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[Gray Fox]

Goals in single game record seems under threat here.

[Waffdon]

Palmer scoring 4 goals in a single game again in the same year is ridiculous.

Sancho also looks gravy

[Jimmy Floyd]

Five is the PL high isn't it? Andy Cole?

Could be under threat.

[Ben]

First player to score four in the first half of a PL game.

[Danny]

Five is the PL high isn't it? Andy Cole?

Could be under threat.

Cole, Defoe, Shearer and Aguero IIRC.

[Danny]

Sancho also looks gravy

https://caulse.com/v/39802

I choose to believe the only thing he has done is 5 seconds into this clip.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I would however say that the Brighton manager is absolutely embarrassing himself here. They have a pair of slow fucks at centre back and he just won't send them any deeper, presumably because he doesn't recognise any other way to set a team up. Might as well have just forfeited the match.

[Magic]

Palmer scoring 4 goals in a single game again in the same year is ridiculous.

Sancho also looks gravy

He's been my FF captain all season... Apart from today. :eyemouth:

[Lewis]

Cole, Defoe, Shearer and Aguero IIRC.

Didn't Berbatoss do it against Blackburn and burgle the Golden Boot?

[Waffdon]

Wouldn’t be shocked if Brighton still get a draw out of this. Chelsea’s defence isn’t looking much better

[Danny]

Didn't Berbatoss do it against Blackburn and burgle the Golden Boot?

He did. 25% of his seasons goals that day.

[Danny]

Lovely volley from Justin :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hilarious scenes at the Emirates as the Leicester keeper goes down injured and the home fans seethe their faces off at the timewasting.

[Gray Fox]

Arsenal about to induce glorious seethe once more.

[phonics]

We are massive.

[Gray Fox]

I have to say this time watching a team up against Manchester City being seen as the big bad guys, from the outside, is quite the thing to see.

[Gray Fox]

Wolves have been good first half team but wilt in the second, while we've been the opposite apart from against Bournemouth. Should be a Wolves early goal followed by our attempted comeback.

[Gray Fox]

Terrible first half from both, but nice to be winning. Keeper probably should have conceded the Szoboszlai one and saved the Ibou Konate one, but it seems fair. Wolves fans seething and chanting about corruption after a single booking to one of their players, laughable.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Salah is done.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Konate :lol:

[Gray Fox]

Idiocy from the wolves man to give him the chance to go down. Softish but probably fair.

[John Arne]

I think we'll see Jones starting ahead of Szoboszlai before too long. The hairy Hungarian just doesn't offer enough in either direction.

[Giggles]

He was king of the world a few weeks ago.

[Waffdon]

Going from watching the Chelsea Brighton game to the last 30 mins of this game was a sharp reminder of how boring football is in 90% of PL games

[Gray Fox]

We kept giving them the ball back and they only had interest in passing around the back. The game in a weird state right now.

[Lewis]

Salah is done.

I've just clocked his hair transplant. Good for him.

[Shindig]

Cover your eyes, Spikey. Southend 1-3 Gateshead.

[niko_cee]

I would however say that the Brighton manager is absolutely embarrassing himself here. They have a pair of slow fucks at centre back and he just won't send them any deeper, presumably because he doesn't recognise any other way to set a team up. Might as well have just forfeited the match.

:D

Genau so, wie wir Kumpel spielen

Apparently German's don't do mate, only buddy.

Holding the halfway line with those two was an interesting choice.

Chelsea manager expects to concede more goals like they did today, good times.

Does Palmer now make a case for England moving Bellingham back into actual midfield? I don't really know where he plays for Chelsea.

[niko_cee]

Is there an angle of that Tarkowski tackle that I'm missing? Looks like he just takes him out. Did he manage to get the first stud into his Achilles millimeters outside of the box?

[Waffdon]

:D

Genau so, wie wir Kumpel spielen

Apparently German's don't do mate, only buddy.

Holding the halfway line with those two was an interesting choice.

Chelsea manager expects to concede more goals like they did today, good times.

Does Palmer now make a case for England moving Bellingham back into actual midfield? I don't really know where he plays for Chelsea.

