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The drop off to your second string is indeed significant, but that's dropping off from a great height to a significant height. We suffer a drop off from 'pretty good' to 'wtf is that' by our 1st 11. Usually within a single match. I'm struggling to remember when we last played more than about 30...

You lot do make me chuckle with your pessimism if Pep rotates a bit. Playing well, only Kane, Son and Lloris make it into your second 11. Maybe Bale if you don't want to worry about defending your right flank. Possibly Ndombele if you want to be entertained but you aren't fussed about...

Dean has shafted us so many times that they probably did it just for a laugh and opened a book on which of us would benefit. When I first saw he was the ref I was ready to concede the match there and then until I remembered he's been about as bad for you

Agree with the first paragraph, my point was that you need a player that does what a fit Aguero used to do, but even with the drop in pace defenders still worry about him. I've thought for 2/3 seasons you have needed that player though so that you have proper cover when Aguero is injured, for...

I think your lack of pace, energy and enthusiasm is a result of the issue I outlined. Yesterday you started off brightly but because we could comfortably keep our shape you couldn't get into our box or get in good shooting positions around it and there is no point in crossing to Jesus from wide...

Hope you don't mind me commenting but from what I have seen of City this is your biggest problem going forwards. Aguero can do everything you want from a striker so he scares defenders, that means that every time he moves they have to worry which in turn drags the defence out of shape and makes...

The whole 11 is an exaggeration but I agree you definitely see the worst from us. Not sure why, maybe just because we are used to being the better team on a pitch and they get frustrated when being outplayed: pure petulance. Maybe. Rose can lose his head, Vertonghen can be a nasty bit of work...

Yep, I phrased that badly. The refs let Fernandinho get away with his practising of the dark arts in a similar way to how Schole's got away with reckless tackles: refs making decisions based on who the player is rather than what the player has done. Schole's tackling was just the most obvious...

He is definitely both of those things. He's also a cynical, nasty piece of work that gets a free pass from refs game after game. They aren't mutually exclusive ;-) Chances are it is because he has so much football intelligence that he manages all of those aspects to his game as he knows what...

I'd agree with that. It could well have then led to the thumping that I was expecting going into the match. No problem, good of you to take it constructively :-) He may well have anger issues, possibly interlinked with his depression but any of us would just be speculating. First and foremost...

He's always had that edge about him. Most of the time he is just combative but fair but every now and then he allows himself to get wound up. I don't think it helped that Bernardo left a few niggly fouls on him yesterday (and in one case booted Rose then threw himself to the floor claiming a...

Probably because one changed the result and the other didn't and there are a lot of Liverpool online and in the media that are desperate for their lot to take the title so will alter the narrative to make Liverpool sound hard done by. Always the victims! (why I wasn't overly disappointed with...

Yep, we did on the whole. Personally I thought he just got a lot wrong both ways. Foden didn't get booked for preventing a counter attack, Fernandinho seems to have a free pass for his first three bookable offences in every game he plays and Bernardo took two swipes at Rose nowhere near the ball...

Actually I do appreciate that you have had far more than your fair share of bad decisions against you, all I was saying was how I had assumed rule changes would adversely impact spurs in isolation: it was wasn't intended to be as a comparison to you guys. And I agree we've had a few decisions...

Sorry you feel that way I do agree with you if the question the ref was considering was did it touch his hand. I personally thought all the angles showed it touched the hand, the bit I don't know is what did the ref mean by that hip gesture? If he knew it had touched the hand and felt that he...

I hope you don't mind me throwing my thoughts in With the handball last night and the current UEFA interpretation there seem to be a few key elements (I'll use hand to mean hand or arm for ease and we all know it touched his hand so no point in discussing that element!): 1. Was the hand in a...

Only if you'll throw in a Lamela for Sane swap ;-)

Yes, a bit to be honest. But do you really expect fans to not celebrate? You are clearly a better team than us and were better on the night. We were ridiculously fortunate to scrape past you. As long as we end up with top 4 I genuinely hope you get a narrow win at the weekend and take the...

Have to say that I completely agree with you. It first turned up last season when we were (iirc) 4-0 up against West Ham. As they see any game against us as a cup final it was amusing at the time to laugh at them. Sadly it has crept in more and more and is frankly embarrassing. It would be bad...

As things stand (copied from another forum): INS: Soldado - £26m Lamela - £26m Capoue - £9m Chadli - £7m Chiriches - £7m Paulinho - £17m Eriksen - £11m GRAND TOTAL: £103m Or to put it another way, an obscene amount of money for some athletic blokes that can kick a ball. We've had c£22m in from...