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Why compromise the best chance we’ll ever have to finally win at The Emirates and effectively give him a 2 game ban instead of 1? City will be massive favourites with or without Rom in our team, so that’s a lot riding on an outside bet.

Jenas reckons United gave Hojbjerg too much time on the ball today. Expert analysis. 🤔

Why waste him on that? You could put Warwick Davis on Cedric and he'd still win the header.

Come on, red for Elneny.... booked!?!

Fulham player comes through Liverpool player, gets faint touch on the ball - foul given. 🤔

Me too. Would you believe Carra thought it was never a penalty and not worth wasting time looking at.

I guess we're all used to this fixture being 15th vs. 3rd but not like this. Having said that we never win there in the League.

Adams probably just about edging this one. 🙂

Yes Che!

Playing it long behind Jagielka seems a fairly good tactic. Slower than coastal erosion.

When you dive so hard you break your own shoulder. 😆

Great play from Adams.

Ball from Rom!

They can express themselves however they want. I don’t like the kneeling either but if others want to applaud OR boo them leave them be.

12pm kick off? I need another brew, not a pint.

Good point. Would be good to see DN get some decent minutes towards the end, if the situation permits.

Our strongest side - Good. I’ve no idea why people think we can afford to rest our better players.

Another top 6 game hailed as a big derby by the 'tators only to be a drab, turgid and thus far goalless affair.

Rasiak?

Stuff like this may draw sympathy and outrage from the world of broadcasting and social media but for the rest of the population it’s getting a bit ‘boy who cried wolf’. It’ll backfire next time we have a properly unpleasant episode, like the England game in Montenegro last year. People will just not care, because they see hysteria like this every week and they’ve become desensitised, which other people will take as ‘evidence’ of systemic, ingrained racism. This will lead to more trivial incidents being sensationalised and described as abhorrent and horrific, which just leads to a vicious cycle whereby some members of society become more and more offended, whilst the rest care less and less.

You mean the guy with 17 starts in English football, compared to 15 years for Walcott?

He isn’t regressing, he just isn’t that good and never has been. There is a reason Everton, a team around us in the table, let him go basically for free. What we’ve seen of him so for is exactly what I’d expect; plenty of direct running, poor decision making and running into tackles.

In retrospect, that’s probably a good thing. I wonder what kind of programmes clubs run for players in preparation for the end of their playing career. Let’s be honest, a lot of them aren’t the sharpest tools in the box and could probably do with some help and background knowledge in certain areas. Property development, grass root academies, car dealerships, etc.; as long as they’re get started whilst they’re still playing and they’ve got the capital, most players can be kept on the right track.

False equivalence, 'brown' is used as a derogatory term, 'black' isn't. If someone referred to me as 'that white guy' I wouldn't be offended. If someone said, "honky cue ball over there needs an early bath." I probably would.