Kind of just does what he wants to be honest. Off the striker in the right channel but he pops up everywhere. Will drop deep to go all Trent and Hollywood ball someone in for a half decent chance but then pops up down the left channel where he scored his 4th today.

England having him as a super sub still one of the funniest blunders of all time

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Heh.

[John Arne]

Tottenham front 3 looks a bit naff.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Good enough for our shitty defence...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pretty bonkers run and pass for a CB.

[niko_cee]

BBC Pundit and Former Championship Manager Magazine rising star Leon Osman

'On paper Man Utd look very good'

:happycry:

[Kikó]

I'm so bored of ten hag.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Rashford and Werner playing in the same game is depressing watching for the neutral. Two footballers who just shouldn't be featuring at this level. Not a single cell in their brains. Can run fast though so there we are.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Timo Werner is still shocking.

Nice to see that hasn't changed.

[Jimmy Floyd]

QED.

What happened to that left back kid they were supposed to have? Dalot is a Championship player.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a nasty challenge.

[John Arne]

Is it just me or is the ref always in the fucking way, for both teams.

Lol, red.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jesus, I was just thinking how he is literally their only good footballer and then he does that.

[Waffdon]

He slips, it’s never a red card lol

[randomlegend]

That's an absolutely joke of a red.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mainoo off for Mount.

When it rains it fucking pours.

[Luke Emia]

What happened to that left back kid they were supposed to have? Dalot is a Championship player.

Luke Shaw?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it just me or is the ref always in the fucking way, for both teams.

Lol, red.

I've noticed this with a few refs this season, I think maybe Howard has told them to be right on the ball the whole time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a red, you can't go high foot in motion like that. He had every opportunity not to do it.

[Luke Emia]

That's an absolutely joke of a red.

I think it’s not a red. But, he’s been a right snidey cunt ever since he’s been in the country so never mind.

[niko_cee]

Villa away next week and then the international break.

Waistcoat will be dusting his CV off.

[Waffdon]

Mainoo off for Mount.

When it rains it fucking pours.

Aye because Mainoo has been good for Man Utd. Maybe in about 3 games in his whole career

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aye because Mainoo has been good for Man Utd. Maybe in about 3 games in his whole career

3 more than Mount, mate.

[Luke Emia]

Imagine getting ripped to pieces by Brennan Fucking Johnson.

[Clunge]

Are United always this bad? First time I've seen them this season and it has been a completely comical first 45. Spurs look excellent.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Poor old Mase. He hasn't been the same since he got stalked by that mad bird.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are United always this bad? First time I've seen them this season and it has been a completely comical first 45. Spurs look excellent.

We were good against Barnsley!

[Clunge]

Van de Ven is the real deal. He must be among the quickest CBs there's been. He reads the play incredibly too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chelsea v Spurs games are going to be all timers. 5-5 and no survivors.

[Clunge]

We were good against Barnsley!
Ten Hag and his small game mentality.

[Luke Emia]

The only way I’m willing to accept old baldy getting the sack is if they give it Giggsy til end of the season. Then get Waistcoat in.

[Gray Fox]

He plays such a fun and entertaining style of football. Another new contract please Jim.

[Luke Emia]

Oh and by the way aside from a decent 3-4 months when he joined Martinez is fucking shite.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Baldy is done.

[Kikó]

Mate

[Gray Fox]

It's just the way you both play, mate.

[Gray Fox]

Oh and by the way aside from a decent 3-4 months when he joined Martinez is fucking shite.

Same for Penandes, but I keep being told how good he is.

[Kikó]

I hope this is his last game honestly (bald).

[niko_cee]

Time for another review by the proper football men they've now got running things.

[John Arne]

Commentator on my feed keeps adding an extra syllable to Bergvall's name and it's really annoying.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Commentator on my feed keeps adding an extra syllable to Bergvall's name and it's really annoying.

Blame this (1:07.11): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wmAtyDCru0

[phonics]

Im absolutely shocked that the guy who showed absolutely no ability to coach a team for the past 2 years wasn't able to turn it around by spending an extra 150 million quid on Ajax players from 5 years ago.

