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Finally, a score worth sharing! 😂 www.maptap.gg April 3 95🏅 86🎓 100🎯 89🎉 99🎯 Final score: 945

Long overdue but character appears to be a key criteria in United’s recruitment these days. Tonali making a stand and boycotting the World Cup doesn’t do his reputation any harm…😉

It’s only taken me about 4 years of watching on and off, but I’ve finally finished ‘See’ on Apple TV. Enjoyed it overall. Some good, some bad. But glad I got to the end of it.

Interesting take from Vaughan considering James Foster and Chris Read, the country’s finest glovemen during his time as England captain, were largely overlooked. He mainly went with Jones, as for the most part in Test cricket, the role of the keeper is a blend of wicket keeping and runs.

Like asking Joel and Avram to donate to Manchester United Football Club plc

Well that was marvellous.

Very excited to be seeing Project Hail Mary in IMAX 70mm tonight! ☀️👨‍🚀🚀👽

Bent and Goldstein’s show is pretty much the only show worth listening to on TalkSPORT if you find yourself in a car between the hours of 4pm and 7pm. But I must say, listening to Martin Keown get his knickers in a twist this morning & arguing with fellow Arsenal fans has been quite entertaining!

It wasn’t my intention to shoehorn United into this topic, but it’s a nice reminder isn’t it! 😁

On the cup final…I think something that might have played a part in the way the game panned out was City’s recent experiences at Wembley. Losing two cup finals, (finals they never really showed up in), must have been fresh in their minds, and their approach in the 2nd half appeared to show that.

Observations from some of today’s football… 1. Odd for Simmons and Kolo Muani not to start today after impressing mid week. 2. Just play your best GK in a final. Forget sentimentality. Especially if you don’t regularly win trophies.

So far this season, we’ve had 3 PL games kick off at 3pm on a Saturday. We’ve gone from Thursday Sunday to just Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Bit of a joke considering we’ve been in no European competitions this season. Just a complete disregard for match-going fans once again.

Also, I’d argue Amad cutting in on his left, as he showed in the first half, is the definition of a ‘GOAL SCORING OPPORTUNITY’ 😂 Football ties itself in knots sometimes.

And just the 24 days to wait now 🙄

Well, just feel a bit gutted after that.

Random Friday afternoon findings that may/not have any bearing on tonight’s game. Bournemouth have drawn 4 league games in a row: 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 Tonight’s referee is Stuart Attwell. He has given out the 2nd most yellow cards this season (88). Last time we won vs Bournemouth (0-1 May ‘23) 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mainoo and Maguire back in the England squad. Well deserved. 👏

Flip that on its head and we’re due some away goals and it’s about time they got a thumping at home!

Regardless of the chaos that took place in the corresponding fixture, I’ve got a feeling tomorrow’s game might be a tough, close, low scoring affair. Bournemouth have the joint 4th best home defence in the league & the last time we scored more than one goal away from home was vs Arsenal back in Jan.

Not buying that Reuters story linking us to a £69m move for Guimaraes. 29 next season, coming off a relatively long injury with a World Cup this summer. Can think of two Newcastle players I’d prefer us to go in for.

When did everyone start caring so much about the strength of the PL? Can’t remember seeing this many ‘maybe the Premier League isn’t as strong as we all think it is’ stories. Not that I care but surely the mere fact there were 6 English teams in the competition in the first place says it all?

I know this is pretty much ‘man who worked well with other man praises him’ but I found this insight from Russell Martin on Jason Wilcox on the Monday Night Club interesting.

As a Manchester United fan I rightly expect absolutely no sympathy for the abject state of my club. I will also say: Wenger's Arsenal overwhelmed Manchester United fair and square, while Chelsea and Manchester City didn't, and football as a whole is still paying a huge price for that.

Think the game might be gone.

Like clockwork…

Exciting thing for me is while Sesko has already scored all types of goals for us this season, he’s yet to unleash an absolute thunder cracker from distance that we know he’s capable of. I can’t wait for those to start flying in as well. Happy Monday morning!

Patrick Davidson on Sky 😴 Deliberately being obtuse in his interview with Tudor there. Shit stirring for the sake of footage that will be clipped, packaged up and sent out with a Sky Sports notification along the lines of ‘MUST WATCH: Tudor clashes with Patrick Davidson after draw’ popping up soon.

If anyone’s scrolling and fancies providing me with their thoughts on how we played today, that would be nice.

Mother’s Day duties today so I’ve missed this one. But just thought I’d add my thoughts… Up the Reds!

Big Igor’s going to have to dust off his boots. On second thoughts…

The words rather, needles and eyes come to mind.

Wolfgang Puck cooks his Oscar after-party menu while wearing a well-made pair of tights.

Invasion (Apple TV) Will something please just happen! Absolutely crawled through S3 and I am on the verge of giving up.

Whether England win this or not, I’m just pleased they’ve turned up. Even your staunchest England fan didn’t really think we’d beat India in India in a semi-final but we’ve got a lot closer than I expected at the innings break. Fine margins in T20 and it looks like catches will once again be key.

Last thing from me on last night. As we know, much of our issues aren’t down to talent but mentality. I would argue that sitting them down & showing a split screen of the City/Arsenal games with last night, focusing on running, closing down, harrying etc would have more impact than anything.

Found it odd last night how often Lammens looked for Cunha instead of Sesko. I get the Tripper height difference but it just didn’t seem to be working. Thought a switch between Sesko and Cunha could have paid off and kept us up the pitch a bit more frequently.

Perfectly put by Henry winter. Just ridiculous non stop from legends of the club! Wonder how many times he had something ready to put out over the last few weeks but had to delete it cause we hadn’t lost

If anyone’s got some wise words to share, a sense of perspective, some positivity…I’m all ears. My rational mind tells me it’s not all doom and gloom but I’m just not feeling very rational this morning.

Still absolutely gutted about that. The manner of our performance, the game situation, the kind results elsewhere and the eventual defeat is just so infuriating.

Just watched the game as was out tonight. Really wish I hadn’t have bothered.

Keeping everything crossed for a win obviously but with Wolves remembering how to play football tonight and Villa and Chelsea taking points off each other tomorrow, I think I’d probably take a point given our recent record at St.James’s Park.

Law of averages says a Gomez had to have some say in deciding this match.

It’s games like today when we’ll really miss Bruno once he’s gone. The goal and assist were huge, but so were the smaller things. A sharp turn here, a feint there, opening the pitch and keeping the ball under pressure. We don’t win today without him. Appreciate him while we can.

Bicycle kicks however, are most certainly not naff. Some goal that!

Adding Rangers walking out to ‘Simply the Best’ to the list of ‘naff things in football’.

Really uncharacteristic comments from a man who reordered the list of penalty takers to ensure he went last in a CL final penalty shootout in order to be the hero (and missed), lifted the CL trophy in full kit after not playing and manufactured a guard of honour after 26 minutes of his final game.

Tarkowski just fuck off. Thug.

Sat back here. Stopped playing. Asking for trouble.