Lighthouse

Ellis had a good night with the ball for Punjab last night. 4 wickets for an eccon. of 7.50.

A real trend setter, he was an anti-vaxxer before it was cool.

Calmness personified for the third.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65175712 Nothing but an ill-informed hatchet job. Those people came to me willingly!

They’re all mistakes and limitations of our own players, nothing to do with luck. Do you want to go into games next season saying things like, "if Swansea’s best player gets sent off… if West Brom’s strikers miss five great chances…" or do you want a manager who can actually get us out-playing teams?

He's done nothing, literally nothing, that would make me think he deserves a crack in the Championship. He has no managerial experience anywhere else and his one good performance was away to Chelsea, which seems to be his version of Jones trip to Goodison. We've been hugely lucky to get 5 of those 8 points. If Ihenacho wasn't wearing his grandma's slippers Selles would have 5 from 8, which will be 5 from 10 after we play Arsenal and City. He wont track 44 points for the season, he's had his slice of luck but on actual merit we look as dreadful as we did under Jones. We'll get relegated, probably some 6 or 7 points off safety when all's said and done, and he'll p*ss off in summer, along with hopefully half our squad.

Why? What on Earth has he shown to think he’s worth persisting with as manager? Since he took over we’ve beaten a pretty useless Chelsea side, thanks only to a JWP free kick and been dreadful ever since. The Leicester win was very little different to the 1-4 Newcastle defeat which did for Ralph, the only difference being they wasted their four or five excellent chances and the Magpies took theirs. We got a 0-0 at United when their best player was sent off after half an hour and were gifted another point by a soft penalty against Spurs. Basically, since Chelsea, we could very easily have lost every game if we hadn’t had a huge slice of luck. That includes losing in the cup at home to Grimsby. He’s no better a manager than Jones, in fact he isn’t a manager at all.

More chance of being managed by Brian Potter.

… who you think would actually improve us right now. Wishing we had Mané, Tadic and Virgil is too easy, which spectacularly average names from days gone by would you probably take if offered? I’ll go for: Jason Puncheon David Prutton Rudi Skacel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65155075 Would you like cream with that, you c**t?

Yeah, I mistakenly believed that Aribo would be something other than slow, lazy and dreadful. I also thought that Mara, Edozie and Larios (remember that bloke) whilst young and inexperienced, would at least provide excitement in small bursts.

Next week - Man City, after that - Palace and Arsenal.

I can guarantee Cacaeres wouldn’t have let Ibra have that head because there’s no way he’d still be on the pitch after 86 minutes. He’d have been dragged off at half time with steam coming out of his backside. He ruptured his Achilles plying for Juve, he wouldn’t even have trained for 6 months after that. Players coming back from those kinds of injuries make 20 minute substitute appearances and usually look well off the pace, not 95 minutes in a cup final.

In the week between signing and the cup final.

The cup final was Stephens' tenth competitive game in two months. I've never rated him as a player but if nothing else is true he was obviously match fit, unlike Caceres.

So, you're litterally just ignoring the 'not played a game of competitive football for over a year' bit then? Righty ho.

TBH, analysing all our rivals results every weekend is a fairly futile hobby. We know the cutoff is likely to be around 33-36 points, because everyone will pick up points here and there. We just need to get slightly above that.

Probably much, much worse; he hadn’t played a competitive game for over a year when we played the cup final and was only ever trusted with a run out against the worst attack in the league, away at Boro in the penultimate game with nothing to play for. I also don’t buy this confidence some people have that we’d have won a trophy with Fonte and Virgil. Sure, they were better players but both played the full 90 in our trip to OT earlier in the year and we lost, comfortably. United cruised to a 2-0 win in second gear.

Matt has no interest what so ever in ‘healthy debate’ or ‘listening to two sides of the argument’. He frequently blocks anybody on social media ho contradicts him and would probably ignore a meteorite landing in the Solent if it was reported on, “the mainstream meeeeeeja”. His idea of having an open mind is being an ignorant blowhard and hoping that people pay attention to him.

All PL and FL shirts to include pronouns, as well as name and number, from 2023/24 season onwards.

I just love the idea of Bill Gates playing The Sims with real people.

Vest gets disqualified immediately because Leicester paid slightly more than we bought him for, IIRC. Truly ludicrous that we made a profit on a player who manoeuvres at the pace of moss growing across some damp pebbles. Prutton never really delivered but was okay at times, I can’t say he was all that bad for £2.5m. Certainly better than players we signed for similar amounts at a similar time - Tin Man, Delap, JVD and Jakobsson spring to mind. McCann… I can’t say he was that expensive at £1.5m, just such an underwhelming, anticlimax of a signing after we’d just played in a cup final, finished 8th and sold Bridge for a massive fee. Juanmi I’d put in a bracket with Yahia, Mayuka and a handful of others. Cheap, foreign unknown. Worth a punt but hardly devastating financially.

It’s amazing how all the people droning on about government control, sheep, project fear, the narrative and how, “we will never get our freedoms back,” are the ones still obsessing over this over a year after it ceased to be a real issue. Here I am, living my life like it’s 2019 again, because apparently I’m not free enough to spend my life dredging Twitter for anonymous accounts posting about myocarditis and other bollocks. When MLT’s own ‘research’ includes a footballer collapsing who hadn’t actually been vaccinated and some old boy at a lower league match (may have been Notts Co. Can’t remember now) who slipped on wet stairs and banged his head, I think I’ll be close minded and just ignore him. That’s before we get into the whole, “mainstream media are lying about the raped corpses of teenage girls in Bucha,” post which was frankly disgusting and inexcusable.

Combined XI, something like…. Niemi KWP Salisu ABK Perraud Oakley Lavia JWP Svensson Crouch Phillips