[phonics]

Commentator on my feed keeps adding an extra syllable to Bergvall's name and it's really annoying.

Nothing will annoy me more than Benzi-Mar from 'Fletch'

[Kikó]

Im absolutely shocked that the guy who showed absolutely no ability to coach a team for the past 2 years wasn't able to turn it around by spending an extra 150 million quid on Ajax players from 5 years ago.

Still won more than Lego head though.

[phonics]

Although just to be consistent. Thats a pathetic red and properly summarises Howard Webbs current decision making which is basically just Refs going into games and doing this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtquiYnXsAEeYxx.jpg

[Gray Fox]

It was a heinous assault that should see him serve prison time!

[Yevrah]

Waistcoat will be dusting his CV off.

Please let this happen. :drool:

[Spikey M]

Indeed. I think he would finally send United fans into the days of peak Arsenal Fan TV. Goldbridge hanging himself live on Twitch, Fergie going from Whisky to bleach. Let's go.

[Danny]

Indeed. I think he would finally send United fans into the days of peak Arsenal Fan TV. Goldbridge hanging himself live on Twitch, Fergie going from Whisky to bleach. Let's go.

Give me a year of Southgate if it gets this cretin out of the way.

[Lewis]

It's hard to see baldy turning it around, but Southgate isn't the answer fucking hell. They will go for Tactics Tommy Tuchel on the basis that his best work has been done wringing something out of random white, and then hopefully can him before he starts getting involved in decisions.

[Giggles]

Is there nobody really good they could get? There has to be some bit of goodwill left in their name and they can surely afford it.

[Spikey M]

2 International tournament finals, Giggles. They should go straight in with a 10 year contract.

[niko_cee]

This Madrid derby is absolutely awful, and in an unrelated thought it made me wonder how many players there are knocking around these days that elicit genuine excitement when they get the ball? I was thinking about Ronaldinho getting a standing ovation at the Bernabau which set me off on that train of thought, can't imagine that ever happening in the hyper bitter world of modern football. That Georgian lad at Napoli? Feels like the game is now more about situations than individuals, which is fine I guess, team game and all, although I watch a whole lot less of it so maybe there are loads out there.

[niko_cee]

Players off the pitch now.

[Spikey M]

The rise of wingers cutting back and making sideways passes instead of taking on the fullback was the death of such excitement.

Edit: Out the way Niko, I was talking to Niko.

[phonics]

Neville saying you can’t really judge Uniteds second half because they were down to 10 men after producing several hours of 10 man Arsenal based content this week. We are massive. Ten Hag till I Die. love it.

[niko_cee]

Weren't they getting bummed hard prior to going down to 10?

He'll be sacked in the window.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Southgate would be shit at the job, but he is so perfectly INEOS that surely it absolutely has to happen.

[Boydy]

Would be very funny if Liverpool get a good Dutch baldy.

Is it funny yet?

[Boydy]

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[Waffdon]

This Madrid derby is absolutely awful, and in an unrelated thought it made me wonder how many players there are knocking around these days that elicit genuine excitement when they get the ball? I was thinking about Ronaldinho getting a standing ovation at the Bernabau which set me off on that train of thought, can't imagine that ever happening in the hyper bitter world of modern football. That Georgian lad at Napoli? Feels like the game is now more about situations than individuals, which is fine I guess, team game and all, although I watch a whole lot less of it so maybe there are loads out there.

Cole Palmer, mate

[niko_cee]

I knew you'd pitch him, but I'm not sold yet. Not to that extent anyway.

Having now seen that Fernandes red card, lol at that decision. Fair enough if the ref thinks he's gone into his knee with his studs, but he hasn't, and isn't that what the VAR is there for?

[niko_cee]

Although not as lol as the story I read the other day that if Madrid can't convince Trent to sign for them for nothing then they'll dump a fortune on getting Dalot.

[Spikey M]

I knew you'd pitch him, but I'm not sold yet. Not to that extent anyway.

Having now seen that Fernandes red card, lol at that decision. Fair enough if the ref thinks he's gone into his knee with his studs, but he hasn't, and isn't that what the VAR is there for?

