The College Dropout

Holloway quit. No pressure from fans or board to do so either.

As cliche as it sounds.. it's really not. Put in a good performance, add some nerves from a title challenging side and they can pick up points. Might just be one point but it can be done.

They are looking for just 1 win honeymoon period. 1.

Imagine all the Sky SPorts and BBC/ITV documentaries of Gerrard should L'pool win the PL.... disgusting.

Excellent point Wullie. Some clubs are harder to manage than others. We are one of the most difficult. As are Sunderland.

Win next week.... the title is theirs. Wow. This is unbelievable.

Wow. Terrible.

Love a proper Andy Carroll header. Brilliant.

L'pool need to leave it like. They look like they've lost their heads.

Does he rotate his players? The injuries to Ozil & Ramsey injuries looked inevitable due to them playing all the time, partly because of other injuries. The same with Giroud's drop in form.

And tbh I think that's their single biggest problem. Injuries every single year. Massive ones. Even if they bring in the strong CM, striker and wide man they need they'll fall apart due to injuries. You look at everyone else around them . 1 or 2 big players out. Arsenal have 5. Every year.

Arsenal have been damaged something serious by injuries. Aaron Ramsey & Theo Walcott alone would've made this game competitive. Let alone the German and French CB.

Its not working very well either. Monreal is in acres of space every time arsenal have the ball

Still talking about the ineligible player? These are going down regardless.

While I think he's more a symptom of our problems (Fat man the cancer) than the actual cause... he's terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

I like Chris but he's looking more and more like Pardew. Defensive manager that can't even keep it tight/get thumped all the time.

Norwich really needed to win. This is the type of match they usually win. Terrible, terrible result for them.

Our goal difference is barely any better than Palace's ffs.

Yep. Should win manager of the year for keeping them up. At least his defensive teams tend to keep the score down. Fucking 0-4 man

I've had a warning for much less

I'm assuming he still wants to be profitable though. Even if he's still tight, he can get players of a certain style and a manager with a certain mindset on a similar budget to now even. Even if he has no ambition, he could at least try and keep the punters entertained on a matchday. We don't even have that. That's ambition. the Newcastle manager's job is always difficult but it's nigh on impossible under Ashley. Any new manager will have to consistently over achieve to make a name for himself. While not being in control of transfers at all.

You haven't produced any world class players - ever to represent USA. Have a genuinely crap side, football as a top 5 sport and the best player you've ever produced/top 3 strikers in the world and you would have similar scenes.

Ronaldo did underrate PSG in fairness. From the start they had as much chance of winning it as any English side. I expect Chelsea to win at the Bridge but I don't know if the result will be enough. I'd fancy Atletico to beat them comfortably however if that where the match. The styles greatly favour the Spanish side.

Not sure I agree with that at all. Only their full-backs and Hazard would get into that PSG team for me at the minute. Agree. I think i'd probably take Terry over Alex as well though, but that's in a fantasy world. In reality having two brazilian CBs is probably better for chemistry. Agreed. PSG are stronger man for man but not by much. Fwiw I rate Jose higher than Blanc easily and i'm no Mourinho fan at all. I said earlier in this thread teams that sit back and tell Chelsea to break them down have every chance of picking up points and we've seen that happen. I would say - if he thinks his side is very strong. Madrid in La Liga for example, he'll play some good attacking stuff (albeit often on the counter) but in those big games he reverts back to type. I agee with about 80/90% of what Tmonkey posted.

10 years at a PL club and rarely getting a striker scoring more than a dozen goals is indicative of his transfer eye and tactical methods. Jelavic had a 6 month spell and that's it. In that period the likes of James Beattie, Ba, Michu heck even Andy Johnson have had impressive finishing seasons.