Danny

It’s strange how badly United played yesterday and yet Harry Maguire is entering the form of his career lol. He looked great. That first goal summed Fernandes up, he has a lot of quality but he doesn’t have the mentality consistently. Makes you think that when Ten Haag said he didnt have the players to play like he did at Ajax, maybe he meant mentality more than quality. Realistically there’s at least about 10 players United need to get out of the squad. This is where United need a director of football (do they have one?), a consistent approach that will outlast incoming coaches. Sacking Ten Haag will only bring short term change but in the long term they will revert back unless serious changes are made to the squad.

How on earth did Cooper keep Brennan Johnson out of the starting eleven so often at Forest. He’s been great today, nearly scored a worldy. We got so close to signing him too, what could have been!

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First yellow was about as clear and obvious a yellow that you can see, trying to obstruct the free-kick. But the second, he’s barely touched him and you can see he’s only given a yellow cos hes twigged Ayew is on one. He wasnt gunna give one otherwise.

Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Regent Street, Hamleys and Oxford Street on a Saturday 2 weeks before Christmas. Happy to never leave the house again now

Ultimately what you want from a pundit is tactical analysis and you dont need to have played at a high level at all to provide that. Womens football and mens football are worlds apart in quality but it is still the same sport, the same tactics, the same training methods etc so they can still speak from experience and apply tactical understandings to that, that other players in the mens game may lack.

It’s fair to say Dyche is doing a pretty good job considering the shitshow he’a been left by previous managers. Everton will be well out of the relegation zone come February I’m sure of that.

I don’t really care about the US or Canada but the more opportunities there are for Mexico and Jamaica to play at this level the better

2-1 loss to Brighton in the end, not the worst loss but we never really looked like winning. Mbeumo rolled his ankle so we’ll see how that plays out. We are really down to the bare bones and are still competing with the better teams in the league. It’s a testament to the players, recruitment and Thomas Frank and co. The below team could compete with any team in the league and that’s our injury/suspension list this season: Schade/KLP - Toney - Mbeumo Damsgaard - Norgaard - Jensen/Dasilva Henry - Mee - Collins - Hickey Flekken

Maybe. But all roads lead to Arteta’s poor man management and the club’s lack of decisiveness in the transfer market.

I dont think that was a penalty but I’ll take it. Also Bryan Mbeumo walked off injured, another to add to the list.

Again, your club fucked up by being cheap and not making the transfer early in the Summer, your manager then fucked up and created a terrible atmosphere for both keepers. It’s not exactly rocket science as to why Raya has struggled, your leadership have been clueless with regards to the keeper position and the players are now suffering for it.

There is plenty of evidence as they have both played in the same league for the last two seasons. Raya is better than Ramsdale. The problem you have is either get rid of Ramsdale or don’t keep Raya, but bringing him into the club, no pre-season behind him and immediately creating uncertainty about his long-term future with Arteta’s poor man management is not the way to get a keeper performing. Get shot of Ramsdale, focus on Raya, he is the superior keeper.

Your boy looks to be playing in midfield when we drop deep but playing as a third striker when we press. Would like to see what position he takes up in possession.

Honestly this injury crisis just keeps getting more fucking annoying. It looks like we’re playing a back 5 that will consistent of a midfielder playing left centre back, a right back playing at left back and an attacking midfielder at right back. Some publications have us as playing a back four but I can’t see it against Brighton, especially with the players that we have out. If we get anything from this game I’ll be really happy, but Brighton should be looking to win this one.

If you like the game thats fair enough, I know a lot of people do. I just feel like with the increasing map sizes they create multiple characters and stories that feel like theyre there to fill the game up rather than provide something that is as ground breaking as their earlier efforts, or like you say Red Dead.

Today was the first day that I woke up before 8am so far this Winter, first time I’ve woken up and its pitch black. The benefits of being a student/working evenings.

I’m not surprised the goalkeeping issue at Arsenal is causing problems. For Raya he has joined a club that he has had no pre-season at, gone straight in with every media outlet questioning him and much like Ramsdale has had very little public support from Arteta. I think it’s clear as day that Raya is the better keeper, and I think he needs continued period in goal to make up for the lack of Summer integration, but Arteta needs to make a choice publicly. I think it is possible to have two keepers, it’s been done in Spain for a long time, but you have to make it clear that there is a keeper for the domestic Cups and a keeper for the league and Champions League. Even there they had a clear system.

I just think the last two games have lacked the character and that previous titles have had and the need for everything to be gigantic is almost a turn off for me as the game then becomes about trying to fill up a world with characters for the sake of it. The best two games were for me without a doubt San Andreas and Vice City, both came out relatively quickly and both created a sense of nostalgia and great storylines before you fully got into them. I’m sure the graphics will be great and I’m sure they’ll create a massive world to play in but for me the storylines have been a bit dull in comparison to them since. Which is annoying because Red Dead Redemption was phenomenal and well above the two GTA’s they’ve released.

I for one am really glad that they released a trailer for a game that they won’t release for another two years. It really makes their lack of development over the last decade something to be excited by. The game was at its peak when it was almost year by year, idea by idea, who knows what you get next. The last two games have been difficult to really get into and they made the game so vast that it lost the character of previous versions like San Andreas and Vice City.

I really don’t like or dislike Liverpool, but I can definitely get behind seeing more Trent edge of the box goals and bringing back the early 2000s arms out wide, knee slide celebrations. Almost Beckham-esque

Yeah I’m not sold on Raphinha, he’s a good player, a squad player at best really, but the £50m they spent was desperate.

That Felix finish was exquisite, really good counter from Barce

The one thing you can always count on is for Sky to make a meal out of small issues. City have played most of the season without Grealish, De Bruyne and Stones. Of course they are not going to look like the team they were from January on last season. I imagine once all three are back and playing regularly they step up a gear and blow the competition out of the water. Tottenham have played well today and against Villa also with a massively depleted squad with various fringe players playing out of position. They are not really being exposed badly by anyone, they are not really playing in a way that is unsustainable, they are just playing in a way that is distinctive and that has secured them a lot of points this season. When they get their players back they will go back to playing very well and picking up lots of points to go along with it.

Good result for Spurs and for Ange. A lot of nonsense since their injuries about his playing style and being too attacking, classic media narrative with little substance behind it.