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If Cardiff stay up well done to them, they looked every part a Championship side for the first two months of the season. Adidas need to pull their finger out - I think given their position and status they feel their brand is more important than the Clubs they supply

I don't mind all Blue, it's coincided with some great seasons. Only annoying thing this season is Cardiff having the identical same apart from a slight shade difference, collar feature and the sponsor. Adidas are often too lazy

Is that a cheeky Craig Shakespeare second from left if you count across the page there?

Have Champs League ties always been 8pm k.o? This extra 15min wait every other night is biting into my free time. Ar***oles just changing things for the sake of it

Mbappe was in once to be honest, should've scored but messed his first touch up and sliced it wide right infront of the keeper. Man U have looked decent countering though, shame Lingard's gone off

It's made cagier by a quarter of the players being on a yellow in the first 30minutes for mostly ordinairy fouls. Also first yellow =/= second yellow as just shown by Young barging dI Maria, the ref's allowing a yuge gray area and players have to work it out game to game

Any touch with contact is being classed as a foul though, you've got players pirouetting to the floor for having their shoulder brushed and the ref is facilitating this. Its like the World Cup, by rewarding divers and exaggerators you're encouraging dishonest play and it's cringy to watch. I know the Champions League and the players are supposed to be playing at an elite class but the pace of the game is inhuman at times, a tackle off by 0.1 of a second is now a foul, even more so if the recipient of the foul does a double pike twisting somersault to the deck. It's a contact sport

I'm finding it all so tiresome to be honest. Both teams have betting companies as their main shirt sponser, another betting company buzzes around the pitch on two rings of screens in Chinese, Bet365 on the boards behind that, West Ham's shirt sponser(another bookie) pops up on the screens as I type this. Waiting for the adverts to come on so I can be bombarded by more and more and more, then Sky talk sh**e for 10miins with their 'experts' who spit at children in their spare time and back to footie trimmed to the gills with the same flashy ticker tape.

No follow up on two self stylised ITK's insinuating whatever 'g g g' means and 'gone', then directly pushing bookie odds in thread and encouraging others to drop money on it yet? I trust people are intelligent enough to usually know what they're doing with their own money but anonymous posters doing stuff like that makes me uneasy, surely a rule breach of FT attemping to manipulate folk into betting; whether or not they stand to gain from it Whole while Chelsea were getting ravaged at the Etihad so the odds were actually getting wider anyway makes it even stranger

ITK's encouraging people straight to betting sites? - There has to be some substance to coming out with that other than "it's wot me mate told me, I just say wot i'm towd". Dodgy Real kicker's the Peter Schmeichel comments, brazen

Take the chances lads, ffs I'm stuck with NBCSN commentators and it's atrociously pro-Spurs

Can't believe anyone's suprised by Mendy, he's the managers midfield engine - he's started all season through good and bad form. The only absurdity is Vardy

Poor Banter Ben

They were booing about Ghezzal coming on just as much, Mike Stowell even felt the need to give him a reassuring pat on the shoulder - https://dump.video/DXv7ps You can even hear the boos get louder as his name is called out and he jogs on

Jahancarrierbag or whatever his name was looks awful. Kicked the ball like he expected it to weigh 5x as much as it actually does edit: just figured out why I've been calling him that in my head watching him - Brighton's kit click here