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Big fan of Ederson just wellying him there. If in doubt.

It's a good ball in but I don't think it's that clever, he's just played it to the guy Darwin couldn't be arsed to mark.

Feel like he's going extreme devil's advocate in the absence of Carragher.

Genuinely no idea what Neville is suggesting with Ake there, especially in comparison with the offside in the Carabao Cup final.

Crystal Palace 2 vs. 1 Luton (Sat 3pm) Wolves 2 vs. 1 Fulham (Sat 3pm) Arsenal 3 vs. 1 Brentford (Sat 5.30pm, Sky) Aston Villa 2 vs. 2 Tottenham (Sun 1pm, Sky) Liverpool 1 vs. 1 Man City (Sun 3.45pm, Sky)

It's Shearer as he might appear on The Man With The Stick's helmet.

Dunno, looking back at all the transfers post takeover he's the only one (bar Livramento being eased in) that hasn't been successful to at least some extent, and presumably the logic is that he's 19 and his value will only increase if he's any good. Otherwise I'd argue our transfer business has been excellent, the club couldn't do much about Harvey Barnes being crocked near immediately.

We'd kind of assumed the opposite, it's felt all season like we were trying to avoid some kind of minute threshold to trigger the permanent. Makes the bizarre sporadic substitutions even more strange, unless Howe just thinks he's not quite ready yet.

I know this is probably very sportswashy, but still a good thing.

It just keeps happening. Clubs are using the threat of FFP to hike up prices to "maximise revenue", and Twitter (I.e. non matchgoing fans) lap it up. I've got a year left of the price freeze Mike Ashley put in place (as I've always said, ticket pricing was one of the few things he got right), and I'm absolutely dreading my renewal for 2025/26.

Add in the Newcastle fan stabbed in Milan in September. It's ridiculous.

It's coming to Disney+ in the UK too, I was really surprised when it popped up the other day. It's strange, certain things go to streaming very quickly (particularly Disney/Marvel via Disney+), while others have the usual 6 month plus wait that we're used to.

TNT commentator just said Pedro is 36. I basically just crumbled into dust.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2024/mar/05/david-squires-on-mark-clattenburg-nottingham-forest-dropped-ball-furore

I saw that earlier and was genuinely baffled. Monumental is doing an insane amount of lifting (lord knows what will happen if a throw in is given the wrong way next week), and the interviewer actually tries and fails to rein him in. It's such a non event that's been inexplicably blown up because all anyone wants to talk a about now is refereeing.

The complaint is that the drop ball should have gone to Forest in the first place, which is absolutely correct. I'm not convinced it's a foul on Konate either but the ref certainly didn't give that, so it's definitely an error. And I haven't seen the first half thing, though I've heard Klopp mention it... Regardless though, I go back to what I say fairly regularly, mistakes happen in football, VAR doesn't apply to wrongly given corners, throw ins, drop balls etc etc, and even aside from the near 2 minutes between restart and goal Forest had multiple opportunities to clear their lines. No sympathy whatsoever, and this Clattenburg fiasco is pathetic. What's he going to do, lean on the refs so none ever make a mistake again?

Since Forest appointed him the other week. It's completely absurd, and for Sky etc to be quoting him as if an impartial observer when he's on the payroll is ludicrous. It was bad enough he was sat with Howard Webb for their game the other night, so many conflicts of interest it's unreal.

Andy Carroll was good.

It's brilliant, can't wait for S2.

Brentford 2 vs. 1 Chelsea (Sat 3pm) Everton 0 vs. 2 West Ham (Sat 3pm) Fulham 1 vs. 2 Brighton (Sat 3pm) Luton 0 vs. 4 Aston Villa (Sat 5.30pm, Sky) Man City 3 vs. 0 Man Utd (Sun 3.30pm, Sky)

This really is ridiculous. Sooner someone leaks it the better.

It's just a Jim Neidhart beard stroke isn't it?

I'm not interested in anything after, or before, Highlander 2: The Quickening.

Highlander 2: The Quickening

Pogbanned.