Vacamion

After one of our best players in Fatawu was ruled out for a season on international duty within the not too distant past, I think City fans are entitled to clutch our pearls when our best player this season goes down without contact and looks in a bad way. We really, really need him to stay fit for the rest of the season.

Shit.

Think Liam might be polishing his Linkedin profile later on

Chelsea have spent billions and they still have shitkeepers letting them down. If instead of sacking their manager every five minutes, they bought a decent stopper, they might achieve some consistency.

Two post hits and a Beckham slip. If I was the suspicious sort, I might stroke my chin and raise an eyebrow

As satisfying as a Forest defeat would be this evening, I quite want Forest to progress this evening, so that they keep stretching their resource, while they fight relegation. Then I want them to get pumped 10-nil in the semi final, or even better, lose to a really controversial VAR decision in the semi, causing the Big Greek to soil himself in public again and UEFA to heap punishment upon them.

The players rolling about and protesting every decision is a disgrace, really.

The reaction I've seen in Scottish Football social media has largely veered between slagging him off for his weight, slagging him off for his ability, suggesting it's good that Celtic will be rid of him, etc. It's a tough read as a Leicester City fan. Celtic fans doing this are typical of those spoilt wazzocks who think the sky is falling in if they don't win every single game.

That's it. That's exactly what we want. The outcome of tournaments decided via sporting adjudication panels, just like when Grandad fell in love with the game.

I think England have suffered from a fair few unfavourable decisions in this championship (particularly against Scotland), a lot of which were baffling, and that desicion was another one. Ah well...

Roses are thorny Stolarczyk makes my cry Begovic underwhelms So give Vieites a try

The area around the King Power Stadium right now, if Danny Ward's Mum had run off with the Milkman instead of lying underneath Danny Ward's Dad for 30 seconds in late 1992:

Southampton play Oxford a week on Saturday. Let's hope they can do a three-peat of their habit of stealing late points off the relegation fodder.

Grabbing the man like that was brainless. 2 points chucked for Ipswich.

A CLEAN SHEET WOOHOO Fatawu, great, Thomas and Okoli, very good, Mavididi, much better. But Olly Skipp was a stand out MOTM.

You can see that him taking JJ off was fitness reasons, but Bob Reid has been largely anonymous, unless you count a lot of standing off it, talking and pointing. I think one more sub might help.

The Ghost of Bobby Reid did actually get involved there

We've been here before, so unless we score 4 more and don't concede by 90+2, confidence will not be high. Whatever happens, good to see James getting minutes in his legs and Skipp has been brilliant so far. Hope Hamza can stay out of trouble. Let's see, eh...

That criminally slack at those corners.

Why you take a touch there, Mr Ayew?

11 pages of chat pre-match is Ruud and Marti levels of ire, by the way.

Hello, I'm an incorrigible optimist, who has ignored any reasonable conclusions from our play so far this season, so I'm assuming that Rowett has a cunning plan and has also coached Ayew, Bobby and the rest to do different stuff this time, and this will result in multiple goals, a clean sheet and a forum full of humble pie. That, or a crushing defeat marked by several dozen Ayew's-bum-shaped divots in the turf by full time. COYB.

Ok, ok, I've corrected it. It was just fat fingers, I can assure you that I hadn't had the usual breakfast of Buckfast and cheap skag.

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Correct. Not only does this kill the "why don't away fans get a fair allocation?" chat. It also kills the "Why don't they let football fans drink alcohol in or near grouds?" chat. And also the "Why are the police treating football fans like toddlers / criminals?" chat. Bams of both clubs' colours ruining it for the rest of the game up here. As always.