Howay

Allardyce definitely drinks pints of gravy. Hopefully we can score early, their lot will be happy to have about 8% possession and pack their own box wanting to lump it long to Mr Frothy Coffee.

Brilliant player, his passing is quality, and he knows when to press forward or to stay back and let others go with the attack. He’d be immense for us

Fucking outrageous, Lindelof very clearly moves his arm to block the ball absolute stone wall pen but of course var says it’s fine

One of the most irritating parts was we were all over them, the ball was in the box and they were hemmed in - the ref blew his whistle and when play resumed after Var ramsdale had a free kick

Aye agreed, if we play like this the remainder of the season we will win 3 out of 4, we just fluffed our lines. I think Wilson is a better impact sub, hopefully we go back to Isak in the middle with Joelinton wide left and bring Wilson on after 60 mins or so. Real shame we don’t have Longstaff, we lost the midfield battle today imo which forced us wide every time, still besides all that we had enough chances to get points today so only have ourselves to blame. Only silver lining is we didn’t play poorly and we’ve reacted well to losses.

VAR shouldn’t have intervened, the rules on that are pretty clear imo but it’s arsenal so they’ll help them out. I think Bruno has been fucking awful, he needs to release the ball quicker. I also agree we need to switch things around, Murphy has been killing us with these missed chances.

Have to keep in mind, as the mackems inform us, we’re headed into wedding season which notoriously makes it hard to fill the ground.

Aye, I’m not really bothered what these helmets do we just need to focus on our own games. It would be nice if it was mathematically done but we basically need 2 wins from 5 games, that’s about as in your own hands as you could ever hope for a CL race.

4 minutes!

That’s never Liverpool time wasting is it?

So his point is if Sunderland was a top side more people would turn up to watch? What an astute observation. So his dream is that they average a bit less than we currently do, and that supposedly makes them bigger than Arsenal, Chelsea, and Man City? Imagine. Let’s be honest, Sunderland is a total dump, imagine if the locals didn’t molest seagulls, defecated in actual toilets, didn’t support and make excuses for sex offenders, got actual jobs so they could contribute something to the country, stopped pushing staffys around in prams, and had any type of culture that wasn’t based on just abusing people. Imagine, it would maybe be slightly better than Rotherham.

Chippa is brilliant like

Btw it’s almost guaranteed De Zerbi is wiping his hand on his knee after the scruff

Aye, incredibly harsh on Bruce as you’d think he’s done enough at this point he deserves an honorary spot despite not having a job

The Shearer volley against Villa was quality as well, the pace he put on the ball was mental. The Bruno diving header against Leicester was a mental one in similar terms to the Bellamy v Feyenoord, felt like a massive momentum shift for the club and we’ve felt like a force since (I know we’d won games at the time but just the manner of that one)

David Moyes and Thomas Frank should swap spots imo.

That’s brilliant, love that he gives Vincent Kompany a little pat on the head for raising his game to help Ireland, even admits Kompany was a decent player at the time.

I love the journalists now saying it might take Chelsea 2 years to get back into the CL, have they considered the players they’ve blown their wad on might be flops in this league? Paying £100m for a player with 28 appearances in the Ukrainian league doesn’t mean he’s guaranteed to be a good player ffs.

It’s nice to get a mention as a possibility for the award tbf

I still think he’d be a good option for us, especially if we could take advantage of Barcelona and get him for a discount on what they paid. I’m still really hoping we get Diaby mind.

Aye a lot of our fans are being absurd about it. They’re acting like a chance of something happening means it will, of course Liverpool winning every game while we lose all our games can happen but the chances are fucking tiny. My brother in law has been doing my fucking head in about it, anytime Liverpool, Brighton, whoever win he messages saying they’re fucking flying ignoring that we’ve won 8 out of 9, I think we’ve bettered Liverpool by 7 points over the last 9 games man . We’ve just won 6-1, 4-1, and 3-1 in a week why are people acting like we’re about to stumble?

Penalties hit down the middle are fucking stupid btw. Pickford doing the typical amount of homework on the opposition and being lauded for it is typical of the media as well.

It’s going to be a fucking joke when he inevitably doesn’t get manager of the year.

I love that they just ignore all facts because, like Alex says, he kept them up when we went down (by 1 point iirc). They were always going down, he was never getting them top 10. He had a big budget at Everton and completely fucking squandered it, he’s had chance after chance in football and has always been exactly what his club performances have shown - yet the mackems just make up he’s actually some brilliant manager who just needs some perfect scenario to prove it . Meanwhile Eddie Howe is shite and what he’s done over his career is a fluke.