Chase

My irritation with it is that clubs in London have this fallback that is often an upgrade when they plan to play games away from their stadium. If Newcastle or Sunderland were to take this approach we'd have to drop down to something like a 5k capacity stadium like Kingston Park while clubs in London get an upgrade to an 80k capacity stadium.

The only person to lose in this scenario is you as SD don't do refunds but instead give you store credit so ultimately you're still giving them your money one way or another.

I'm sure he said that we did but he had his contract at Barcelona which he was honouring, shame for them they didn't and very soon replaced him.

I agree with this. I think it'll also give us a more balanced midfield as playing with 2 deep lying DM's is the biggest reason for us not creating chances in each game.

It looked like both thought that the other one would take it. Hopeless. Both weren't covering the post to begin with, they were tracking back after the header, if either was on the post to begin they could have cleared it.

Then lost us it. He made a mistake but who was covering the near post, basic defending also cost us as much as the dodgy punch as we had nobody near the post.

I thought his distribution was alright, some kicks missed their targets but largely landed where they were aimed for. There was one throw roughly 10 mins from the which I thought was fantastic, center of the goal throw to the left wing beyond the halfway line and it landed on Wijnaldums chest.

optimistic as fuck.

U FUCKIN BEAUTY

Anyone else noticed Colback is wearing an undershirt with "SORRY" printed across the chest?

Personally I'm happy with this, I think Mbabu and Streete will benefit, Vuckic and Ferguson I just see as a way of running down their contracts (I'd like Vuckic to make it but he's too fragile/slow). My only concern is Bigi, he's better than this, he should be in the English Championship or SPL at worst, not the Scottish Championship.

Well we now have confirmation Carr is legitimately involved in getting the new man in. That was only speculated up until now. Pretty big deal IMO. Carr has constantly delivered with decent players, and he will want to see them utilised well. That's a fair point, I see Charnleys role in the new manager being purely financial/HR type role and in reality the choice of the new manager maybe coming down to who Carr thinks will be work with the players he likes to sign.

I understand the financial incentive, but putting that aside I couldn't imagine devoting 10-15 years of my life to a career that I have no interest in if what has been said about Spear & Airey not being interested are true.

I can't see us getting any points in December, March and April

He pleaded not guilty to criminal damage even though he was caught on camera doing it, wtf

What I read is a £47.7m fine if promoted, transfer embargo if not. Either way, not good news for them no matter what happens come the end of the season.

Last 4 games played: 10 conceded 0 scored :'(

We will never ever win another derby match as long as this knacker is in charge, he just can't motivate players for the occassion.

I wish I shared your positive outlook on life.

This game is fucking atrocious, we should be streets ahead but instead it is 0-0 and down to 10 men.

Come on fella, you must have not watched him play from 1999 onwards. Slow, usually out of position, wasteful with set pieces, didn't track back... He was good enough to play in the PL, La Ligua etc, but was never good enough to build a team around. He didn't say teams were built around him, just said he was important player which he was. Don't understand the whole doesn't track back, he's one of the most harding working players on the pitch generally, even towards the end of his career his fitness was exceptional. Thats what I don't get about that idea, he was almost always one of the players you'd find getting stuck in across the whole pitch when out of possession, he was an immensely hard worker

I can't help but see it as West Ham being morons "I'd not have bought an injury prone player if I knew he would be injured"

We're now linked with a January move for Micah Richards to add competition for Debuchy, I'd love that to be true although doubt he'd fit into our wage structure or want to join us.

Ben Arfa off? WTF, we have one possible creative outlet in the team, one person who is actually capable of making something happen, is Pardew intentionally setting us up to lose?

Who put FIFA on extra easy for Everton, this has been absolutely appalling. Everything about this match is shite.