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Looks like Livramento is back in training, could he make the bench for this one?

Out of interest - if you'd known then what you know now, how do you think you would have voted in 2019?

So the Tories made a £8.7bn loss on Covid PPE (https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1488494435679838209?s=20&t=BY63O9CQ5gb2y2nl0sxWcA) (read: £8.7bn funnelled into the pockets of their mates/siblings/spouses) and Sunak, soon to be The Least Popular Tory, has simply hand-waved away £4.3bn of fraud from the Covid payment schemes (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/treasury-writes-off-4-3bn-in-covid-payments-lost-to-fraud-dfkxt5fr7). Total: £12bn Fortuitously, the 10% increase in NI is projected to raise: £12bn! How convenient. With the Brucey Bonus that increasing NI has a much more significant effect on those earning £50k or less. Shall we call this NI increase the Corruption Tax as it nicely covers the money spaffed away by the Tories, for the Tories?

We've gone very strong our last couple of cup games, can't imagine that will change. Strongest line up with some kids on the bench, presumably KWP and Perraud at full back.

It will be interesting to see how much we end up spending, we've obviously got the MSD loan to pay off but who knows if that will be in one year or across a number of years. We also had a £15m profit from last summer that should be available.

Where has this £45m number come from??

Liverpool's Nat Phillips going to Bournemouth on loan. A good move, if only because it stops him being linked with us.

He's just going there on loan so will keep his same wages at Villa surely?

Seems to me he was a good player, then had a succession of managers who expect hard work and long distance covered, and he didn't have the attitude/application to work with that. Ralph is going to work him harder than any of his previous managers, so I can't imagine he'd be a good fit.

I guess when you don't want to answer a tricky question the correct response now is to call the questioner fat?

There's the new rules coming in limiting the number of players out on loan a club can have. Sale with a buy-back clause is not dissimilar to a loan - but obviously would depend on the player agreeing to go.

Very surprised he's gone as low as League Two, I thought he was supposed to be nearly ready for first team PL game time.

He's never going to resign. He is in politics for his own personal gain and nothing else, and I'm sure he's made many millions off of it and will make even more millions once he's out. Resigning would mean admitting he's done something wrong, and I honestly think he believes he's done nothing wrong. He doesn't understand why rules should apply to him. He will have to be forced out and I don't think the Tories have the spine to do so at the moment.

Sam Gallagher scored the only goal in Birmingham's victory over Middlesbrough on Sky Sports tonight.

Why wouldn't you manage Watford? No risk to your reputation if it goes poorly because everybody expects them to get relegated, they're always desperate for a new manager and you can probably get a nice hefty severance package guaranteed in a few months.

Can't we flog Walcott to Newcastle? Seems like their kind of signing at the moment.

I really really really hate Tories and everybody that votes for them.

Looks like Burnley might actually be spending some money and City bringing in a striker from Argentina.

1-0 City with a Sterling dive for a dodgy penalty.

Everton just scored, time for Norwich to collapse.

Never in doubt to be honest. We'd all be calling it "stonewall" if it was at the other end.

Has to be a penalty surely?

Yes we all use that or footbite.cc but none of the streams were working at the start of the game, all showing rugby for some reason!

Skates losing, Everton 2 down at Norwich.

Perraud looks better every game he plays.