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dead on

Hip check, followed by a shove in the back on a player clean through ... "there wasn't QUITE enough contact to justify the penalty" ... Beam me up Scotty

Far better than much of what's been served up in the prem this season

Fatawu just gained himself 3 points in my post-match rating

What a recovery ... Vesty with the speed did I just say that?

That's a pen

STEPHY FINALLY SHOOTS!! Good decision lad

It took Rooney no time at all to turn a decent side into a bumbling, clueless mess. Jordan James is quality, but every time he picks up the ball he looks like he’s interrupting a grade school kickabout. He needs some Enzo coaching. Wonder if he could fill Ndidi’s current role?

It takes more than losing to a crap Preston side to dent their confidence !

They haven't lost since September.

Has the EFL awarded them two bonus matches to catch us? Because they've now played 24

They'll still take the points record off Reading, easy. They only need to win 21 out of their last 22.

IT'S MILLAR TIME

Cripes ... if Chris Wood keeps this lot up ...

Meslier off

It's the pink Even a keeper should never play in pink!

Fairly or not, it screams “tinpot club”. As do all outdated footy boards with a limited number of users and posts. Any outsider coming on here will quickly realize this is the forum of a significant club. And better designed and moderated than most of the Rich 6 forums.

Cheers to all! Hope you are all in a festive holiday mood. To think, just last year there was no joy in Whoville ...

No manager -- not Poch, not Pep, not a reinvigorated Sir Alex, nobody -- is going to win big at Chelsea or Manure unless the football operations are torn down to the studs and rebuilt to be run by top football professionals. Seemingly unlimited money SHOULD ensure results despite organizational incompetence and idiot-owner meddling ... but we've seen that isn't so. Both clubs have burned so much money, they are up against the FFP buffers which should ensure their dominance. Both acquire players and managers as randomly as an heiress in a Dubai jewelry mall ... despite operations staffed by hundreds of people. In this industry, there is just no substitute for knowing what the hell you are doing. Man City didn't just hire Pep, they hired the best of Barca's brain trust.

Leeds, most years I think. Probably this year? Let me check their forum

The lads call him Faesfana, for his hops

ESPN going all in on boxing day. Showing Boro instead of Southampton (or Sunderland) seems an odd choice though. Of course the mighty Foxes are the must-see match of the season.

What amazed me most was in the last 15 minutes, when he might have been saving his legs for Tuesday, he kept sprinting forward with the ball. You'd almost think it was a CB's one and only chance to play attacking fullback or something He milked it and milked it.