Hobsons Choice

Brilliant. None of them even concede the free kick was great.

Maaaaaaan 100%. From the Heat Map, it looks like our DMs dropped wide to support fullbacks when forward. All simple stuff really.

JJ was all over the place as well, wide at times, other times like an inside forward. What is this flexible tactics voodoo?

They lost their first team c*** to injury, so they had to bring on a substitute c***.

Because it is being 'suggested' to VAR officials by the FA that to maintain the brand strength of the Premier League, it would be a good idea to ensure that teams popular with overseas audiences, watching on platforms which pay large sums for license to broadcast, should finish near the top of the league. Allegedly. Hell I'm not sure if I believe that or not. I'm not much for conspiracies, but it sure does scan given what we see every week.

Never even shown on motd.

Actually interesting point there. Is there a rule the free kick has to be taken from the site of the offence, or just no closer to the goal than the offence. I don't think I've ever seen anyone trying to move it back.

Sorry, my bad. You are right. No Man U fans are from Manchester.

If they make fun of him and we win every week, let em look like idiots.

Eamon Holmes? I thought he was from somewhere a bit, erm, west of Manchester. Prestatyn, that's it.

Nah, what someone needs to explain is why after we beat Man U at home for the first time in nearly 30 years in his first ever match after a week in the job they voted manager performance as only 'good'.

M40 won't need gritting tonight with all that salt heading to London

I have no idea but I would have loved it to have been Come on you Reds by Status Quo for the bantz. Cheerio you Coronation Street watching motherf***ers.

Well it's taken Unai 1 week and 1 game to get one of the biggest victories in our recent history. I'm quite excited to see what's next. Come on Villa!!!!!!!

Oh. My. God. Unai is king.

La la la Double Pivot, la la la

If it didn't mean everyone else suffering also, I'd say that Trumpy Republican voters deserve to live in the dystopian future they are clamouring for. Can't we just make a version of the matrix full of gun crime, back street abortions, baby drop boxes, environmental collapse and never ending suffering and plug them all in, so they think they've won?

I was hoping that link was going to be about lingerie.

Arm a yam yam. Shut yer faerce.

We all know VARand reffing will gyp us today. Sure as the sun sets, and the stars turn. MOTD pundits did not even mention the possibility that KDB dived with minimal contact yesterday (he was called clever), and then went on a polemic about how none of the shouts in the Forest Brentford match (there were about 3 or 4) should have been pens because, you guessed it, there was minimal contact. I don't think it's a conspiracy, at that level anyway, because I don't think they even realise they are biased. They were more interested in the Haaland narrative. Coming on and scoring the winner. I wished it had been Shearer on last night, not because of any deep tactical insight, but because he has strong opinions, and I've seen him toe off on VAR and engage in dive-shaming.

After all this hype and optimism, and not that I think this will happen, but I wonder how the fans would react if we got turned over. I mean properly spanked. I hope we'd keep level heads, but that would almost be a bigger kick in the balls than if we'd made no changes. Anyway, I think we'll put up a fight and narrowly lose out tonight, following it up with a win in the cup next week.

So if Emery can mastermind a win against United in the Cup, will it mean that the FA will stop rigging it so we play them every bastard year? Come on Unai, make it happen.

I hope Shearer is on MOTD tonight, he'll tear KDB a new one for that dive.

Bloody hell, how rigged is this game?

Well without getting too geographical about this, the mountain that a Toblerone is based on is the Matterhorn, which is a pyramidal peak, created by three glaciers eroding backward to create a point. What they've done to the Toblerone with that skinny piece in the middle is geomorphological bulls**t, man.