It wasn't even a yellow and if that doesn't tick the clear and obvious error box, I'm not sure what does.

[Waffdon]

I knew you'd pitch him, but I'm not sold yet. Not to that extent anyway.

Having now seen that Fernandes red card, lol at that decision. Fair enough if the ref thinks he's gone into his knee with his studs, but he hasn't, and isn't that what the VAR is there for?

Well I’m not sure what you’re after if he doesn’t fit your category

[Jimmy Floyd]

How was it not even a yellow? He kicked him in the side of the knee while barely if at all in control of his own body movements. Just didn't look spectacular enough for what people want in a red.

[Spikey M]

How was it not even a yellow? He kicked him in the side of the knee while barely if at all in control of his own body movements. Just didn't look spectacular enough for what people want in a red.

That's an extraordinarily generous definition of the word "kick". He slipped while trying to tackle and his heel clipped him on the ankle. Freekick? Sure. Yellow card? Meh, if you must. Red card? Fuck off.

[phonics]

It’s not a red card. In the absolutely absurd world they’ve set up it’s a debatable red card which is half the problem.

[Kikó]

It's extremely harsh but at least we can drop him and his gormless Hollywood passing for a few games. I'm now at the point though that everyone in whatever system ten hag is trying to play like worse.

[Jimmy Floyd]

On another note, Larry Neville was off his face through that game. I wonder if he's losing the plot a bit.

[niko_cee]

How was it not even a yellow? He kicked him in the side of the knee while barely if at all in control of his own body movements. Just didn't look spectacular enough for what people want in a red.

It was a yellow. As he said himself, fair enough to him for coming out as well, if for no other reason than it was a calculated act to stop a fast break. So, you could say he got his just desserts for that, but the reality of the foul itself is in no way a dangerous play red. You can see why the ref has given it, and presumably the VAR has applied the standard for intervention on a penalty threshold, ie well it was a foul/there was contact, rather than the is it actually a dangerous challenge standard. Probably even worse than the Jones type ones where super-slo-mo is used to make innocuous things look worse.

[phonics]

Head. On. Mars.

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[niko_cee]

You need to get over it. Booking Rice was the correct decision, and that particular example is not at all comparable.

[phonics]

You need to get over it. Booking Rice was the correct decision, and that particular example is not at all comparable.

Trossard? Everytime I start to get over it, it gets brought back up.

[niko_cee]

Less solid ground but I thought the ref almost gave that more for dissent, ie it looked like he was going to leather it in frustration and sort of pulled himself back, but still kicked it, particularly from the ref's angle, and no VAR on yellows etc.

[randomlegend]

Trossard? Everytime I start to get over it, it gets brought back up.

Why can't Arsenal fans just enjoy their team being good instead of being a bunch of victimised losers the entire time.

[Yevrah]

Either way, it certainly isn't healthy running oneself mad over refereeing decisions. The dullest aspect of the game going.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's because the establishment hates [your favourite team] and conspires constantly to keep them down. I slipped a camera into the pre-season meeting where Kim Jong-Un, Epstein and Keith Hackett stood on a podium and issued their instructions to the eager whistlers seated along the trestle table below. '[your favourite team] has had it too easy for too long,' slurped Bono as he downed the last of his baby blood gazpacho. 'It's time we gave [your favourite team] their comeuppance'.

[phonics]

I think the referees are all shit and bad at their job. Saying that seems to be me trying to destroy grassroots football. I can handle them being shit, I KNOW they're shit. Them having a weekly get together and saying 'We're not shit, you just simply aren't smart enough to understand how good we are' is just gaslighting.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Where does that opinion get you other than a state of perpetual misery? These are the best refs there are and they're better than any previous generation of refs. It's a subjective game and everyone disagrees about decisions. If you watch old football there were far more injustices than there are today. It's just that today fans' antennae are set to pick up any opportunity for rage and victimhood. Just roll with it and enjoy the fact that your team is much better than it has been for ages.

[phonics]

I mean it's not true but then say 'Yeah that was a cock up, our bad.'

[randomlegend]

they're better than any previous generation of refs.

