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Still amazed and will always be grateful for pulling that disaster of a relegated team together and winning the Championship. Quibbles with team selection and substitutions this year, but wtf do I know? It was so refreshing to have a manager who conducted himself with class and dignity. He deserved much better than this from the Club.

Not touching him until he comes through without injury against Werder on Wednesday. If I transfer now he's bang on to get a serious knock.

I need to stop thinking about it - went with Drogba captain against Birmingham despite how shite he's been instead of Tevez against Fulham. 4 pts from my captain instead of 32. Ugh. Mid-table mediocrity here I am!

Anyone else notice that collectively we're 1318th out of 209,269 leagues? That's top 0.63%! My team's something like top 25th percentile, and I'm in 66th place in our league.

No worries - I'll just make Tevez my fantasy football captain this week. That should guarantee a significant injury to him, or at least a shit performance.

This remains the best source for injury news that I've found: http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php They update several times a week, usually get it right and I love not having to sift through shite and speculation on other teams' fora (my shite-sifting time is spent on here, thanks).

The question is would I take it right now, and there are simply too many variables (injuries - which will happen, it's only a matter of who and how bad, Ben Arfa turning out to be a truly disruptive twat who destroys our chemistry, the January transfer window, etc.) that could go very poorly for us to not take 17th in a heartbeat at this point.

I'm still in shock. Not on TV or internet over here, and was running around like mad getting breakfast for the kids, etc. It seemed every time I refreshed we'd scored again. Half expected to learn it was a 3-1 loss when I got back from running some errands, and the thread nothing more than a massive NO joke on those overseas or otherwise not at the match. Not that I don't trust you fuckers.

Picking my team made me realize how little I paid attention to the Premier League last season. Definitely picked a fair few who seem to be out of favor now. These first few weeks will definitely require some adjustments. My team is 17th with a bullet!

Everyone's got their limit.

Had another good run, only for the announcer to say "And there is the side of Ben Arfa that the Marseille fans saw much too little of last season . . . ."

Came on at about the 60 minute mark. Had a nice penetrating run straight away.

"Bookmakers have installed Portsmouth as third-favourites for relegation behind Scunthorpe and Barnsley." Financial turmoil, no goalkeeper, and only 11 of their massive squad of 14 players expected to be with the team for the opening match and they're third favorites for relegation? Just how shit are Barnsley and Scunthorpe?

Deflected in off his back? Only plausible explanation.

Whoever ate all the pies.

Damn. His head is simply immense. That is all.

For U.S.-based fans, both the Forest match and ours are online at espn360.com for free. Video quality isn't great, but it's free and it's video! Forest is 12:15 Eastern time, ours is the usual 2:45 Eastern.

Looks like a new one is £90-100. Which tells me how boring the match is at the moment.

Been offline for a while and missed this. Modest contribution sent. Sorry it's not more. Thanks!

A friendly match day reminder that the video broadcast of the game will be live and free online via ESPN360: http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/index Don't know if this works outside the US, but for those who are stateside, it's a nice option.

Actually, I'm surprised no one has been camped outside Seymour Pierce. I was afraid to mention that though with this lot.

106,145 Michigan v. Florida State at Michigan Stadium in 1991.

But we sold them for £20m cash. To the extent that has come in immediately, these sales have not reduced the club's value £1. To the extent the money is payable in the future, it's reduced the club's value only by the difference between the sale price of asset(s) and the present value of the future payment. The only other reduction would be some nebulous reduction in "goodwill" or "prestige" by not having highly-valued players on the book, but you'd also have an increase in the value of the club by removing the present value of the players' wages for the remainder of their contract from the "liability" side of the books.

Especially when that something provides the opportunity for 26 manboob jokes.