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City play Hodgson's Palace next week - and Palace will go above them if they win. Strange Times.

Rumours going around that Bramley Moore not viable. We can but hope and laugh.

Well I know Paddy Power can be cringeworthily 'edgy' with their ads, and are bad teds in general, but this tweet made me laugh out loud. https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/1179754683008716801?s=09 "Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard have been left out of the England squad for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. "There have been some difficult decisions to make," said manager, Gareth Southgate. "But not this one. These lads are f*cking s***e.""

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There was a move later in the half when Robbo crossed low and it evaded everyone in the middle - Trent was just a bit wide on the other side of the area or else we could have had perfect symmetry. Although Trent probably didn't want Robbo to have an assist anyway, so held back, just in case.

That would be 18 months then, because last season we played the right way round - that Lloris howler in front of the Kop was in the last minute.

Hwang and Takumi were both really good.

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The Argentinian way? Rafa liked the idea of a punch-happy brawler in the squad for 'creative tension', apparently. Pellegrino's role at Valencia, and maybe part of the reason for his move (as well as showing everyone how to do zonal).

Just got a little flick on it

I think being some kind of public figure is a given now for the CE. That he is sometimes cringeworthy (the Napoli hospital being a pretty good counterexample) is by some distance the least of our problems, and even then, we're a long way and time removed from when we did have substantive existential and structural problems. As has been said earlier, Klopp as our primary public face is absolute gold for our image at the moment; the latest article on the Willkmommen thread is positively Shanklyesque in its capacity to motivate.

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Whilst the fancy footwork is definitively Bobby, the vision to slip the ball into the space where the arc of Mo's run was going to take him past the befuddled defender was...pure Dalglish. There, I've said it.

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The combination of sublime skill and ruthlessness in getting results is a pure throwback to Paisleys great teams. Shankly, Dalglish and Rodgers (for 1 season) perhaps had more of the swashbuckling elements (as did Klopp 2 years ago), Rafa and Houllier more of the pragmatic. We are pretty much the total balanced package now.

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Sam Quek has been getting grief all week on Twitter for comments about the Utd and Liverpool teams. The biggest beefs they had against her were Allison ahead of De Gea and Matip ahead of Maguire. She'll be feeling pretty smug today I suspect.