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    It felt a little like he let his foot off of Boris throat towards the end, but I think that's because the pertient points that will headline tonight's news had already been said - called for him to resign, said he was a liar - and by that point Boris was just stonewalling, so you probably couldn't get much more out of him. I think Starmer actually handled that quite well, and I say that as someone that dislikes Starmer a lot.
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    We've not beaten them in the FA Cup since the 1957 final and in my lifetime we've beaten Utd just 5 times, I can't see how anyone would expect us to come out of this week with anything more than 2 losses. No point getting upset over the inevitable screwing we're gonna get this week.
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    The bit in bold about Ramsey isn't correct and is the whole problem with the goal. You can see from the angle at around 3:14 in the tweet that Ramsey has gotten in the wrong position and then has to crab across to block Cavani's run, if he was in the correct position to begin with and was stood still when the free kick was being taken it would've been fine, but Ramsey made it too obvious he was acting as a blocker. You're allowed to just stand offside and if someone runs into you that's on them, but you can't obviously try to block a run.
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    I knew the "eye test" would get brought up, I would've put money on it if I could. I use the "eye test" too, from watching Targett I happen to think he's quite a good full back that is unfairly maligned on here, the stats just back up my opinions on him, and my opinion of him is how I knew I could find him performing well in those stats.
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    That's what the xA is for, and his xA is consistently above his actual Assists, suggesting it is in fact players not finishing his chances.
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    Targett has an above average Cross Completion %, yet somehow it's become common knowledge on here that he can't cross. Everyone on here realises that a good cross completion % is around 25%, right? They don't come off very often. He's statistically one of the better creative full backs in the league and has our 3rd highest xA and xA/90 (if you exclude Chukwuemeka on the xA/90 as he's only played 112 minutes, which just makes it hard to judge his stats). His xA/Key Pass is also at 0.10 for Open Play, just shy of what Grealish had for us last season. He's fine for a team competing to get in to the tophalf/top 8.
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    I think that's just Ariana Grande, I'm 27 and when I was first aware of her I was slightly uncomfortable finding her attractive because I thought she was young, and even now I would never have guessed she was actually older than me.
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    Admittedly I don't watch a lot of French football, but it looks like he was their starting LB last season then got a couple of big injuries, and by the time he was back to full fitness, Marseille had a new manager that didn't use full backs, so he's had limited time and had to fill in at CB and LM. Also, Nice are above them in the table and just sold their LB to Watford, so not exactly a bad move for him, plus it's where he started at before coming to us, so probably just a case of a Win-Win-Win for all involved.
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    He seems to have been slightly more reliable in the NSWE era, I get the feeling he may be one of Purslow's main go to guys for leaking stories.
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    I saw that and was confused why the Phillips talk had suddenly come up again, but it turns out we weren't really linked to him, it was just Gregg Evans in the Athletic saying it would be his dream signing of the window and that he knows Villa would still be interested, there was no actual suggestion we were going to try for him, and then any other report just picked up the line "Villa are still admirers" and left out the part where Evans said it definitely won't happen.
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    Personally think Coutinho would be a pretty bad signing, with the only hope being that Gerrard can get something out of him due to their previous connection. He's been at Barca for four years now and been rubbish for all but the first 6 months. His time at Bayern might show there's still a good player in him, but not sure that will outweigh the poor performances at Barca. I hope I'm wrong if this goes through, but it just feels like we're going for a name without considering why we're able to get said name.
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    Yeah, he's definitely miles better than 3 players who all either out performed him or performed equally despite missing half a season through injury.
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    Nearly every transfer in professional football will go to the agent first to see if the player would be interested so that the club doesn't waste time negotiating with a club only to be told to do one by the player. Whether Tagliafico is a plausible rumour or not I don't know, but it'd be very possible for us to have "made approaches" without that being directly to Ajax.
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    Have been half watching tonight between flicking to other tabs on my laptop, so naturally I have managed to miss every single wicket. Time for bed I think so I can wake up to an Aussie collapse...
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59755557 Well, we can stop worrying about whether Joe Gomez would be good enough for us, as we clearly aren't going to be able to sign him.
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    A pretty enjoyable precedent they're setting though, if your teammate has the ball, you can just wipe out an opponent!
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    I'm just upset that our game with them is almost definitely going to be postponed, would love to play them right now.
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    Judging by the close up then, I reckon he might do it before the end of the game
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    I wonder if that was what the referee was speaking to the Leeds bench about 10 minutes ago when they pointed towards the fans, there's not exactly much the fans could do to get the ref involved.
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    Hayden can **** off, clearly not a head injury and only started holding his head when he realised the ball wasn't cleared.
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    They are so lucky there looks to be three teams even shitter than them this season. Can't see Bielsa sticking around after this year though, and I doubt they'll be able to attract anyone that good to replace him.
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    It was outside the box wasn't it? If so, then no, VAR couldn't do anything as it wasn't a red card offence.
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    2 of which are coming back from long injuries and one is either just 17 or would be out of position depending on whether you mean Chukwuemeka or Ings
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    Take a look at the bench, not exactly a lot of options.
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