Wullie

Well played Routledge. Would like to see Ben Arfa hit this.

Playing well here so far, must not lose concentration.

Millwall and Huddersfield 2-0 down. What a fucking disaster.

Livid.

Fucking get in.

FFS. I hate early kick offs, wouldn't have bothered if I'd known that.

Stoke/Barnsley/Swansea/Blackburn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/9009565.stm Terrifying thing is he's not joking, the fat headed arsehole. Could just see him stood at the side of the Bernabeu with his fucking megaphone.

Just skimmed two Everton forums, no-one else seems aware of it at present. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2010/09/17/phil-jagielka-blues-are-too-uptight-during-games-100252-27285000/

Serious questions to be asked if Alan Smith features, the fucking charlatan. Ben Arfa must play too and he won't replace Smith so big decisions to be made. In our last top flight season, Hughton bottled team selection on a few occasions but has really redeemed himself since. He must not do it again.

I'm told Cahill's injured, is this common knowledge?

Is there anyone who wouldn't pick Schmichael?

Disastrous night. Looked alright at half time as well, bastards.

Boumsong ffs.

Everton's main threat, as they showed on Saturday, is their left hand side. Expect him to get tortured and put your house on him picking up yet another yellow card.

Everyone knows Smith is shit though. Every time Barton completes a pass he gets raved about on here. Pity he doesn't do it very often.

Fail to see how it's kneejerk when he was diabolical when we went down. I think he's a canny bloke and a decent technical footballer but he's blowing out his arse after half an hour ffs. He's a passenger.

'Getting into goalscoring positions' is not enough for a player who is supposed to be linking midfield and attack. He's not being used as a forward.

He's been shit for three years though. For him Villa was the exception, not the rule.

I thought Barton was dreadful. I'm not a fan anyway though, our most overrated player.

Could if the little scrote wasn't banned from Stockton town centre.

Can't believe the fuss being made over his goalkeeping display, not that the lad didn't have a good game but like madras said, if a Premiership keeper concedes any of them, other than maybe Carroll's at the end (and he should have made sure by putting it away from the keeper, Alan Shearer wouldn't have given the keeper a cat in hell's chance for example), they would be criticised. Best save of the day was Harper's double save.

They're playing the way a lot of promoted teams do when they first come up - without fear. Hull did it brilliantly when they came up and more or less had the points that kept them up by the end of November. These teams just go out and enjoy themselves, carrying their momentum from the play-offs with them and, importantly, initially play the same way they do at home when they go away. We will of course go away from home and play like frightened kittens. I hate the whole attitude to home and away games, it's become accepted now that teams can cower in their shells away from home. Yes, there is a difference but it's mainly psychological therefore deliberately going out with a different attitude is shooting yourself in the foot before you've even started, you should actually be trying to approach the game in the same way mentally. At the end of the day, it's still 22 blokes kicking a ball round a field, the way folk go on you'd think they play different rules depending on whether you're in Newcastle or Wigan. in almost every sport that is played home and away the vast majority of teams have better home records than away and numerous studies have been done into it. I know but the difference is clearly psychological. The job of the manager should be to try and negate the psychological impact and imo deliberately intending to go into the match with a different attitude is doing the opposite.

Ditto, fuck knows how they're top, let me down so many times. EDIT: cunts.