Vacamion

That was a horrible, horrible watch as an England fan.

Shaping up as a cracking sporting weekend. First City get roughly pumped in another dreadful display. Then Wolves win at Bournemouth. England lose at the cricket against the bleddy Aussies. And now Scotland are dominating England at the rugby, absolutely outplaying us, having made England their bitch in this fixture in recent years, and my Scottish in-laws and Scottish colleagues will let me know about it. Come on England, rescue my weekend.

I was out last night and I recorded it and stayed offline. I've just watched it in full, not knowing the score, and at least this way, less of my weekend was shat on. The game and indeed the mood appeared to change when Ayew jogged and allowed himself to be run past as our midfield opened up. Brentford then took charge and we visibly shrank and, to be fair, Brentford looked like scoring for a while before they opened their account. After that, it was braindead defending, defenders allowing balls to bounce, pulling out of tackles, walking and jogging about when Brentford worked hard, hoofing it long and giving it back to our opponents, and turning back to our own goal instead of driving forwards. Soumaré, Okoli, VK, Ayew and BDCR had awful, awful nights. Academy lads can't be much worse, can they? Still can't see where our next clean sheet is coming from. And given that we can't score, there is little to no hope. So, enjoy the rest of your weekends.

Soccer AM Presenter Tim Lovejoy (back in the day, probably just after he has said something we'd now find excruciating to The Socerette) : Aston Villa set piece coach Austin McPhee:

Plucky nearly-men. Poor Kasper.

Can't imagine Bayern won't score late on, but Scottish football is currently edging a coefficientgasm.

Should book him as it's a bloody dive.

Agree. I thought at the start of the season that we might see some benefit from bringing Vardy on as an impact sub. An occasional, "nice-to-have" presence. Instead, relying on and starting a 38 year old every game, and playing him for most of the game, even when we've been getting humped, rather than rotating him in occasionally, has brought diminishing returns and seems like poor resource management. RVN was a great striker. He wants to be a great coach. You would hope that he could identify a use for and coach Daka into improvement. I live in hope.

Palace getting diddled out of a result because of poor VAR camera coverage at Selhurst Park would be poetic justice, if you think about how they got a point off us earlier this season. So it's not going to happen.

The point was made in the week that players will get injured, standing around waiting for VAR. Edit, I mean muscular injuries after, cos they've seized up.

Good effort, occasional flashes of good play, it looks like we have more direction than under Cooper, but we need more oomph up front and we are probably still heading down. It's worse because there was actually a bit of hope starting to emerge before they scored.

Ndidi our most productive forward.

He played well against Spurs. Need more of that.

Fascinating RVN being interviewed - there's clearly still some needle between him and Keown.

"Fackin Ell"

Trying to nick the offside flag

Beto once again underlining what a waste of space Dominic Calvert Lewin is.

It was bad enough when the club did the deal with Parimatch Then they did this deal, which looked dodgy from the off. Gambling sponsors go against the values the club told us they had. For shame.

Man City in head's gone moment. Again.

Given Man City's recent form and loss of confidence, you would think this is only going one way, now.

If the machine can't work it out in 4 mins, they should go with the on field decision after about 1 minute.

A song for Arse: Oompah Loompah Doo-bah-dee-do We won the League more recent than you Oompah Loompah Doo-bah-dee-dee You came second to Leicester City

My missus thinks there's a player called "Kinell Vestyaprat", having overheard him being mentioned on Saturdays.

I quite like Ange, but I would quite like to see Villa destroy Spurs today, so that Spurs' trophyphobia continues for yet another year.

Soft peno awarded in injury time, quelle surprise, but saved to knock Rangers out. That could have Clement packing his bags.