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Wouldn't be surprised to see Bertrand and Tadic go. At their age their value is probably not going to increase. Of course, this assumes no new strategic approach following a takeover.

Marco Almeida replaced by Florin Gardos....

Please, just stop.

St Will was funny. So it can't have been Glasgow/Bournemouth.

Although he's a scouser and therefore inherently painful to listen to for any length of time, I actually thought Carragher did a good job of being as impartial as possible. Much fairer than a dumb-ass **** like Niall Quinn or some of the morons you used to get on ITV, for example.

One of the most entertaining refs IMO.

A hard match to predict. Welbeck murdered Stephens in the cup match so that's a bit of a concern but it will be interesting to see if Stephens takes that lesson on board. You never know which Arsenal team will turn up. Sometimes they are lightweight, lethargic and lack leadership; sometimes they are fluent, creative and very dangerous. We are similar! I think Puel will get us to have a go and take the game to them. We're safe, we can't qualify for Europe, we just got a decent away draw but we failed to score in our last home game and people got the hump. It's not like he set us up defensively against Hull, rather the players on the pitch let him down somewhat. I can't see him asking us to play like yesterday again because he knows the crowd won't like it in a home match and he hasn't really got anything to lose. I would bring Redmond in for Tadic and go back to more of a 4-2-3-1 with JWP wide right, rather than yesterday's 4-3-2-1. Boufal behind Gabbi, Redmond on the left and give all three more licence to roam and have a go at Arsenal. .

It wasn't a red card offence. There was a defender there as well and Tadic was running away from goal towards the corner of the pitch.

Indeed. And we should have scored with the attack where Redmond hit a raking ball to Tadic to square it for Long. That was the best attack of the whole match!

If they fail the test then maybe Ali Al-Faraj can do another short-term stint at the helm of a football club.

Just seen the latest Dianne Abbott clip. My goodness. Why on Earth are Labour letting her do media appearances? I know the shadow front bench is a bunch of no-hopers but literally doing nothing would be better than having her visible.

Well?

I think the word you're looking for is "popular", rather than necessarily "amateur" (although I'll save you the trouble of pointing out that the two are not mutually exclusive). I suspect he, quite rightly, thinks that only a small group of weirdos would be remotely interested in the mathematical theory behind everything postulated in the article.

You can still get 1/20 on a Tory win. 5% tax-free guaranteed return in a month's time. Attractive.

This is the key lesson for some of our contributors to take on board: "while 38 games on the face of it sounds like a massive number, it’s still a small enough sample size to have variance run amok"

Yeah, but there's nothing bent about it. I know they're a bunch of ****s but there's more than enough to mock without inventing bentness!

In fairness, whatever you think of Royal "work", he did fight in WWII.

No, that's not right. 75% of the shareholder votes are needed to approve the sale but the trust votes with one voice based on the simple majority voting of its members (who are not shareholders themselves). The trust owns just under half the shares so if the trust votes "no" it can block the deal. If trust votes yes then the trust shareholding plus about half the "Presidential" shareholding will reach the 75% mark and approve the deal. That seems quite sensible and there's nothing bent about that.

In fairness, he makes a valid point and that's the Disney in him coming out. The first rule of IP is not to **** with Disney.

I wasn't, pal. I said we should have got out of the group. I mean "should" in the sense that it was an underachievement not to. Do you disagree? The Prague game is, whilst a sample of one and therefore not at all statistically significant, at least some evidence that even when we played ****, the opposition had very little to offer. I think that reinforces the suggestion that we "should" have got out of the group because if we had played a bit nearer a reasonable standard, for us, we would have beaten them. With the attacking players we have, we "should" have been able to manage a goal in one of our away games. I don't think you disagree. I think you're just being a supercilious ****, pal.

Christ, you're weird.

Exactly. We clearly had better players, in general, than our opponents. Which is why we clearly should have made it out of the group and it's nonsense to say otherwise. The Europa League campaign was a failure in what was a very poor group. No away goals FFS.

Yes, the point is that we shouldn't have been. I'm not sure if you are disagreeing or not; odd comment. Despite us being ****, Prague offered nothing and let us have the ball for most of the match. We had 70% possession and only managed three shots on target. They didn't win a corner all match. They were over the moon with the result. The match was about League One standard and Prague were crap over both legs. If we'd played to 70% of our maximum we would have beaten them comfortably but we were crap. The point is, with our squad, we should have got out of that group. Unless you think our group of players is worse than Prague's or Beer Sheva's. You think either of them would be 9th in the Premier League after 34 matches?

If this is true: "League One clubs made average losses of £1.7m in 2014-15, which were mostly covered by owners" it just shows how screwed the current structure of the game in this country is.

Of course we should have got out of the Europa Group. This was evidenced by the fact that: - we outplayed Inter twice; - beat Prague comfortably at home; - had the ball for pretty much the whole 90 minutes in the away match against Prague and they were absolutely over the moon with the result, given they had loads of players missing. If we'd scored one goal in any of our away matches we would have gone through. We didn't because of poor execution at key moments by players - the story of our season. We played badly against Beer Sheva, on the whole, but evidently we have a stronger squad than any of those teams and the players let us down badly.