Billy Whitehurst

Yes, I would have thought electric powered mass transit is something they should be in favour of. Also, Canning Town and Shadwell are fairly poor areas so they’re targeting the wrong people - as the bald bloke quickly discovered! I support Extinction Rebellion’s cause but they have shot themselves in the foot here.

Of course it can be placed on Bruce. He is just as much to blame as the players. He is responsible for setting the team up and giving them detailed instructions as to how to play. He hasn’t got a clue. He never has and has a record of failure throughout his management career. I’m not too sure why anyone was expecting anything different here when there is a large, consistent body of evidence showing what a poor manager is. We’re a different team compared to the well drilled outfit we were under Benitez. A good manager manages to gets more than the sum of its parts out of a team. The fact that you are not apportioning any blame to Bruce makes an absolute mockery of the abuse you used to give Benitez.

Fucking hell Noelie, I finally find myself agreeing with you. That was fucking shocking. Holding on to a nil nil at home to Brighton - they should just relegate us now.

Fair point. It was more in the context of Kinnear, Pardew, Carver and McClaren.

I don’t think anyone is saying that. Bruce is part of the problem, but the only reason we have someone as mediocre as Bruce is Ashley. I’m fairly sure that everyone is criticising Bruce understands the underlying problem. They don’t have to qualify their criticism in this way every time they make it.

Do you think that maybe, in hindsight, your previous criticism of Benitez was somewhat misguided?

Not sure I see the point of only spending £5m on a full back. That gets you mediocrity (at best) these days. Yedlin and Manquillo also both cost around £5m and are shite. I really hope our scouts have got this one right and he is an improvement on the two donkeys we already have.

I’ll be astonished if this takeover happens. Even if it does, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ashley retains some kind of hold over us (merchandising rights, advertising, land, or whatever). I think the next manager will indicate what he is thinking. New owners won’t want some appalling manager sitting on a long term contract that they have to pay off. Someone shite on a short term caretaker basis then positive signs that he is trying to sell. Someone shite on a long term basis then we are stuck with him until John Sitton relegates us to the conference.

Aye, me too. I can’t believe some people think they still have a chance. Can’t wait to see Messi make the greatest defender the world has ever seen look like Cacapa, once again.

In fairness, it’s a really nice top.

Because England have pretty much been overrated and mismanaged my entire life. I’m not a a big England fan due to guff it invariably involves. I don’t mind Scotland. However, my best pal is a massive Scotland fan so I do reserve the right to have a good old chuckle at them once in a while. Let’s be honest, Scotland have been pretty much tragic for 20 years.

In fairness, Andy Cameron did also sing “And we’ll really shake them up, When we win the World Cup, ‘Cos Scotland is the greatest football team” No mention in there of getting pumped by Peru, or drawing with Iran! At least, in ‘98, Del Amitri had the decency to plead with them “Don’t come home too soon”

Just watched the full game. He may not be the most technically gifted footballer, but Dummett is a quality defender.

Are you still pissing your pants about us being relegated? You big fanny.

You’ve got to feel a little sorry for them though as they’ve been sold a pup. They’ve been completely stitched up by Farage who has made them look like a total laughing stock.

I was merely pointing out that the stereotype you mentioned are exactly the self serving types who fed you the bullshit. The sort of bullshit that you bought into when voting to make you and your children worse off, and, at the same time, making these people richer. If you are going to use a stereotype, don’t use the fuckers that got us into this shit in the first place.

You are such an insufferable, desperately sad, ill-informed, little man. I went on the March today and it was absolutely packed. It was very good natured and a there was a huge amount of diversity amongst the marchers. Not your average polo crowd, those types generally look like Rees-Mogg, Johnson and Farage, and generally belong to groups like the taxpayers’ alliance (I bet they have a brilliant polo team).

Final ball was poor and they defended really well. I thought we were better in the second half though.

They’ve been a lot better than us.

Seems like one of those days. Can’t think of anyone who is playing well.

Have we had a worse striker in the last 25 years than Joselu? All I can think of is Shefki Kuqi but he was 35 when he joined us and, on balance, I would have still rather have him. I don’t know what type of striker Joselu is supposed to be. Is he a fox in the box, a target man or good at running the channels? He is absolutely appalling in all aspects of his game, I just can’t figure out what he is supposed to be masquerading as.

The zero under Newcastle is certainly accurate.

That’s great, I look forward to hearing of which laws you don’t like once you think of them. You probably should have thought of them in 2016 before you made your informed choice.

The picture of Ian “The Moose” Abrahams is a nice touch.

Decent result. Tough run of games coming up but everyone has to play the top six at some point. So long as we’re still in touch after the Spurs game then we should be ok.