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We'll find out tonight, live! Plenty of football to be play tonight! And beyond. Live! Actually it's the morning for those of us on the other side of the world. Will be going for Leicester in this one fo' sure. Pep didn't seem in the mood for staging a title push.

Listen to you sour bunch of discontented pessimists. The rest of us have found the golden nugget* having beaten the unbeatable and with our record signing on his way** * in the continual unrelenting river of shite ** pending no resumption of regular service

Unbelievable result. Well played team, well played Rafa.

My favourite bit was when they were saying it was clever play to catch the defenders off guard. In reality it wasn't clever and the defenders weren't caught off guard. Apart from that they were spot on.

We started really strongly but quickly fell apart once we came out of the tunnel.

Knee or shoulder?

Let's put a positive hat on for a moment and be glad that we've not signed someone with a pre-existing injury/condition on a short term loan. Taking it off again this means that noone else will be signed in his stead, and let's face it, it's a pretty dire circumstance to begin with that all we've had to be buoyed by, in a critical transfer window, is the potential loan signing of a wing back who seldom starts for his italian club.

Pards laid the groundwork for this one. Three or four more left sided backs in and he'll be champing at the bit to return as king of the north. Think of all those match changing substitutions he could make....

14 stone.

We'll need a core of quality to go with our peripheral players to get past a Blackburn side in hot form having not lost all year and averaging 2 goals for every 1 conceded. Anyone reckon there's enough time to get some quality in before the match?

Speaking of, I just watched the highlights we get here and the Atsu penalty incident was not even shown yet we got to see two angles of Shelvey's bad tackle and a pointless off target Pogba shot from distance.

Right, it doesn't fit the narrative that Manure are now world beaters again and that the lower table likes of us therefore have to resort to dirty tactics to have any chance against them.

I expected them to be a lot more convincing. On the strength of what they've shown here they'll not be pushing for a top 4 spot. That's a sizable failure given their recent expenditures coupled with the facilities and youth system.

Bollocks, he never even tried to run, if he did he had an age to be in a position to either mark the man at the back or close down Sanchez making the pass which would have freed up Schar. No excuse for someone who's been on the pitch for 30 odd minutes vs players who have been out there for 80. If Diame was still on the pitch there's no way they'd have scored a goal that looked like something you'd score late in a training match when going through the motions.

Don't track Shelvey for that goal, more than a little annoying.

They just showed the Atsu challenge again, 100% penalty, whomever predicted that we'd be robbed by the officials nailed it.

Not his best moment obviously but hope Dubravka is ok.

There's no way the contact was lighter than that on Salah. Not saying it was a pen though.

Hope he's not knackered.

There's no chance he's innocent, the weasely, neckless, odious little loudmouth prick. Shame as he had something as a player but never realised his full potential and we now, without doubt know why that is.

Hayden made it a little more difficult for Yedlin by lofting the ball through rather than keeping it on the deck and hitting it earlier. Rondon needed some pace on the cross to better attack it. at Perez kicking the ball into Martial's face and then calmly strolling away.

Players growing in confidence here, not sure whether it's a good or bad thing. More likely the latter.

The way he's playing, going hard into every challenge no matter how trivial, has me very worried for his longevity in the match.

Could really do with a composed passer in our midfield, painful that Ki is unavailable. We're doing ok defensively but turning the ball over almost as soon as we get it.

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