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Can't remember Steele mistakes :shrug: I think he did well last year because the defence was by and large fantastic, with Everton and Newcastle exceptions. And we praised him because he's likeable and we want to support him. The defence have been a lot more porous of late, which is highlighting...

Enjoyed that very much. Oh to be 20 again!

Thirty three minutes! Blimey, let's get a drink, I'm settling in for the long haul! I love his videos, really get a feel of what it's like to go to a game, just wonderful for an expat like me. Has Ronald deigned to show his face on here yet?

That's a great save. Is he still our player? We signed him for a reason...

Blimey, can you imagine if all of those had been scored, if he hadn't have saved them? Pitchforks everywhere! No, we're taking saves that, if he hadn't have stopped then, we'd just be saying 'good goal, hard to save that, not the goalies fault'

Tough crowd. But ratings are only useful when you use the whole scale. It's kind of pointless when a paper gives everyone between 5 and 7, over and over. A scale goes from 0-10 for a reason, use it all!

Happily to have a civilised chat about Steele. Seems a really nice guy, popular, committed, works hard, incredibly skilful with his feet, hardly makes a mistake, model pro, I like him a lot. And, unfortunately, i would like to see him back on the bench. I want a keeper that will bail out his...

I think it's easy to talk into the trap of 'Marseille are nothing special', 'AEK are from a famers league', whatever..... i think before this tournament began we just looked at the technical qualities of the teams and thought it would be easy, but what is clear is that European competition is...

Lamptey was really good tonight but I'm still struggling to work out why he was playing right back for their first goal. Anyone?

I might adapt my earlier post after that second half. Maybe it's not about us being figured out, but about us earning the right to play pretty football against good teams. We have to fight and deal with close attention and aggressive opposition and not just expect to be allowed to play our...

He's not. But this is sport in a nutshell, everyone gets figured out, and then it's how you adapt to that. It's a constant arms race. We have to expect we'd get figured out, and RDZ has to react.

Funny how form ebbs and flows. Mitoma had spent a year looking like one I'd the best players the PL has ever seen yet tonight can barely do a thing right. Wonder what's in his head?

Yeah, but the word literally means 'to kill one in ten' and that was its original meaning. Although i assume Estupinan hasn't been killed 😱 Anyway, have we been reduced severely? We're only missing Estupinan, Enciso and Lallana, and not sure where the other two fit into this team.

Thanks. Maybe it's a trophy then, taken from some lairy England fan from the east end 🤔 😀

JP is starting, alongside Dunk :thumbsup:

In that one tenth of a first choice starting line up is missing, ie Estupinan, you are correct, we are literally decimated

I'm intrigued by the flag of St George in the Marseille ultras section - is that a trophy stolen from England fans with Marseille painted on it, or an English branch of the Marseille ultras (!), or is St George their patron saint (as he is in Catalunya for example)? Can you get a close up of...

Looks like the coppers telling everyone to go to bed cos it's one in the morning

Apropos of nothing much, you've just reminded me of Kevin McGonnigle

I only did one of those, MK Dons away, and I left after five minutes as my daughter got upset when her balloon popped and we had to go home. I was spared a worst fate it seems! So have to make my own list of misery... Palace 5-0 Brighton, obviously Walsall 3-0 Brighton at the start of Slade's...