Super Kenny Monkou

I was disappointed but not surprised. This reminds me of 16-17 under Conte where numerous cup games and the ensuing fatigue meant our league form fell of a cliff. Hoping the club World Cup will give the players a break from the intensity of the league and may mentally refresh them.

But doesn’t that come from being mentally fresh and in good form which they are.

All you can hope is that Brighton match those performance levels against our top 4 rivals.

Agreed. The chickens have come home to roost! Playing sides with high tempos and we are struggling.

Worked against us but some of our top 4 rivals are going to have a back log of games at the end of the season.

The extra cup games were always going to cause us issues.

Dion Dublin style conversion to a centre half on the cards?

Lukaku nowhere near the level of Drogba and Costa. He probably thinks he is which maybe part of the problem. Diego was a pest! Loved him for it!

Would have thought Pulisic would get a rest.

Exactly. Conte playing politics already. Him and Levy. Can’t see that ending well.

He can sort his issues with the Board but he is going to need to be scoring otherwise it is going to be difficult with the match going support.

This certainly seems to have evolved into something more than we thought at first. What could we get for him is the question and where would he go. Didn’t Inter sell him as they had financial issues?

They just can’t call anything out against their own team. So boring.

Really pleased with that comeback. Hope we can build on this now. Always a good not to lose to that mob.

Interesting Ham. I have had lots of arguments with Utd fans about this. I think they have caused the issue with English football. Utd very skilfully flexed their marketing muscle around the world so that gate receipts became largely irrelevant where once they were everything. It left everyone else including Liverpool unable to compete. Arsenal banked by Fizman challenged for a while but they could not sustain it so in came Oligarch’s and others and we are where we are. Utd fan’s always say they generated the money which is true but they just became to powerful and rich for the rest of us.