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The team defended and attacked as a unit. Work rate and organisation was much better. It's very encouraging. We seem to have a manager who demands standards. Skipp has to start every game. He's the only midfielder who offers anything defensively. He bailed them out a few times tonight covering.

Skipp has saved us there. He's the only midfielder who has any defensive intuition. He has to play every game. The defence needs it.

People slag off Thomas' throws but they're not that bad. We've just assembled a bunch of short fannies who can't fight to get on the end of them.

F**kin hell. We've normally given up by now. I've forgotten how stressful this is.

That's so frustrating Okoli was playing really well. He shouldn't be allowed to pass. He should just hoof it every time. Still, I'm encouraged. Our work rate and organisation is so much better.

Every player is playing well. We're not carrying anyone currently. We're attacking and defending as cohesive units. When one full back goes the other stays, etc. It's been nearly over a year since we've seen this. It's almost like we have a manager who demands standards. I'm so fed up of poundshop Pep ball I'd give Rowett a 3 year contract at half time.

We are playing really well. This is encouraging.

I take Whelan out of this, cause she was an employee and we don't really know how stuff worked behind the scenes. But I think we'd be a lot better off if Vichai was still here. And I say that as someone who thinks he gets too much credit for our league win. What Vichai might not have known about football, he did know about running a business and leadership. He'd have made decisions a lot quicker. He wouldn't have allowed things like Brendan Rodgers' self-serving, buck-passing, snivelling press conferences. Ones where he talked down the club and the players. It's terrible leadership. He might not have sacked him, but I bet he'd have had a word with him; and I bet that weasel Rodgers' would have listened. I still remember when he refused to sit in West Ham's directors box because Karen Brady had written about him buying wine after sacking Ranieri in her paper column - he still wouldn't sell them Slimani even after they'd apologised. He cared about and knew the importance of things like that.

I do wonder if Spurs will look back and regret sacking Frank. Their squad really is pretty weak. It finished 17th last year. Frank went from working with a forward line of Wissa - Thiago - Mbuemo at Brentford to this. His Brentford forward line walks into this Spurs team easily. It's a massive downgrade. It's almost like Spurs fans struggle to accept how bad their squad is. Just like a lot of our fans did last year and at the start of this year.

It's this. They both come out of this looking bad. Neither of them seems to communicate, organise or be very vocal. They both get pulled out of position too often. For all JV's and Faes faults, at least they try to communicate and organise. Hopefully Lascelles will be back soon, he seems vocal.

I thought he played okay today. Even quite well. The team played a lot better after he came on. Yeah he missed the header, but he could have had an assist if Mukasa had finished that volley. I don't blame him for the goal, he can't mark two players. Nelson and Okoli are marking the same player and Mavididi just let's his man run. They're all culpable. I'd hate to be a full back in this team. Our centre backs don't seem to communicate or organise; they constantly get pulled out of position. Our wingers don't track back or mark their man. So our full backs are always exposed and we expect them to run up and down the pitch all game.

That wasn't Thomas's fault. He had two men there. It's just a lack of organisation. He's played quite well today.

Our marking is just so bad. No one is organising at all.

Aribo looks slow as f**k, but it's nice to see someone with some physical presence that can't just be pushed off the ball.

Aribo can't be any worse than Winks. I'd like to see him given ago.

At this point I just want us to set up in a 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1. We are such a short, physically weak team. We need to stop crosses be compact. 4-2-3-1 does nothing to help us. Even more so without Fatawu. This is what we are without Fatawu. It's crazy people saying he should be dropped or we wouldn't miss him. He's the only quality we have.

How does it work now though? If you're a small company that's gone out of business due to the tariffs; or a big company that's lost millions in revenue. Can you sue the government to get your money back? Surely they've got some sort of claim. I appreciate I could probably look this up myself. I just can't be bothered and wonder if someone just knows.

I wanted Canada to win this so they could beat the Yanks (if they get there) in the final. Not looking good atm. But plenty of time still.

l've watched a couple of these videos/podcasts. One thing that always makes me laugh is they rarely mention that we couldn't even send a fax on time for a £22 million player. That's how badly we've been run (and how long). People forget, or don't even know, cause there's so much else miss-management..

It's not really rumours though. Long before any of this Epstein stuff came to light it was known that Charles and Andrew didn't like each other. Decades ago it was known about. I do agree with your second point. Unlike in America where they don't seem to be doing much apart from helping cover it up. I imagine Mandelson will be next; we've already seen emails which could fall into the same charge. Hopefully they'll both get sent to prison. Whatever the Royals do, how they've handled this Virginia Giuffrie situation will stain them. They helped Andrew pay it off, whilst claiming innocence. Then after years of smears they wait till she's committed suicide to force Andrew to give up his titles. It's a real shame she isn't alive to see all this.

I do find it funny they've arrested him on his birthday.

We don't know what's happened behind the scenes. You can only advise an idiot. You can't actually make him do it. I've come to the conclusion Top is genuinely thick and has some sort of anxious avoidance personality trait where he just ignores big decisions or problems for as long has he can. Hoping they magically get better. He come across as someone who's had Mummy and Daddy (or people who work for them) fix all his problems in life. And he just isn't mentally capable of being the main man. The fact so many people like Pearson and Vardy spoke glowingly about her when she finally quit spoke volumes to me. For all we know, she was at her wits end, trying her best cause she knew how inept he was.

It may not be that complicated of a case for all we know. Andrew hasn't been arrested for being a nonce; he's been arrested for misconduct in public office. It covers a wide range of things - which I imagine are a lot easier to prove. They might not need masses of resources to do this. Prince Charles has always disliked him as has William (in fact no one in the Royal family apart from the Queen seemed to like him) so they might not help him much. They might even give evidence.

Surely one day a club will have their deduction increased after appealing. Unless the formalities always are you just appeal no matter what. I'm assuming we only got 6 points cause the league are genuinely worried we'll get relegated. I know PSR has it's issues but, really, it was probably brought in to protect fans from owners like Top (and Rudkin). People who are so inept and clueless that they spend money they don't have instead of running the club properly.

I thought Arsenal had this won. I feel like a little s**t saying this: But the meltdown if they blow this would be hilarious to watch. Think Man City with the game in hand might come back now.