midds

2-0.

That's exactly the way it should be imo. Put all of the onus on the ref to, you know, manage the situation.

Montpellier score against marseille whilst a marseille player is down needing treatment. Didn't do anything wrong as such by playing on but you just sort of expect to see it kicked out as a matter of course.

Is it wrong of me to hope Stelling pushes Merson into voicing his opinion on the matter tomorrow afternoon? Stupid bastard wouldn't need the longest bit of rope to hang himself anyway.

We'll get bummed like, potential to buy money.

DD/MM/YY. FFS...

Only having ago at him because he's a cockney.

Palace after Gomis....

"Davide Santon's midfield performance [against Chelsea] . . . forget about what it looked like to the naked eye, his stats were very good, which is great news. It gives us a player we can put in there now. I mean, it's unreal what he gets away with saying.

Probably fat as well.

Should have been evident, en masse, 2 years ago tbh.

Pin in a phonebook stuff from the rags. It's just complete guesswork.

We buy them to sell them on. Full stop. Barmy to suggest we'd exchange a current 'prospect' for an older, former prospect we've already cashed in on. It's a bullshit scenario that's been invented because Sissoko's currently in Paris.

Must admit he does seem a little isolated and vulnerable at the minute. He's lost Llambias, Kinnear and now Pardew over the last year or so and he could well become the sole focus of the fans' anger if things continue to go tits up on the park. Not suggesting he gives the first shit about the prospect of abuse from the stands but he's got no-one to hide behind now. He's on his own pretty much.

Wonder what the reaction would have been like had we lost at home rather than down there.

They never came up, did they?

I assume it's a rolling thing with the deadline being 31st Jan again but I'm sure the Feb payment that wet out a day or 2 previous to this post was the last of the year.

Cancel it (the DD) after the final payment has left his bank and he's good til the end of the season. Think the last one comes out on Feb 1st?

I know he ticks a lot of boxes for Ashley but at the end of the day he'll lose a fortune in exposure and revenue if the bloke he picks takes us down which still could happen. It would take a holocaust of results and performances but the evidence is there that this bloke could indeed go on a run which puts under threat of relegation. I wouldn't put him in charge of the fucking chip-run let alone in charge of my multi-million pound investment. (I know, I know, Kinnear..)

Stupid thing is that he's not even from London.

He said Colback has done his hamstring on the wireless like. Did he say how long he would be out for? Hamstrings are normally a month.

It's because folk are so entrenched into believing we've got to play at least 2 in the middle to protect the other 4 defenders and the keeper, regardless of the opposition, that it's become the natural default opinion? The negativity and cowardice is now widespread and playing a 4-2-3-1 basically means 4-5-1. One up front and the rest tucking in and holding 'the shape'. It's fucking bollocks.

Williamson, Gouffran, Elliott and Colback will be crying into their beer tonight. The new bloke, when he eventually comes in, will see them for exactly what they are and peddle the pricks out of town. Hopefully.

Fucked this right up.