Vacamion

They just read out the Premier League's statement on SSN and it seems that they are going to look at the rules, but not this case. So it looks like case closed.

So Brendan repeatedly picking Ward and also selecting a defence with Amartey and Ndidi, was a masterclass, after all? Wow.

"She's turned the weans against us" and the "Ooooft" meme have been unusually long lasting because they hit the spot. But yeah, the vast majority of his output, I could live without.

Oh Thüringen. I may never* eat one of your delicious Bratwursts again. *ok, I will, but still....

If he was Patson-ing away chances in front of goal, or being ran past and looking unfit, I might be able to agree. But he wasn't. He was in the game about as much as he could be in the game, with that horrendous defensive set-up. @Paninistickers I have a feeling that Jamie Vardy might make you live to regret having posted this.

That's such a shame. 39 is no age at all - he's only a couple of years older than a bloke playing for us today.

When we play them, I want our lads to take turns in roughing Haaland up. Kick him, arrive late in the tackle, block him, pull him back. Because if you let him play, he does that.

Skipp's tackle wasn't a foul, let alone a yellow, and the fact that Villa scored a training ground special from it, made it hurt even more.

Villa were better and deserved it. First 75 minutes, the ref got more touches than Vardy. Good late effort, and you have to question why Mav and Goodnight don't start.

You just know he's picking BDCR no matter what.

Rudkin offers Cooper a suggestion on how to stay up this season:

Disappointed at the lack of Messi and Marc pic in the thread so far

Ndidi is just like Vardy. The penultimate letter of his surname is D.

Picking Ward instead of, well anyone, really, then not playing any Academy lads against lower league opposition and then stacking the midfield with defensive midfielders, whilst only selecting Ricardo for this game rather than using him at the weekend. Cooper aint doing himself any favours, is he?

That is a glorious life, well lived. The fact that he managed Leicester City and England (and some of the other stuff he did ) means that he lived the dream of about 90% of people who post in here. Well played Sven.

At least Cooper recognised a change was needed and BDCR was first off.

Sounds like people were expecting Skipp and Ayew to be fully firing after days with the club. They weren't that bad, IMHO. Our prblems lay elsewhere.

VK has been exposed a couple of times defensively, but has offered miles more going forward than JJ. Overall, not too shabby.

This. Although there was one case that reversed the trend. I was at Uni (studying languages) with a guy who went to great pains to speak grammatically correct and wonderfully expressive French and German with a very broad Yorkshire accent. It was as if he was setting a challenge to native speakers. He ended up at a very high level in the EU. In contrast, I worked on my accents, speak German with a touch of South East German accent (where I did my year out) and (sadly not really anymore) I had a high level of spoken French with all the right vowels, shrugs and articulation, and I ended up in Financial Services using languages just as a hobby.

Gnonto could be sent off by now, the step on the foot a yellow and that dive (which was a disgusting faking of injury) a second yellow. Ewwww and Leeds score

Controversial, I know, but maybe give him a chance before you all slag him rotten.

Nottingham accented, Spurs loving, ubiquitous on my telly fud gets sacked in disgrace? Haha, get in the bin, you absolute whalloper.

Marvellous The goal celebration is up there with The Smashed Corner Flag, the Elvis, It's All Me, The Eagle, the Knee Slide and a hundred more. The subsequent rustling of the opposition fans was among his best work, up there with him running back to rile the Bristol City fans last season, the cupped ears against The Blades and what seems like a dozen occasions he has taunted West Brom fans. Reminded me of this, that I posted in the Vardyism thread a while back:

He worked and worked and had a lovely touch. Great debut.

Feels like a win after that first half. Could have nicked it. I believe in Vardy. He is The One.