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I thought he was excellent on Saturday, as was Gorss and Baleba in that midfield 3. That said, and although I thought differently at the time, he should have been sent off. That had all the hallmarks of a Dahoud v Sheffield United moment, so I'm glad the ref/VAR looked in our favour for a change.

He's not in great form this season, and I'd say may be in his worst patch of form for a fair old while. That said, given Southgate's selection process I'd say that being out of form works in his favour if Phillips, Maguire and Henderson are anything to go by.

He was dropped because a) he wasn't suited to the way De Zerbi wanted to play and, more importantly, b) did want to learn whilst sitting on the bench. “He wanted it this way (not travelling to be on the bench). Not me, not the club. We spoke before the Arsenal game and we decided together the...

There is that, yes, but I'd also add that in some quarters it's going WAY too far. The fact that he's being scapegoated by many really doesn't sit right for me. Given how dreadfully he was treated by Sunderland fans, I really don't like how some Brighton fans are walking down the same path Do I...

My family and I moved there 7 years ago and really like it. Its fairly quiet, but there are 4 schools so around those areas it can get very busy in the school run times so just bear that in mind when you're looking at areas to live (if that bothers you). Decent food potions, transport links...

It depends on what is is and whether multiple people can do the function/piece of work in question. I've had multiple situations over the years where an error has been performed, we've spoken to the person directly, but still had to send an email out to the wider team to remind everyone of the...

You make a fair point, but Ferguson and Baleba are precisely the youngsters of whom I was thinking. Ferguson may well not be "green", but he is still inexperienced and very young for a PL footballer. Pairing a raw teenager like Baleba with a young centre back like JP meant that you needed Dunk...

You never know. Perhaps he was one of the ones on the end of a fierce rollocking from RDZ? In a team of youngsters that lack experience you need your senior pros to step up and carry them to an extent and, for the first time this season, I don't think they did. Webster was poor, Steele's...

I will take that as a huge positive going into Thursday. As another point, we do seem to take more than our fair share of spankings under RDZ. When we're bad, we're really bad. I know it's a result of style, but we only conceded 3 or more in 6 games in Potter's entire reign, and of those 6, 4...

Add to that the fact that Roma keep clean sheets at a similar rate to us, so if goals are to come for Ferguson this might be the game for him. The problem is that Roma also score goals at a ferocious rate right now.

I thought it sounded like Gilmour

Well quite. Against Wolves, we had 72% possession, 18 shots and just 2 on target. Against Everton, we had 65% possession, 23 shots and only 7 on target (of which 3 were soft headers from corners straight into Pickford's gloves). It means that when we do concede freak goals, make mistakes or...

My problem with the vegan KitKat has nothing to do with the vegan content, more that it's dark chocolate and that has no place on a KitKat... Disgraceful.

Given that he moves about the pitch like an old man these days, one can only assume that referees see his consistent fouling as being as a result of his soon-to-be retiring immobility and poor timing, rather than malice. The problem is, this isn't Casemiro at 32, it's Caicedo at 22 and you'd be...

Just because other tackles weren't given red cards doesn't make this less of a red card. Sure, there's no intent or malice (but that's irrelevant), yes he got some of the ball first (also irrelevant), but his studs ended up planted half way up the opposition players calf. It's a red card all day...

Roma is both the best and worst draw. Fantastic team and more suited to us than Mourinho's Roma team of a few weeks bac, but that is a tough, tough draw. I, for one, cannot wait!

To be fair, he was a good keeper for us under Potter and in the right team could still be a more than decent no. 1. The problem is, Chelsea have a track record of signing expensive goalkeepers (Kepa, Mendy, Courtois, Sanchez) who all have one thing in common: they have a clanger in them...

What was fun was that Greer was unavailable for that match and got sent off with a 3-game ban for violent conduct halfway through his debut. At that point, it was "Where's our captain gone?" Also, I looked up that Swindon game and out bench... jeez... Poke, Whing, Battipiedi, Baz, Hart, Dicker...

Because our head of recruitment is in demand and Boehly NEEDS the toys others want. I've said on here repeatedly that their strategy is "look at who's in demand on the BBC Sport Gossip column and bid, bid, BID!!" It's no surprise that Man United are rumoured to be interest and then...

I'd imagine his successor may well be in the club already. Mike Cave is already stepping in similar to David Weir when Ashworth left. When we poached him from Fulham (people forget that we hire people from other clubs too) you'd like to assume that it was with some view on career progression...