Lighthouse

Newcastle are worse and Brighton not much better. What's daft is that none of them are in the bottom four and as bad as Saints and Everton have been, we're 10th and 11th. Just goes to show how sh*te the League is outside the traditional top 6. Burnley are having a great half a season but beyond that there's just 13 teams of (at best) mediocrity.

Wonder how many Palace fans left early.

JM default setting. Ignore the fact that your massively expensive team just got played off (their own) park and focus entirely on (not a) penalty.

I'd take a guess at JS being employed at RB. Can't think of another reason he gets the nod over Hoot.

Vardy was playing non-League football, whilst Sharp was banging them in in the Championship. When Vardy was signed up by Leicester he scored 5 goals in his first season in the Championship, compared to Sharp getting 9 in half a season for us. Chances are Vardy would have scored a lot less than Sharp and the points dropped would have put us behind West Ham in the table.

and that they haven't scored in their last 6 home games.

I would say in all our home games bar Burnley, Leicester, Sparta, Liverpool in the cup and the second half against Inter, that wasn't the case. I can't see any case for us treating him badly either. He was brought in well before the season started, given a good squad of players and we perceived with him through a whole season. This wasn't some knee-jerk sacking after 10 games of a bloke trying to manage a hopeless squad like Hull or Sunderland.

Won League 1 during his tenure. Would have won the Champ were it not for some inexplicable refereeing at Boro. Lard is a plank

So you did anyway, you absolute sausage jockey.

Adkins confirmed as Hull boss.

Let's hope the players stop to notice all the blood we shed before.

Hopefully the players will put on a good show, for you and for me and the entire human race.

Got crocked against Palace a while back didn't he?

I don't think our continuous rotation of the defence really helps him. Overall, he looks a decent player to me.

That's what annoys me about Boufal. For every West Brom or Boro moment, there's 6 months of trying to take on the whole team twice and giving it away.

Dump and kettle time.

Forgot the smiley winky thing, on account of how often Sky mention it.

Their first choice are probably at the Etihad. Did you know Man City are playing later?

Sorry, my feed is a bit delayed, you're right. First viewing looked like a stone waller.

How was that not?

Getting a bit sloppy now.

What a save!

Yep, they just mentioned Redmond... talking to Pep... and what Pep said... and whether Pep would do the same against Man Utd next week.

I don't think you quite get this. It's not Boufal I have the problem with in that team, it's the 9 defensive players behind him. This is worse than the team Koeman put out in Denmark.

So you're proposing to put him in a team with 9 defensive players?