Eddie 🦁

Opta Stan.

Maccabi Tel Aviv have had 2 match postponements in the last 266 days for public disorder.

Aston Villa haven't had 1 in 50,080 days (since 8th September 1888, Football League Matchday 1, the birth of global league football). Home or away.

Gaslit.

Maccabi Tel Aviv’s derby against Hapoel cancelled tonight in Israel’s league after riots in & around the stadium, leading to injuries.

Yeah, maybe the safety committee and West Midlands Police got it right?

I went down a massive rabbit hole of looking up the current heads of deposed European royal houses. There's a Bonaparte and a Bourbon both claiming the French crown. A Von Hapsburg claiming the Austro-Hungarian title. And two competing Hohenzollerns for the Imperial crown of Germany.

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

What if "who they are" is a violent racist football hooligan?

I mean, imo their being non-football has nothing to do with it. The Muslim homeowners and business don't want a violent mob who hate them on their streets. This is a Birmingham issue, not a Villa issue.

It would be absolutely insane to let a mob of violent Islamaphobic football hooligans march through Aston.

Wrong to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match, says PM Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game over safety concerns.

Of course Starmer is siding with the notoriously violent and proudly Islamaphobic football hooligans over the half a million Muslims residents of our second city who are scared their homes and businesses will be targeted like those in Amsterdam. #avfc

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Doesn't share it any more. Must be delighted.

Zero Newcastle doesn't feel right. I don't know whether it's Pope, Burn, Gordon, or Wolt. But it's definitely some of them.

Jesus. Thoughts and prayers.

Holding mid-price #FPL assets is a lot like playing a slot machine. You're torn, you want to walk away because you're already so far down, but you know the fucker is due to pay out, and the second you leave some prick is going to waltz in and steal your jackpot.

Senesi is literally captianable. He has so many routes to points he returns every week. #FPL

I might actually have to transfer Lacroix to Guehi for my own sanity. Definitely a miscalculation #FPL

Oh Erling, you're such a tease #FPL

At what point do we start considering Jason Anthony as a serious option? It's giving me Mahrez "this can't keep happening" energy #fpl

All that should tell you is that we were desperately unlucky not to get another 10 pointer.

Thiago brace after wildcarding him out is very FMLFPL

Surely this just means that newly returned Saka is a lock.

Seven Dean Smith signings in the starting eleven.
Seven Unai Emery signings on the bench.
There's no argument who the better tactician is but we need to revise our appraisal of the Christian Purslow / Johan Lange era
#avfc.

This is going to be a big week for captaincy. Any of Palmer, Salah, Semenyo, Pedro or Haaland feel equally likely to haul or blank.

I was on JP cap but his 96mins against Bayern on Wednesday gave me pause. I'm currently on Semenyo as he's facing a tired Newcastle at home who Bournemouth destroyed last season.

Emery's mid-block has been found out a bit. Really struggles to create changes against deep defensive teams who let us have the ball. Which will be exactly what Sunderland do. We're also missing an outlet player without Diaby/Bailey/Rashford/Asencio. Hopefully Elliott becomes that player.

Oh he'll start. We rested him for Malen against Brentford in the League Cup on Tuesday. I'm just not sure he'll do much away against a decent Sunderland defence.

Very. Sunderland have looked good defensively, particularly at home and we've not scored a league goal yet.

My claim to enlightenment is that I've had Andersen and Senesi since GW1.

He's actually flying.

Have they nerfed Tosins DefCons to 9 or is my #FPL app monging out on me? He was on 4pts a minute ago.

I have a similar relationship with Reinildo. Sunderland's defence is actually legit.

And yet, perversely, right!