Lighthouse

Okay, bye then. Thanks for the er… pass against Leeds.

At this point, they should just swap countries and be done with all this nonsense.

I think stopping City from winning the quadruple in the League Cup would probably top that. Beating United in 2003 is probably on par with it too.

I’d just like to get the regular, abysmal mis-spelling up and running by saying, welcome Matthias Fernando!

And yet you know it’s happening all the time, which kind of suggests the BIB isn’t true. News is news, it’s largely based on what’s perceived to be new and til grab people’s attention, not some sort of ethical scale of what’s the most tragic and meaningful event of the week. If it was the latter, the main story on the six o’clock news would probably have been deaths from heart disease, every day for the last twenty years.

If you can bump somebody off by getting a tornado to hit their yacht then fair play, that’s a whole new level of Bond villain-esq assassination. Maybe Tiss is right, the government do control the weather.

I believe he is approximately pi squared.

Well Mara is an outstanding player. I mean literally - he’s out, standing in the middle of the pitch.

… six years ago.

Yes.

It’s German registered, I wouldn’t read anything into that. Fixed.

Spurs really could finish third in a chess match.

I’m not sure that really follows. Let’s assume the extreme worst case and say that even with extra security, he never feels safe going back to that house again. If he was forced to sell up and move his family, surely he could simply move to a different part of Hampshire and still play for us.

Leicester looking properly sh*te here, barely getting out of their own third.

How many goals did that poor attempt at a save against Watford cost us?

Step 1 - Be very pretty, well made up and have guys trying to bang you your whole life. Step 2 - Say, "yeah, go on then," to whichever one you like the most.

Both goals were struck well, low, inside the box and were partially unsighted by other players legs. They were down to terrible marking more than anything.

On to the next one. Does Les come straight in? Does Archer start? It'll be an interesting team selection.

And yet there we were, fourth in the league, within a couple of points of the automatic spots, having won all three games against WBA and Leeds when he got injured. If you’re 99% that literally the exact thing that’s already happened couldn’t happen then fair enough. I disagree.

Hopefully more Bruno or Enzo than Fabrice.

I don’t know where this nonsense is coming from that we’d have definitely lost the playoffs with Bazunu. We won all three league games with him between the sticks and it’s hardly as if McC performed heroic save after save at Wembley. McCarthy was competent in a relatively small data sample of eight games at the end of last season. Nothing more, nothing less.

Good effort getting yet another dig in at Bazunu after a McCarthy howler. We play out from the back, it’s our style and we need a goalkeeper who’s comfortable playing the ball in order to do that. You can’t play the way we do with a goalkeeper who just boots it up the pitch under pressure, it just doesn’t work. Yesterday happened because McCarthy isn’t good enough and never has been apart from six months under MoPe and Hughes. We didn’t get promoted ‘thanks to him’, he’s not making mistakes because of ‘the way we play’, he’s just a poor keeper.

I love the fact that he’s already on a yellow, commits an act of Pompicide against two players and has the audacity to have a go at the ref.

That's just not true, we're perfectly capable of losing against eleven men, even if we did start brightly today. We're not very good at breaking teams down because we have a team full of Championship players, until that changes we're going to keep having the same problem.

We need an upgrade on Smallbone and/or Aribo so, without knowing anything about this player specifically, it's a move that would make sense.