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Anyone with a working stream?

I don't think Chelsea are the best choice to criticise as a club who've spent a fortune and are underperforming. Over the last two decades they've literally won everything, and their trophy cabinet is bulging. They are in a lull at the moment, but they'll probably be back sooner rather than later. Of course it doesn't help that they currently have the world's most overrated manager who, apart from a couple of one horse races in France with the help of the likes of Messi and Neymar, has won sod all.

Unless he's a Trojan horse, and they tell him to play shit for us (with a couple of "unlucky" own goals thrown in).

Rashford is a real Jekyll and Hyde player. Sometimes he's excellent, other times absolute gash.

I think you'll be saying the opposite in a few years if we don't go up and sell our best players, becoming Championship (or lower) dross the likes of Stoke and Millwall.

RM and the coaches need to have the squad practicing penalties every week, from now until the playoffs.

Both are to blame.

Or RM has taken time to unlearn his russball propaganda crab system and actually have the squad play to their strengths, which (almost) everyone and their dog could see was required ages ago. We live in hope that Saturday wasn't another false dawn.

True. But we can hold him up to the wall for choosing Nathan F**king Jones. The point is the contrast between a competent board who know what they’re doing, and Rasmus “I like managers who have failed” Ankersen.

Probably not. But I bet if he was available that legend in his own mind Ankersen would still have chosen Mr Jones.

Unai Emery, what a manager. I was envious when Vila signed him at the time when they and we were both languishing at the bottom part of the PL, and even more so now.

Let's hope Bayern Munich don't snap him up.

You've got a good memory.

I'm not saying RM shouldn't get some credit, but there's a big difference playing against Championship defenses vs. PL ones.

Leeds have no chance. They have to play away in every round.

Leeds have an away tie. Apparently that’s their thirteenth in a row in the FA Cup, a record! The odds of that happening are over 8000 to 1.

Thank god for that invisible fence. If they’d got through that it would’ve been mayhem.

Yes, us not finishing in the playoff spots is about as likely as Leicester not finishing in the top 2. Us, them, Ipswich, Leeds and WBA look very likely to take the top 5 spots, with about 7 other teams fighting for the last spot. If we can play like we did today regularly I'm not giving up on catching Ipswich.

Not at all Trousers, me ol' mucker. Spot on. Russell, if you're reading this, I promise I'll write nice things about you if your team plays like they did today and against Leeds. Stick with Jeckll, and no more of the ponderous, pedestrian, plodding, propaganda, passive, predictable crab Hyde please!

Not for me. Can’t find any on the list that work

Maybe this is partly why RM was in such a filthy mood when interviewed by Blackmore after the match on Wednesday?

That's assuming a competent ref! If he wiped out the player without touching the ball he may have genuinely attempted to get the ball, but the ref could easily see it otherwise. If so, and the player would have been through on an empty goal, is it a red along with a penalty nowadays? I'm not sure if double jeopardy applies in that case.

Yes he timed that one perfectly. Not easy, if not it would've been a penalty and sending off.

https://sportsnest.co/t2-southampton-vs-bristol-city/ Working fine so far. Not sure when the match actually starts.

That's my point though, he's a damned good manager. There's a huge gulf between the PL and the Championship, so I think you're greatly overestimating the difficulty in improving from last season, and the "scar tissues". We also had mind-numbing bad managers, the squad wasn't as bad as our position. With a decent squad a good manager can make a big difference in a short space of time. Look at Villa. Also Leicester were quite a shambles too, and look at them now.