Least goals conceded this season along with
Liverpool. Hadn’t realised that. Difficult game for sure on Saturday.

Judging from a post match interview from earlier in the season, his English is actually not bad. Fingers crossed he comes good.

I’m all for not writing him off and giving him the time to settle but I’m trying to think of any foreign signing who actually did come good after a really poor start. Recent buys either seem to hit the ground running like Payet, Lanzini and Haller - or never improve like Zaha, Nordvelt and to a less...

Antonio may be erratic at times but he guarantees pace, work rate and strength.

Could do with all three today.

Fornals....have we still got the receipt?

We should all feel able to ridicule any players choice of hairstyle regardless of race...Beckham's mohican, Seaman's ponytail, Zaha's creation, Lee's pineapple or Grealish's Peaky Blinders effort. Suggesting there's a need to "be careful" because of the players skin colour is as daft as it gets IMO.

Top work Jonjo.

The club should be embarrassed that they didn’t take the initiative though. Truly shameful.

Well, the good news is that Rice won’t be going anywhere else playing like that.

The bad news is yet another goal conceded by trying to play out from the back. Would never have happened under Sam

Absolutely no leadership or composure at the back or in midfield is there.

Have to say, however well he’s played for us, Rice looks out of his depth at this level on the evidence of the last 1 and a half games.

One really poor pass, one heavy touch and then at fault for the goal. Not a good first 10 mins for Rice.

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That video's brilliant.

Way too charismatic to be a pundit.

Seems a decent nice guy doesn't he?

Many many years ago when I played Sunday football for my old boys team we had a end of season dinner at a restaurant in Epping. The idea was that at some point in the evening various awards would be handed out. Unbeknown to us, when we got there, Trevor was having a meal with what looked like his fa...

Zagreb were 13/1 to win tonight.

Anyone who thinks we can finish in the top 4 needs to be reminder how poor our second string performed at Oxford. Seriously the strength in depth just isn’t there to sustain a challenge. 8th would be progress.

Stylish performance in a game that could have gone either way. Puzzled Cresswell wasnt penalised for the short pull. If VAR technology is applied consistently I really don’t have a problem with goals being allowed or disallowed by millimetres.

Samba, the common denominator amongst those shocking results are the owners. You can imagine that with every league place being worth a couple of million, their priority has always been the PL and for that reason resting and protecting players for the weekend becomes the a major factor. Bournemouth ...

Well, we've had the full gamut of opinions on this thread: Should have been full strength. Full strength could/would have still lost. Board/manager don't care about cup. League is everything. Players not incentivised enough for cup games. Squad players not good enough. Weakened team should have bee...

Only having an unproven Ajeti to cover for Haller should be much more of a concern in my opinion.

Lovely tribute to him today...


https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... upton-park

Payet vs Palace for me.