OTF

It's against the spirit of the game to defend against your opposition's best players. I expect we'll be fined heavily for it and Howe may cop a suspension.

At 28 his best years are behind him. Remember where you heard it first.

Aye. Wages. Can't see us bringing anyone in from the truly massive club's first teams.

Howe is a seasoned operator who is not going to give anything unnecessary away unlike previous managers who try to placate fans by talking about bringing in two or three new faces. In each cases there's likely plenty going on under the water, but Howe gives little away which only strengthens our position. Bruce: Pardew: Eddie: Tindall:

In the earlier contact on Burn there was a similar amount of shirt pulling, it's just more obvious when it's Burn doing the pulling as opposed to being pulled.

That will have dented their confidence a bit tbh, just when they thought they were over the masterclass that saw them finish fifth.

I'd be worried about playing the Mackems on their day if this is the way we play.

Still undefeated. Schär was fucking immense throughout too, so much so that I felt the need to include the ä.

Good result and good wind up of these whining bastards, easy to see where they get it from.

Lascelles gets his second yellow from the bench our captain

Their carry on is fucking embarrassing.

The way the commentary has been going on you'd expect an additional 45.

No footballing brain at all.

Really hope Wood was offside there.

Only 5 added minutes surprisingly.

No. Just no.

Surely we need to get Willock off now.

Aye that attempted cross was so pointless.

Hope we get to see them.

Willock has played well and run all game but his legs are gone now, ASM on.

That has to come with the very obvious caveat that he needs to be replaced, even if it's someone within our own ranks. He was the only striker on the bench.

It's happening. How many seconds for Wood to pick up a yellow?

Great tackle Joelinton.