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From June, on why Thomas Frank is a great appointment . Romero, Van de Ven and Richarlison especially good.

Weird thing with City and Guardiola is he hasn’t had anywhere near this turnover of players since his first year - so you’ve a tranche of the squad needing to internalise his approach all at once, rather than 1/2. Very impressive how drilled Frank has Spurs.

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Claude Brave.

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RT @MiguelDelaney: That was bad. And worse, it was bad in almost every way conceivable. For a Chelsea getting up to speed, this 5-1 over….

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Potter: "You can't defend the box like we did. On job:."You're under pressure all the time. I'm aware of my responsibilities and I know what the game is like.".

That was bad. And worse, it was bad in almost every way conceivable. For a Chelsea getting up to speed, this 5-1 over West Ham was a perfect match.

Says it's a groin injury.

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Maresca says Palmer "in the last four or five days was not 100%. He felt something in the warm-up so we decided not to take a risk".

This is absurd. To concede three set-piece goals, with all of them going in within yards is astonishing for a Premier League club.

This is just a non-match now.

Potter is very "high performance culture" and West Ham feel like they're never really going to be a "high performance culture" club.

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A lot of West Ham fans streaming out of stand at 33 minutes. (Possibly for the half-time pint, but that is in 12 minutes and there are *a lot* of them).

This could very messy for West Ham.

Neto* ffs.

There are about three (maybe four?) easy concessions or moments of players outmuscled in the immediate build-up to Beto's goal.

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West Ham astonishing slack at the back. So easy.