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Agree, ditto Chelsea. And if we make it that far, I'd much rather play Napoli in the final, because of their inexperience at that level.

Could be worse. After what happened last time, pleased we can't meet Chelsea in the final if we get that far. English teams usually beat us in this competition, so as long as RM can knock Chelsea out it's all good. If we don't believe we can beat the likes of Bayern, RM and Napoli then it's not...

Absolutely, I know it will be impossible to avoid City suffering a hit in a sporting sense. That's fair enough. I just don't think some of the "nuclear" options being mentioned (we know what they are) seem fair on the fans, the players, and everyone else who has not had a hand in the accounts...

Came on to say much the same thing but you beat me to it. We've heard a lot of talk in recent years - in relation to ESL, the new white paper etc - about how the fans are the most important people in football, how important clubs are to their communities and all that. The media seem to be...

I'd take a draw right now tbh. Just looked at the Southampton forum and their fans say they will need to bring the lube and an abacus to their game, their form is so poor. Even if we only lose 1-0, a 6-0 for Liverpool would put them on top. Losing by more than 1 doesn't bear thinking about. City...

I reckon we'll score a few against Villa - their defence was abysmal the other night and I was amazed Liverpool only got 2. But with Liverpool easily scoring 10 or more goals against Southampton and Wolves combined, we can't rely on goal difference - need at least a draw on Sunday. If I was...

A win obviously crucial, but a nice big win (4 or 5) would mean we could probably even lose one of the last two games. Would be nice.

If anyone needs anything extra to worry about, I just read that there's a real possibility of a "39th game" playoff, what with the head-to-head being all square and both teams on the same number of goals scored, and only 3 difference between goals conceded. We'd have to let in three more goals...

Agree, people talk a lot of rubbish about this sort of thing. Same with Conor Coady, who everyone seems to have forgotten had a great game when Wolves played Liverpool in the last game of the season in 2019.

Dermot Gallagher is spouting bollocks in that Sky video. He talks about there being "no element of doubt" in the second still, which is cobblers because the second still is taken from behind so you can't even know for sure the ball was in contact with Rodri at that point. Moreover he claims that...

The longer they leave it, the less reputation they'll be able to recover by pulling out.

They still need to find 8 more clubs to join - three permanent, five for one season only. What club in their right mind would sign up now they've seen the level of hate across the whole football world? Getting out now is the only way of minimising the losses from this fiasco.

The game is an important part of our culture. They can & should step in in the same way they protect historic buildings from being demolished, or priceless works of art exported. The amount of consensus here - all the way from Manchester MPs to Prince William - there is no way Johnson will be...

The ESL is untenable even before it starts. What club in their right mind would accept one of the five temporary "guest" spots when they know they will become pariahs with UEFA/FIFA, their home league and the football world as a whole? And now with the noises coming out of Downing Street...

(meekly raises hand) I thought it was a red to be honest. Unless the player was doing the birdie song there was no reason for him to put his arm in that position, and then he clearly elbowed the other player. The ref can't not give a red purely on the grounds he didn't elbow him hard enough.

Roughly what sort of % of appeals do they uphold? Yes, I am THIS desperate for something to cling to given the total lack of any plausible sounding leaks.

I'll complain. I can't relax until there's a two goal cushion, minimum, which we should have by now.

If Beglin had been commentating on the JFK assassination he'd probably have said there was no malicious intent.

Yes, and I'm happy with the idea of VAR stepping in where there is the proverbial "obvious error". But this requires the people using VAR to at least understand what its limitations are. Maybe they do understand the limitations, but are now scared of being roasted by TV pundits who have always...

VAR as it stands cannot give a definitive answer in really tight offsides. They appear to be using bog standard 25fps video, so even if they pick the very best freeze-frame (not a given) this could be as much as 1/50th of a second out from where the ball is actually struck. A player can move...