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I bet Mike Dean has a closet full of Hugo Boss uniforms.

Towards the end of my American father's life, I was able to get him to appreciate (soccer) by watching the Premier League and some CL games together. I explained the rules to him and some of the nuances and culture of the sport. He really enjoyed it. But had VAR been around at that time, he'd have 100% lost interest. The beauty of football before VAR was the free flowing continuous action. Now with VAR, the sport is morphing into an NFL style spectacle with stops and starts, an over-reliance on technology, interference from the officiating crew and the parsing of the rule book. It is a sad and frustrating situation with seemingly no recourse for fans.

It's a very smart looking shirt, and if I were a Soton fan, I'd want it to be the new official strip. It would set them apart from all the other clubs who wear the red and white stripes. I'd love to see Villa try a cross stripe for a season. Claret with a blue stripe.

Nightmare game for Bednarek. Horror game for Soton on the whole who will be reeling from this.

Coventry was Villa's only derby match when I first became a fan back in the mid 90's and I quickly learned to dislike everything about them.

It really is an atrocity on the sport.

Feel free to rank them if you want to. British clubs, and clubs from all over the world. My top 10 in no particular order- Coventry City Lazio Real Madrid West Ham Chivas Small Heath Chelsea Millwall Leeds

Brutal result for Baggies. All but relegated now.

I don't know, Luiz is a walking clanger

One point ahead of Arsenal with three games in hand on them, woooot

2nd worst goal difference in the division and very close to the drop zone.

Marseilles fans try to burn down their training ground and now Villas-Boas gets sacked. All right after we sign Sanson. Morgan got out at the right time!

McConnell chastising Burma for abandoning democracy is outrageous.

I meant this season.

Every time we get within a sniff of a European spot, we lose

Spurts are terrible.

Have to score there, but what a clearance

Go Brighton!

Shame about the points dropped against Burnley and West Ham. We would be in 4th or 5th place.

Good results so far today.

I hope it wasn't directed at a teammate, it was venomous.

Seems we either get Jim Proudfoot or Peter Drury. Proudfoot is much better, IMO.

It's 5F outside.