Pep has always been called a cheque book manager so I was surprised I'd not seen this before but 'Guardiola' translated from Catalan (where he is from) to English means 'piggybank'

If only official attendance figures were counted based on numbers left at the start of the second half. Saints could have been counted on one hand.

They could be 3 or 4 down. Good to see

Don't know about anyone else but I don't mind this new format for the CL. I found the group stages to be a bit meh the last few seasons. Liverpool vs Real Madrid was a cracking game to watch. Also great to see city lose a 3 goal lead.

What channel?

It's dull isn't it. I saw a clip on Facebook of one of their forest goals where they did 4000 passes in a row, the first 80% of the clip was being shown at 2x speed and I was still bored.

City have a squad where you could put out two starting 11s and both should compete for the title. There's no hiding behind injuries when you have the squad thay City have and the money they have spent.

Shit ref so hard to tell if its influenced his decision making.

That pass from trav!

Appropriate username as well

I can understand the logic of saying that managers must be eligible to represent the country in the same way players must be eligible but whilst we are allowed to appoint whoever we want we should go out and get the best we can get. I'd rather win something with a foreign manager than lose trying to make Lampard a good manager. Happy with Tuchel as something different. Decent manager let's hope he can get a tune out of this squad. He'll have to hit the ground running I reckon as it won't take people long to turn on a German manager getting a bad result for England

I think what scares me a little bit is not what AI can do currently (although some is mind blowing) but that we're really only at the beginning. What does it look like in 10 years time?

On commentary I think it was Dixon who said "How do you get, Kane, Foden, Palmer, Saka, Gordon, Bellingham in the same team" (I swear he listed another 2 or 3 players as well). The short answer is - Don't! Don't even try. We could probably pick 11 attackers for those front 4 positions. Doesn't mean we should otherwise Grealish is in goal. Pick the best front 4 and put them on the pitch. The rest provide competition and some may have to miss out completely.

Man utd just seems to be a grave yard for players at the moment. So many examples but sancho illustrates it perfectly. Brilliant for Dortmund, shocking for Utd, performing again for Chelsea The club ruins players. Garnacho was the only one who came out with any credit for me yesterday.

The players complaining about playing too many games need to direct their anger at their managers rather than the calendar. Premier league clubs can easily field two starting 11s so there's no reason that a player has to play 50+ games a season. The only time I can see a justification is when they do pointless internationals after the end of the season.