Baird of the land

When a derby gets called off "due to the risk to safety in the local area" you do wonder how games where away fans actually have to travel aren't called off due to travel danger.

Have you a link this news story?

Whatever is bad enough to force the board to act.

By it does he mean the Chelsea play?

Yep just so frustrating there is zero pragmatism from him.

So there’s some law in Germany where if 6 managers turn you down you have to appoint a manager that’s been humiliatingly bad in the prem

Worked real well for kompany, he was so radioactive he could only get the Bayern job.

Wonder if there's any sort of result against Villa that would convince the board to sack the git.

Why was sulemana even brought on?

Yeah it does make the whole violent conduct thing silly. It was clearly deliberate as you saw them clashing before th 1st attempt too.

Chelsea desperate to keep it looking respectable for Martin

Just feels to me there should be more of a bar. I wonder if the ref had of seen it would he have red carded him or booked him/told him to cut it out. When there's pushing and shoving in the box, is that soon going to be deemed violent conduct?

It is very stupid by Stephens but i do think its odd that its violent conduct.

Looking at the lineup you'd think he was deliberately trying to lose heavily..

I'd love to understand why they didn't look at armstrong to start with Why spend 20 minutes drawing lines on archer's position when armstrong was obviously offside. If he was interferring it should have taken 1 minute max to decide..

I can understand the idea that armstrong trying to flick it was offside what i don't get is it taking half an hour to decide that

Brighton play the way Saints wish they could play. Really should be more than 1.

Would even that galvanise the pathetic board to act

Very much a positive step imo. We'll see whether it makes its way onto the statues though, or whether at some point its kicked into the long grass

Apparently 10 points is worse than 4, as cooper has been sacked. Wonder will they snag moyes

Archer really is beyond useless

Do we get any additional fee now Tino is in England team?

When he goes I’m Still hoping for moyes or someone else similarly pragmatic.

I expect he’ll limp on a couple of weeks more because of lucky 3 points he got. After losing to Liverpool and Brighton, I’ll be interested to see how things stand.

There’s no certain reality that it won’t end with Dombas if there’s some sort of deal. That’s just war hawk propaganda. Especially the ludicrous notion Russia is aiming for European war. Some sort of negotiated settlement was always the likely end point. Trump’s arrival may eventually lead to some serious conservations on that score, which have been absent up till now.