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Fun fact: It was Al Nassr we sold Musa to, and we ended up getting them a transfer ban when they failed to pony up the last 400k. We'll never get that 90 million bid for Ayew now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66188707

Chasing cars by Snow Patrol

Now there are emails going around reminding season ticket holders they can sell their ticket for the Arsenal game, with a step by step guide to using the resale platform. Christ, they really, really, don't want any normal supporters to come at all do they? Clearly want us all gone to make way for day trippers.

Sunderland had terrible recruitment for years, wasted loads of money on duff players on big wages. I'm glad we haven't done anything that stupid. I mean, how daft would you have to be to hire 2 consecutive heads of recruitment with that Sunderland downfall on their CV. Oh, wait...

If Ruud goes and we are definitely going down anyway, we should make Steve Bruce the new manager for the rest of the season, under a strict contract that guarantees he writes another "Steve Barnes" mystery novel that is in no way based on anything real, about goings on at Louchester City, and it's owner Tap and dogsbody DoF Ron Judkin. Could be an absolute literary masterpiece, can't wait for the opening chapter about the fine features and heated seats available in the standard package option of Barnes jaguar, as he parks it up at the Watergrave training complex.

This is bang on. For starters, Ruud out now would mean captain speedy and his fax machine would have to start working on a new manager search to go with all the transfer business he's already not doing, so you are looking at at least 1, if not 2 games with the caretaker team that brought us the 4-1 battering away at Brentford. Then, after a long and exhaustive search involving ringing the few football agents they actually get in with, it's #WelcomeBrussell

The argument is: some people believe Cooper would have gotten us more points in the current run because he would have us harder to beat and conceding less goals over the same fixtures with the same squad. My point is - Cooper let in lots of goals. This cup game is an insight to how he might have gotten on presently, without hermanson. Answer - badly. I don't think all those players are "first team" but they are all first team now, because there are no other good options because of injuries. They've all had to start games in the current bad run. So unless magical fan fiction cooper man can magically fix Mads Hermanson and could magically make VK not ill against Villa, he'd be stuck with these players. Back in the world of reality, Cooper had an appalling defensive record in the prem with Forest as well, and up to the 2 game Bournemouth and Southampton win streak, had been on a run across the two clubs where he had gone 19 odd games without a win.

"Reserves" Danny Ward Started Vs Wolves James Justin Regular starter Caleb Okoli Regular starter under Cooper Conor Coady Started many games recently Luke Thomas Started Vs Villa Oliver Skipp Cooper regular/started Vs Newcastle Boubakary Soumaré Regular starter now Bobby Decordova-Reid Actual reserve Bilal El Khannouss current best player Kasey McAteer Started several games lately Jordan Ayew Regular starter Apart from bdcr, every player who started that game has started in the current bad spell that Cooper would "definitely" have "improved defensively", yet when he played them here, somehow contrived to concede 5 goals. Given the luxury of a first choice lineup about a week later, with hermanson, he still conceded 3. This idea that Cooper was better defensively is an absolute fiction. His team were appalling at the back.

Cooper lost twice in a week to a very poor Manchester United (conceding 8 across the two games) who are worse than Man City. Cooper already lost to Villa once this season. Cooper already lost to Fulham once this season. Plenty of arguments to go the other way too.

There were ads on the billboards at half time on Saturday, encouraging people to sell their season ticket on the resale platform for the Arsenal game - club must be itching to get a few bus loads full of extra hospitality bods to the tigers for a meal and then cram them in to the normal seats to get those extra pound notes in.

Agreed. And he was a player who we let go for free. Yet we deemed it worthwhile to drop loads of money on Skipp, a guy with worse ball control and wayward passing ability

For the money we paid for him, for the financial position we are in, spending this much on a player must be based on a potential of resale value, ideally a profit. Skipp will never be worth more than we paid for him. He's not a player on an upward curve, he won't be attractive to moneybags big 6 clubs in the future. He's as good as he ever will be, so from here on in, we've lumbered ourselves with 4 million of amortisation minimum for the next 4 years, for a player who is basically a worse version of Nampalys Mendy. Spending the money we did on Bilal might pay off handsomely in future if it result in a big sale later. There's no way the Skipp transfer will do the same. This is the kind of player that is worth picking up dirt cheap, or on a Bosman, but a permanent PSR basket case like us has to be very careful where we spend our transfer money, because moves like this is how we ended up dropping 90 million pound losses.

