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Walcott up against Cedric on the right wing, I'm sure I've seen that before somewhere...

100% intentional, completely different shape and flight from his normal corners. Leno nowhere near, would have been an outstanding goal.

Does this go to extra time and pens if level at 90 mins?

Liverpool lose, last thing the Sky bloke says before the break is "a barn-storming night for Barnsley". Not that there's any one particular team they will focus on of course

Wow that grown man has a Joker tattoo on his thigh. Bet he scores and all.

Jesus Christ Long. For all his faults you'd still say he'd do alright in a 2v1 counterattack. Not any more.

To be fair, Bertrand occasionally takes free kicks and corners. I think all of our corners so far have been on the right so Vokins is taking them as in-swingers. If they were on the other side I'm sure JWP would be taking.

Our fullbacks are so high up that one ball out wide is letting them get forward a long way, and our pressing is only encouraging the long balls out wide.

The first of many I'm sure

I don't think Diallo will be playing up front any time soon 😂

So rules - 5 subs at three occasions, extra time (extra sub here) and pens, VAR is in use.

Good to see the mix of strength and youth we were hoping for, notably the defensive spine - Bednarek/Stephens and Diallo/JWP - remains. I'm a little surprised to see Chauke and Watts in the 10s over some of the more established youngsters - anybody know anything about either of them?

Ings, Forster, JWP/Romeu, any players returning from injury, the rest of the squad promising youngsters. Should be plenty.

West Brom goalie Sam Johnstone has tested positive for Covid, misses today's games vs Wolves and potentially the next two. This could well be the thing that sends them down, he's been their best player this season and probably won them more points than any other player.

If he tested positive either on the day of the Liverpool game or (more likely) the day after (5th January) then his 10-day isolation period should be up today/tomorrow. Whether there are further FA-enforced rules that would stop him being involved, I'm not sure.

So with no Ings, Obafemi or Redmond available I would assume either Long or Tella will start against Leicester?

Spurs 1-1 Fulham full time. Great result for us.

Brighton lining up with 4 CBs against City tonight, City playing without a traditional striker. High scoring game inbound!

Can we set Stephens to do a wind-up job on Maddison? He's got a bit of a temper on him that one...

It will be interesting, Romeu v Diallo - Romeu is one of Ralph's favourites, particularly since Hojbjerg kicked up a stink last year, but we beat Liverpool and Ralph rarely changes a winning team.

Fikayo Tomori available from Chelsea - should we be interested?

They've had three games postponed since then, nothing for us to laugh at! Though when you're busy beating the champions of England, who has time to think of the little club down the road?

No need to wonder, there's only one thing for them to talk about - the last time we played each other where we beat them 2-1!

MSD Capital are doing great business off football clubs it seems.

I seem to remember there was lots of interest but he didn't want to move away from London.