Based on what?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pretty much everything in professional sport is objectively at a higher level than ever before, and refereeing is no exception. You think Paul Durkin would have kept up with today's play? No chance.

[Kikó]

Footballers are worse.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Worse to watch but they'd beat Brazil 1970 15-0.

[Lofty]

Trossard was officially given a yellow for delaying but the foul was worth a yellow anyway.

[Danny]

Trossard was officially given a yellow for delaying but the foul was worth a yellow anyway.

My first thought was that he went for the foul.

[Giggles]

For as much of a joke as he was as an international manager, Kenny is some man at this level. If he ends up winning this league it'll top anything he did at Dundalk.

[Giggles]

Also, if Pats have Mason Melia locked down well enough then they're going to be in the money.

[Gray Fox]

Another game for Southampton bossing the possession, but ultimately losing quite comfortably. I wonder how long he sticks to his guns.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He doesn't have any other guns. None of them do.

[Gray Fox]

If you didn't catch the game(I wouldn't blame you if you didn't), Wolves were 2-1 down at home to us at the weekend with 10 minutes to go.
The keeper would pass the ball to the CB. This clearly triggers THE PRESS. CB gets spooked by it and passes to his full back or other CB, who now under pressure, rolls it back to the keeper. We now back off because you don't gung ho press the keeper in that situation and we go back to the start. They did this over and over to end the game without having so much as a chance at goal, all the while Neville seething himself off, over no one willing to deviate from THE PLAN. Sounds like much the same around the league. We even had it to a degree at home to Notts Forest.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cwyl0r8d81lo

I hope this lands. Seems like something that could really benefit their whole football structure.

[Yevrah]

Disappointing that that isn't an article about Southgate taking over at Man Utd, like I thought it'd be after your intro to it.

[Danny]

I saw some guy on twitter claiming the opposite. Like how shit it will be as it pretty much means Wales lose a European spot as one of those will always claim it.

Think he said they get three so this would make it two for Welsh structure teams. Only benefit would be if they built up enough coefficient for a 4th but then they are right back where they started.

[niko_cee]

Another game for Southampton bossing the possession, but ultimately losing quite comfortably. I wonder how long he sticks to his guns.

"We were soft. Whatever personnel you have on the pitch, whatever way you play, if you lack the fight and aggression and spirit and togetherness and courage that we lacked in the first half, you're going to have a big, big problem.

"I didn't recognise our team. I didn't like a lot of what I saw, and I was hurt by the lack of spirit and fight. Normally I'm proud of them for the courage they show, but there was no aggression, no courage, no intensity to play."

The words of a man who is about to "lose the dressing room" if he hasn't already.

[Shindig]

I saw some guy on twitter claiming the opposite. Like how shit it will be as it pretty much means Wales lose a European spot as one of those will always claim it.

Think he said they get three so this would make it two for Welsh structure teams. Only benefit would be if they built up enough coefficient for a 4th but then they are right back where they started.

Here's the thing: Reserve teams of those big clubs have previously entered those competitions. Wrexham was doing it until 1998. Newport's reserves won their league in 1980. The precedent has been set and, historically, Wales' best European performances are down to those four clubs.

[Baz]

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[Gray Fox]

So you're telling me if you give him the ball, he'll score every time?

[Danny]

To everyone’s shock the Bruno red has already been overturned.

[niko_cee]

Salzburg getting felt up by Brest.

[phonics]

My Dads at the West Brom match tonight. Linesman’s collapsed in the middle of the game. People think it’s a heart attack.

[phonics]

That’s such a good run and header from Havertz. He’s just a completely different player from the one that joined.

[niko_cee]

Somebody from the crowd has been made 4th official? Could be a way to improve VAR.

[phonics]

Somebody from the crowd has been made 4th official? Could be a way to improve VAR.

Football would have peaked if they got Boilerman in as the 4th.

[phonics]

We'll be praised for that set piece but that is absolutely ATROCIOUS defending from PSG. They let about 7 players get a run on them.

[Manc]

Donnarumma must have money on the handicap.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The goals show on TNT is shocking this year.

They keep cutting away from action to show the panel chatting bollocks and they can't even show the highlights of the game that is being shown on Amazon.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Celtic are getting fisted which is great to see.

