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Two for the price of one the great Ray Lindwall and the great Fred Trueman. Imagine either hurling a cricket ball at you from twenty yards away.

Doesn’t bear thinking about.

Agreed - so long as it’s understood that it’s just an exercise in venting anger and frustration.

Are the most of the major shareholders not Rangers supporters? Murray never was.

Good for you.

Ignoring extra time and penalties United have gone consecutive games at Anfield and The Emirates undefeated. Very good progress. Now they must win their next two home games in the league. They should beat So’ton (everybody does) and Brentford too. What they must not do is win their next Euro game. Concentrate on the League lads. Personally I hope United get relegated but that’s not going to happen. Still, the memory never fades.

Did you leave, Cammy?

Stewards’Enquiry, surely.

Much better second half. Didn’t know Dessers had joined Arsenal in the Window as a Finishing Coach. Havertz twice scoops the ball over the bar from right underneath it. One of the two went wide as well. Odegaard has a penalty saved. You always look stupid if you don’t score a penalty but you look doubly stupid if you miss after a corps de ballet routine in the run up. Harry Maguire defended like Geordie Young. That’s like total eclipses of sun and moon in the same twenty four hours. Hitherto unknown. 2-2 and extra time. Gunners should have won it but ten man United show what can be done if you work at your job.

Arsenal v United has been a little bit better but not much.

And at full time. ‘Spurs nearly lost it in the last minute. They’ve been no better than Tamworth.

Yes.

Aye. If I were a bit younger and a bit nearer I’d be there to the finish.

Wolves slink past Bristol City, plucky Leeds overcome giants Harrogate, Liverpool don’t exactly annihilate Stanley, Sunderland exit early as usual and the real City trounce Salford. Decent afternoon.

Fair enough. Relax, M. Clement, we don’t expect the Championship just get these idlers to play every week not just when they feel like it, plenty of goals at least 90% victories and the Cup.

Villa woke up after 63 minutes, might have scored twice before getting two and should have had at least one more then became fragile in added time and nearly gave away two. Strange.

Villa playing like Rangers. Slow, laboured build up, constantly passing the ball off the park, shaky at the back and a single striker not able to do much against a six man defence.

Not one of these advocates has a solution. Self-comforting arm waving. What’s needed is a young Fergie determined to prove himself but the actual Fergie’s first real managerial post was Aberdeen. He’d already cut his teeth and it didn’t matter if he failed.

The English of everybody living in Glasgow gets worse over time.

Rousseau went to the trouble of creating a dedicated topic for this.

This time last year Clement was doing fine. This season he has not done very well at all. Is that him or the material at his disposal? Too many players are mentally weak. There is not one thrawn bugger in the entire squad and you need two on the field. I can’t remember the last such. Ryan Jack was the nearest. No new manager is going to do any better . He’ll face the same problem until better players are found so sack him and where does the payoff money come from? Others will have to go too because a new man will want his own hangers on then there’s the question of compensation to whichever club the new chap is poached from. Easy, some will say. There are managers out of work. Get one of them. But they’re out of work for a reason. They’re duffers, in which case we don’t want them or they choose to be idle pending a lucrative vacancy which rules out Rangers. Nobody is accepting or celebrating second best just because they accept reality.

Joint award Tav/Dessers surely.

Phantom match. Wolves are away to Bristol City tomorrow and that’s as far as they’re going to get unfortunately. Pompey are at Wycombe tonight.

Same here. I suspected spalpeen skullduggery. Probably something more mundane.

Early days. Lot of time left. Wolves have spent about £16M on a player from Rheims.