Premier League — Matchweek 28

Admittedly, it’s a shame that their downturn has handed the red twats pole position but, still.

Third and fourth in the league league these two teams show how mediocre the league is this season and although Liverpool deserve to be top they have not been under any real pressure for most of the season——the best of an average bunch and that’s not my natural bias against Liverpool.

Shite song.

They only check for that against us?

It's bad enough them being on air on my dodgy Firestick, the volume is muted whenever these pundits speak, Carragher being the worst of course.

I saw that, Mark. I don't really understand the rules of Rugby too well other than the forward pass. It's much more complex game than for the uneducated like me, think it's just about picking a ball up and running. But that looked fine to me.

But I suppose some would say they were poor misses by the Bournemouth strikers.

So many times, players are put off by the attempted header and don't follow through on the unaffected trajectory of what was a fantastic ball from Kerkez. He stuck with it all the way and got the reward.

Ange will be very unhappy!

I see no recent comments are not showing up on the main menu page again!!

Iraola has built a team with a real identity. I didn't see it coming when we beat them 3-0 at Goodison early in his tenure. Thought he was out of his depth.

Don't think he meant that though.

I'm supposed to be out digging holes in the garden...

Ooops... Yea, I'd forgotten about that glitch again, Rob. Thanks!!!

That is down to money and the director of football, Tiago Pinto (and his predecessor).

Since being promoted in 2021 they have invested more than £350M in their playing squad compared to us in the same period.

Iraola has nothing to do with recruitment and squad building. He just coaches the players he is given by the club.

I've had to agree to restructures in work which have led to redundancy. Worst days of my working life.

And since I hate everyone and everything related to Man United, I've been smiling a lot watching their antics and the distress among their supporters.

Not celebrating that part, Liam, just the general wreckage that the owners have made of the club.

We can push it back if/when we win at the tin hut.

Which is why it's great to see so many Directors of Football and generous owners praised for the major role they play – alongside managers.

Bournemouth are like Brighton and prove the DoF approach CAN work. The system and structure is in place, so you can literally parachute a manager in to pick up from where the last one left off. Smooth transition versus the "let's start again" approach.

I suppose it's get ready for the big red love fest that will engulf our city. I'll have to stay away.

As Rob alludes to, it will be unbearable. When we bring a trophy home, we will have our day and show them what it's like to celebrate.

Many may remember what I call the humiliation of 1986. A joint parade by Liverpool and Everton through the city. Them on the bus in front with the league and cup. Us behind having finished 2nd in the league and lost to them in the FA Cup final, behind them and lost.

I will never understand why we agreed to that. I watched it across from the Pier Head and felt for our players. They didn't want to be there. In hindsight, I probably didn't, but we were out in numbers.

There would have been hardly any neutrals who would have said that they would win the league after Kevin R took the piss out of the clown for the second goal on 22 February 1986.

I was there in the Kop on that day but there was no way in the world that I would have hopped on a Trans-Pennine train for the public disgrace.

Was it top Tory Maggie Maggie Maggie I hate Boys From the Blackstuff Carter who agreed to that fucked up chroeography?