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Ungrateful. Vestgaard scored one only a couple of hours ago (feels longer).

You can’t quit if you don’t turn up in the first place.

And our players are paying tribute to him by not breaking sweat either.

It’s usually five years. You can also do a bare minimum of work that means you could then argue you’ve started. Even if it’s just rearrange a car park a bit.

It can’t be too far wrong. After 100 cumulative points in the first 20-team season in 95/96 in 96/97 the relegated trio got 113 points. The next season, when Bolton, Barnsley and Crystal Palace were relegated with a combined 108 points. Even the historically shite 07/08 Derby side ‘helped’ the promoted trio to 82 cumulative points that season. This year the promoted trio carrying on at the same rate would get a combined 62.1 points. Last year they got 66. Thanks. Yeah I probably quoted them wrong and that would make more sense.

Fourth time lucky.

There was an interesting bit on the Guardian Football Weekly on Monday (maybe where the tweet comes from but with a more sensationalist slant) that since the division went down to 20 teams, on average the cumulative total of the teams that have gone up is seven points less every year. The gap continues to get bigger. People cite that three teams stayed up three years ago but there will be a few outliers and one of those was Forest with the lowest points total to stay up ever.

I think the agreement is that when India host the next couple of world cricket events (Women’s World Cup, though Pakistan are yet to qualify, and Men’s T20 World Cup) Pakistan can play all their games at a neutral venue including any against India. Given there’s precedents of team’s refusing to travel to countries being made to forfeit games in previous ICC competitions it still makes a mockery of it all though.

To add to this, we don’t know how many players didn’t join because of the threat of the points deductions. Not sure selling our best player and losing the manager before the season made us look the most attractive destination either.

Is that for us to score?

And now the astronaut has called him out for lying he says he wants to destroy the ISS earlier than planned. It’s probably the pinnacle of human engineering and international cooperation. Absolute moronic man babies in charge of America. We’re not even two months into four years of this.

I think Tielemans is a confidence player brilliant in a good team but a liability when things aren’t going the team’s way. He can lift a good team to the next level. I doubt we’d have won the FA Cup without him or been in Europe so much. But blimey he’s bad when the team’s in a bad way. Let’s not forget we also signed him from a Monaco side he was nearly relegated playing for and whose fans were desperate to get rid.

And I’m sure along the Black Sea coast in Ukraine too like Gaza. I don’t know why people are surprised though. This was always going to happen. He’s not really made a secret of being friendly with Putin and was always going to side with them. Biden made some efforts after the election as he knew. Hopefully the European leaders have already been working on a plan on Trump siding with the enemy. Im interested to see how the right in this country play it all. Normally they just go along with whatever Trump says.

Spot on. The prediction comes through only a few hours later.

If you win four, that means ourselves and Ipswich would have to win five at least, so about 40 per cent of the remaining games. Probably closer to 50 per cent if you take out games against Liverpool and Man City for us.

That illustrates my point Joachim was blooded into a mostly winning promotion chasing second tier side. Heskey played one game in the middle of the 94/95 season, then didn’t get a single minute (I don’t think) after that until he was blooded in a promotion chasing team the year after.

Was gutted when Ipswich signed an improvement on Muric. Looks like Alex Palmer was the man of the match on his debut.

A lot aren’t going to like it, but game changed when we brought Ayew off for Mavididi. No-one else in the position is there? Presumably JJ out for a while.

The worst thing is, it’s probably the best performance of the season. Definitely defensively. A low bar, I know.

Yeah. Unfortunately this.

Oh Jamie.

You reckon we’d do better next season with near enough the same players?

I think I read yesterday it’s 19, 4 more than any other keeper.

Genuinely one of, if not the worst, decisions I’ve ever seen. Why wouldn’t VAR intervene?