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It's turned out precisely as I anticipated, that he would spend a lot of time on the subs bench. Arsenal don't really need his services, they have plenty of cover and competition for places. It's possible they only bought him to snub the Spuds. Never mind eh?

Ho ho ho

In an earlier post I said we have to stop the rot, and with a 0-0 Roy would be proud of we did that. As Big Sam would say - respect the point. It wasn't pretty, and both Pino and Mateta need to be dropped when others become available. Nevertheless a valuable point, they all count.

That's the Palace team of the near future!

We may say, "experts" may say, "he's not a good fit for Manchester United", but who really knows what Oliver Glasner is thinking? He's keeping his cards close to his chest and from now to the end of the season any number of vacancies will arise. His career trajectory will take him to one of...

A Villa win. Anything decent we do achieve is done by 60 minutes, from then on it is all plodding and the other team takes total control. Glasner should try 442 or 4411, even 451.

I too expected a dip in form but what has happened is much worse than I anticipated. What it has illustrated, to me at least, is that there are no real leaders out on the pitch for when things get rough.

Well he hasn't really tried anything but more of the same, and the points tally and league position in these trying times reflect his decisions, as well as the competency of the players available. Yes, we know it's difficult.

When you're under the cosh and a player is treading water you don't keep him on hoping he'll come good you make a change. Sticking to the same routine hasn't helped and it's there in the stats, relegation form. As others have mentioned, it's Glasner's job to find a solution, that's what he's...

Ha ha deal. £350m the lot.

That was made long ago, he's only here to make up numbers, there's been absolutely no intention of giving him a proper opportunity, let alone a start. Glasner's flogging of Mateta tells me enough about where Uche fits into the scheme of things.

I don't buy this knackered excuse. Apparently there was enough rest time before the Leeds game but they still got thrashed. No Euro competition either for the time being. Football players average 10/12km a game, a lot of that is jogging about, maintaining formation etc. A cyclist in the Tour de...

Poor Will Hughes. You could see he'd not been that far forward for a very long time, and despite facing the direction in which any left footed kick of the ball would take the ball where indeed it did actually go, he still decides to use his left foot, when the use of the right foot was the only...

This won't happen - talk of disrespecting the competition, disrespecting the opposition etc, and er... we might get beat!

If we start to wilt around the 65-70 minute mark, and the opposition take advantage, and Glasner is aware of the failing, then he needs to do something about it before the inevitable. Except he does so after the inevitable, which means he reacts rather than takes charge. So obvious that Mateta...