[niko_cee]

"Are PSG better without Mbappe?" I saw postulated earlier on some BBC thing presumably fronted by Julien Laurens.

It would appear not.

[phonics]

Reading the match report of the West Brom game and up pops my most hated statistic.

“Middlesbrough scored the first away goal at the Hawthorns in 6 months”

Using time instead of games to artificially inflate a stat by including the 3 months where they didn’t play any games is peak stat rot.

[Baz]

Reading the match report of the West Brom game and up pops my most hated statistic.

“Middlesbrough scored the first away goal at the Hawthorns in 6 months”

Using time instead of games to artificially inflate a stat by including the 3 months where they didn’t play any games is peak stat rot.
Yeah theres some guy on Twitter doing how many DAYS since Sheffield Wednesday got a penalty, rather than how many games.

[phonics]

Yeah theres some guy on Twitter doing how many DAYS since Sheffield Wednesday got a penalty, rather than how many games.

Someone saw the trend that that 'Days since Mbappe scored a freekick' account got and started a 'Days since Saka scored a freekick' (saka doesn't take free kicks) bought his blue tick and all hoping for money to roll in. Saka scored 3 days after the account was created.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Szczesny has un-retired to sign with Barca.

[Magic]

Anyone watching the Villa game?

Watkins tripped over his own leg, these BT commentators are absolutely shite.

[Ben]

No but I just saw the lad in the crowd do a big Santa's eyebrow though. :lol:

[Ben]

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[Magic]

Hahaha.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Joshua Kimmich really is a tremendous German. He's the sort of German who your daughter could bring home and you would be simultaneously delighted and horrified. He's one of the last remnants of Bavaricana in what is otherwise just another identikit bunch of 2020s mercenary footballers. The fans do at least give it a bit of authenticity with their very German noises, and you can dream yourself into thinking that you're watching a proper Bayern side again. The problem is that just as you convince yourself of that, the camera cuts to Vincent Kompany on the sidelines, looking gormless in his crappy loose jacket and t-shirt. It's like watching scenes from the Nuremberg rally as a delirious partei ramps itself up for another barnstorming speech from the Fuhrer, except Adolf's on annual leave so it's going to be Grant Shapps instead.

[niko_cee]

Jhon Duran might be the best thing to have happened in football for years.

[igor_balis]

This villa side are brilliant, I'm glad being totally detached from west brom allows me to enjoy them more fully.

[niko_cee]

Remember six years ago today a Villa fan threw a cabbage at manager Steve Bruce in the Championship.

:D

[Clunge]

That was the best Villa game of my lifetime. Not the best performance, but the all-round package – the occasion – was incredible. And such a fitting result too, we were very very good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That Duran goal is proper fucking football. 95% of modern players would hold it up there and look for a runner.

[Clunge]

He's the most instinctive player I've ever seen. His thinking time is almost zero. It's either some kind of natural gift, or he is just arrogant enough to believe in himself every time. His real-time reading of the game and the way play develops is so advanced for such a young player.

Rogers, too, is absolutely mustard. Bellingham vibes. His post-match interview was properly impressive too for someone so young.

[niko_cee]

Should be pointed out it is actually October now, ahem thread starters, but in dying homage to the title character:


Former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has hinted his interest in the England manager role, which is currently held by interim manager Lee Carsley.

:happycry:

[John Arne]

Real proper mid-table fodder.

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[Ben]

He's the most instinctive player I've ever seen. His thinking time is almost zero. It's either some kind of natural gift, or he is just arrogant enough to believe in himself every time. His real-time reading of the game and the way play develops is so advanced for such a young player.

Rogers, too, is absolutely mustard. Bellingham vibes. His post-match interview was properly impressive too for someone so young.

Jhon Duran and Nicolas Jackson saving the soul of modern football.

The rise of Rogers is insane. We bought him for £1m last summer. Three months in, didn’t look all that good and struggled to get in the team. Thought we’d hit the jackpot selling him on in January after six weeks of good form in the Championship. Yet here we are.

[Yevrah]

Villa are single handedly keeping my interest in club football alive.