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Arguably only 2/3 hits in that list.

If BEK stays the season he will look fantastic at this level. My worry is that BEK won't have a Vardy that KDH had so his assists might not be as high. The 3 behind a striker of Mavididi/Monga, BEK and Fatawu is right up there with the best trio in those positions that this league has seen in years. Should be more than enough to put us into the playoffs.

The vision

Fair play to Sky and the EFL for getting that many fixtures sorted already. I assume this isn't set in stone though and games could be added?

Amazed to learn he's only 38 to be honest. Only a few months older than Kasper!

It's unbelievable that it's allowed to happen.

I get your point but Coady talks in cliches with self-importance and arrogance whereas Begovic just comes across as calm and confident.

Good talker isn't he.

I don't think money or fame has anything to do with it. Drunk young men are stupid and do stupid things. Always have been and always will be. "All" Hamza has done is sent some daft tweets, driven his car under the influence and gone to a party during lockdown. Frankly, he's only done what the majority of men his age have done. Shouts of prison time are just laughable.

So how do you punish a rich person? Whichever way you slice it, £20k is a lot of money to pay for a quick drive into town. Yes he is fortunate that he is in a position to get around his driving ban with lifts/taxis etc but what do you propose should have happened this? What punishment is fair? There really isn't a continuous stream of off the field incidents though, is there? He sent some stupid tweets as a child and went to a party when he shouldn't have. Is that really cause for all this pearl clutching? The club would have discussed internally what should happen and they clearly decided that it was in the team's best interests for him to remain as 3rd/4th choice captain. I don't think the message says that it doesn't matter how you behave or indeed that he was rewarded. He didn't gain anything from drink driving and I suspect that if he had done something worse that he would have been punished more severely. As others have said, he looks like a choir boy when you compare him to Jamie Vardy.

She sort of got overshadowed because of the result but what a player Aitana Bonmati is.

A privilege he doesn't have either, by the way. If we're making a list of young adults who broke covid restrictions to party then we're talking hundreds of thousands. Rightly punished by the club but it's hardly crime of the century. Posts he made while he was a literal child. The "hot water" he was put in later was for his show of support to Palestine. I would say that shows he's a lad with a moral compass. He wasn't made captain as a result of him breaking the law. He was already in line for the armband. With Ricardo and Vardy missing it was always him next in line. Vardy came off the bench and he took the armband IIRC. Plus he had already captained us before that twice.

9 month ban and a 20 grand fine. By all reports he was extremely embarrassed by the whole situation too. Seems fair punishment to me. I think it's unfair that you're making out that this is all normal behaviour for him. What other misdemeanours are there? I don't have a problem with him being given the armband. His attitude has only ever been spot on in a Leicester shirt.

I think it's better for us if Southampton keep him. I don't rate him at all.

Did he needlessly and recklessly endanger innocent people's lives by drink driving? Absolutely yes. Should he have received the punishment he received? Absolutely yes. Does he deserve to be forever chastised over it? Absolutely not. I don't think he's quite the villain you're portraying him as.

Millions don't like football. Millions don't like Oasis. Millions don't like superhero films. If you don't like those popular things, that's fine. But why dedicate time to hating on something that other people love? Bloke in the office this morning (certified gammon) was loudly asking people if they watched the "pretend football" yesterday. I just sort of feel sorry for him, really. So caught up in his own need to appear "manly" that he can't appreciate what was clearly a great day for English sport. I don't really have much interest in Rugby or Formula 1, but I haven't dedicated my weekend to telling people how shite they are because why would I? 12 million people watched yesterday's final on the BBC. I would say that that shows that women's football is in a good place and is getting the love and attention it deserves. If people don't want to associate with that team of entertaining, hard working, patriotic role models then that's on them to be honest.

Watching batsmen throw up absolute pies so that the game ends as soon as possible without injury is bad for test cricket. The pitch was a bit of a joke. 24 wickets in ~420 overs in 5 full days of play (aside from losing about 15 minutes on day 1 to bad light). After 3 fantastic test matches, that was a shame. But it's the same sort of arguments as we had at Lords. Both teams whinging about the other when they'd have done the same thing if the shoe was on the other foot. Would India bowl Bumrah, Kamboj and Siraj if the game was clearly going to be a draw? Obviously they wouldn't. Would Carse and Dawson shake hands in the 80s? Obviously they wouldn't.

Bumrah will obviously play. He has to.

Come off it, it was such an obvious draw. This afternoon you were something like 220/4 at the time of the Gill wicket. I really don't believe you if you're saying you thought there was any sort of jeopardy. Not sure what the WinViz thing would have been saying but i'm sure it wouldn't have dropped below 90% for the draw today. The last 30/45 minutes was a farce. Brook was bowling absolute pies. Carse, Archer, Woakes and Stokes were all completely shattered and the pitch resembled a formula 1 track. Again, it's great for Sundar and Jadeja to get on the honours board but they were hardly match saving knocks. Other than their personal milestones i'm not really sure what was achieved today. The sort of day that turns people away from test cricket which is a shame considering how great the other tests have been. Old Trafford is clearly in a bad way at the moment, 5 draws on the bounce there in first class cricket. The pitches do nothing and then continue to get flatter and flatter.

I could see myself getting excited for a draw if it's players like Archer and Carse at the crease and the Indian attack are raring to go for it. Similar to Cardiff in the 2009 Ashes series. Celebrating that was mostly because of the huge relief of getting away with it. It doesn't feel like this is anything like that. I don't see how any Indian fan thought there was a stage this afternoon where a draw wasn't going to happen. I dunno. I get that Sundar and Jadeja would want to get their 100s but the whole thing was a bit of a farce really.

Not a great afternoon for test cricket.

Dark days if we're quaking in our boots over a 50 year old Barry Bannan.

This is a very good bit of business.

Are we winning

What a player Root is. Now time for Project Catchin' Sachin