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Why Russell, why start like that ?

Hoping Bisto nets for the first time.

He said he wasn't going to play him 3 times in a week, espesh given how he had played in the World Cup. Given Souttar's injury history, I think it's probably sensible.

Martin, interviewed pre-game, said Okoli is injured and Souttar is rested after his Wirld Cup exertions, so maybe not the exodus of players some are suggesting.

I went to a wake at a really posh golf club in Edinburgh last year and they had the cleanest, nicest, sweetest-smelling crapper I've ever been in. Immaculately grouted tiles and dark wood panelling and heavy doors to the cubicles. Lots of space, well heated, but also ventilated. That toilet scene in Trainspotting is set in a bookie's bog, also in Edinburgh. As such, it's fair to conclude that Edinburgh is a city of contrasts.

I headed towards a "road closed" sign in a built-up area. There were no diversion signs but traffic seemed to be turning right with a purpose up a side street next to the road closure. I thought - these guys know what they are doing to get around this - and I followed, as did three cars behind me. After a left turn, then another right, it turns out that 9 cars have followed a guy who was heading to park outside his house in a cul de sac. We end up in a line of cars up to the end of the cul de sac, and we all have to try and turn around in a tight space, to go back the way we came. FFS.

Soft, but correct. Soooo Liverpool to get a penalty on 96 mins.

I had hoped (despite the appointment of Martin) after a few years of having our weekends ruined by City losing so often by playing in a way that we could all see was doomed, that this season, at the lower level, we might win a few. Pah.

That result and a lot of the performance was honking. I said when he appointed that the fanbase wouldn't extend him much patience. Now we'll see.

Two nil down BEFORE the red. The game plan was a failure. That's on Martin and his selected players. Boo.

Anything less than a victory is an awful result here. The goal might have blunted some of the boos, but it was a breakaway - nothing to do with our regular pattern of play which had us two down even before Skipp was dismissed. Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, nothing. On repeat.

Chowdhury flicking it round the corner when we are down to 9 men was a bit brainless. Got away with it.

I think we need to look into match fixing.

ANOTHER new low.

Fook me.

22 minutes and Burton's keeper largely untroubled. Lots of passes, though.

A new low.

"teats" Fnarr, fnarr The Southern bias in ground use for internationals is awful. Southampton has zero business being an Ashes venue at the expense of Headingley.

That looked harder to miss than to hit.

Yeah probably. He might have been able to smell me before he saw me

I was out on the razzle dazzle in Newcastle last night, and I woke up in trouble with a four alarm hangover this morning. Just can't hack it like I used to. The restorative powers of an early morning long walk and a bottle of full fat Irn Bru remain undiminished. I walked past a guy in a Hi Viz jacket who'd just finished closing off a road and he saw me walking by, looking like utter crapola, eyes like sheeps' rude bits, swigging my Irn Bru, and he piped up in a sing song Geordie accent "Mate, are you Scottish? You just look sooooo Scottish". I will NOT be telling any Scottish friends and colleagues about that one

Haha - get it right up you

When goalies or defenders grab the ball after conceding a goal (like Mads Hermansen just did) to stop play restarting, they should make it an instant red card, and it would stop instantly. Shocking that the ref also booked the Burnley striker for trying to retrieve the ball.

I missed nearly all the game, I was driving, following it via occaional reports on the radio (featuring Christian Fuchs, whose analysis seemed insightful and who I would have gone with instead of Russell Martin). I arrived in time to be able to watch the last 5 or 6 minutes. It was incredible the lack of effort, the lack of oomph. The lack of desire. Like it was a preseason kickabout. Winning teams push and press til the end. Winning managers bark at their charges to run, harry, recover and if all else fails, lump it fowards. Didn't see any of that.

Nah it makes a diffetent noise for that. Err, not that I would know.