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So that's Colo, Saylor, Jenas and Given injured today? Ireland coming on soon, no doubt...

Have a real sense of deflation about this game (and the others, I suppose) now they're over. We put in so much effort and got injures/suspensions in the process - for very little tangible reward. We even pissed away respectable scorelines away from home by losing by three and damaging our goal difference today. We're down to sixth and I struggle to see us getting in and amongst the teams above us again atm - especially now we've got so many defensive injuries and we'll represent a decent/attainable scalp for teams below us. I'd have been delighted with seventh at the start of the season, but the league table will become a depressing sight very soon in some ways. The "big six" will in all likeliness charge away. Didn't expect to finish in the six or anything, but it was fun to rattle cages/feel involved in one of the two meaningful sides of the league (and the good one, no less) We've got a cup left, basically. Think it's all the more annoying because, but for an injury here or there (ie. Tiote, and Colo today) we could have got 4 or so points from our last three. Bah.

The least the Manc bastards could do is beat Villa.

Single on Man Utd.

Won £150 - minus £10 on silly sidebets - midweek loss of £70 () = £70 profit for the week. Which I spent yesterday on a new camera lens Back to square one (except with a cool lens, this time)

Some Amazo Multiple Man Hydra shit. Cut off one head and two come back. Insane depth.

Man City cannot keep clean sheets, but it doesn't even matter (in the Prem, anyway).

Snap your hands off for a draw at this point. No centre-backs and no Tiote. Pardew prideful/stupid. Crisis

Yak-attack. Blackburn scum 3-1 up.

A WBA goal would polish this footballing turd of a day somewhat.

Particularly annoyed by the third goal. Goal difference down to +4, ffs.

http://i.imgur.com/h9Gtk.png Thick as fuck Sky ratings.

Raped without him again.

We're conceding penalties for fun at the moment. Chelsea Citeh x 2 Stoke Blackburn Spurs

He's done better than expected this season, but the first time he comes up against decent wide players, in the last 3 matches, he's been caught/found out. But with those 3 fixtures now gone (where some argued it would unwise to throw him in), Santon deserves his chance now. Disagree. It's happened all season. He's contributed massively to giving Krul the chance to shine as much as he has. In the last three matches, it's been capitalised on more, that's the only difference - but it's not just the Big Three who've humiliated him. He's not a competent left back.

Pathetic, isn't it? Absolutely livid. AVB destroyed him tactically with a disjointed side with minimal confidence.

Yeah. Shit his pants on that one like. Though I reckon Ryan Taylor's 'tackle' was a red card too. Small part of me was hoping for a red, just to force Pardew's hand into taking him off LB duty. We need all the bodies we can get atm.

In the midst of a fucking frustrating performance, talk about Spurs coming in for him pissed me off.

Krul 9 Raylor 2 Perch 5.5 Saylor 7.5 Simpson 6 Obertan 4.5 Guthrie 7 Cabaye 7 Lovenkrands 6.5 Ben Arfa 5 Ba 7.5 Shola 7 Sammy 7 Colo 7.5 Pardew 4

Wanker.

Sad as fuck that it takes results/performances like this for people to stop bleating on about "best defensive record" as an argument against removing Raylor from the team. Until we actually concede ten goals from the ten chances a game he gives away, people will keep use that bullshit argument. So pissed, right now.

Feels like a day where it's not worth getting out of bed for... ...the ref is bent as fuck, Tiote and Colo are out, Raylor still hasn't been fucking phased out of the team, and Perch and Lovenkrands (presumably only by virtue of their "age" and "experience"), are ahead of more promising players.

Some serious 'splaining to do.