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Raven

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Huge 3 points for Burnley, hopefully they leapfrog Newcastle and the scum stay in the relegation zone.
 

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Yep, standard Burnley away performance from us. And it is good for them, I hope they stay up. I hate playing them with a passion but it's hard not to respect Dyche for what he achieves with what he's got there.
 

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Sounds like Conte might be about to throw in the towel. Shame really, comes across as a really nice chap, but it's obviously not working.
 

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Sounds like Conte might be about to throw in the towel. Shame really, comes across as a really nice chap, but it's obviously not working.

I think what happens this summer will be key for Conte and Kane.
 

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I'd be amazed if he goes but he was *weird* after the match. A week ago he was saying it's one of the best groups of players he's ever worked with, then that he goes to training with a smile every day because he enjoys it so much and now all of a sudden he's having an existential crisis and we've made him consider whether he is in fact a good coach. Then he said "I'm not emotional". Ok, Tone, whatever you say.

The most popular theory right now is that he's getting his ducks in a row to get assurances for the Summer window. Four losses out of 5 is shite but very few teams actually expect to go to Burnley and have a fun match every season.
 

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The most popular theory right now is that he's getting his ducks in a row to get assurances for the Summer window. Four losses out of 5 is shite but very few teams actually expect to go to Burnley and have a fun match every season.

What about at home to Wolves and Southampton? He'd be under pressure at a lot of clubs with Spurs in this form.
 

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Rangers vs. Dortmund is heating up nicely. Dortmund dominated the first 20 mins then a pen for Rangers to go 5-2 up on aggregate but Bellingham's just pulled one back.

Edit - and they could both have scored another goal since I made this post.
 

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McCoist is always good on Comms but even better than normal tonight
 

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6-4 on aggregate. Still wouldn't rule Dortmund out but they've not seemed as likely so far in the 2nd half.
 

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Imagine relying on Pepe to equalise at home to Wolves.
 

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All time worst var decision lol
They showed a replay a few minutes later that VAR didn't make available to the ref when he reviewed it which made it even more obvious that it wasn't a foul. Incredible decision all round.
 

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I am not sure if it makes a lot of difference, he still owns it.

I know he is silly rich, but he won't be just giving it away.
 

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Scandalous to not give that handball against City. Rodri totally misjudged the flight/spin of the ball and moved his arm towards it.

Also, of course the Abramovich thing will make a difference, he'll have taken the most expensive legal advice around and wouldn't have done it otherwise. I'm sure it'll have been done in such a way that he can legally "prove" he doesn't own it but will be able to retake control somehow at some point in the future.
 

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Listening to the match we seemed to have been completely hard done by with the handball appeal. The fact he didn't call for the ref to review it himself is shocking if it was that close quarters.

To have got anything out of that match will have been a bonus, but we're so... Perilous now. But at the same time we still have matches in hand
 

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Bielsa gone. I know Leeds fans adored him but I never saw the big fuss. Yes he coached exciting, high-intensity football but that seemed to be the only kind of football he knew how to coach and an inability to adapt and deal with injuries is one of the reasons they're where they are in the league. It's like the rest of the league figured out how to counter Leeds and he had no plan B.

 

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It is the fact he didn't seem to change tactics and thus kept leaking massive amounts of goals.
 

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