Sly

I know, totally bizarre

They’ll never change it though. The first sign of solving anything is admitting you have a problem. They can’t even do that.

We need to make this signing permanent

Update … we’re currently at a run rate for 127 points and the best goal difference the league has ever seen. It’ll be amazing if we can keep this up. The transformation in our defence is key. We’ll have the best defence this league has ever seen if we carry on like this. Year Team Games Points GF GA GD xGD46 Av Points Av GF Av GA 23/24 Leicester City 13 36 27 7 20.00 70.77 2.77 2.08 0.54 23/24 Ipswich Town 11 28 25 13 12.00 50.18 2.55 2.27 1.18 22/23 Burnley 46 101 87 35 52.00 52.00 2.20 1.89 0.76 21/22 Fulham 46 90 106 43 63.00 63.00 1.96 2.30 0.93 20/21 Norwich City 46 97 75 39 36.00 36.00 2.11 1.63 0.85 19/20 Leeds United 46 93 77 35 42.00 42.00 2.02 1.67 0.76 18/19 Norwich City 46 94 93 57 36.00 36.00 2.04 2.02 1.24 17/18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 99 82 39 43.00 43.00 2.15 1.78 0.85 16/17 Newcastle United 46 94 85 40 45.00 45.00 2.04 1.85 0.87 15/16 Burnley 46 93 72 35 37.00 37.00 2.02 1.57 0.76 14/15 Bournemouth 46 90 98 45 53.00 53.00 1.96 2.13 0.98 13/14 Leicester City 46 102 83 43 40.00 40.00 2.22 1.80 0.93 12/13 Cardiff City 46 87 72 45 27.00 27.00 1.89 1.57 0.98 11/12 Reading 46 89 69 41 28.00 28.00 1.93 1.50 0.89 10/11 Queens Park Rangers 46 88 71 32 39.00 39.00 1.91 1.54 0.70 09/10 Newcastle United 46 102 90 35 55.00 55.00 2.22 1.96 0.76 08/09 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 90 80 52 28.00 28.00 1.96 1.74 1.13 07/08 West Bromwich Albion 46 81 88 55 33.00 33.00 1.76 1.91 1.20 06/07 Sunderland 46 88 76 47 29.00 29.00 1.91 1.65 1.02 05/06 Reading 46 106 99 32 67.00 67.00 2.30 2.15 0.70 04/05 Sunderland 46 94 75 41 34.00 34.00 2.04 1.63 0.89 03/04 Norwich City 46 94 79 39 40.00 40.00 2.04 1.72 0.85 02/03 Portsmouth 46 98 97 45 52.00 52.00 2.13 2.11 0.98 01/02 Manchester City 46 99 108 52 56.00 56.00 2.15 2.35 1.13 00/01 Fulham 46 101 90 32 58.00 58.00 2.20 1.96 0.70 99/00 Charlton Athletic 46 91 79 45 34.00 34.00 1.98 1.72 0.98 98/99 Sunderland 46 105 91 28 63.00 63.00 2.28 1.98 0.61 97/98 Nottingham Forest 46 94 82 42 40.00 40.00 2.04 1.78 0.91 96/98 Bolton Wanderers 46 98 100 53 47.00 47.00 2.13 2.17 1.15 95/96 Sunderland 46 83 59 33 26.00 26.00 1.80 1.28 0.72 94/95 Middlesborough 46 82 67 40 27.00 27.00 1.78 1.46 0.87 93/94 Crystal Palace 46 90 73 46 27.00 27.00 1.96 1.59 1.00

Great result. Another one put to the sword.

Bagged for Zambia last week.

Which is exactly what we didn’t have 12 months ago.

Postman Patson time on the Wing?

He's off for Albrighton about 10 minutes ago @shen? I was thinking the same about Mavadidi?

It’s because we’re giving up half chances as we are too open at the back.

In fairness, I think Sunderland loom the best team we’ve played, in an odd way.

He's better on that right side

You can see why we were interested in Roberts. We signed a host of random square pegs for round holes instead though

I make us 2-1 up on Penalties now that haven’t been awarded

I’ve no idea

This is a basket ball game

The bloat ….. Tielemans is at Villa

Chesterfield ……?

With a stick?

Agree. Stops them moaning about not having one.

That’s where VAR looks at it and gives you a penalty

I do wonder if we’ll offer Vardy just a one year extension.

The big question remains, what do you do with the players that are expiring come June 2024? Marc Albrighton Jannik Vestergaard Dennis Praet Jamie Vardy Wilfred Ndidi Kelechi Iheanacho Luke Thomas Wanya Marçal Callum Doyle Ceser Casadei Yunus Akgun Issahaku Fatawu Alex Smithies We could do with addressing some of those before January ideally. We’ll need to shift Iversen, Souttar, Daka and Ward I would imagine.

Meh, terrible performance by South Africa but they’re through.