Lighthouse

Can his song just be 'Kumbaya Ballard'?

Managing is one thing, being at the absolute peak of fitness is quite another. He’s on the pitch with 21 other elite athletes, so any fitness issue puts him at a disadvantage.

Yeah, never saw that coming when they were 6-2 chasing 298. Fair play.

Decent start with the ball. Good thing too, Kent aren’t beating Lancs today.

The absolute state of this pitch. If we can knock the ball down a rabbit hole, I reckon we can score about 30 whilst they grab a shovel and dig it out.

Liverpool at OT in front of the cameras is a completely different proposition to Saturday though. This is exactly the kind of game all their big egos will be well up for and Liverpool very kindly decided to help them out by being sh*te. I'm not saying United will go back to being sh*te themselves on Saturday but it'll be different.

Every team in the league, every season relies on three teams being worse than them. That's literally the definition of relegation.

I’m still sticking with the spark plugs theory.

Honestly, to be thinking like that only three games into a season is just exhausting and saps all my enjoyment from football. As far as I’m concerned anyone can still end up having a good or bad season, I really can’t be arsed having these micro-anxieties over Leeds or Forest picking up an unexpected point. Leeds thumped Chelsea and good on them.

Made a meal of the bowling after pegging them to 80-odd for 6 but credit to a disciplined performance from Hants. Another nervy game which could have gone either way with three overs to go, great game of cricket.

Do you pay the pedestrian tax to walk down Above Bar St.?

I think you’d have taken three from three if offered it before those games. Realistically I wouldn’t expect much from Spurs or Leicester away, so just beating Leeds and losing two would have been around a par score overall.

He’s the blonde, Malian Wayne Bridge.

Because Lyanco did. It’s a squad game, no room for sentimentality.

Ralph was asking if he had a license for his monkey.

Didn’t play at Spurs Started in a five against Leeds MotM in a four today Clearly we had a plan to ease him in gently in the right way and it seems to be working so far. Hopefully he can build a partnership with Sali after the tombola of dreadful CBs over the last five years.

Nothing says ‘Ukraine on the brink of collapse’ quite like a convoy of Russian tourists fleeing territory they’ve held for eight years.

I could tell you, but I’d have to ban myself.

Alternatively, Leicester and Bournemouth are gash, Palace mediocre at best but still had their moments. I’d have to see them in something resembling a tough fixture before passing judgement.

I’ve never heralded him as a genius but let’s maybe give him time to mould a team from these young lads before the public lynching.

Much worse teams than Spurs and Leeds wouldn’t have been able to score their goals, so if you assume we were playing Port Vale and Crawley instead, and won both games, we’re actually top of the table with 9 points and a plus 7 GD.

Several people were saying that he wasn’t fully fit and only trained one full day this week. In any case, people are going to move on from the idea of our best 11 players being the ones which start the game. With five subs now being the norm, it just means you’re going to have a significantly weaker team in the last 20 minutes. We could have started Stu and Adams but then what? We’re left trying to change things second half by bringing on Moi, AA and Walcott. It seems a bit weird talking about stuff we ‘should have’ done when we’ve just won away at Leicester.

Useless!

I can only assume you and Brett post this stuff because you want to be laughed at.

What choice do we really have? With the five subs rule, you need to have something on the bench to change things second half. Sure, we could have started with Stu but then if we needed to change things second half we’d have to do it with Moi, Walcott and Adams, which is a dreadful bench at this level.