Vacamion

Drove down from Glasgow to Leicester to watch watch the Man United game in a pub in Leicester, the day before, in case we won it. Didn't think Chelsea would do us any favours, shrugged and drove back to Glasgow. Watched the Chelsea Spurs game on my sofa in Glasgow in disbelief. Walked round and round my lounge for ages afterwards, repeatedly blurting "Ah doont believe it".

Gotta be Notts, hasn't it?

Villa should have done something with all that possession when they were on top. Forest offered very little up to that point. That was brainless from Digne.

I'll never forget when he signed for us, he looked overjoyed to be here. It was always going to be a dream stint here for him.

He's a complete Argie tool, but that's a lovely save.

The dodgiest of utterly dodgy VAR calls, please, so that the big Greek goes ballistic and talks himself into bother. And F*rest go out.

Nah, it was a dive, too...

Players surrounding the ref, he should be spraying yellow cards for that. They'd soon learn.

Griezmann, Athletico. I'm still angry, you cheating little shit. Gwon Arsenal. (Then lose to whoever wins the other semi).

I'm going to be Englishmaxxing and Scotsmogging later this afternoon.

Having looked it up, I'd conflated his longer spell 2019 to 2021, during which there was a transfer embargo, with his shorter stint for a couple of months in 2023, so I stand corrected. I still maintain that the job is potential poison to his career - Chelsea aren't in a fantastic place just now, either.

I concede that Leicester fans don't "hate" Andy King, who is still remembered as a playing hero, but I'd think only a small minority would want him anyway near the manager's job again. Lampard was, as you say, a caretaker rather than the permanent boss, Chelsea had a transfer embargo and he was forced to play the kids, so he was cut a good bit of slack. I think Chelsea are in a worse, more dysfunctional place than in Lampard's previous spell as stand in manager there, and a second spell that went badly could be a career killer with a real risk it would damage his standing with their fans.

Lampard would be nuts to go to Chelsea. They are a basket case and even a magician couldn't fix them. Lampard seems emotionally intelligent enough to know that he would go from revered club legend to hate figure if he went there as things stand. Still, it would leave Cov in a bit of a pickle.

League football is a bit broken, yeah. Luckily, with Blatter before and now Infantino leading by example, the World Game has gone from strength to strength. Looking forward to North Korea 2038, when 140 teams will duke it out, there will be artillery gun executions as half'time entertainment, sponsored by Paedobet.

RIP your mentions.

He has to leave, but no point taking action til the sesson ends, as we won't get a manager fit for purpose before then anyway. He could have done stuff. He could have kicked over a few chairs, snarled at the slackers and dropped the underperformers. He could have changed formation, called on academy products, yadda yadda. However he just carried on doing what the previous manager did and picking the same bunch of failplayers. As such, it's been a total failure of an appointment. Good luck in your future endeavours, Mr Rowett, but they will be elsewhere.

Do we have to?

A valuable point against high flying Hull City. We go again on Friday.

Anyone surprised by this hasn't been watching for the last few years. Given where we came from, this is much, much lower than 2008.

Well, it looks like we'll be on the news later.

"I've got Ramsey Shots" is going to be local slang for impotence.

I was half right.

15 mins added on, please.

TF was THAT ?

Has Luke had more touches in the box than Daka?