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If I were an Everton fan I'd feel sick as. Best chance to beat their rivals to a cup final for decades, had the form and better side, gifted a goal and still lost. Neesy is a mackem.

I think Carroll's had a great game, fair play to him. Neesy is a mackem.

Dour game. Thought it might come to life after Liverpool scored but it's dull as. Neesy is a mackem.

The big picture is that in the area of player development we've fallen far behind the Germans, especially in the wake of Germany's self examination. A examination that was so far reaching, it stretched from the International 1st team to grassroots level, and inbetween. From top-to-bottom of the league great football is played in the Bundesliga, from a technical perspective. The likes of Pulis & Allardyce are a stumbling block to the work put in at the grassroots level, and destroy the raw potential produced in their relevant catchment areas. For the country to bridge the current divide, clubs have to be on a similar page, re: employing a philosophy that is beneficial for domestic player development. If clubs are relegated, amidst promoting managers who coach football which is actually educational, then the financial blow of relegation should be softened in the form of increased parachute payments (as a concrete policy). Clubs like Stoke, who simply get by and collect their slice of the TV rights pie & are anti-thesis to the last point, should be whacked in the hip-pocket. Those respective financial incentives (and disincentives) will phase out this anti-football mentality, that has been embraced by some managers and clubs who refuse to evolve. The Pulis' and Allardyces' of the domestic coaching scene (for the sake of the relevant player catchment areas) and the niche market they have created thanks to their survival-at-any-cost approach, have to be phased out of the game. Wouldn't mind England playing the way Stoke did if we won international tournaments. Seriously, it's ugly but to call it a crime etc is ridiculous. Also, I don't think they're nothing but the battering ram approach. Some of their players can play.

Their football is dire to watch and kind of rank but it's not some offence against sporting philosophy, ffs. It's a game plan, you're allowed to have one.

Wouldn't have called Norwich home a challenging game for them either. Our last 3: City are eminently beatable, especially not at the Etihad. By that point their season is totally and utterly over, a deflated club with fuck all left to play for who haven't functioned right for about 2 months. Chelsea: absolutely not scared of them, they looked shit yesterday, were poor and lucky against Wigan. We can easily beat them. Everton: don't think we'll win that one, they're on fire.

I actually think we'll do it.

Very impressive indeed. not that impressive, we haven't played anyone yet. What about Liverp- wait

To be fair to the Liverpool fans criticising it, I've seen Downing do it loads this year, so the magic has probably been somewhat devalued for them.

I think this is the best thing about him: the fact that you know that, at any moment, he can just do something undefendable and get you goal that the other team can do bollock all about.

20) The best stadium of light in the world

Insert seething political joke here

Agbonlohor has gone completely

16) No letterbox is safe

Sad Weasley

When he graduated AA

They didn't pick a striker today. Sesspit up front on his own.

13) Nyron Nosworthy: the greatest centre half England never picked

Sorry I posted 9 just as your 9-11 rushed through. Mag kernts

9) They had that Shearer, but we had Kevin Phillips.

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Liverpool winning is the best outcome either way i think. It guarantees Europa League, but it means the shackles are off us and we can go into the last few games with freedom. Not quite, Chelsea winning the Champions League buggers it up, unlikely but possible. If they turn over Barca and Real, I'll eat my hat. More chance of seeing a Mackem in Milan tbh.

Blackburn FA Cup. Not a league game, sorry. You said we hadn't won a 3PM KO in 2012. We have. Checkmate, Stu.

The one I'm most worried about is Everton away. I think we can beat Citeh at home, they've been abject recently and effectively have nothing to play for, or certainly won't by the time we play them. We have no reason to fear Chelsea either, they're nowt special.

Quite. Where's my irony wrench?