Good decision. Can’t think of a single thing the lads needs to work on between now and Sunday. Definitely a good call to give them a day off tomorrow then travelling on Saturday. Leaves plenty time for them to look at the odd minor issue we need to correct.

Looking at the fixtures and the games are too compacted in the next fortnight to do anything manager wise. So essentially Slots got West Ham, Sunderland, Leeds and Inter to fix things. If they don’t go well I can see a change happening after Inter / before Brighton

Just finished catching up with Slow Horses on Eddie Davies recommendation. Superb programme and can’t wait for season 6. Jackson Lamb for Prime Minister

I want to preface this by saying I still think he’s a talented player, and I hope this makes me look stupid in 3 hours, but how the hell is Cody starting? 3 starts in a week, and the third after a run of pretty poor and repetitive performances.

Right fuck it. The team is picked, positive thoughts time now. Increase the tempo, get into them and let’s get a win on the board and moving the right direction. COME ON THE REDMEN!!

Wirtz is so good. The players around him just need to be braver. He wants the ball with his back to goal and when in small spaces, thats his game and where he can lay off or spin and create. But the others just aren’t playing it to him enough. On the flipside, should have scored

In possession its been a bit better. Gakpo and isak haven’t been good, but the movement and rotation of position has been good, and we’ve definitely tried to move the ball faster. So nervous at the back though, if we concede first I’m worried our heads will go down

Ekiteke on for Cody, Chiesa for Mac and move Dom back and we tear these apart. Especially the first one

Paqueta must have had money on getting a red. Surely nobody is THAT stupid.

It’s not been great, far from from it, but as a wise man once said ‘It was a start. I believe in starts. Once you have the start, the rest is inevitable’

Special mention to Joe Gomez. Solid defensively, great energy up and down and a well deserved assist’. Good to have him back.

Beatles fans, a question: Its 1980 and they announce a full reunion tour. They can still pull off all the vocals and technology means they can do all the later stuff justice live, so no song is off limits What’s your 25 song setlist? #TheBeatles

So according to Spotify, the fact I listened to a lot of Beatles and Motown this year, backed up by lots of 90s stuff, my average listening age is 79. Not my nobody makes anything good anymore is it?

Could save a lot of time and energy by just starting all games at Anfield at the 80 minute mark, with us 1 down and just play the ‘Liverpool finally start attacking, can they get a goal’ phase of the game.

The simple fact is the current tactics (if ‘pass side to side relentlessly’ is a tactic) are not working against teams who work hard and sit deep. More and more teams will do this, if Slot is unable to work out how to beat that, he can’t stay. He’s shown no sign yet that he can.

Just saw some witchcraft on MOTD. Villa played a switch from one side directly to the other which set up an attack as the player had space I’d totally forgotten that was a thing, I was under the impression that you had to pass to every player in a line to get to the other side

What strikes me as much as anything isn’t just how long we keep the ball without threatening, but how hard we make it look to do that. Then we lose it, they play one pass and we are in trouble Struggling to make chances and very easy to get chances against us. Not a good combo

Trump being awarded this FIFA Peace award that’s basically been invented because he didn’t get a Nobel prize, this has the be the closest I’ve seen to proper North Korea type shit.

Rio Ferdinand doing pre recorded’ comedy’ sketches Never thought I’d say this but can we hear more from Donald Trump?

All credit to Rio Ferdinands agent, done a serious bit of work to get him this gig.