Rich

Fucking heartbreaker, but we'd switched off completely for the couple of minutes before the penalty. Ran out of legs.

Flip is awful

Best is "Irish".

Could really do with Michu scoring. Would also help in that it would rob Boruc of yet another clean sheet when he's sitting on my bench, he's already made 6 saves...

Which would have been zero had you put him in. That's still no gain as it stands really, I'm hoping my subs come up trumps with HBA missing too. This could be a poor week

Good lad, Disco.

Have Rooney who's facing the mackems today. Wanted to transfer him out for Lukaku for next gameweek + some spare cash for a midfield upgrade. Have Rooney as well and he's the one I was going to sack off as well, should have done it because it looks like he may be missing out today with injury.

Is he? Based on that one missed chance? 3 now, like.

That would be better, but seeing as that would be better, Pardew won't use it We'll see

Think Lukaku is going to be a hell of a signing for the price now, wanted to put him in this week but couldn't face a points hit.

Will it not be the 4-2-3-1 with Sissoko and Tiote sitting, Cabaye off Cisse?

Makes you wonder what he wanted that we weren't prepared to pay, like. Didn't he chose city Bc he could play CB and not LB? The rumours at the time were that he wanted wages similar to what Robert was on, I think, but again you never know what to believe. Think the the CB/LB thing could have been an issue as well, definitely. Surely he would had played at CB since Bramble was the backup for that deal? He spent most of his time here at LB, I think, which he was never too happy with. I think that was more to do with Elliott being poor and Bernard emerging though. The fact Bernard started left-back regularly 2002-3 suggests that Distin would have been used in the centre that season. So he was a greedy bastard then?

Makes you wonder what he wanted that we weren't prepared to pay, like. Didn't he chose city Bc he could play CB and not LB? The rumours at the time were that he wanted wages similar to what Robert was on, I think, but again you never know what to believe. Think the the CB/LB thing could have been an issue as well, definitely. Surely he would had played at CB since Bramble was the backup for that deal? He spent most of his time here at LB, I think, which he was never too happy with.

Makes you wonder what he wanted that we weren't prepared to pay, like. Didn't he chose city Bc he could play CB and not LB? The rumours at the time were that he wanted wages similar to what Robert was on, I think, but again you never know what to believe. Think the the CB/LB thing could have been an issue as well, definitely.

Fucking tremendous.

Ah super, the groundwork is being laid for Jonas' triumphant return.

Think one of the fullbacks will get the chop too, probably Santon. Dummett coming in.

Saw Juventus for the first time last weekend and couldn't get over how good they were. The amount of depth in the midfield and defence beggars belief.

I think keepers distribution is overrated a little at times tbh. Elliot is probably the best I can remember, Given's was pretty abysmal but he was an outstanding keeper. I wouldn't say there are many out there who are great, that's why the play in goal Aye it's a very difficult thing to quantify, but at the basic level having a 'keeper with excellent distribution can be a superb weapon for counter attacks while providing a base for a possession-based tactic too. Typically you'll see the bigger sides placing a high value on this sort of GK. I'd suggest having a good shot stopper is obviously more important if you tend to be a side who allow more attempts on goal, or one who has little interest in using the 'keeper in an attacking sense. In terms of NUFC: the difference to us would probably be as minimal as you suggest, given that we're not the most tactically astute side by a long chalk and we don't really have any set style of playing anyway. Interestingly (or not) I just watched Napoli this weekend and Reina was huge for them in this regard, while Genoa built much of their defensive gameplan around stopping him from being effective. They positioned themselves high up the field to cut off his short routes into the defenders and tried to force him to kick long out of his hands wherever possible, though this obviously left more space for Napoli's midfielders and attackers further up the pitch as a knock-on effect. He still managed to create a chance on goal by claiming a set piece and then quickly bombing a kick forward for Insigne, IIRC.

r u avin a giggle m8

I only like Everton these days because Neil is such a legend, was not at all keen on them back in the day.

People spouting shit on Twitter, what the fuck is this world coming to?

3 bonus points for Super John Terry.

Super goal for Morgan Amalfitano, Man Utd losing.

He's got 40 points this season with potential bonus coming later on too. My principles go out the window for that sort of return.