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Our league form last season had us nine points off the playoffs. And there are plenty of managers capable of beating Oxford, Sheffield Wednesday and Maidstone, it doesn’t count for anything.

It’s a stupid rule with the stadium capacity thing. No reason why a country should have to build loads of huge new stadia just to meet it. Should be able to build temporary structures, so long as security and crowd safety is taken care of then it shouldn’t really matter if the capacity isn’t huge.

No-one seems more convinced of Britain’s precipitous decline than the people who don’t live here.

…who’ll be working under a different manager with a different brief and taste in players.

I’m expecting a healthy clearout in the summer tbh. If there are players Lampard doesn’t rate then it doesn’t suit anyone to keep them around just because Dean Austin might like them - they’ll be moved on.

The one thing I will say about Kitching, he’s getting better and better every week. At least on here he is.

Collins 6 MVE 6 He must be absolutely exhausted Thomas 6 Would have been a MOTM contender had he not bottled it for their goal Latibeaudiere 6 Bidwell 7 MOTM Not much to offer going forward but great defensively Sheaf 5 A shadow of his former self Eccles 6 Rudoni 5 Miles off it in terms...

If Ana de Armas wrote down her phone number on Norman Bassette’s right foot, he’d turn her down and insist she wrote it on his left instead. Maddening.

It was a really good finish after some pitiful defending. Even your xG (ex-gran) could see that.

Absolute bollocks, but condolences nonetheless to you and the rest of the Schmeichel family

Bassette tries hard but is miscast as a lone striker - shift him out wide if you want to keep him on, but we need Simms on to hold up the ball upfront.

Not great so far, but can we talk about Lampard’s jacket? It’s really nice.

I thought we wanted England to host it one day? Clearly there are problems with countries (other than awful ones) being reluctant to host, but my personal preference would be to spread the tournament to as many different countries in as many parts of the world as possible. Would require some...

The A-League attendances would suggest otherwise. That’s not a knock on Australia, they just prefer other sports, always have. That’s not the case in Saudi, where football is the top sport by far. Clearly the amount of money going into the game and other sports in Saudi Arabia suggests that the...

So the alternative is what? Just give up on trying to improve the situation in our own country?

Australians don't really care about football - A-League attendances are pitiful, and smaller than they were 10 years ago. Most would rather be watching Aussie rules or rugby. If you care that much about Oceania getting a turn why not give it to Indonesia? Bigger population, more interest in...

I mean if you just want to watch football without any political subtext bubbling underneath then you can bet your bottom riyal that Saudi Arabia will do everything they can to make sure no-one is thinking or talking about politics, LGBT issues or human rights abuses (just like Qatar did). They...

I mean, fair enough if that is your stance (the Saudi World Cup will be delighted to accommodate people like you), but you were the one banging on about hypocrisy and human rights!

Lampard and the rest of his coaching staff lining up to pay their daily respects to Dean and Dr Clare this morning:

The same thing that made the US and Japan special 20-30 years ago!