There have been more refs than players at this World Championship.

Much hilarity in my household as my wife has just announced the thing we’re doing on the Sunday - that prevented me taking the tickets for Liverpool, is actually on the Saturday! I did laugh.

Just dropped one of the dogs at the vet for some dental work. Be fretting all day now.

Hearing rumours we played 3-4-3 tonight? Carrick will be called to Mr Wilcox’s office in the morning.

What’s the deal with Cunha? My pick of ‘first scorer and MOM’ looking even less likely now.

Jimmy Bullard, how are ya babes?

Sitting around on my arse whilst everyone else is at work and this is my punishment.

How is everybody so proficient at knowing where every town and city is in America? I thought I was alright at Geography, but right quarter of the country is as much as I can muster. Weirdos.

Looked accidental. Benefit of the doubt.

Ah that’s nice. He’s just going to ignore everything because it doesn’t really affect him at all. It’s for normal people to get upset about such trivial matters.

Wu Yize will be the next Chinese World Champion.

Anyone else’s wife in the process of painting the house (exterior) pink right now? Just me then.

This was built up as a ‘derby’ before kick off. If Leeds had been playing us today their fans would’ve seen a very different performance. They’ve been bizarrely tame.

It’s not subtle is it.

Body language of the Chelsea players noticeably better today. Successfully dispensed with a manager they didn’t fancy, they go again.

Sub-2 hour marathon is it?

More shots fired that didn’t hit any target is it? Desperate for the day there is an actual (successful) attempt on his life.

When people (United fans) remember that West Ham have a very weird infatuation with Man City, why would you want Spurs relegated rather than them? Horrible fans, horrible ground (where we tend to struggle) and they have a mutual love with the blue twats. Get them gone.

FWIW, reckon we’ll end up with Baleba plus one from Newcastle.

Pep taking the piss with that line-up. Phil Foden is in it.

Look how Paul Scholes has grown. Talking perfect sense for probably the first time in his post-playing career. Fuck Elliot Anderson.

I’m not really one for ‘vibes’ but increasingly think that the most important things for a manager are to be liked and respected by the players. If they are having you, they’ll work for you. If they aren’t, they won’t. They have the power. And if your team outworks the opposition, you’re laughing.

And then there were 2.

That was some hamstring issue Dorgu suffered eh?

That’s a quite splendid quote. ‘I’ve no idea how long I’ll be here, but reckon I’m safe for Palace tomorrow’.

Because I am organised I am giving you 29 minutes notice that I will be playing street smart 70s funk on LoveWillSaveTheDay.FM at 10am GMT! Please share to gloss over my terrible stab at promotion.

For ‘very important’ read ‘fucking massive’.

Last day at the coalface before a cheeky week off. Don’t blame the player…

Anderson is likely to go to City because that’s just where we (and they) are currently. But we’re not in a position where one midfield signing will fix us anyway. We need 2 or 3. So I’m not convinced spending upwards of £100m on 1 is even viable. Probably need to spread the budget more thinly.

Has Mark Allen been in the boozer this afternoon?

Yeah, just like Joao Cancelo.

Weird that it didn’t work out for Rosenior at Chelsea. It looked like a natural progression for him at this stage of his career.

Thought I’d be greener than that to be honest.

Looking to go to bed but stuck watching the slowest deciding frame in history.

I wish football was a place where a young manager like Rosenior could challenge players in the way he has this evening. But it doesn’t work like that. The players he’s challenging are held in higher regard by the ownership than he is. Those players know that. They have the power. He’ll be gone soon.

Shaun Murphy is such a drama queen. A light unexpectedly came on when he was at the table and he reacted like someone behind him had trod on a mine.

Poor Spurs just can’t get a break. They didn’t get to play Chelsea under Rosenior. By the time they play them, they’ll have a new man at the helm and look a different proposition.

Enzo staring down his own supporters is quite a thing.

In another world we’d have won the Europa League last season and signed Liam Delap in the summer. We’d be facing relegation with a talentless oaf leading the line right now.

Liam Rosenior might be unemployed by the time he gets home from Brighton this evening.

Wish Brighton well tonight of course. And they should be winning more comfortably by now. But you can’t convince me that club deserves Prem football. Empty seats everywhere, for a game that could take them into the top six. Lots of proper clubs in the Championship with more deserving support.

Not in my house. I used to think he was a grifting wanker and still currently think he’s a grifting wanker. Luckily some people that didn’t previously think he was a grifting wanker now think he’s a grifting wanker. #grifting #wanker

I didn’t expect miracles from Labour when they took the reins. The mess they inherited was always going to be very difficult to fix. I did expect them to be more obviously on the side of the common man though. And I expected a noticeable reduction in lies and scandal. I was asking too much.

‘Stan Moody’ a teenage snooker player? Nah. He’s a miserable old fucker with a flat cap, sat in the corner of a northern boozer.

Did Ken Doherty win the Masters?

Just been offered tickets to Liverpool and Forest and can’t do either. Happy Monday. 😩