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Don't think that's true at all. In the last three games between the sides, Middlesbrough played well, just we played better. It was fine margins in all of them. The game at the Riverside was a superb advert for Championship football. Not every defeat is a wank performance.

Aye. Functionally level. There comes a point when if you are analysing it to the nth degree, that the thing you are looking for ceases to have any relevance. Completely agree that if you must use VAR for offside, then a cursory check after each goal, and if there's not an obvious error (let's...

There's sense in there, too. When it comes down to it, so many football fans are precious little princesses crying at the slightest perceived sleight. I laughed at the person who said he was an overrated player though. Hello, what, please?

Tottenham lacking in attack, midfield, defence, and 'brain', says new manager. Apart from that, they're sound.

Yay! More VAR!

The Pope's Catholic. Bears shit in woods. Salty football fans make salty comments on football forums. Weird people go looking for salty comments so they can feel aggrieved about them.

No, he's the one set up, and set up beautifully. The caller's done him by using his own massive ego against him.

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Agree with this. The only difference between this and other years is that there haven't been parachute teams walking over everybody. Ipswich took a bit of time to get going, Southampton came down only knowing how to lose, and Leicester are a genuine basket case.

I mean, some of the ones on here are pretty childish, really. I did laugh at 'Wrectum', though. 😂

I quite like Sunderland; they're loyal to their local team (if a bit weird about it) and how much we get under their skin is funny. The majority of them are fair-minded supporters, I think.

He looks a bit like he's just trodden on an upturned plug.

You seem obsessed with what other clubs' fans think about us, which is just as weird.

That was a generally dislikable England squad that epitomised entitled excess for many. And Chelsea; dirty money, excess, John Terry. Lampard's an intelligent man, and there doesn't seem anything dislikable about him personally, but he'll be tainted by association for many.

I'd also say it depends on how much time people spend on football social media. Forums tend to be a bit more sensible (it's relative), but Twitter and Facebook and places like that are absolute binfires of twattery (though it's fair to say that's not just football), and we have a good few who...

I did laugh at this from the Stoke forum.

Yeah, I know, it wasn't meant as a criticism; the title of the other one made me laugh, though.

Agreed. The discipline and shape that he gives the team is crucial. Stats are important, but they only say so much.

It's pretty much the same thread as the one you made about Jamie Allen (though that one had a better title), only about a different player.

No lazier than EMC or BTA or anything else that contracts any players' name. His friends and colleagues call him Tatsu (with the 'u' very lightly voiced, if at all, as far as I can tell), but he's not a friend or anyone I know, he's one of our players, so presumably we can use whatever nickname...