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Thanks. But I can't help wondering if that would have caused him to be rested were it a league match.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, and I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but was Solanke injured or something? Otherwise I can't see the point of not putting him on the bench at least. He was badly needed for the last 75 minutes of that game after Unal went off (presumably...

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I don't think a bit of encouragement would have gone amiss. I'm London based and more often than not go to support them when they come up here. Our fans regularly outsing the home fans.

Is our home crowd usually that quiet? I get that there wasn't too much to cheer about, but even so. All I could hear was Liverpool fans.

Hopefully the first half experience at QPR will warn against any complacency. It only matters that we're Premier League if we play like we are.

Seven days short of my 19th birthday. I remember it very well. Some day!

Some have long memories. Bring it on, together with a sub 140 second hat trick from one of our players.

Good point. Being able to have a whole celebration beats having two half celebrations - one when the ball goes in, and another when the goal gets confirmed.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet. Considering the debate around VAR at the moment, does anyone have an opinion as to whether our game was better without it yesterday? Take for example our third goal and Billing's challenge to win the ball from the defender in the build up. The...

Exactly. Ok the rules say that there should only be one ball on the field, but in both cases everyone knew which one the real ball was and played to that. In other words the second balls made no difference. I really like the way she allowed the game to flow wherever she could and wish more...

Really embarrassing. Fortunately such idiots can't read or write so we don't have to put up with them on here.

It was worse than that. He brought a second ball onto the pitch. Placed it as if to take a goal kick. Waited for a while. And only chose to kick it forwards once he saw our attack developing. Credit to the officials. The ref was at the other end so she couldn't have seen it, but she did talk to...

Any thoughts about the performance of the referee? I thought she had excellent game and clearly wanted to let the game flow wherever she could. Fifteen minutes before the first free kick. What other refs might have seen as fouls and blown up, she was seeing as robust but fair challenges. For...

It was a deliberate and calculated act of gamesmanship. Credit to the officials for working as a team so he could at least be warned about it.

S Something like, 'You're Premier League players. Now go back out and start playing like Premier League players.' And quite possibly not that politely.

Family time indeed. We were there because one of my teenage daughters has decided to be a Brighton fan because a friend of hers supports them. Imagine her disappointment to see a 0-0 when Brighton scored in each of their last 35 games or something like that. Serves her right really. My other...

Found in the West Ham v Brighton bore draw programme on Tuesday. Trying to solve this was more exciting than the match.

I think we're in a better place than we were a few years ago with squad selection and the FA Cup. I remember a couple of times (Millwall?) when Eddie tried to rest players but the squad didn't have enough depth to it to avoid quite comprehensive defeats to lower league teams.

I'm still waiting for her to return. Last I saw of her was in Eastbourne of all places. Took my cherry.