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Someone really should have told the Chelsea board that giving Tommy Tuchel free reign in the transfer market wasn’t the best of ideas.

Saw that last week. This bit stood out: We expected more, he expected more so it was like, without pointing a finger, but it is difficult also for him and for us to not succeed, to not play at Norwich, to be relegated and then suddenly be a central midfielder for Chelsea and competing for top four and for every title. That’s a completely fair assessment, but it’s also questionable when you consider Ruben Loftus-Cheek had a rubbish loan spell at Fulham before coming back and playing 40 games last season under the same manager. I don’t think Tuchel ever saw Gilmour fitting into his team, with lots of rumours that he couldn’t see past his lack of physicality, but he’s unlikely to put it so bluntly in public.

Just a couple of seasons back the Sportsound podcast on a Tuesday had a portion of it dedicated to the lower leagues. I take it they’ve done away with that too?

The undercurrent of the Celtic posters frantically scrambling to deflect from their fans singing IRA songs really shouldn’t be ignored either, tbh.

I think you’re far too uptight if you think time wasting seriously merits such a big change to the game. Most of us enjoy a bit of shithousery. Seeing a wee team absolutely riling up a big team because they aren’t rushing to restart play is part of the game. The continued sanitising and removing every single imperfection from the game needs to piss off. Changes like that inevitably benefit the bigger teams.

It doesn’t seem to be as bad in lots of other leagues, but I don’t know how anyone who is familiar with football in Scotland thinks that we’d manage to pull it off. It will be the same clusterfuck as it is down south.

The plan is to play at Somerset with the North Terrace shut. Why would we move because of the opposition?

He’s been prevented from winning the ball from his own teammate shoving someone into him. You can’t foul a teammate.

This makes absolutely no sense when you consider (as you acknowledged) Willock was shoved into the keeper by a Palace player.

The more I see of Jesse Marsch the more insufferable he gets.

A magnificent display of booing there anytime an Ayr player took more than 2 seconds to restart play.

Liverpool milking every foul is really grating

I didn’t realise how few Scots played for the arse cheeks these days. 3 out of the 22 players starting today. Yet they claim they need B teams to develop Scottish talent.

Nothing I’ve read has confirmed there being a buy-back clause. Where you seeing this @Satoshi?

How did Leicester end up with Danny Ward as their starting keeper?

It’s a close run thing between Morton and Dundee fans on who’s the touchiest when away fans voice any criticism of their club.

Might have been a lower fee on the condition of having a buyback. Good move for him.

I have a bad feeling he’ll find himself still at Chelsea and completely out of the picture once their injuries clear up.

That Arsenal Villa timeline is quite funny.

It’s all the right-wing “get back to the office lazy!” papers that are pushing that narrative.

No, it’s the way Anderson played and the manner in which he left as soon as he didn’t start a game that suggest it.

Chelsea will need to buy another bunch of £70 million players at this rate.

I got the impression he thought he was far too good for this level. He got dropped for 1 or 2 games after doing nothing for months then scurried back to Aberdeen citing a “lack of game time”. Wasn’t impressed. Not that it will be him anyway