The Fish

Not here to kink shame or owt, but you seriously need to cut your fingernails.

Oh aye, I don't mean he was scrolling through a list of possible shots, just that the dink that would have taken Wood, or Gayle a moment to arrive at, Isak instantly, instinctively knew it was the right thing to do, and then to execute perfectly... Thassaspiceyameatball

I think Aston Villa will still do very well this season. Losing 2 key men would unsettle the best of teams and coming to St James' on the first game of the season wouldn't be an easy task for anyone. They didn't look really bad until the 3rd went in, then that back line was so high up and our attack is so ruthless they were torn apart time and again. They had chances and for all we could have scored more, so could they. And not because we were defending particularly poorly, but because they created good opportunities. Agree with what's been said that Bruno, Tonali and Joelinton should be first choice, they interlock and compliment eachother so well. Even with a below par Bruno we played through or bullied Aston Villa all game. If that's Tonali's debut, the rest of the league should be shitting ciabattas at how good he'll be once he acclimatises. Once he understands the runs and positions his teammates use, he'll be even better. The defence was very good, although there were plenty of opportunities for Schar to release Gordon or Isak with one of his patented raking passes, but he never pulled the trigger. Perhaps under instructions from Eddie, perhaps a little ring rusty after his injury? However he and Botman marshalled the much vaunted Watkins to the point I can only think of one chance their striker had. Diaby caused Burn a couple of problems, but he'll do that against a lot of natural leftbacks this season so I'm not worried. Almiron was his usual self; full of energy, pestering their leftback, and occasionally frustrating. But what I loved was how fluid our front 3 was. Almiron was popping up on the left, Gordon on the right, Isak all over the place. Must be a nightmare to defend against. Isak is fucking class, that "quiet arrogance ' ( or confidence as I'd call it) shows in everything he does. His second was unbelievable. To force an error, control the loose ball, size up options, choose the perfect one and execute it perfectly was staggering. To do it in the blink of an eye is even better. I love him. Gordon is mint and will only get better. His choice and execution of passes seems to be getting better every game. That touch for Tonali's second opportunity was brilliant, the cross for his first was perfect. Endless pressing, always an out all, just needs to add goals. I'm not going to get ahead of myself. We thrashed a very good Villa side, but it's a long ass season and as I said before they were disrupted and not their usual self. The importance of this win is massive; our opening fixtures are horrendous and we could possibly have gone 5 games without a win. So to get one at the first time of asking, and a statement one at that, is huge. Man City looked good against Burnley, but not invincible, Brighton were not troubled by Luton at all, and we'll see how Liverpool and Brentford do later today. But even if we only pick up a couple of draws from those 4 games, it's not the nightmare start it could have been. Tl;Dr I am, once again, zen as fuck.

How was it?

No coneheads so far, I'm afraid.

Hey, those seagull fucking, nonce defending, public defecators are bastions of class and honour!

I'm basically a male Cassandra.

I hope Charlie Kane's other clients don't feel ignored during all of this.

You're probably right. We'll get the Cup final, the Spurs game, will surely feature, then the Brighton game (which felt like the confirmation of the CL even though it wasn't mathematically).

The way Wrexham did their show and how Sunderland did theirs was to focus on the personalities first, and introduce the story of the football club through their eyes. Like, start with sit downs with a couple of players, Staveley, and some fans. Given how fast they've rattled through the season, I dunno how they're going to stretch it out for another 3 episodes.

I pity your wife.

Dunno if Shearer was the best choice for narrator... Can't help feel that there's a much better story to be told, it's all very bland and not particularly revealing (which is to be expected, I guess).

People who have looked at thousands of data points from thousands of matches. Collected, collated and quantified them. Applied values to those data points and worked out what the lower, mid and upper boundaries are. Laborious, but pretty straightforward. I'm sure as AI advances it'll be able to apply those values more accurately and objectively as well.

I bet you are as well.

Not even a good bit, of a good twat. He's like a drooping flap of a geriatric 'seamstress'. In that, only Gemmil wants to see it.

If you move house and you don't pay for someone else to move shit in for you, you're a fool and an embarrassment.

Ah, you old flirt.

Maybe he wanks about camels humping eachother?

You believe that shite?

Aren't all podcasters just talking shite? In fact isn't that what we all do, everyday, in all our jobs? We're all full of shit, some of us just have the tap open more to let it out faster.

When you're amongst the best in the world at what you do, don't you need a bit of arrogance? I know I do.

Some people just aren't cut out for the Podcast game.

Is she? I know nowt about her beyond her not liking Trump and being the star of the US team for a while.

I don't understand why she's reviled, to be honest. Just seems to be a professional footballer, with all that comes with it. Is it because she's a woman? You big old misogynists.

How has that made me hungry?