Lighthouse

The body found in the Channel has been confirmed as being that of Sala. I know he has been assumed dead for a while but you’d have to wonder if Cardiff might the ask to postpone the game. Hopefully not.

Dont worry Munster, I got it.

Just show a clip of him diving for a low shot, usually takes about 20 minutes.

It was in UAE. 7 hours in business class drinking G&T and watching movies is a gruelling encounter but I’d say he’s had enough time to recover.

I just moved anything quoting the original post.

Don't see why, he's had a day longer since his last game than everyone else.

Based on that I'd hope we bring in Bertrand, Yoshi, Hoj and Gallagher for Targett, Stephens, Slattery and Ings. He wont, it'll likely be just Hoj and Long coming in but that's what I'd do.

Alisson - £67m Virgil - £75m Lovren - £20m - About £40m in today's money Henderson - £20m - About £50m in today's money Keita - £59m Sturridge - £12m - About £30m in today's money Mané - £36m - About £50m in today's money Origi - £10m - About £20m in today's money Shaqiri - £14m release fee Lallana - £26m - About £52m in today's money Firmino - £30m - About £50m in today's money Fabinho - £39m Wijnaldum - £25m - About £40m in today's money AOC - £35m - About £40m in today's money Salah - £40m - About £45m in today's money Adjusted for the inflation of the recent TV deals, I make that £671m spent on those players I can be arsed to check. And they have the nerve to say City are buying the title.

I don’t want to see some giant, corporate, global brand buying the Premier League. In fact, there’s only one thing worse I can think of; a giant, corporate, global brand winning the Premier League and thinking they’re special, it’s good for football because of their great history, it’s where they deserve to be and everyone else should be pleased because they’re a ‘proper club’ with ‘proper fans’. Actually two things, Pompey is the other.

He isn’t, Targett has looked poor in a lot of games. Was very disappointed in what I saw against West Ham and Palace.

The body has been recovered, I'm guessing the identity will probably be revealed tomorrow.

A decent preseason would help get an unfit player fit but there's a difference between being unfit and injury prone; Ings is the latter. All preseason is to him is another chance to get injured. I look forward to being told he has picked up a knock in a friendly against Real Sociedad and will miss the opening game of the season, only for that to mysteriously drag out until late September with little explanation given. Cynical, me?!

I'd disagree, that's 2 unproven players and one who is regularly injured. I'd be happy with that but someone stronger in place of Gallagher.

So would I but sadly we are.

He was good but no Nicholas Bignall.

I'd be astonished if either occupant survived the impact. I'd certainly hope that's the case. From the underwater photo it looks as if the top of the fuselage is severely buckled behind the wings. That could indicated the aircraft hit the water at a relatively straight and level attitude with a high rate of descent, much like AF447. That could indicate a shall, which could have been caused by wing icing. Just a theory based on pretty basic physics.

If your son ever asks why he should do his homework and stay in school, show him those photos. If your daughter asks the same question, show her the same photos.

Well, at least we agree on something.

I’ve already said I agree with that bit. The shirt pull is a foul and it should have been a free kick to us but it comes back to the old cliche of playing to the whistle. Shirts get pulled at every set piece and players know it goes unpunished 90% of the time. Until we get VAR we just have to accept that.

I could buy that if he actually looked like he was flinging his arms up to gain momentum but he wasn’t, he just had his arm up like some crap Freddy Mercury impression. I guess everyone sees things differently, I’ll stick with what I (and England’s 2 greatest ever strikers) saw.

Perhaps you could go and patronise Jenas, Linekar and Shearer who've obviously never played either. I however am familiar with the concept of jumping, it doesn't involve waving your arm above your head, even if your shirt is being pulled back. There was no downward movement at all, as there is in figure E of Shurlock's diagram.

Fair enough, first time I've seen him linked (although that is the Irish Mirror). I thought that story came about from Ranieri saying they looked at getting Clasie in instead.

Yes it was, for Leicester. At no point were we rumoured to be in for Kante.

I have absolutely no idea what was going through his head. Just like when he went he went in for that lunge on Townsend in midweek, on the halfway line when there was absolutely no danger. Or a whole bunch of other moments where he just seemed to switch off completely. Ander Herrera's goal for Utd being one. I first noticed it for Zlatan's winner in the EFL and he hasn't really cut it out his game.

Except Stephens had his arm straight up in the air the whole time. It's just been on again on the MotD replay, his arm is directly above his head the whole time. If we didn't get that at St Marys this whole board would be fuming. Absolutely agree... if the ref sees it. You can't go committing fouls in your own penalty box with 30 seconds of injury time left, on the assumption that the ref will see a shirt pull, which is hardly ever given. The ref wouldn't have seen the pull anyway from the angle he is at.