Annoyman

Haha, pretty much the only info I've retained from 30 years of them is Pickford massacring van Dijk ¯\(°_o)/¯

The ref definitely got a couple of glaring decisions wrong against us in the first half, but our goal came from being allowed to take a corner after the two minutes of first half injury time were up, Everton were obviously going to be given the same chance and Martinez was fairly obviously ridiculously time-wasting and continued to do so in a toned down way after the yellow and into injury time, so I dunno that his timekeeping was the biggest issue he had

I was originally thinking this was just a bad time to play them in terms of the new manager bounce thing and how up for it they'd be, but they're basically going to treat every game like a Merseyside derby now because of Gerrard Derangement Syndrome aren't they I don't blame them for not liking Gerrard, it's not like we'd have any reason to if he hadn't started managing us and appeared to be reasonably good, but some of them clutching their pearls over him pulling funny faces at them after they've been chanting that his kid is someone else's all game is pretty hilarious There is something kind of grim about having to psyche yourself up with this "Big Dunc's gonna get us right up for it, Villa won't know what hit them" stuff pre-game; in the end I thought it was reasonably obvious to everyone that what had hit us was one shot on target plus a plastic bottle I don't necessarily think their bottle-chucking fans are representative of them any more than our ones who booed taking the knee are of us tbh, though some of the loudmouths saying it was only a plastic bottle and Cash and Digne made the most of it should have a full plastic bottle thrown at their head so they can show off how minor it is for us all

The illicit thrill of rooting for Leeds United is a hell of a vibe

Konsa had a sip out of the Lucozade bottle I really hope he was confident it was the right shade of yellow

This is like a cup tie against a Championship team, which kinda doesn't fill me with confidence somehow

what odds can you get for McGinn committing an actual crime at some point in this match

Going for "mixed but the boos will be more noticeable"

Thought the free kick for the first was quite harsh to be fair, it looked like he nicked the ball fairly cleanly from the side

They signed Mykolenko on 1st Jan as his replacement, I guess having known since December that Digne and Rafa weren't going to work together, so they were always going to need to move Digne on from FFP pov Mykolenko had a mare yesterday by all accounts

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1482736857939169281?s=19

Judging by yesterday their problems are going to take anyone a while to sort out

Ramsey MOTM hahaha, give him a framed printout of this thread

Love how people watching ~broadcasts at slightly different times means you get this heady mix of people furious about an overhit cross from two minutes ago and people who are just mashing the keyboard like Fjgjfjfjjddjdjdj because of an astonishing two goal comeback

The NBC commentator was willing the ball onto Chris Wood's enormous head so hard all game he must have a migraine now

Initially read this as suggesting Gerrard was literally using dark arts to make himself young enough to start personally, like what did he just sign Coutinho to eat his soul or something

There's clearly a tiny little stressless "yuh" at the end the second time he says it. It's a dang Rorschach imo, everyone's gonna say what they already did Shades of ?Steve Ryder or someone asking Ruud Gullit to definitively confirm how "Johan Cruyff" is pronounced, Gullit being like [extremely Dutch accent] "Yo Ahn Kro-oofe" and Ryder being like "ah yes just as we thought, Yohan Crife" to Gullit's bafflement

This is all set up for Villa to come flying out of the gate, play out of their skins for the first twenty then gradually and inexorably lose a near incident-free game 2-0 United will get a penalty but it'll be so clunkingly obviously a penalty that it will give their fans six months of being like "see? If teams stopped fouling us refs - who all hate us - wouldn't have to give us penalties ", and give the Actually a Man United Fan ref six months of being like The only way to avoid this destiny would be if half the Holte End ran on the pitch and absolutely battered Coote the first time he gave them literally anything, though God forbid it ever happen

It was a joke, was an OTT passive-aggressive spoof tweet by the comedian Limmy

Really classy statement by Digne tbf

stoooop quotiiiiing hiiiiiim

Thank god VAR overturned that clear and obvious error it took them five minutes to find

Is the guy who escaped from that trophy still on our books or did we just let him run free to meet whatever destiny awaits him? Also God, easy to forget that clean-shaven Grealish is the most Irish-looking man in existence, how did he ever end up in the England setup

Nobody knows for definite how close this is or isn't right now, but if McNulty fell down his stairs and cracked his skull he'd be like "sections of McNulty's camp will no doubt have felt this debilitating injury represents an unwanted setback for the longtime BBC man, but at this stage it would be premature to assume anything definitive about the mindset of this most mercurial of wordsmiths".