CaliMag

The selling of dyer, was the start of our midfield looking slow and work man like. At least with dyer you knew you had someone who could run with the ball. It's okay being able to run with the ball but he can't do it whilst he's sat on the treatment table. I was going to say the same. No question Dyer looked good on some days and he could run for 90 minutes but, Woodgate aside, selling him was one of the best pieces of business this club has done.

I just read on .COM That Dyer is fit and could be chosen to play.... this is a joke right? Since he left us he has only started 13 games (and never scored). Can anyone tell me if he has ever finished any of those or has he gone off injured in all 13? I would guess that he is a cert to score against us since he hasn't done so since 2007 for us aginst Watford.

I have to agree with Cubaricho on this. LA has a larger Latino population and is culturally much more of a "soccer city" than New York. LA doesn't even have an American Football team... NYC has two.

... oh and best of luck to Colin in Edinburgh.

I'd be very happy with Clarke. I am sure he learned something under Mourinho. He was the only backroom personality I liked under Gullit. Certainly replacing him with Wadsworth was a massive step backwards for us.

I am unconvinced that Ranger is a better choice than Routeledge. As has been mentioned before: this switch seems to be overly optimistic.

A must win game. Everyone knows this including the manager and the players. Our bad luck and porr officiating has to run out eventually. I am thinking a 2-0 win for us. I am usually very pessimistic about our chances of winning any game but this is different. We will beat them.

Getting ready for humiliation in a few minutes. I am thinking Spain will put 6 or seven past Scotland tonight...

Serious question: Where is Xisco? Why isn't he in the photo?

You should rewatch the game he is standing over De Jong because after Tiote schooled him De Jong grabbing his leg (by kicking out with his own legs) while still on the ground. Another offence that should have seen a card. Probably lessened (in the ref's simple mind) by the fact that Tiote walked right up to him and threatened to slap him in the face with his cock (or so it seemed on the telly anyway...).

Tiote just flattened Milner

I love that Blyth Spartans tribute kit. It would be great if we had something like that in the future.

Most Liverpool fans I know would trade Babel for Routeledge in a flash. The ones I know (glory hunting wankers that they are) don't rate him.

Hughton was let down by the team today - it wasn't his tactics or subs which he got right with the players we have. Ben Arfa wasn't as good today as he was vs Everton ... neither was Tiote. When we were still drawing 1-1 he went for it rather than try to hold onto a draw. Statistically this was the right call. We played better than Stoke overall and in 2 out of three games we would have won this at 1-1 with the subs he made pushing forward. If you can win 2 of these types of games and lose one you're still doing the right thing. Toward the end he was even telling Colocini to run up playing a 3-4-3.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/javaImages/91/68/0,,10278~9070737,00.jpg Looks like they are laughing at Tiote and he feels bad about it.

I second this!

Raylor almost smiled there... must've upped his prozac doseage.

Ranger missed a sitter there.

Not sure why there is so much negativity here. We are not playing THAT bad. And Jonas in particular has been playing pretty well. His pass across the middle five minutes ago to Ranger was very good. Ranger just couldn't give it back. And of course Ranger has just equalized. Shane is looking up for this - not intimidated at all.

That is what I thought. Sol is not taking this game very seriously.

Thanks for that link. An interesting article. Lovenkrands comes off very well.

That is great. I love the little details like Timbers 4 Sounders 0 on the scoreboard... petty yet effective.

The argument of MOTD pundits being lazy is a strong one. Stan Collymore delivering that argument weakens it though. Like Fat Sam and even our own Joey Barton - he's not as smart or as good as he thinks he is.

A positive result for me here would be only losing by one goal. We haven't won here since the magic team of 01-02 (Bellamy, Solano, Acuna all scoring according to .COM) - that team was miles better than what we have now. Everton is also a lot better.

Nobody knows if that's the case or not, it's impossible to know. Hard to see how he could have done better than Hughton last season. And his eight games in charge didn't bode that well, did they? And after the whole Keegan thing, I don't blame Ashley at all for not wanting to appoint another Toon icon with big spending demands. I'd love to see what conditions Shearer was asking for, though. Pity he didn't spill the details about that. I am going to assume it included spending a significant amount of money since SHearer also said in the interview that he did not think CH would be able to bring us straight back up.