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They failed to reach this stage of the Europa League last season - they were also put out of the Conference League at the first time of asking, and they definitely haven't improved since. Celtic have no place in European football.

From turning round that disastrous result in Dublin, making the decision about the change of formation and dealing with a shit load of injuries over three difficult games, this has been a superbly managed week from Clarke - I'd say his best since he took the job. Taking us to pot 2 from the starting point of that Kazakhstan game is some doing, an even more impressive milestone than getting us to the Euros. The emergence of some really good players has obviously helped, but integrating them properly is a challenge in itself and I'm not convinced someone like McLeish would even have capped people like Hickey, Patterson, Gilmour, Adams, Dykes by now. f**k the play off and f**k the seeding. The European 'elite' are dross across the board and fully ready for a hounding - get this competition won.

Sacrilege. Both these teams are painfully boring, but England lucked out with their WC draw and should at least get to the knockouts. I don't fancy this Germany team getting past Spain, Japan and Costa Rica.

Doon.

It's about stories and it's about characters. I'm shocked that you've omitted The Chels from this conversation.

Never heard of this Italian or the clubs he's managed. Good, British managers are being locked out of our league. I'm looking at big Dychey and I'm afraid he'll have to dip back into the Champ before coming back into the big one. Shambles.

Me at 10am today: 12.30pm: FKVyJI.mp4

@Lex found.

Witchell: "It's funny to speak of her in the past tense." Indeed.

Was exchanging a few texts about the Tuchel carry-on with Dennis Wise the other day (a good man, and a personal mate). Do you know what Wisey had to say about the German? Well, I'll spare him the media storm by not repeating it here! What I will say is, is that they could do a lot worse than appointing a cultured, hard-up Chelsea man like that to advise this American board on footballing matters.

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Big Tommers is wiping his shitey hoop all over this Arsenal midfield.

30:00 HUBLOT

The lads over at beIN would flush his stupid face down the toilet if he turned up there.

To be honest, I've never been all that convinced that this Thomas Tuchel has the kind of calibre required to manage The Chels. Managing in your half empty grounds in the German liga is one thing, it's another level to get your results at the likes of Elland Road, St Mary's, the American Express, etc. Tell you what, here's a name for you: John Terry.

A few keepie-ups to wind up the opposition: bad. Rolling down the window to spit on a child: fair game.

Mo Salah has been a glorified Aiden Nesbitt for about 6 months. Complete waste of a jersey.

Raw pearl barley is cheaper than both rice and pasta (albeit a bit longer to cook) and can be used in mostly the same ways. A 500g bag from morrisons is 65p and will easily serve 10. It looks like dug sick but I made a barley cheese bake with broccoli and bacon. All ingredients in - barley, bacon lardons, broccoli, courgette, cheddar, cream cheese, stilton, ham stock cube - I worked out the cost per portion about 85p (make it veggie and its about 50p).

Getting asked to take my gran to the hospital, but I'm going to have to rewind that right away to watch it again. Can't quite comprehend the quality of what I've watched.

Good to see The Arse back to their fluent, free-flowing best. The Manchester City fairytale is compelling, but you can't tell me it's not important to have your traditional clubs at the top end of the Barclays Premiership. I'm talking about your Arsenals, your Chelseas, your Tottenham Hotspurs.

You'd think Colin Weir was Jackie Husband or something with the nick of those statements. The club is a necrocracy; all of this legitimised by the presumed wishes of a deed fat guy whose only notable talents were shovelling scotch pies and remembering to stick the numbers on. Get them hounded.

Struggling to keep the nut at work thinking about MNF tonight. Will probably take the afternoon off #Bzzzzz #Barclays30