Forest v Villa

Good point. Burnley feels properly 'kids for a quid' calamity, doesn't it?

Once linesman puts their flag up, I think the rule is the referee should blow and stop the game.

The referee blew their whistle and the defenders stopped trying to challenge Neco.

It's the keepers fuck up more than the referee I think. She shouldn't be putting her flag up so early. They aren't meant to now.

Was just saying something similar to that to guru minor. I didn't use the word cunt, though.

I thought that was about as poor a game as I've seen from him. Consistently turning back, waiting to draw a man in, and then laying the ball back to Anderson or Neco. If Ndoye had had a game like that Forest fans would be demanding he be thrown in the Trent.

Anyway. We need Utd to dent Dirty Leeds’s goal difference so we can jump above them.

Pivotal week coming up. What team to put out Thursday?

Chicago: Feeling the pressure.

As for the comments about McGinn. He is a fabulous player. He makes Villa tick. Pity we didn’t stump up the cash when we wanted him.

Sunderland win

Did the same for the Watkins chance in the first half.

She was awful, had two decisions to make all day and got both wrong. Should just have kept her flag down. Terrible.

Overall I thought we did well against a top side. We could have nicked it, so could they. A decent enough point.

I thought we were a bit open at the back. Though to be fair they're good aren't they. Hard to nullify for ninety minutes.

We won the xG. I thought Ross Barkley was excellent, they definitely won the midfield battle until they tired in the second half. Delighted with the point and continuing the unbeaten run. As Dave will confirm we now have momentum. Whereas Spuds have the opposite whatever that is. Jesus should have done better with his chances but they were wastful too.

Inertia?

Very pleased with the performance and result overall. Was a good opportunity for McAtee as Gibbs White was largely anonymous.

MOTM is the easiest decision this season. Anyone who doesn't think it was Neco is more drunk than they should be on a Sunday afternoon.

HMs to Sels, Sangare and MGW.

A poor day at the office for Murillo and CHO.

I think the Red Side podcast recently summed it up for me nicely wrt why, even given all our faults and neuroses, we are seemingly managing to claw our way up whereas Spuds players are sinking into the pit. Basically they quoted Bane: "But you merely adopted the dark; [we were] born in it".

Increasingly common over the last couple of months

Didn't he become a father recently? Maybe he's not getting much sleep.