5 people on the floor after every set piece. Unreal

Newcastle vs Leeds has transported me to the late 90s. What a game!

Starting to think my pre-season concerns over a Brentford relegation were misplaced

Palace down half a team and Villa still can’t beat them Glasner truly is Emery kryptonite

Transfer Talk pod, first of the month! Plenty on Semenyo, West Ham's striker movements and if Amorim's sacking affects United's intentions this month.

Genuinely, what a lineup

Stripped him of playcalling duties 🤷🏼‍♂️ no surprise here (Actually think that may have been a big mistake, considering the knock-on effects)

West Ham have had that doomed relegation stink to them all season. Everything just goes wrong. Tonight a wonderful, dreadful example of it all.

Rúben Amorim's diary Year 2026 Second comment "It's been a whole day since anybody asked me any questions about Kobbie Mainoo or playing three at the back. It's bliss. I've been out for a walk and cracked a smile. Nothing troubles me now. I'm thinking about going on holiday."

Liam Rosenior, Head Coach of Chelsea. This is *very* deep save Football Manager stuff isn't it?

Luckily there are lots of available Head Coaches out there with the personality to manage huge clubs under intense pressure.

Probably not a coincidence that Liam Delap is playing well in what is basically an Ipswich gamescript

Off the ball, Estêvão is basically playing right-wing-back (marking O’Reilly) so Palmer can sit centrally and block a channel. Has to happen to level the numbers vs. City’s central overload. Looks…precarious

Warra finish Harry Wilson, phew

Gabriel Goodmundsson more like

That was really odd from Ayden Heaven? And a massive shame too, given how well he’s played this season - and especially in the last 2-3 weeks

Wait, is it somehow Saturday?

😂😂😂

And now an absurd save, wow

Interesting bit of goalkeeping from Joan García there… The Koulibaly Shove

That’s what you want to see much more from Gyökeres in the absence of goals: destabilising a defence so his talented teammates might find space to enjoy

Time for the AFCON knockouts.

Wolves would be top of a Premier League table for 2026.

West Ham are sinking, my god. A bleak performance to match a bleak situation. Mateus Mané, 18 years old, just produced a fine Matheus Cunha impression in the old gold.

Ridiculously easy for Villa. Premier League games aren’t really supposed to be like that - especially against the likes of Forest. A gift to have such a stroll of a game in the middle of such a packed schedule.

Villa trying to pick a triple lock with a single horse hair here. What happened to Long Shots FC?

Eduardo Quaresma’s pass to send Luis Suárez through for his goal tonight was an absolute dream. Couple of years ago he was getting huge hype but then it went quiet. Now enjoying a run in a very strong Sporting XI.

I'll be here all month.

Forest’s late-window splurge on way-too-many attackers last summer takes on yet another weird hue

The Hudl conference in November was packed with insight into how football is changing, and what new innovations might guide this transfer window. Here's all the detail I could gather from an intriguing day in west London

West Ham's new striker, Pablo, is running as hot as a striker can conceivably run. He has scored 10 goals from 11 shots on target (20 total) for Gil Vicente this season. Overperforming his xG by 4.6. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Top 15 minutes played this season among Premier League players. This is every competition, so includes Europe and the Carabao Cup. Really hammers home how bad Palace are in need of reinforcements this month. No wonder they're moving quickly on Brennan Johnson.

A set of results the insane Christmas fixture schedule deserves...

Sunderland have held each of the Premier League’s top 3 to a draw at home this season. The Stadium of Light is a place.

Roasted a slab of meat today. Here’s how it turned out

Tuchel, Pochettino and now Maresca have all ultimately proven unable to work in this Chelsea structure. It's a club with the stated ambition and trophy expectations of Real Madrid, but it recruits like Ajax and operates like Brighton. Make it make sense.

The January transfer window is open! Looks like we're starting off with: ✅ Endrick to Lyon (loan) ✅ Niclas Füllkrug to Milan (loan) 🔜 Antoine Semenyo to City (£65m) 🔜 Alysson to Villa (£8.7m) 🔜 Pascal Groß back to Brighton (€2m)

Echoing Derek’s sentiments! Happy new year to you all 😊

Lots of people doing fun 2025 summaries on Insta. Went to do the same only to realise 85% of my photos are of my 2yo. Try again next year perhaps.

Semenyo for £65m, turns 26 in a week. This would place him between Cunha and Mbeumo from last summer's deals, right at the top end of this PL-proven, FWD market. Love the player, think it's a good tactical fit, but the price is giving me the ick.

A proper performance from Arsenal. Great intensity and sharpness to it. Once Onana went off injured, the middle opened up for them and took advantage. A step too far for a depleted Villa. Down 4 key starters by HT and ended by handing out 2 Premier League debuts. Squad depth: they don't have it.

And you thought tonight’s game couldn’t get any bigger…

Oh dear.

Not to labour the point, but obviously it is really weird that Premier League teams are playing a repeat fixture this week, rather than the only side they haven’t yet played. It’s been bugging me for ages and just assumed my OCD was kicking off, so nice to see PL managers perplexed by it too.

Morocco 3-0 up and able to get Achraf Hakimi on for about half an hour. That’s the dream.

Such a good delivery from Porro. The kind of sweeping, high delivery that takes a GK out of it all and creates a huge mess in the six yard box

This post was about Forest’s goal, but Leeds just rivalled it

Apparently it is reverse pass weekend

I think that was 3 unsuccessful backheel passes from Buendía in that half. One of them was inside his own penalty box.