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The Conway of earlier in the season is miles ahead of Johnston (who is not a left back and a liability there). I'd have been using these last few games to see if we can play Conway back to form, otherwise we're stuck with Johnston at left back and it'll be a massive weak link

Plymouth are one of those clubs who can summon a mass of neutrals/semi interested folk who fancy a day out as the only club in their county has made it to a final. Oxford was similar. Of all the players off contenders we'd only outnumber Stockport. Stevenage and Luton will also get a ton of day trippers who support other London clubs in the main but are local enough to fancy watching a match. Bradford will be the novelty factor as said.

No way on the penalty. His arm comes out from the unnatural position behind his back as he's turning away from the ball into a more natural position by his side for balance. That coincides with the PSG player blasting the ball into his thigh and then ricochets onto his arm, which is then pushed back by the force of the ball. At no point is he intentionally looking to handle the ball or have his arm in an unnatural position (apart from the bits where he has his arms behind his back to try to guard against poor refereeing)

Also how good does Kane look with these players alongside him? Drifts wherever he wants, plays other forwards in. Meanwhile England will have him isolated up front and then taking corners or something

I just can't imagine celebrating any goal fully knowing someone has to forensically find reasons to disallow it

Football at its peak ruined by referees and VAR

Pretty much the same standard as port vale away this.... Unbelievable watch this - levels above the premier League.

Correct. I think it makes for a worse spectacle as a neutral when teams can't sell all their home tickets but we'll be there or thereabouts if we restrict the opposition to 2k

I think they'll have to give us a bit on the side as that away end only holds 1644. Not as much as last weekend but enough to top it up to 2k. We'll do the same and just give them the upper tier of the south, which is handily 2064 seats so we don't really lose out on segregation. It's just annoying if we end up playing in one of the other tiny stadiums and still have to give them 2k for 1k in return

2k or 10%, whichever is lower, is what you have to give in the play offs for away allocation. So can only see us getting the full 2k at Bradford. All others we'll have to give 2k but get a smaller allocation back

Johnston at left back... I'm really not a fan of it. Would rather try to get Conway back to form than play Johnston out of position

The other 3 are rapid, just not sure Burstow for Dalby makes any difference to the overall pace stats as both are slow. And that's not an issue, their game isn't pace, it's being in the right position for headers, chances in the box etc and tussling with centre backs.

Yeah the chanting tails off very quickly once the extent of the disaster becomes obvious. It's a proper could have happened to any stadium moment. Horrendous.

A few pundits tried to bring that in as a term back when Pirlo was at his peak around 2010 and I was glad it didn't stick then and don't want to hear it again

Really bad knock for him at Cardiff that he soldiered through but wouldn't surprise me if that's the end of his season