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Monday morning's. Ugh. Summed up by the pup exquisitely earlier today...

What's killed some of my enthusiasm for F1 in recent years is the gulf redeveloping between the top teams and the rest. I'd love to see it like 2007-2008 again where if one of the fastest four cars spun at the start or lost a front wing they'd have to fight just to get back into the points. Nowadays if Bottas loses half a lap with a puncture you know he'll be 6th again by the halfway point. I remember in 2008 especially that if you were a Williams or a Honda you'd struggle to get into Q2 most weeks like the Toro Rosso or Sauber drivers today, but with one wet race or safety car you could suddenly get 4th or 5th if you kept your head straight and drove well. DRS is part of the problem as it makes recovery drives much easier but even without DRS, at most tracks it would be pretty easy for a top three car to cruise past the entire midfield without much resistance. Hopefully this year the Renault, Force India, McLaren, Alfa Romeo, Haas league of cars is more like 0.7-0.8s slower than the top teams rather than almost 2 full seconds.

4-3-3 - check Same eleven always - check Going a goal down - check Sarri ball doesn't exist - check Pedro for Willian - check Barkley for Mateo - check 10 minutes to go right back for a right back? - check I wouldn't mind him if he actually tried to change things around. Same fucking boring predictable system that we always play. Not even sure how we didn't crumble much earlier in the season. We will of course defeat Malmo get to the last 16, while getting mauled against City. With our recent performances just hand them the trophy focus our energy on being the team with most possession without doing anything with it. If Roman and the board think that Sarri will lead us to the future than that future is grey. He should have been sacked the moment he conceded 10 in two games, at this level this is unacceptable. With him we have no chance in hell to win the Europa League which is full of teams that will actually want to play football.