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No way is he Nigerian. He hasn't offered me thirty million quid in return for my bank details.

My girlfriend just texted that she's bought a Siamese cat. I can't wait to get home and see it. I've never seen a cat with two heads before.

Seems a classic case of "premier league shop window" to me, and the chances of holding on to him won't have been improved by a narrow miss with relegation. I hope I'm wrong.

Very likely, I'd have thought.

You mean they all want Puel out because he's an immigrant? #bordercontrol

....lest we forget..... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2301944/Southampton-replace-Nigel-Pearson.html

Lol

Sums up exactly how I see it. As soon as stoke sacked him I posted on that thread that he seemed nailed on to come here, but I wasn't thrilled by it. He arrived far too late yet still had enough about him to turn it around, so I'd be all in favour of him staying on now.

Keeping Hughes on is so plainly the obvious thing to do that it's equally obvious our board won't do it. We'll announce some left-field blue sky thinking appointment from South America two weeks before the first day of the season. Nobody here will have heard of him, and after he's replaced by Pulis with six games left nobody here will ever hear about him again. Probably.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Stoke fans have always oozed the type of class we all aspire to, and that this picture demonstrates so graphically. Hats off to them.

Well, he's probably not. If he were, I'd admire his prescience in joining this forum in 2007 in order to troll us eleven years later.

Liverpool references tend not to be popular here. No idea why.

Kindly refrain from pedantry. The "Pedant-in-Chief" position is already filled, but if anything happens to MLG we'll let you know.

It's way too late by then. The consent process should begin at conception, with each individual sperm and egg agreeing to undergo insemination. Only then can we call the birth truly consensual.

In that event, the respective managers decide the matter by means of a fistfight. I fancy hughesy to come out on top, tbh.

What I meant was that nothing else, his sides are usually set up very well defensively. Burnley don't ship many goals, the are where they are on the back of that, they aren't a fluent goal scoring machine but they are solid in defence and hard to beat. I wouldn't have expected them to get stuffed five nil by anyone, even allowing for the "wenger just resigned" factor, but at this stage of the season odd results crop up. It's not unimaginable that citeh could run riot in the last game of the season, and if arsenal can put five past burnley....

I could see swansea winning 3-0. Sean Dyche sides don't usually get stuffed by five goals, and for that reason alone I won't be 100% confident until its done and dusted. As it happens, I have a feeling we'll go behind, but keep it to one goal before levelling very late in the game.

You were pretty confident a couple of games ago that Huddersfield wouldn't get another point.

I thought the same at the time, but thinking back, that was the only real stoppage I can remember in the half.

Plenty of free vpn's around, check the streaming thread.

If Huddersfield kept a clean sheet against citeh, surely we can avoid a Burnley type slaughter? And I'd have thought that the stoke players have less of a beef with Hughes than the supporters appear to.

Wayne Rooney has visited Alex Ferguson in hospital. "He's improving, and can almost string a sentence together," commented Ferguson.

My wife stood in front of a massive oak, and stared. "That looks ancient, just look at the size of it!!" Said the tree.

This, exactly. There never seemed to be any sense of purpose to our play under MP, and we rarely looked threatening. Our forward play under Hughes is completely different, players know who is supposed to be where, and what they are supposed to be doing. Even in the games we've lost or dropped points we have actually competed, not just in effort but in the quality of play (west ham apart.)

Never in any doubt, why all the fuss? :D