Mike the Metal Ed

This isn't America, we don't have absolute freedom of speech. You also don't have freedom from consequence for your speech. Rightly or wrongly, criticising the refereeing of a game could be called bringing the game into disrepute. Like we need more lame excuses from managers in interviews anyway.

There hasn't been a single occasion where I haven't walked around the back of the stage and wanted to turn the generator off.

I think Free Agents can be signed and registered outside of the transfer window because to bar them from signing with a club is to prevent them from being able to work. I could be wrong on that though

We've acquired an unfortunate number of hotel burners among our fanbase.

Shortest tall lad in the sport

Should have pulled up with a convenient injury mid over to save embarrassing himself further.

Literal "we were in League 1 once" poster

To rehash an old meme

Holding down the goalie rush button on FIFA

Let them have their sulks for now. Get it out their system. If they even have goals to not celebrate then they're doing more than last season. Hopefully if we can get some results, after a few weeks the mood will start to feel lighter again.

On the positive end I miss a Christian Fuchs shootout penalty. Possibly the most cultured man off the pitch turned into peak Sean Dyche from 12 yards.

Roasting hot at Kibworth today but a great day out and a thumping win.

I might be wrong but for the majority of first team fixtures at Filbert Street you would have had Mel Pace ("Hello everyone..."). Brad did reserve games and was back up for Mel until the move to Filbert Way where he got the full time gig.

A number is a position on the field, not a man. Simple enough for you?

Why not just line up with 10 players all season then? After all, who's fit to occupy a space on the pitch if it's not the GOAT? Vardy's legacy isn't diminished by the fact we've given our centre forward the shirt number a centre forward should wear.

Ultimately if Ayew is our starting centre forward and 9 is vacant he can have it. I've watched Carl Cort and Geoff Horsfield wear it, let's not pretend shirt numbers are in any way sacred.

Seen so many on the Narborough Road pubs after games our fanbase is almost Hull levels of weird these days

Evening, Jon.

Also I found Ricky Sappleton's water bill dumped on the floor by the letter boxes once.

I miss living in a city centre flat half an hour's walk from the ground. Turn that into a 5-6 hour round trip driving from Manchester and it's no wonder it's started to feel like a slog.

Expert positioning of the fielding helmets that ended up giving Derbyshire a little bit of help with the 5 penalty runs.

So who do we think man of the match was?

Of course Rehan gets 2 wickets while I'm around the back of the stand taking a phone call about a possible job offer

Did we sell Derbyshire our old scoreboard?

Gonna be on our second innings by the time I turn up to the ground tomorrow morning.