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He's due a goal against them in his 2nd spell. So to manefest it tomorrow, I thought I'd share this montage.

Isn't football marvelous?

BTW I apologise to u/IWantToBeAHipster. I thought was doing OK yesterday. But actually I wasn't. I accidentally lied to you and myself yesterday. But I'll circle back to that.

Also mods please delete if not allowed but I believe you've okayed these before.

Apologies also to the rest of you for the long body of text and self indulgence.

But look, I get that after a crushing defeat, some of you don't want to be told to be positive. I get it.

But as stupid as it is, something that in the grand scheme of things, is quite small can trigger my depressive spirals. I've been known to engage in some, shall we say 'fruity' rants and awful takes and keyboard warrior fights on here with pretty much everyone.

Over the last 3 years since my daughter was born, but especially in the past 6 months I've resolved to do better than that. Not let myself enter that spiral anymore (at least not for football). And I'm proud of the fact that, apart from one incident with one unnamed mod (who themselves was having a shit time, let he be judged and all that) they've been quite successful.

However yesterday was a bit more mixed. I get it, after a crushing defeat that some people don't want to feel positive in that moment. But I thought I'd make this follow up threat to explain why I make these threads : It's to help people like me.

Yesterday, for reasons unrelated to football I was having a bad time. I didn't know it until later that evening. My wife was struggling with her mental health and my near 3 year old daughter wasn't helping by essentially rejecting me and only demanding Mummy, which put more on my wife and left me feeling helpless as a father and husband.

BTW I don't blame my wife and daughter - none of this is their fault, and I'm painting a bleak picture of life at home but it isn't that bad, just what my mind was going through at the time.

FYI I am in meds and I have a good support network etc but for whatever reason I was quite tearful on off and even this morning until work.

I had told /IWantToBeAHipster that I was doing good. I wasn't and I apologise for that.

However I know that there's others like me on here, statistically speaking. Especially when you consider the venn diagram of those who 1.Like Football, 2. Are on Reddit and 3.Are part of a group who is disproportionately affected by mental health issues and suicide (never been that far in my lowest but I thought about it). So if there's any small way I can help with that, I'll do it. And what I've found is doing the positive vibes threads are helpful for me and others. So I want to keep doing them.

However one thing I want to get to (and if you read nothing else in this wall of self indulgent text, read this) HOW ARE YOU DOING, mentally? Please let's chat it out. This is like an online supporters bar afterall.

Edit: Thank you all for the overwhelming show of support. I'll respond to each one of you in good time individually. But thank you all.

- We still created plenty of chances despite playing poor.. Another day we win 3 1.That's football, that's life.

- Solly March returned!!

- European football is still in our own hands:

We have a good record at home to Man U.

Chelsea need two wins to over take us. One of whom is against a relegation battling De Zerbi fired up Spurs. That won't be easy.

Everton can't over take us.

Sunderland would need to score a fuck tonne of goals (and we'd need to concede a fuck tonne). Highly unlikely. Especially since they play Chelsea away whom as mentioned will need a win. Ignore this, only applies if we draw and Brentford don't win.

Brentford still need to win to overtake us. Away at Liverpool who are a wounded animal right now and could well still need a draw or win to avoid Bournemouth over taking them depending on how they do v City.

-No major injuries that I'm aware of.

Whilst losses arent ideal, it's far more useful to win matches with occasional losses rather than continous draws (which is often used on here to justify winless runs).

You get more points for a three game run with 1 w, 1 L and 1 d than 3 draws. And same number of points for 1 w and 2 L than 3 draws.

Anyway on to today and hopefully a win so we can secure Europe and make the last match day less stressful

Is a sentence I never thought I would be uttering until very recently.

Football is mad sometimes.

Won the match inside of 5 minutes, gave us time to keep fresh for two more matches.

Hinsh especially told all youse to fuck off.

Solly Solly March.

Goal for Minteh.

Its a sunny day

Still firmly in chance of European football, Champions League not unlikely.

I was a bit worried about the Man U game as they've been a different beast since Carrick. But they've made a deal with Brazil to rest Cuhna and I imagine they'll treat their other players headed to the World Cup the same. Every little helps etc.

We scored!! Even though everyone was slagging Hinsh!!!

Bart made up for a big mistake with some quality saves.

Strong second half performance, SJP is a tough place to go.

Babis made an impact off the bench!!

It's my wife's birthday and she had a good day!!

My Welsh Father In Law kept me up to date with the score so I didn't need to worry.