Gary O'Neil

And it would have been very tough to break them down.

Even with the James Trafford cock-up, would that have happened if Leeds had scored? Who knows? Who knows? But another fantastic result for AFC Bournemouth.

And then, of course, we're off to Prague and then off to Ipswich Town to meet up with old Gary O'Neill.

Good old

Gary.

Czar Barney.

I think Gary O'Neill originally had him.

Did well for half a season under Gary O'Neill, if I remember correctly.

Ira Alder comes in.

I think he's a smidge older, like 22 at the time.

If we got rid of Alonso tomorrow, I don't trust this lot to get it right again.

I think we'll be back to the madness of firing wankers like Maresca or Potter or fucking Rossini or Gary O'Neill might be the next one.

So people, be careful what you wish for here.

And the other thing I would say, Mark, is that I think what goes very unnoticed is... is um is the absolute fest of a mess that alonso is inherited we've had four years of utter awful strategy with recruitment strategy which has led to a completely unbalanced squad plenty of players who are substandard and you know whether we like it or not it's going to take a long time to to turn this ship around This is not like Tuchel coming in after Lampard.

He's big.

When he comes on, I think Gary O'Neill literally just says to him to crash about.

Oh, he does,

yeah.

The other prediction I want is XGL in this game.

It's going to be cold.

up north, who do you reckon on both sides is going to be wearing gloves? Personally, if I was Gary O'Neill, I'd ban gloves, apart from for the goalkeepers.

I want a rough-ty-tough-ty.

I don't think he's done a good enough job at Sunderland to bag himself another Prem job, probably.

You know, if Gary O'Neill didn't work out at Ipswich or Frank leaves Cov or...

You can see it.

You can see him going somewhere like that, or even abroad, to be honest.

So it wouldn't surprise me again to see this game be a draw.

But what kind of draw is impossible to say? Gary O'Neill is overs and Hull are unders.

So they weigh each other out.

So again, the draw here makes appeal to me.

Hull's home games this season have seen this line cleared in three out of four, whilst their top-tier matches are averaging 21.75 free kicks, which is tight, but just about enough for the first leg of our double to come in.

It switches data is much more comfortable, an average of 25.7 free kicks in matches since Gary O'Neill took charge, with at least 21 in seven of their 10 games across all competitions.

They've been particularly feisty on the road, conceding 15.5 free kicks per match, and with both teams desperate to steal a march on the other one in the relegation dogfight, I'm just hoping it should be a highly competitive affair.

Onwards to Anfield then, where I get to combine two of my favourite angles of the season so far, with Liverpool fouls conceded and Arsenal free-kicks drawn.