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Good. It's what needs to happen. Maybe then the penny will drop.

His hands are tied mate.

Is that Paul Rudd the actor?

They are clearly not bad players and will get better, but I think it's more likely that Buonanotte and BEK have been made to look better than they actually are because we can only really compare them to the absolute crap around them. Let's call it The Mark Draper Effect (which would be a great name for a band).

Don't quite get the fuss about BEK. He's been mediocre at best. But I can definitely envisage a lower/mid table PL club coming in with a lowball offer and him trying to force through the move like he did when coming here from Genk.

He already has. It was Enzo.

It's worse. The threshold would actually be about £83m in losses, as the 23/24 season was in the Championship, where clubs are allowed just over £13m losses per year. The EFL could even argue that our threshold could be as low as £61m, as we successfully argued that we were a Championship club for the 22/23 accounting period to avoid PL sanctions.

Could be decent, if we can all overlook the fact that none of them look even remotely like the person they are supposed to be playing.

That maybe so, but the entertainment level was off the charts. You had an incredible atmosphere at the old Wembley. Uri Geller was flying above the stadium in a helicopter claiming he made the ball move just before Gary Mac's missed penalty. Then there was Gazza's brilliant flick over Colin Hendry before rifling home and then doing the 'Dentist Chair' celebration. You don't get anywhere near that level of entertainment in today's over-sanitised, no-fun, possession for possession's sake snorefest.

Surely Chelsea will eventually run out of assets to sell to themselves. In the meantime they should be applauded for exposing PSR as the unworkable, loophole-ridden, not-fit-for-purpose farce that it is, even if that wasn't/isn't their intention.

Horrendously bad performance. So many careless blind passes straight to an opponent. A point was more than they deserved, so just take it and run.

The Fall and Rise of Jonathan Rudkin

Well worked goal that.

Hat-trick of assists for Ayew so far tonight.

Maybe. He's just now assisted Partey's goal.

Maybe they're discussing the after-match meal... 🎶 Will it be chips or jacket spuds? Will it be salad, or frozen peas? Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings? You'll have to wait and see Hope it's chips, it's chips! We hope it's chips, it's chips!...🎶

Having a decent season for Torino by most accounts.

Spurs at home next week, who's form has fallen off a cliff. Should be winning that too.

Phew!

Great save!

9 mins added time.

3-2.

Had about 8 chances to clear before their pen.