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The Everton Stadium-tossathon v BHA or the Palace v Forest Grudgefest would have been more alluring last dishes on the menu than the two x lower mid table clubs they are featuring. However, someone at Sky HQ thinks it's 20 years ago and that Manchester United are a big club.

Forest were lucky with injury last season. If their keeper, either of their centre backs or striker get crocked, they will struggle to reolace them to anywhere near the same level. On a separate note, I can imagine Palace's tackles today will be full-blooded.

The joke was that he was going to be manager for two seasons - Summer and Autumn - but even that now seems a bit optimistic.

I wouldn't mind Preston doing well and getting promoted, as long as it's behind us. That said, I wasn't too pleased when I was sat in amongst them last week and a great big shaven headed one of them was bellowing homophobic slurs at our players.

Do "Besukthis" play in Constantigobble?

I was opposition-ending last week. It's always a tough ask, not to scream obscenities at them, innit

Can we see more sitting on advertising hoardings, please?

Set piece coaches up and down the Prem will have watched this and will be piling it onto and above Mads for the foreseeable. He really does have his work cut out over the coming weeks.

They bought a Leicester goalie and Southampton defender, so it's looking like us buying Southampton/Fulham/Palace offcuts.

A chin stroking manager who likes a turtle neck and gets beat every week. We've seen this one before.

The Hammers fans are not booing. They're shouting YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU all paid for this stadium.

"Irate fan tries to get on the pitch" I BLOODY CALLED IT.

Oh Mads, that's shit.

Things you love to see: Crowd turning against their team at the Olympic Stadium we all paid for. Boos, groans, anger. We are about two Chelsea goals from another Centre Circle flag-planting.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm : It's still August

Concentrating on the league. By taking crap penalties.

I don't blame Bilal. Running up and giving it the welly and missing is better than whatever the hell Ayew did.

Wtf was that, Ayew?

A no celebration celebration again

Not a massive fan of people in here calling for Cifuentes to play the Academy products and then getting the hump when they aren't immediately clicking and slagging them off. I think a bit of patience is merited.

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When he had a sit down in the penalty area and allowed their striker in, it made me wonder what monstrosities Nelson and Faes have been up to in training.

He's a Belgian international, unlike Vesty, he actually occasionally scores with his head, and when he's on it, he's actually solid. However, we've seen his shortcomings during our demise and sometimes his attitude ain't it. I support his right to give some back today, though. Booing him onto the pitch was not right. You just have to hope that prospective buyers have not done their homework and are unaware of his tendency to commit the most horrendous brain farts when it really matters and hurts, and that he is prone to stand around pointing and blaming when we really don't need that.

Faes came on as a sub. I called it in the match thread as he waited on the sidelines and loads of comments were posted in here "Faes, FFS" etc, that he would probs get booed as he came on and so it came to occur. Quite audibly on the TV. Whilst some are suggesting maybe it was fans saying "Wooot", no it wasn't, it was deffo booing him. You could see on the TV Faes heard it and grinned, shaking his head, so when he scored, that's why he cupped his ears at the fans.

He had a bad day, but he's not Soumaré, and it's fairly certain that we will need him at some point this season.