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I don't get how Walker can legitimately get in that position without touching the ball, which I'm pretty sure he never did.

Chris Bevan Manchester City 0-0 Southampton: Shot-shy Man City fortunate to draw with Saints - BBC Sport

On the Walker penalty/red card, just seen this on the Beeb write up "Armstrong had burst into the box after City had again given the ball away cheaply but, despite being first to the ball he was adjudged to have fouled Walker as the City defender attempted a challenge." So Armstrong fouled Walker?!?! I'm going to have to watch this again..

If I were a City fan it'd be - well played Saints, but what a Shot Shy Shit Show from the billionaires

I get the feeling Jack's injury may have helped us. As impressive as he's been this season, I'm not sure he would have been as good today as Salisu was.

wtf?!

And red card..

How many of our team, or premier league players generally, do you think know their own (and teammates'!) FM stats?

Could do the same sort of buy back deal as with Livramento though?

Seems a little strange to me that Leicester have bought two of the defenders they put nine goals past

A million less to Liverpool, for now?

Can't begrudge him a move where he's going to get quite a bit better paid. This could well be his last lucrative move, and I'd guess he's more likely to qualify for the CL this season with Villa than he is with us. He's been an excellent servant for us, and has cost us around net zero, including wages. If he has a great season, knocks in thirty goals and Villa finish top 4, then he was obviously wise to make the move. If he gets a bad injury, or just has a crap/average season, then we've done a great bit of business. I'm most concerned about how we reinvest.. I have a silly dream that we have two unknown bargain forwards lined up, for about 7-8m each, who turn out to be superstars that we can cry about selling for over 30m in 2/3 years' time

That is daft. I think a team with JWP taking them from the left and Dybala from the right would score about 25% of its FKs!

Only Dybala has a better conversion rate than JWP on that list

Theo's been offered a 2 year contract. Reward for his lucky deflected goal?

It's Waitrose - there's a better class of customer; they probably chatted in French

He is indeed. But I'm not sure that has to count against his potential for us; we often see younger players who briefly burn brighter and then fade quickly to obscurity.

Who was our last as exciting as Tella youth prospect breaking in to the first team? They have to have touched the ball in the Premier League, so Jankewitz doesn't count!

About 1:45 in Ralph says of Tella "When I see him, uh, performing like does in a moment, that gives me, yah, a big er . . . . . . . . . . . uh I enjoy it really to watch it yeah" I'm sure he wanted to say 'hard on' Southampton 3-1 Fulham: Ralph Hasenhuttl praises 'biggest talent' Nathan Tella - BBC Sport

I think it's tough to gauge McCarthy's performance tonight. He can't be blamed for the goal, and had almost nothing else to do. But he knows he'll get dropped anyway.

I don't think I've seen much praise for KWP's assist either. I think that pass was pretty close to perfect. So good that onside by three yards Tella thought he might be offside

Yes, it was Walcott that flicked it on to Adams. He was backing off at the time to make room for the flick, and then charged forward to be in place to finish the move. So he was twice crucial in scoring one of our best team goals of the season.

I think the 44 out of 55 seasons/years is a weird stat to use. We've been relegated in just two of our last 44 seasons in the top division. We had one serious penalty induced and so elongated period out of the top divisions that made our stats look a lot worse.

It's annoying on the highlights; it's the last thing they show and one of their graphics moves in the way of what seems to be the best view in the last seconds of the third angle replay.. From the live view I can't see a massive deflection. And have been reminded from my repeated reviews that Theo made a very nice little flick on to Adams to create the attack.

I've watched it again a few times on Sky highlights and I'm not sure the deflection's significant. Maybe it did help him, but he still took the chance really well.