Vacamion

If it was just about experience, the league would be full of old managers. And we've seen, winning tactics be overtaken by other teams' countermeasures (think Ranieri second season) Frank Lampard was about as well steeped in football upbringing as you can be, was a great player in good teams, and is apparently fairly intelligent as a bloke, yet failed as a manager so far. It's that certain je ne sais quoi - I believe the young uns call it "rizz".

Chelsea strikers fouling each other more than Everton fouled to win the penalty

The best thing about Everton being thrashed is that I haven't heard the daft Everton Wooo song since the deluge began...

Weeee-yeeeeeah-yeeeah-eeeell You know you make me wanna.... Sing the "More Recent Than You" song at Arsenal fans.

Arsenal seem to be lacking a sense of urgency.

Well, for a weekend that started off with that abomination on Friday night, it's not turned out all that bad

It being Liverpool, there could well still be a contentious officiating decision or two in front of the Kop.

Clement storms off down the tunnel, no acknowledgements.

And I had missed this. Not that surprising Merson would do this, I must say.

Getting interesting in Dingwall.

My natural inclination is to attribute poor decisions to incompetence rather than corruption or bias, but games like this test me.

Waiting for Var to rule this out...

Just get to the box and welly it in the general direction of the defenders' arms. If you are greedy 6, that is.

That is a disgusting decision.

Well, I tried to be positive about this game beforehand, in the teeth of a lot of pessimism, but right now, after watching what a lot of you predicted...

Hendrie: "I'm trying to act like I'm clever" Commentator dude: "No one's fooled"

No changes is a bold strategy, Enzo...

First 20 minutes I thought we would thrash them. It was all us and none of them, and their keeper was, sadly for us, brilliant. We've been trying to play Wilf back to fitness and the form he was in at the start of the season. It isn't working. Faes was the weak point for their goal and, after a few such showings, maybe needs some time out. You wouldn't know Daka was on the pitch. Even I, a right old happy clapper, think changes are needed right now. Let's hope that this 45 our form and out luck might change a bit.

I was (quite obviously) trying to be positive before the match, but Faes was awfully weak for their goal.

Plymouth boss giving off heavy Supply Teacher vibes.

I think this has made a huge difference to our form. We were being talked about as the dream defence earlier in the season. Not now. If we are missing chances up front, we need to tighten up again at the back.

Now you've done it. NOW, you've done it. NOW YOU'VE DONE IT!!

We are top of the league with a chance to extend the lead, and 80% of this thread comes across as if we were bottom by 10 points and the posts were written by Marvin the Paranoid Android. Am I losing my mind here?

Nope. Sorry. Never happened

People in here listening to the Smiths, swigging gin out the bottle and flirting with dropping the toaster in the bath. If we win, there will be the usual 180, and we'll see 5 hubristic threads with thread titles like "We're up - how we can't possibly lose again". Man, this forum...