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Yes, that one too!

Personally, I found the goals we conceded to Huddersfield, Arsenal, Brighton, Burnley at SMS more annoying this season. At the end of the Skate game I still expected to get promoted and for them to go down.

20 years is quite a long time TBF.

I think 35 points may be enough to stay up, looking at Stoke and Huddersfield's fixtures. I wouldn't say Swansea are safe, although I expect Palace and West Ham to be fine. Swansea have Everton at home next but after that Man City and Chelsea so a slip-up against Everton could leave them on 32 points going into their last 3 games. Those are against Bmouth, us and then Stoke so those last two matches could be pretty crunch games (or us and Stoke could be down by then).

Play a back 4.

Not really. It's just obvious that he's not a good enough defender. It was obvious last season too and I was saying it then as well.

It summed up our season because we have thrown away leads to soft goals from ****e teams several times.

Losing Stephens for three games is a blessing, not a disaster. And Whilshere wasn't sent off because you don't get sent off for pulling a shirt in midfield. Obviously.

Suspension for Stephens is good news

Decent effort but our defensive weak links are leaving us exposed. The writing has been on the wall all season with the constant shipping of soft goals.

Would prefer to see Boufal or Redmond in the Tadic role but hopefully we can at least be difficult to beat. Nice to see our record signing isn't good enough for the bench. Good one, Les/Ross/MoPe.

Sales look fine to me. All gone apart from the top tier and that is down to "orange" in a lot of the blocks. There will be a surge when non-members are eligible.

I'd have both but not in a noddy 442. Have Long running down the right channel of a front three, Austin in the middle and Boufal or Sims on the left. Romeu, Lemina and JWP in midfield.

Yoshida!

Russel Howard has seemed like an absolute c-unt whenever I have had the misfortune to see him on the TV.

You're right. We need to commence "operation rule out every country apart from Russia", and quick-smart too. Let's divvy it up. I'll take French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Oz, NZ and, to mix things up a bit, Burundi. You start on South America.

I don't think anyone says she expected nothing in return. I think everyone expected her to sell at some point. She did write off £33m of loans and could have taken more out if she wanted. She's not some Saint but she wasn't taking huge amounts out.

Johnson got his words wrong. It's not a big conspiracy. He knows it was the Russians. Part of that knowledge is due to the Porton Down evidence. He said he knew because of the Porton Down evidence. That's a mistake, not a great big lie.

"completely untrue" - why do you persist with this silly hyperbole? You say cui bono is relevant to identifying suspects then you wonder why Russia was quickly identified as a suspect in the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent.

Poor article. Schneiderlin was signed before Reed had any association with the club and the academy players mentioned cannot be credited to him either.

May have the added benefit of Swansea being safe. Perhaps. Might be good. Maybe.

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Don't forget that these results are for the season ending under Puel. I suspect the gap with Spurs is bigger now and Everton will have overtaken our wage bill. Still, though, it does show that relegation will cause serious problems if we can't shift players and don't come back up.