Admittedly, it’s a shame that their downturn has handed the red twats pole position but, still.

Third and fourth in the league league these two teams show how mediocre the league is this season and although Liverpool deserve to be top they have not been under any real pressure for most of the season——the best of an average bunch and that’s not my natural bias against Liverpool.

Shite song.

They only check for that against us?

It's bad enough them being on air on my dodgy Firestick, the volume is muted whenever these pundits speak, Carragher being the worst of course.

I saw that, Mark. I don't really understand the rules of Rugby too well other than the forward pass. It's much more complex game than for the uneducated like me, think it's just about picking a ball up and running. But that looked fine to me.

But I suppose some would say they were poor misses by the Bournemouth strikers.

So many times, players are put off by the attempted header and don't follow through on the unaffected trajectory of what was a fantastic ball from Kerkez. He stuck with it all the way and got the reward.

Ange will be very unhappy!

I see no recent comments are not showing up on the main menu page again!!

Iraola has built a team with a real identity. I didn't see it coming when we beat them 3-0 at Goodison early in his tenure. Thought he was out of his depth.

Don't think he meant that though.

I'm supposed to be out digging holes in the garden...

Ooops... Yea, I'd forgotten about that glitch again, Rob. Thanks!!!

That is down to money and the director of football, Tiago Pinto (and his predecessor).

Since being promoted in 2021 they have invested more than £350M in their playing squad compared to us in the same period.

Iraola has nothing to do with recruitment and squad building. He just coaches the players he is given by the club.

I've had to agree to restructures in work which have led to redundancy. Worst days of my working life.

And since I hate everyone and everything related to Man United, I've been smiling a lot watching their antics and the distress among their supporters.

Not celebrating that part, Liam, just the general wreckage that the owners have made of the club.

We can push it back if/when we win at the tin hut.

Which is why it's great to see so many Directors of Football and generous owners praised for the major role they play – alongside managers.

Bournemouth are like Brighton and prove the DoF approach CAN work. The system and structure is in place, so you can literally parachute a manager in to pick up from where the last one left off. Smooth transition versus the "let's start again" approach.

I suppose it's get ready for the big red love fest that will engulf our city. I'll have to stay away.

As Rob alludes to, it will be unbearable. When we bring a trophy home, we will have our day and show them what it's like to celebrate.

Many may remember what I call the humiliation of 1986. A joint parade by Liverpool and Everton through the city. Them on the bus in front with the league and cup. Us behind having finished 2nd in the league and lost to them in the FA Cup final, behind them and lost.

I will never understand why we agreed to that. I watched it across from the Pier Head and felt for our players. They didn't want to be there. In hindsight, I probably didn't, but we were out in numbers.

There would have been hardly any neutrals who would have said that they would win the league after Kevin R took the piss out of the clown for the second goal on 22 February 1986.

I was there in the Kop on that day but there was no way in the world that I would have hopped on a Trans-Pennine train for the public disgrace.

Was it top Tory Maggie Maggie Maggie I hate Boys From the Blackstuff Carter who agreed to that fucked up chroeography?

We'll reel West am in further down the line

Its not happening

Arsenal v Chelsea
Fulham v spuds
Leicester v Man Utd.

They’re the games we’re only interested in! Nothing else matters.

So if it weren’t for that ridiculous “One City One Club” rule, the skunk maggots would not even have been in the inter cities fairs cup the following season to win it.

And they think they are bigger than us!! 😂😂😂😂

The aftermath of Sunday's cup final is going to be a nightmare either way. Sky and Talkshite will be fawning for weeks, whoever wins it. I wouldn't worry about not watching it, just switch off for the love-fest afterwards.

I'll be rooting for them. Not just for family connections, but I always had a soft spot for them. I find them similar in a lot of ways to Everton and liked my trips to Villa Park. I've always disliked Newcastle, way before the Keegan years, when they were declaring themselves as big as Manchester United.

Your confusing me again Danny??
“Rooting for” who?
“Soft spot” for who?
And what has Villa Park to do with it?
It’s the Shite v Newcastle.

I watched the highlights of the Liverpool game on Saturday because I heard there were a few contentious decisions and the only thing in my mind was that Slot, must have been delighted with the match officials.

The game stinks, one rule for one and another rule for others, and the squeezing hinge’s , definitely get more favourable decisions than anyone else, despite their claims to the opposite🤮

Lot of empty seats at that Stadium too.

Don't let these beat you.

They only started to show some urgency when the board went up to show 6 minutes added time, and even then they didn't threaten.

If we can't beat them on Saturday, then we are definitely on the beach!

So they now want to build this shiny new stadium seemingly mostly funded by British taxpayers, and this from Ratcliffe who despite being one of the richest people in Britain pays no taxes here as he lives in Monaco. The actual cheek of the man. Also surprisingly you would have expected one of the Glasiers as the owners to be there, but the question would have been asked why they had assist stripped Man Utd for there own financial aims.

Ratcliffe mentions how the North West has been left behind and all the iconic stadiums are in London and goes on to mention Wembley, Twickenham but fails to mention these are national stadiums not club grounds.

So how do they get a new ground largely funded by the Government yet one of the most underfunded cities in Europe our city of Liverpool has had very little Government money for regeneration. Also Everton have paid for and built an iconic stadium with no help from the Government and if any City deserves money for regeneration its this City.

So I just hope that fans at every other club make it abundantly clear to the Government that no Government money should be given towards the building of a new Stadium for Man Utd.

United should be forced to accept their situation, sell their best players, refrain from buying expensive replacements and work with what is left and develop their youth squad - like any other team would have to. Until they get their finances in order. Only then, could they contemplate a new ground. And even then at their own risk and expense.

Regenerating Manchester is no more a priority than regenerating Liverpool. We couldn’t even get public funding for an adequate transport system to our new ground, let alone public monies for the ground construction.

But those 3 points are definitely needed on Saturday to end any worries of not playing in the Premier League next season at Bramley-Moore Dock.

The two-faced cheek of Ratcliffe is beyond contempt. It will probably get built but cost £4B instead of £2B, take twice as long and run out of money.

Government funding be dammed, every other football club in the league with an under developed area will demand the same. They will become the most reviled club in the land. If they aren't already.

Thought I'd get in there first! 😂😂😂😂

And are adding another 200 redundancies to the 250 already announced.

But they want the UK Government to help fund their new stadium?

If they end up breaching PSR, there's probably as much chance of them getting a points deduction as their Manchester counterparts.

They've taken hundreds of millions out in dividends and get the club nearly a billion in debt; when they bought them, they were debt free. With the money they got from Radcliffe they should have paid the debt off at least.

Without clubs like United, Liverpool and Arsenal there wouldn't be a Premier League.

I can't see overseas TV paying billions to watch Everton v Fulham, or Palace v Bournemouth.

Dress it up as regeneration and fleece the taxpayer. Rope in alien reptile apologist No 1 Seb Coe to grease palms. Not one ounce of empathy for other human beings these people.

No sympathy for United or the Shite tbh Paul regardless of whether it's good for the EPL or not. In fact, I would go so far as to say seeing LFC and MUFC sink into oblivion is on my bucket list of wants before my time comes. Probably never happen but here's hoping.

They get away with murder, No FFP or PSR investigation when they are £1B in debt.

Don't get me started on the VAR penalty in the recent game. Saw a couple given last weekend no different from ours that was denied.

To be honest, I much preferred the First Division before it became the Premier League anyway, seemed fairer and money wasn't as much of an issue. Makes no difference to me how many overseas people watch it.