Football 2024-25. Pep’s last season?

Shame Tonali didn't play today, I would have liked to have seen him after the rave reviews last week.

I’m loving the Ineos implosion, I have to admit. Cycling, Ben Ainslie and now NZ rugby are suing them. Hopefully they’ll be able to focus their sole attention on making United worse. 

Good win for Arsenal! I reckon they could stick Merino up top for a few games, I’d half expected Gabriel up there, he’s their best finisher.   

Good win for city pre bernabeu. 

Wow Mitomas goal on Friday night was something else!!

The battle for 13th spot between United and Spurs should be ‘interesting’ later.

I’m predicting a nil nil draw but with 138 attempts on goal by both sides as the most comedically inept defences in the league come up against the most laughably wayward strikers. There’s going to be lots of giving away of the ball by apparently disoriented defenders, resulting in absolute sitters being launched into Row Z  

Hopefully it'll be as chaotic as the Carabao Cup game! 

Amorim saying again this week they can't sign anyone in the summer without selling. They've very few sellable players, other than Mainoo and Garnacho, bet Jim wishes he'd ended up with Chelsea instead. 

Mainoo and Garnacho are apparently being touted out for sale, which is insane. The rest of the players we’ve got (with the possible exception of Bruno) are unsellable due to being both crap and on ludicrous contracts with bonkers salaries. 

There’s an article in the Observer Sport section today about just how good the latest crop of kids are that are coming through the Academy. Amorim must surely be tempted to drop all the overpaid donkeys and just put the kids out instead. And if he isn’t then he should be! This season is a write off anyway, so why not? 

Since when did corners become UFC contests?

You’ll never win anything with kids Binners! I agree - play them, bed some in, if they’re good enough. The downside would be putting them into such a poor team. 

Watching Liverpool v Wolves. The ref, Simon Hooper, looks at least 3 stone overweight. Red faced and sweating like hell. How can he keep up with play and keep a cool head when he’s physically ruined?! 

Liverpool looked knackered second half, did well to hang on there. 

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The ref, Simon Hooper, looks at least 3 stone overweight. Red faced and sweating like hell. How can he keep up with play and keep a cool head when he’s physically ruined?! 

We try our best!

Watching a couple of ageing divas fighting over the prom dress now. With my stinking everlasting cold.

Red faced and sweating like hell. How can he keep up with play and keep a cool head when he’s physically ruined?!

On a related note, how are United getting on in the second half?

Dear god that was dire! Watching an absolutely shite team beat an absolutely woeful side, then considering that every one of those players is on hundreds of thousand pounds a week?

Sweet Jesus!  We’re now 15th and there’s not a single one of those useless, lazy, overpaid  *s is fit to wear the shirt

This is what happens when you’ve owners who couldn’t give a flying * and mercenary journeymen players who couldn’t give a flying **** either.

Sign for United and get paid 350 grand a week for just turning up. Sometimes you don’t even have to do that. Zero effort required. 

In form Everton away next 😬 

That Rashford looks a player. 

Remind me where Villa found him? 

Seriously though I do wonder if his and to a degree Sancho:s apparent bad attitude was due to the useless players there earning way more and being useless.

We’ve got a ‘striker’ who we paid £75 million for, who hasn’t scored (or had an assist) since the beginning of December, and that was in the Europa league against a side nobody has ever heard of. He was as hopeless as ever against Spurs yesterday. 

In other news, apparently the club is on the verge of bankruptcy, saddled as it is with servicing the Glazers huge debts. The 1 billion Jim Radcliffe paid for his stake in the club has already been swallowed up by the financial black hole and still none of original debt has been paid off. 

The whole club is a total basket-case. If there weren’t 3 clubs at the bottom who really are terrible, we’d genuinely be in a relegation scrap now. We could still be yet if this form continues. 

Sadly I don't think you need to worry about relegation - 3/4 of the clubs beneath you are incapable of putting a run together.

These Championship games are far more entertaining than that premiership game last night. These teams really want to get out of the pit.

To be fair, watching me feed my cats would actually be more entertaining than that premiership game last night. My cats could probably make better footballers than any of the donkeys on display it that turgid debacle

Excellent performance from Leeds tonight getting the winning goal in the last minute of extra time after trailling Sunderland for much of the game, and pushing Sunderland further away from the automatic promotion spots, but they should be safe for the play-offs.  Next Monday could be interesting when Leeds go to Sheffield United in a top of the table clash. The Championship is seeing some mighty games this season. 

MOT / ALAW

Looking forward to next Monday night now Utd V Utd.

Yeah, that was a bonkers finish last night, but for some reason, when we got that corner at the death, I had a feeling we'd score. I am not sure I will be able to bear the pressure next Monday! MOT 

but they should be safe for the play-offs

Absolutely - they are 18 points clear of seventh place so it would take some stunning runs from the teams below them, coupled with a shocking dip in form from them to miss out.

And I loved the BBC headline on the match feed:

Lightening Struijk's twice.

Superb result for us that 'should' take Sunderland out of the auto spots. Must admit I thought we were heading for another 1-0 defeat where we had loads of possession but little cutting edge. MOT, ALAW.

Must admit I thought we were heading for another 1-0 defeat where we had loads of possession but little cutting edge. 

That's a bit harsh – our GD is almost the same as Sheffield United's and Burnley's combined! If we don't get promoted I don't think a single Leeds fan will ever be able to live it down.