Dokko

3 winners and 5 runners up in the last 10 years isn't bad. Spain 4 times winners once runner up. Italy 2 times winners once runner up. Germany 2 times winners 3 times runner up.

Scale probably doesn't cater for N-O

Not nearly in enough trouble for a result at the end of the season. They'll flirt, but never actually be in enough trouble to get excited about. They are hard to beat, don't score enough but Defoe will get them the odd goal and the odd win will come when they need it. I reckon they'll win more games than us between now and the rest of the season, probably pick up more point as well but we will still finish ahead of them. You're right, they're a blockage the league can't flush no matter how runny they are. It'll be another boring, predictable 3 promoted teams going straight back down affair. I'll go massively out on a limb and throw it out there next season will be exactly the same.

As usual i will be putting some substantial money on them beating us, and winning for the 4th time in a row.

Love No11's reaction

Not nearly in enough trouble for a result at the end of the season. They'll flirt, but never actually be in enough trouble to get excited about. They are hard to beat, don't score enough but Defoe will get them the odd goal and the odd win will come when they need it. I reckon they'll win more games than us between now and the rest of the season, probably pick up more point as well but we will still finish ahead of them.

Fuck advert is that.

Those fixtures do look tricky. Could be down to us to save them again. Hope it's one thing carver can get right, unlike pardew.

Wembover

The most boring team in premiership history has bought itself a personality. He'll at least make them interesting for a while.

At the time the fee was about right. He was an unstoppable force leaving on deadline day with a huge premium. Take away his injuries and he'd be one of the best goal scorers in the league. However in hindsight he's a wreck, did we see that coming? No idea, if we did then we kudos, if not we got very lucky. Both the club and the player took the best offer going, tbh it left me heart broken either would act like that. That transfer was probably the beginning of the end of my time as a real supporter of the club. It broke me, more so than Cole to manure.

Time will tell if Sherwood is Villa's new messiah, or just a very naughty boy.

If JC puts us 10th this season he'll have done as much as Sherwood has in his managerial career. TS is a massive gamble, especially when you consider his temperament and personality.

Sissoko is so keen to get rid of himself. He wants the move more than anyone else, don't forget that.

£28m and done fuck all since he club paid the fee. He should be dragging them kicking and scream to the level he thinks he's at. Its the same way i've felt about Sissoko's antics, don't forget Sissoko didn't cost £28m, come from a club like chelsea and Everton are lower in the league than us. Bear that in mind when you think about Sissoko's attempts to whore himself about last month.

If this were true, no one ever would have appointed Souness or Pardew. They look at some extremely vaguely defined qualities of 'leadership' (a white man), 'tactical nous' (a white man) and Englishness (a white man), not anything genuine (difficult to define). It's extremely difficult to hire the right person, even more the right leader, so they go with their gut feeling, which is based on prejudice and usually wrong. Just because the appointment is wrong, doesn't mean its due to racism. The owners at the time felt they went for the right person, their skin colour had no impact on those decisions to appoint. Race doesn't come in to it and hasn't for a few decades. I couldn't say that was the case before the sky era, but certainly in the last two decades it hasn't been about race. The only place racism really exists in football is in the stands, it rears its ugly head on the pitch time to time, and once in a blue moon at any kind of competent board room level. That's really the point i am trying to make here. It's nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with the shallow pool of talented black managers that influences the numbers, same goes with English managers in general in the top flight. It's almost like certain camps are saying a black manager with 5 cup wins, 2 league titles and a 70% win ratio can't get a job over average joe simply down to his skin colour, when in reality every club who stood a chance would be after him. Just like the modern day player, no one gives a fuck about skin colour bar the very limited few knuckle heads that exists in all corners of the world, chances are, they didn't make millions and own a football club or have any real say at boardroom level. The talented black English football manager is none existent, who's fault is that? We can barely scrape together a decent English manager full stop.

Your lot must be fucking livid with comments like that. I mean our lot don't care if Sissoko touts himself like a cheap flyer girl in Ibiza, but i imagine that doesn't wash in Merseyside aka capital of the universe.

Lukaku want's out at Everton. Wants to move to a top club and feels Everton are small fry.

The black manager thing will never go away. It isn't an issue, no one (in this scenario) is going to say no to a person on their skin colour. You aren't going to appoint someone worse to look after your multimillion pound investment because of colour. You appoint the best person you can attract, the best fit, the most experienced or the cheapest, depending on your angle. Really the question is why is the calibre of black candidates so low? (you could easily level that at British managers in general)Is it something to do with the type of character football attracts? The top players in general make so much money in their careers that starting their career again, doing 3 times as much work for a 1,000th less pay to start off with just doesn't appeal. Just got to look at Shearer and Sherwood demanding prem clubs or nothing at all. I'd like to see what Rio does when he retires, he'll have plenty of opportunities at a much higher level than his experience as a coach would normally afford a person. He's a prat sometimes but exactly the type of footballing brain that can make a manager imo. Les see if he's willing to do the hard work, or lets see if the BBC will offer him premiership manager wages to sit on a couch once a week talking about football. Point is there's a load of factors and a load of avenues a footballer can take. It really depends where they are financially and especially in motivation. Their reputation as a player will always help or hinder and then you've got to consider their mentality and intelligence. Only then can you starting thinking about race, which for me is total bollocks.

Jalan Cardew

Glad we didn't lose to the cunt, this point and hopefully the one against Sunderland will do me for the rest of the season.

Hope he gets the job FT as he will easily take us down next season. Too many points on the board this time round.

Rumours Roy Keane to replace him till the end of the season.

Come on pardew!