Danny

You dont want a bit of Lenny Henry popping up on Sky? Mrs. Johnson…welcome to my shop

Right but the Champions League is a knock out competition isn't it? Sancho was widely praised in the first leg, Maatsen had some really good individual moments yesterday. I really don't care too much about Premier League players/PL vs BL.

The only winner anyone wants to see now is Dortmund, it would be pretty phenomenal for them to win this, especially after coming so close all those years ago under Klopp. Clearly Maatsen and Sancho have had a positive effect on the team since their arrival. Crazy that Maatsen was playing for Burnley last season.

They were always my preferred side to see up instead of Norwich, always enjoyed the story of Marcus and Darren Bent too.

I think I'd prefer West Brom out of everybody. No offense @Lucas but between our times in the Championship and the Premier League I'm a bit bored of you now lol. Southampton I just can't stomach anymore, too dull for too long. Norwich, even duller. I know West Brom were especially dull when they were in the Premier League all those years ago but I've always quite liked watching matches on TV when theyre at home and also, it's a funny part of the West Midlands that you'd only really know exists through watching football. Plus Lenny Henry supports them and thats always a fun little celebrity spotting from the camera man. Tenuous reasons for wanting and not wanting clubs to go up, I know, but I think it just speaks to how boring the promotion race actually is in terms of clubs in it. Essentially, West Brom aside, it has become a mini Premier League this season.

I mean Leicester are coming up and aren't too far away from them, also could have Leeds in the Prem next season too. Problem is teams in Yorkshire have been woefully mismanaged for years. Leeds, Wednesday, Sheffield United and Hull...can't say they've been unlucky, just poorly executed time and time again with the odd exception.

Takes me back to Thomas Frank's first full season, £30m spent, had an end of season collapse for the automatics and got beat in the play-off final by Fulham....can't imagine where we'd be now if we had owners like this.

Seems so fucking stupid, their highest points tally in 7 years, clear improvement in the playing staff, quality of football, points on the board. I remember the season we went up and what I noticed was the difference from the season we lost to Fulham was we drew more of the games we would have lost and won more of the games we would have drawn from the season before. I don’t see how that type of improvement isn’t something Rosenior could do.

It's a shame they're going to stay up

I think it’s just more of a a view on Palace than United, I expect Palace to beat Liverpool, don’t really expect them to best United lol.

Yeah but I’m saying it’s a bad example because it was the British that introduced the levels of homophobia that we see today. And ironically any push to stop them from being homophobic only encourages it more as a lot of Ugandans just see it as the coloniser trying to control them again, so homophobia becomes a response to what they see as Western intervention

Your natural instinct when you see United losing 3-0 to Palace is to think what the fuck, but I've just seen their back line. Wan Bissaka at left back with Evans and Casemiro at centre back...yeah I'm not surprised it's 3-0 Palace. United have been hit by a plethora of injuries but also 2 Summer's of pretty bad transfer planning (that goes beyond ten Haag) that leads to them playing with a bad defence and then Eriksen at the base with Mainoo....not to mention Antony started. Will be interesting to see how the Summer transfer window goes.

Michael fucking Olise

Uganda is not a great example seeing as the homophobic laws there are influenced directly by British Colonialism

I think it's about time they replace him and I don't think he's done a bad job either. I think that he has done a great job at stabilising them in the league, and of course winning the Conference League was silverware they have lacked since 1999. But I also think that as a club, if you leave your ancestral home like Upton Park, where the fans belong, where the fans are on top of the pitch, a ground that has so much history and was one of the truly iconic grounds of English football....to move to what is very much a soulless bowl next to a shopping centre and gentrified canal district, so you can get the 60k attendances and money that comes with it, you have to try and take the club further forward than just 6th, 7th, 14th and 9th place finish. With West Ham's recent history, if they were still at Upton Park I'd say this is probably unfair and Moyes can't do much more. But I think where they are now, with the finances that brings, they have to improve and they have to try to disrupt the top 6. On top of that, they've suffered a lot of defeats this season where they concede 4 goals, 5 goals in one game. For Moyes' defence to that to simply be that they no longer have Declan Rice, it's not really good enough tbh. I think Moyes will bounce back quite easily, I think had they not have just signed Glasner he'd have Crystal Palace written all over him. Otherwise Forest could do with him massively. But I think he'll take time out and wait for the right job to pop up, who knows maybe even a return to Everton will be back on the cards?

I think it’s better in baguette form as the bread to crust ratio is perfect, if its in a bloomer type bread theres too much bread and not enough crust

Julen Lopetgui to be announced as next West Ham manager, according to Fabrizio. If so then 4 out of 20 Premier League managers next season will be from the Basque region. On top of that, all 4 managers will be from the Basque province of Gipuzkoa which has a population bigger than Manchester but smaller than Leeds.

I always felt it was a bit of both, I remember watching Burnley on the opening day thinking their defence was far too naive. Just watching the goals of that City game back, at one point they were defending in a flat 6...it's all well and good having players back but if they're still allowing the opposition the chance to run through acres of space then it's pointless. To stay up you have to be able to counter-attack, and that generally involves defending well to begin with lol. Thomas Frank almost perfected the counter attack for us, Fulham have a physical defence, sit Paulinha in front and then have the physicality of Mitrovic, Willian and Perriera on the move. Forest have only ever defended the last two seasons and then have relied on the likes of Gibbs-White, Awoniyi, Johnson and Hudson-Odoi to exploit the space. Look at why Bournemouth stayed up last season and why Wolves have been so good, O'Neill plays a brand of football that looks to invite opposition forward before firing through balls behind their defence for their forwards to run onto. I just think Burnley came into the league too attacking, almost too pro-active. If Ipswich do the same then they will definitely go down, but if they can adjust their style to be solid at the back, set up on the counter then I think they may give people some problems with how interchangeable their forward line is.

Spot on decision regarding Gakpo, big dive. Just wonder why it's so hard for them to find consistency

Also just completely blind to the fact that they have been a key reason as to why people don't vote; austerity, windrush, covid handouts, small boats, rwanda, culture wars....none of which gives anyone a better life.

Do you not think that between the fact that they're a relative unknown and the bearpit that Portmand Road will become will give them a good chance of picking points up next season? I think momentum is so important in the first season, remember how good it was for Sheff Utd under Wilder the first time around? On a side note, I remember watching Burnley earlier in the season and they were just not well drilled defensively, wasn't just a player issue, Kompany's coaching at that point wasn't up to scratch. I think it's taken him most of the season to begin to get it right.

Dull game, 0-0. End of season stuff.

Goal celebrations looked great, the race for promotion is arguably the best thing about English football. It truly open to anyone, and you see that in the celebrations when a team that isn't normally knocking about in the play-offs or automatics finally get there. The race to win the Premier League maybe tougher, but I don't think it means as much in general as the teams involved will always be involved at some point. Barring Leicester obviously.

For the love of football that is not a foul

Bournemouth get done over by a deflection in a tackle that helps Arsenal send the ball out to Trossard...difficult way to go 2-0 down. Lovely finish from Trossard though, he's just been consistent this season, big game player.