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You could guaran-damn-tee that Mr can’t score for toffee would find it no problem vs us

Goalpost - man of the match

Come on Ruud, it’s 0-0, why the long face?

Mabel Tiddlesworth’s painting of a vase of flowers in worth 2 grand, wow…….we are all watching Antiques Roadshow instead aren’t we?

Four league goals since Dec 8th. Wow, that is some stat. And some s**t.

Just realised who will be refereeing - Bruno Fernandes

Last summer was the most disappointing window situation since Rachel Riley bought some bathroom blinds

My money’s on later - the 2nd half of Bournemouth away on the last day.

Not that they’ll need help but how many token penalties will Utd get tonight? On Thursday it got embarrassing, they literally asked for the third one to be over ruled / denied as it was getting a bit too obvious . I’m going for 1 .

Must be a fitness issue with Ricardo (I mean a new late one not his general one)

Onana fit to play, no Slab Head and Heaven to give us hell.

Heard that Utd might have Mee in goal. City still wouldn’t score if they had Me in goal!

Hi Top, welcome to the forum

As an alternative tonight Countryfile have an interesting feature on Hedgehog hibernation and Falcon migration, the thought of a long kip and escaping somewhere until next season makes me jealous of them. An episode of Call The Midwife would have more pace, excitement and tempo to it than one of our attacks and on Antiques roadshow our first choice CF will have his first football boots valued. Songs of Praise cancelled - we won’t have a prayer.

Yep, as a starting point that shows that if the likes of Bournemouth, Fulham, Brentford and Palace can become established PL clubs then so can we. Unfortunately the gate receipts, whilst useful, even coupled with merchandise and hospitality aren’t the sole income. There’s last seasons prize money, Brighton for example earned a lot more than us and TV money. Then there’s the state of the squads and management staff. None of those clubs have guys like a recent 20-25 million pound signing, a 4th choice ex Liverpool goalkeeper and an on-loan CF all not making the match day squad but picking up bloated wages. Palace did have one but fobbed him off on us . All things being equal, starting from scratch we’re well positioned to become established again based on that table but unfortunately, and what the review should be saying, we have made bad decision after bad decision that drags us back from leaving the starting grid and have players not fit for purpose that no one else will take from us as they can’t / won’t match their salary expectations. Our “starting point” is therefore compromised, whereas other clubs have ranks of hungry, improving players we have Vestergaard, Coady and Winks. The board were apparently shocked at that relegation, thought they’d done enough to guarantee (there is no such thing) staying in the PL whilst we could all see us sleepwalking into it. The review had to call out some of the ridiculous contract decisions and therefore point fingers in certain directions yet those people are still here, still making poor decisions and left us in our most crucial transfer window in our history pot-less with no wiggle room for a player “significantly better” than what we have. Sell 32,000 tickets, have more Hermandsons, Fatawus and El Khannousses than Skipps and DeCordova Reid’s and we’ll be headed in the right direction but we have Vestergaard and Skipp on our books for years yet, you can’t just sack them, it’s going to be worse before it’s better by which time Mads and next summer a fit Fatawu may have gone anyway.

"Oh yes you have"

To be fair that’s a colour graphic. As we know Forests wins were in black & white, the grainy Pathe News footage accompanied by piano music, sped up film and in the crowd row after row of flat capped moustached locals dressed in suits with pipes and rattles (and as for the males, similar). I saw a 30th anniversary of it on Betamax somewhere.

I’m going to have to get a house extension built for the wall chart!

Kasey MacAteer Tom Cannon The lesser spotted Golding has dual nationality David Kelly David Connolly Greg Cunningham (Loan) Damien Delaney Brian Carey Joe Waters Patrick McCarthy Dave Langan (Loan) Jim Holmes

Nigeria - for levels reached with us I’d say Ndidi but Yakubu and Lookman were options

Yep, very steady intelligent CB, read the game well

Tunisia - Benalouane - baldy kung-fu psycho guy

How could we forget - Thailand - Thanawat Suengchitthawan