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I remember when Kanu came out for a half time warm up (Portsmouth or Arsenal), it was like watching a footballing Harlem Globetrotter. More entertaining than the match!

Since moving away I can make weekends games but not weekdays so I missed all of the Champions League / UEFA Cup / Europa League / Conference tin pot thingymajic trophy etc. I can proudly say though that I saw us play in the (fanfare) Anglo-Italian Cup . Against f***ing Grimsby

I ticked “best possible view” on the ticket site and they’ve put me in midfield for the All Stars XI

Apparently he started a lap of honour at full time yesterday. The groundsman threw him out at 8 pm as he needed to lock up.

Having watched the end of season show seeing a bit of each team (aka "Extensive Research" ), there's a lot of physicality, strength, energy and some wise heads with know how, some good football in terms of through balls, great finishes, good crosses but no-one trying to play like a pound shop Pep Man City wannabe. We have to tear up that model and accept we're not going to rock up and pass our way through these teams like a knife through butter and our youngsters are going to be battered from pillar to post so we will need to blend in some solid lads who know the league and can put it about themselves. However much I love watching flair, we're not going to be able to just out-flair the opposition by being some kind of footballing Harlem Globetrotters, we will need leadership, steel and organisation in there too.

If you want Rowett out but Top to stay ask yourself this - who chose Rowett, Marti, Van Nistelroy and Cooper? You want them to have another go at picking a manager?

At home creating this masterpiece from a bean bag and a flag. Had 2 bottles of Cava (oooh luxury), one normal, one girly pink Rose stuff (all I had in) so sweet and acidic I looked like a surprised Esther Rantzen,

Those Moscow Centre Halves must have had a fortune on a 3-4 result that night, it is the only logical explanation

This time next year there could be the headline “Fuchs Up” but that could mean one of two completely different scenarios.

Braybrooke is hopefully a bigger part of our future than Winks will be, hopefully he’s given the encouragement to step up from day 1. I don’t know if he’s played all that much with Page due to loans and injuries but hopefully they are both given their chance maybe in a 3 with Skipp?

At the end he did a slow leisurely walk around the pitch - or “playing football” as he calls it.

Bonkers that Derby messed it up when their destiny was in their own hooves

At the legends game “Jamie Vardy is unavailable so your number 9 is……”

NO MORE AYEW & DAKA!!!!

Time for a hearty rendition of “How s**t must you be….”

£5.50 worth of Chocolate therapy caused by this game, that’s seriously damaging stuff by the club. It used to be a Curly Wurly and a Hobnob and all was forgotten F** it I’m going to demolish the Lindt Bunny I’ve been saving since Easter if Ayew comes on!

Blackburn drawing their raffle, someone in the crowd gets to mark Mavididi 2nd half.

Half time , might treat myself to something better like watching paint dry or root canal dentistry

He’s doesn’t believe in being unorthodox regardless of how things are going. I think we ended a game with two number tens twice for about four minutes. He’s so bland and unadventurous he makes Gareth Southgate look like Bear Grylls.

Oooh Hamza hairs it wide from the edge of the box

Clappers waiting for the team bus . Matron, they’ve escaped again!!

And Winks?? Why don’t we bring in Dennis Wise as an emergency late registration and put him in too, it would be fitting.

This and this sum up my thoughts brilliantly i do usually suggest moderation with youngsters in cup games for it to gel (like we’ve gelled in any way this season). But Gray alongside Souttar, Aluko at LB, Silko on the wing still has a senior around them. Ridiculous waste to give Mukasa and James bench places that Hutchinson, Briggs, Otcherr etc could have. Mavididi? There has never been a time in the clubs history where you could put in any less and still be picked to start and I include Josh low in that - he had absolutely no ability but at least tracked his man for 90 minutes. Purely about Rowett’s career points per game ratio, selfish ****.