Vomitting and Diarrhoea tends to go away after a few days. That pair will be hanging around for at least the next 3 years.

Watching Bournemouth vs Newcastle before heading out to the game, and its been noticeable how much of the threat from both teams has revolved around utilising pace in attack. That line up has zero pace whatsoever. For the period in the second half when Palace took control, their defence pushed all the way up to near the halfway line, because they knew there was zero danger of anyone getting in behind them, even if they left the whole of their half for Vards to run into. And to compound that, we've dropped Facundo for Ayew, a man who cannot actually run at all.

Ref that once gave a goal when a ball didn't go in the net, gives a booking for a tackle he didn't think was a foul at the time.

Friendly reminder for anyone writing their next piece of Cooper was better fanfiction on Saturday if we lose: Steve Cooper's Leicester City lost against Fulham. Easily.

Take the 2 Danny Ward games out of the calculation - and that's no longer remotely true. Ruud conceeds 2 against Palace - "much worse" than Cooper, who, errr, conceeded 2 vs Palace Ruud conceeds 2 against Villa - Cooper conceeds 2 against Villa Ruud conceeds 2 against Man City and 3 vs Liverpool - Cooper never had to play against these teams, but did conceed 3 against Man United, 2 vs Chelsea and 4 vs Arsenal. If we should consider the Danny Ward games - no problem. Lets factor in a comparable fixture to Newcastle away for Cooper in the League Cup the, when he played Ward against Man United away. End result? 5 goals conceded. Cooper also conceeded 3 goals at home vs Forest, and 2 away to Southampton. The man was a defensive disaster area.

Cooper team without Hermansen takes zero points from any fixture. Mads was a one man wall preventing a total battering every week. Lest we forget the away game at Arsenal where he set a record for most saves in a game and we still conceeded 4. Cooper lost 4 of his last 5 games anyway, so acting like he would have taken points is a fantasy, the death spiral was already in motion.

Good win, and a good performance - I think. It was hard to tell, but the bits where the ball came out the fog and you could see it seemed alright. Apart from Pyramid Head scoring after that bad pass from Winks pass in the first half, Silent Hill Rangers didn't offer much of a threat, and deserved to lose.

Bobby DCR came on and did about 3 things. Lost the ball once going down to win a free kick under zero pressure, won a free kick from a pull back, then took the ball off Justin and promptly lost it in the build up to Faes's goal. I think Alves would be capable of surpassing that low level of positive impact.

Absolute scenes when he turns up at the eki in Leicester, to find that shinkansens and denshas are arimasen, but the densha no repurasumento basu is asoko desu.

I'm over 400 days now. If he turns up and wants to talk about a new purple hat or a train station, I'm fecking ready.

No, you misheard. Sodall is who we are signing.

There's definitely a chant potential though, if we use Sharp dressed man by ZZ Top as the tune: Bob Reid, Olly skipp Danny Ward needs taking to the tip Big Suse, Rudkin, PSR deduction about to do us in We spent every single penny giving Cooper the sack, So Leicester's going crazy for a cheap full back (Was originally going to be cheap sunglasses, but I don't think fullbackses is the correct plural )

Not a huge impact in the grand scheme of things, but the original Jon Moss incident vs Forest, when Matt Mills was trying to get up off the floor, when a Forest player kicks the ball at point blank range into his hand which was supporting his bodyweight. In the next few minutes Moss gave the pen which was a complete mockery of the handball rule, then booked Kasper for complaining about said disgraceful decision, then sent him off for a second booking for "time wasting" because he kicked the ball to the half way line after it was scored - i.e, returned the ball (which was ours, as it was our kick off) to the place it needed to be, as quickly as possible. Should have never reffed again based on that alone, but went on to have a long and storied career of some of the worst decisions ever seen in games, topped off with his final game as a VAR when he diddled Huddesfield in the play off final, which has directly led to the current horrific situation we find ourselves in, where we allowed Steve Cooper to come in and shit on our season and Forest are at the top end of the table of a league they never deserved to be in in the first place. Truly a war criminal in the history of the game.