in our play, but we stuck at it. It's hard to analyse that second goal as it was a 'false' goal, in every single ground in every single country that is a foul in the build up and it's not a goal. Absolutley insane that it was allowed and even more ludicrous that the commentary team failed to even acknowledge that glaring referring disaster in front of them. But what spirt, what character and belief. The one thing that you could throw at this team in recent years is that our heads drop when the going gets tough, but f**k me this year we have turned that on it's head. We re-grouped and just pushed forward again. Spurs did sit back and decided to revert to their passive approach which helped us, but the quality of delivery from JWP from open play is clearly as dangerous as those from a set piece. Incredible delivery, but also a note on Adams header by the way - best header I've seen for years. It's hard to single a player out, but I want to give special mention to Elyounoussi. He's divided opinion and has struggled during his time here, but that first half was as good as I've ever seen him play. He was good on the ball, good off the ball, technical and skilful when he had it. The perfect number 10 performance away from home. Broja a threat as usual, but he needs to calm down a bit as he snatched at a couple of chances that a cooler head would have buried. Overall that's a bonus 3 points, but the performance has left me so excited. That is everything you want from a high intensity, high pressing side and it would have been an absolute footballing travesty had we not won that.

Everton, even though they looked terrible, should be absolutely fine I'd have thought. Newcastle will sadly be well clear by the end in my opinion. Burnley need to start getting wins, draws aren't going to get them far - but they're still competitive. Watford look pants though.

Newcastle 2-1.

Well, this game woke up. 1-1 now.

Everton lead.....OG by someone.

Very frenetic isn't it, hasn't settled down yet. No real pattern to it.

Zouma starts for WHU - wtf?

Jeez, didn't realise that. Lots of interest in the summer then. Although I imagine the agent fees and all that on top prob bring the outlay closer to 150-200m.

I wonder if he's referring to anyone in particular in his statements? It is true though, for clubs like us it just kills our model dead in the water. We're not the only club to have that issue though, look at how Mbappe is playing it at PSG - he could have been worth a record transfer fee to them. Halland, in my opinion, will do the same to Dortmund.

Blow for Lyanco, he has settled in quite well in recent weeks. He's certainly not the player we were told to expect by the Torino fans.

He'll end up at Benfica I reckon, they seem the natural path for these sorts of south Americans nowadays - then they perform there and get their 'big' move. Nice to see us mentioned, but we have as much chance of signing Mbappe.

There are way too many wrongun's in this world.

Manchester City: Pep Guardiola says he will leave club when his contract expires in 2023 - BBC Sport

Basically from how I read that is that he intends to see out his contract with us, what happens after that is still a bit unknown. I thought that was always the case if I'm honest. I guess he gets so emotionally involved in the cut and thrust of football that he fancies a bit of a break. I can't imagine it will be the end of him in football once he leaves us though, he still has a lot to offer. Similar to Pep, he's toyed with the 'quitting' football idea after his City contract finishes but I'm sure he'll be back. We just need to give Ralph all the tools we can in these next 2 years in order for him to put us on the strongest footing possible, he can also have a hand in appointing his successor.

Yeah, he was the manager when we won the U17 world cup. He was in and around the England setup at the same time as Crocker, Ashworth etc.

This is the side I'd expect to see. Tino played longer than we wanted on Saturday so he should be on the bench, otherwise we're risking him again for no reason. Peraud has played himself into some decent form I think. They're not easy to score against under Conte, so we're going to need to be ultra clinical...which we can be. Another 'bonus' game though really, anything we get from this is a plus.

Bit of a disastrous January for Brighton all told. He was crucial to their approach in terms of transfers and strategy. Not sure they can get anyone who is any better than him.

He's certainly done well wherever he has been, he did a decent job at Swansea too and got them close to promotion a couple of times. Weirdly the Swansea fans felt his football was a bit stale and boring and they were desperate for a change of manager, I wonder if they still think that as they sit towards the bottom of the Championship.

Thought I'd give this match a shot to see what it's all about, what am I watching? It's absolute dross, has this been the standard of the tournament? They want it to be respected, but I get more entertainment from Vanarama league games.

Bournemouth were so bad. Boreham Wood deserved that based on their efforts alone, Bournemouth just huffed and puffed without doing anything. Everton away is a great money spinner for Boreham Wood, given the way games have gone in this years FA Cup who knows what'll happen.