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I wonder if instead of the 3421 / 3511 against the Arse we will go for a more traditional 352 with Long and Austin up front. We would probably sacrifice some creativity but Long's pace could cause the Chelsea CBs some difficulties.

Wembley has some of the most "adequate" facilities I've ever seen at a football ground TBH Charles.

At some point Abu Dhabi will need to diversify its economy and cease reliance on hydrocarbons. So in around 50 years maybe someone else will have more money.

Quite. This is more-or-less the point made by Verbal in the Corbyn thread about how the far-left functions. Obviously it applies to the far-right and other extreme folk too. For anecdotal evidence of the susceptibility of people to this sort of non-thinking approach, I give you Donald Trump's Twitter account.

Sure they aren't other club's comps that have been returned? Don't loads of comps get dished out to all-sorts of groups for these things?

They're in on it too. Our government is world class at massive all-encompassing conspiracies. If anything, we conspired it too well.

How about: "Les be 'avin you OUT!"

I think if he was to leave he would be hoping for something better than Newcastle. It's his last chance at a really big contract, probably.

Should just be on sale to anyone with a purchase history now.

It was a terrible decision and one that would have been quickly corrected by VAR.

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Don't know about that. He gave away the first goal last night. If the officials hadn't made such a terrible decision to rule out the Sane goal I expect City would have gone through.

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"Deserved" in the sense of the rules being applied correctly, then yes, obviously he did. If you want to make your own moral judgment based on him being frustrated then fine but don't expect referees to agree with you. If you put two hands around a player's neck / shoulder area and throw them to the floor in retaliation you get a red card. FFS, Stephens clearly deserved a red card. Elneny, on the other hand, got completely stitched up for a simple shove that does go regularly unpunished.

You've just made up the bit in bold.

We were going to appoint Puel before Koeman became available. The V-Man mentioned Puel a full year before we were ever publically linked with him. Puel was clearly on Les' wish-list for whatever reason.

I forgot Redmond. Never mind.

I would go back to a back 4, which basically picks itself. Romeu, Hojbjerg and Lemina. Austin has to play if fit. Long deserves another start after his performance against Arsenal and gives us extra presence in the box and pace on the break. He plays down one of the channels. The other "wing" is a toss-up between JWP, Tadic, Boufal and Sims. I'd probably go for Long on the right and Tadic on the left.

Good point.

Christ, yes. The one good goal Darren Bent ever scored in his career.

Stephens fully deserved a red card but it was shocking that the ref didn't step in sooner to sort out Wilshere. Goodness knows why Elneny then got sent off. I think the linesman felt sorry for us and wanted to make amends. The crying shame is that Stephens just pushed him over instead of sparking him out properly.

We have to hope he decides that his best bet for attention is to give us something soft.

If they get three more points they will be on 35. We need to be aiming for at least 35. 2 wins and a draw. If we don't get that then, yeah, we're probably screwed. If they win two games we probably won't catch them and the next best bet is probably catching Swansea, who we have the opportunity to beat (yeah, I know.....!)

He's proper mint. Build the team around him, Bednarek and Marcelo Tejera.