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I’m sure Barney Tony will say it better than that.

At which, point: enter Bradley, haring across from the left, with an energy that stated very clearly this was not a footballer intent on harrying or jockeying or showing Mbappé the outside, but who instead intended to separate Mbappé’s feet, and also the ball, from the Anfield turf.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/28/conor-bradleys-raw-energy-too-much-for-mbappe-and-wins-roar-of-approval

It’s looking increasingly like City have failed to do that, so they are left with a group of 30-something players who are beginning to struggle with niggly injuries. They don’t have ready made replacements for most of them and that’s showing now.

Definitely. I think the biggest mistake they made was not selling Kalvin Phillips (off the back of the Euro's?) when they could have at least minimised the hit on him and would have allowed them to have a succession plan in place for Rodri. The age profile / injuries are also going to bite when the manager likes working with a small squad and Rodri and Haaland won't be dropped, which limits the profile of player you can bring in to play second fiddle.

I hope you're right, but it's the hope that kills you.

I wish we'd played them before they lost their heads though. Or at least that Muric hadn't decided to give them a head start.

Even I cheered this tackle. Was great

Bodø/Glimt. My favourite team with a forward slash in their name.

Just checked the table. City are second. Not even end of November. settle down fellas season doesn’t start until January

So many twisted knickers, check your scruples, losers.

@Prole. confident for today?

I'm going for drinks with the Doncaster Forest supporters group before the game. It seems a bit weird that that exists given the miners' stuff but there we are. Maybe they're Thatcherites.

Nice to see there are people who are moving on.

I used to go to Oakwell regularly and every time Forest visited, the majority of the home support chanted “SCAB! SCAB! SCAB!” for 90mins.

It’s the coppers and Scargill (mostly the coppers, obviously) where they should direct their ire.

@Prole. confident for today?

Not particularly. Anderson and Gibbs-White have both been injured recently and we don't look the same without either of them. Our fixture list is horrible at the minute so it's a bit of a recorrection.

Hammers taking a battering, after only 35 mins! Early days tho

Ha, saw that. Somehow I don't think it's finishing 4-4 or even close.

Just wait. Look now!

Arsenal are too good on the break to screw this. FT 3-6.

thank goodness the olympic stadium is big, west ham fans leaving at 4-0 down are re taking their seats.

Red card after 30 seconds in the Libertadores final. Absolute shocker of a challenge.

Anderson was very good today.

Best atmosphere from the home fans this season, Mull of Kintyre really gets blasted out.

The away end wasn't really conducive to a good noise from us.

I thought we matched you well first half but you came out very strongly in the second and managed the game really well after the goal. Murillo and Malinkovic is a hell of a CB partnership, Delap got nothing from them.

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Anderson was very good today.

Best atmosphere from the home fans this season, Mull of Kintyre really gets blasted out.

The away end wasn't really conducive to a good noise from us.

I thought we matched you well first half but you came out very strongly in the second and managed the game really well after the goal. Murillo and Malinkovic is a hell of a CB partnership, Delap got nothing from them.

Gibbs-White grabs the headlines, but Anderson makes us tick. Just does everything.

Murillo and Milenkovic only cost us £25m which is nuts in the current market. It's such a balanced partnership, Milenkovic is so unflustered and allows Murillo to play his natural game.

I heard you made a good noise today. I think things are coming together for you, the Prem is so brutal compared to the Championship and it's a massive adjustment, but McKenna seems to have found his first XI, has absolute buy in from the players and they are really finding their feet. It will be tight as there is a gap starting to open, but I think you could do it.

We got 5 points from Leicester, Spurs, United and Forest, which is probably what I'd have predicted before those four games, just in a different order. And such fine margins in all the games, it could easily have been 10 points.

It's definitely coming together, and there are players who looked like League One was their ceiling who look every bit like PL players now (Morsy, Burgess).

But if Delap gets injured or suspended before January we're in a bad way, and Tuanzebe went off injured today and he'll be a massive loss because he's been unreal.

If we can get something from Palace on Tuesday it will really help us get back on track.

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Bloody hell.

(Atlético Mineiro amirite)

Aye. Managed to loose 3-1 despite playing 10 men for over 100 minutes.

Southampton VAR decision up there with the Wolves one last season for worst ever.

A highlight from the weekend's action.