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First trophy of our season. Off to a good start.

The new Millwall...

Be fair. They’ve got Jody to manage them and Fat Frank to do the tele interviews. Good reason to be excited.

https://twitter.com/MundialMag/status/1024949090923307008?s=19

#stopfootball

Cheers chaps for the player recommendation for the Man United shirt, friend now wants a plain one... oh well...

Played 5-a-side at 6pm. Still sweating.

4,000 pissed Aberdeen fans in Burnley and it all went very smoothly. This is how football should be.

One of the pubs at about 3.30 today

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Missed your post! He'll be great for you guys, I'm excited that he's gonna be spending time with Agents Frank and Jody... Exactly what he needs before he pulls on the blue shirt...

That Chelsea chess board kit - is it real?

It's not their 1st/2nd/3rd kit but a 'squad' kit, they won't be playing in it.

Chelsea are style

It’s quite nice

All it needs is a Palace or Supreme logo on it.

I really like it apart from that branding in the middle, loving the yellow away shirt.

Still no signings! Villa playing hard ball with Grealish valuation. Hoping moura, nkoudou, and aurier are like new signings after a year in the sheriffs system, and that continuity counts for more than transfers in..

Derby woeful so far...

Deserved lead for reading.

Derby bossing it now.

Why is fat frank wearing a jacket?

Great header

Good start for Fat Frank and, more particularly, Jody is picking it up where he left off.

Derby a bit lucky - goalkeeping error and flukey header. Will have to improve massively to get anything out of this season . Was reasonably impressed by Mount, always seemed to find space.

Heartened by Reading's performance after last season's shambles, gutted by the result which was harsh. We move on.

I wouldn’t call that header flukey. It was a great quality cross and Lawrence made the right run to get his head on it.

We were so slow moving the ball in the first half, but whatever Frank and Jody said at half time seemed to wake us up a bit.

We don’t really have the right quality on the ball to be playing it out from the back. Carson is better at shot stopping than playing that role and Keogh looked shaky every time he had the ball at his feet in the first half. Davies is a great defender at this level, but we are a championship club and it’s impossible to find a defender who can defend and play the passing game like we seem to be wanting to while we are in this division.

I thought Clement set his team up well against us. He watched one of our preseason matches where we’ve been passing the ball around quickly and obviously figured that pressuring the defenders was the way to go. It nearly worked for him.

If his time at Reading is anything like his previous jobs he’ll flatter to deceive for the first few months and then lose the confidence in the squad and panic when results start to turn. Darren Bent possibly said too much when he was talking about what happened at the end of PCs time at Derby.

Anyway, happy to get that first game out of the way and hope that performances pick up as the team gels together. Particularly happy to see some good displays from the younger members of the squad too. Max Lowe didn’t have a great game, but he is one to watch this season too.

Thibaut Courtois is off to somewhere in a private jet. I very much doubt it’s Cobham.

just wish they would ha e Got the deal just after the WC, leaving it so late is not great

Who cares? All this crying about wanting to be closer to his kids, maybe he shouldn't have screwed his dog walker in the first place, eh?