Rooney sacked by Birmingham, that's got to go down as one of the worst appointments ever surely, taking them from 6th to 20th in 80 days!
Who saw that coming? Oh yeah, ANYONE who knew anything about football. Sack a manager doing well to replace him with and ex footballer who has a, being generous, mediocre record as a manager. Surely a recipe for success!
I see poor Eddie Howe is feeling hard done by after last night's game. Fair enough, the first pen was soft and the second was a joke (dafuq didn't Jota just roll it into the empty net? He had an easier shot than whoever was going to take the pen, and how did VAR think there was enough for a pen there?) . But, ehhh, Eddie, Salah missed the first pen and the second was with 4 mins to go and you still lost by two goals.
Liverpool had the highest XG ever record in PL games, 7.3. They started recording it in 2010-11, thirteen years ago, that's roughly 5000 games. Pool also had 34 shots, the joint most in the PL this year. Your team WEREN'T hard done by Eddie, they were ******* humped senseless for 90mins. It SHOULD have been a 5/6/7 goal winning margin. 4-2 flattered your lot. And before he gurns about injuries, Newcastle were missing Pope, Trippier, Tonali (not injured, just dumb), and Wilson. Possibly Murphy as well, but is he really a starter? Pool have Matip, Robertson, Thiago, Bajectic, and Tsimikas injured, lost Sobozlai half way through and had Jota and McAllister just back from injuries. Broadly similar levels of unavailability I'd say.
Stop clutching at straws Eddie, no side has been played off the park as much as your boys were in 13 years of PL footy. There are Porn stars who take less of a pounding in a ten man gangbang
