Brainy

Let's be honest though it's an advantage playing 1st. Poor to use it as an excuse for not winning the league though

Fun fact I remember from that season is that Villa never gained points on us on any match day throughout the season. On the rare occasion they won, so did we. When they drew, we didn't lose. When we lost so did they

Cannon is a weird one. Seemed a little less weird around the new year when he was getting game time but is now weird again. Might become less weird if he's our first choice next season Coady it's possible Vestergaard forced his way into the starting XI unexpectedly when he was injured for the first month of the season

Tbh judging from the state of our fans over the last year or so I'm surprised I've not seen anybody claiming our play off spot is at stake

That penalty decision is honking but the ignorance by those suggesting refs should be suspended (or even fired for the really bad mistakes) is alarming. Whether you rate them or not, the best refs officiate at the highest level. Depending on where the bar is set for mistakes resulting in suspensions, you'd have games in League 1/2 being postponed every week because there's no ref.

We actually get a few hours longer rest than the Wednesday night-Saturday afternoon teams. But I get the frustration that it was due to be slightly more than half a week off and now it's 3 days as well as a long trip. The bigger grievance should be with the EFL for allowing a match to be moved a Friday night which involves a 500 mile round trip for the away side

Southampton with something to play for on the final day would be good for us. Only issue is it means them also having something to play for when they play us, probably winning it to

Bizarre thing to say though

Tbh even if we go up it's gonna be bloody miserable in the PL

Gotta say I don't understand this Sainz hype. Don't think he's outshone Leclerc in his entire time with Ferrari up until his 3 races this season. Now he's being spoken about like Ferrari are letting a multiple world champion leave. Fair enough the other part of that is because it's widely believed they're replacing him with a fraud. Possible Sainz bas even upped his game this season because of his situation going forwards

Get help

There does look to be contact, soft, I wouldn't be keen to give a penalty but probably also wouldn't be confident enough to dish out a yellow for diving either

Two Joe Harts would have saved that too FFS as good a penalty as it was

God Chris Sutton is insufferable

If I was Logan I'd never have got out of my car in that break

As per usual we turned sloppy around the 70th minute mark

It's a weird one, but on the reverse, if you get a bit of the player first and then a lot of the ball, it's a penalty. So don't get why that's a penalty, probably cuz it's not a clear and obvious error 🤔

Crucial in their battle for 4th with themselves

Never understood this idea that the ref has to not apply the laws of the game correctly because it's a derby. If a player wants to get sent sent off and ruin the game it's their fault, not the refs

I think today's gonna be a good day

Every side we still have to face we have beaten in the first fixture. We are more than capable of going on a winning run as we've shown multiple times this season, though this is now pressured stuff

So we blew a 17pt lead to 4th.....

Btw at what stage have we been 17pts clear this season? Keep seeing that number banded about. We could have gone 17pts clear of Leeds in 3rd the first time we played them, 2 games later it was 8pts. It's increased since but never to 17 I'm sure!?