The Doctor

if I'm the Blackburn ground staff I'm just cutting power to the floodlights if Ipswich take the lead

what do you think bookies set the odds on? like, there's some adjustments to cover what people will bet (there's a reason they're not throwing out 5000-1 odds any more) but a big part of odds setting is data driven. The house always wins and it does so by not doing things based on vibes

power struggle between an actual businesswoman and a jumped up youth coach leading to the businesswoman leaving is pure Leicester. Like she's not done a great job in the last couple of years but if you're getting rid of one of the two it has to be Rudkin. Still, step forward new CEO Ron Judkin

not looking convincing as yet, but I do wonder if any striker would do when Martís system creates less than nothing.

he's not even hugely anti-english? He just doesn't wear a poppy and is on record as it being because he's uncomfortable with the veneration of all of the British military rather than just those who fought in the world warss, which is entirely reasonable for a lad who grew up in Derry during the troubles?

weird behaviour when he's done nothing to warrant any hatred above and beyond the general "boo the opponents" stuff

not at all. it's very obvious that the discussion is around the level of player and club. Cooper sent him on loan because he wasn't good enough for the prem. We, thanks to a ****ing abysmal season, are not in the prem currently. Nelson looked more than competent at this level for Oxford last season, he's obviously good enough for where we are

who are the consecutive managers who haven't played him while him being at the level the club is currently at? Maresca played him as a breakthrough talent, getting minutes here and there at the end of that season. Cooper loaned him out because he wasn't PL ready. RvN never had him available due to that loan. Martí is the first one to just completely ignore him without clear reason

Rudkin getting excited to try again.

Carranza didn't dive? He played the ball, the follow through ended up hitting against the defender and he went down (because that would have hurt). We were in possession and he didn't appeal for a foul. It's not a dive in any sense of the word and no reasonable person would suggest it was.

So has Faes not failed to take his chance by spending half the match falling on his arse whenever the ball came near him? These three clowns will get chance after chance after chance, Nelson has one bad half and is banished for six months?

All a bit crap. Wrexham... just give someone other than Faes/Vestegaard time. I refuse to believe Nelson could serve up anything as laughably bad as Sideshow bob did tonight. You have to hope once Ramsey is back from suspension we settle into a James-Winks-Ramsey central three but then still need something up front. Ayew gets worse every game, Daka is done here and Carranza didn't look much cop tonight.

talks a good game but has a pensioner fetish that makes Cooper look like a cradle robber and hasn't got a starting line up right once. He's just a bit crap.

ref handing out the cards he wishes he got for his birthday, the friendless ****

Granddad Bobby!

What is the point of Faes? Just gave up and sat down

**** me, even Ayew would have scored that.

yea, he's half-way down before any contact occurs.

yea, you only see that two minutes after on the replay. Full speed it looks like he just gets tripped.

Outrageous refereeing.

Their keeper must be regretting not bringing his Sudoku with him, had plenty of time to crack through it today.

an excellent field goal for the leicester foxes that Julian.

years to find a competent deputy and heir to vardy and we've come up with a man old enough to remember the death of queen victoria, a man who moves like manual samuel, and the frontman from the strokes...

Starting to think the guy who achieved the heady heights of "not quite as bad as plymouth" at QPR might not be that good.

Have we managed a shot on target yet?