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Harsh but fair. Actually, not harsh, just true. Pssst… that’s two possible results.

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We're going out this evening at 6:30 so we'd better be 0-6 up by HT so I can relax and enjoy my night out without worrying about the second half.

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Are we including Lytham and Poulton? You could imagine some families being worried when hearing of missiles & drones heading for Cyprus & Turkey. And footballers forumites aren't renowned for their geographical intelligence. Or it could be a minor injury & illness. Fixed.

Eh? Ali is injured, Fede is sick.

No. It'd only work if he wears one on the other hand with the letters CO on the back and keeps waving them together at the cameras all the time.

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Are you saying that tories near young people giggle angrily and froth at unlikelihoods? I'll need to keep a careful eye our for that kind of behaviour.

That's where I am too - my default setting now is expecting us to play really boringly and badly and lose. Slot's achieved a level of expectation setting that Hodgson could have only dreamed about.

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Yeah, Chelsea were amortising over 7 years weren't they... mainly to get around FFP rules, I didn't know that it had been fixed so they couldn't do it any more though.

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Indeed, Rocky Horror Show t***,

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Pretty much every game we play, on paper we are more or less, man-for-man, better footballers from 1 through to 11. But somehow, pretty much every game we play we make the opposition look like they're up against the worst, most predictable team in the league.

It's a weird shift in what we thought last season (well, August to January) where so often we had a dull, stalematey first half but then he would change things around at H-T and we'd win the second half comfortably. We all thought he was tactically astute and know how to shift the tactics, focus, movement etc. and we thought he knew what he was doing. Now the first halves have gone from dull to turgid and he seems to have absolutely zero clue how to fix it apart from jeopardising the structure completely and throwing the results away. I'm more and more convinced that it wasn't tactical smarts last season after all, just sheer good luck; and he's just a Hodgson level spoofer.