chicago_shearer

I've got him sent off and Petrov on a yellow. Terrible fucking night.

Cisse off, Reading down to 10.

Is he crying?

Hahaha. My team might actually have negative points this week.

Drogba, great goal.

Chelsea equalise.

Carvalho off injured. If that is anything serious then it will be big problems for them defensively.

Who scored for City?

i'll bet you typed "proper" then deleted it and typed "real" Mind reader.

Not swapping out Essien is looking like a big mistake. As was keeping the faith with Berbatov. But if I drop him for Tevez then he's guaranteed to score a hat trick against Derby.

It looks like we are finally on our way to having a defence. With real footballers than can actually defend and everything.

Well, the bad news is that my fantasy team is fucked. The good news is that lurking on the Spurs message boards after this will more than make up for it.

I've just about managed to put together a team without forfeiting a load of points to transfers, but Essien getting injured is simply unacceptable. He needs to stop being such a big girl about his poorly knee and tell Mourinho he's fit to play on Wednesday. Or else.

This been posted yet? Hi-res version of Oba's overhead kick and Geremi's reaction. Now my desktop wallpaper. http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/76058949.jpg

Robsons policy of buying young was arguably the biggest mistake he made. IMO, an average age of 28 is about right. You need a core squad of experienced players - professionals you know what they are doing - to make an impact in the Premiership. That's the difference between successfully defending a 3-1 lead at Bolton and choking in the last half hour.

"OK Sam, just send Tord a videotape of this Pattison guy and we'll bring him in for a medical Monday."

Tottenham looked very disappointing, but they have injury problems of their own and the mackems will probably be difficult to beat at home all season. They'll do OK I suspect (not Champions League though). Anyway...if you ever thought N-O supporters were fickle then I suggest you read a few of the kneejerktastic threads on GloryGlory. They lose next weekend and it will be a full on meltdown. (Although they finally seem to be coming around to the fact that the odd good goal does not make Jenas a good midfielder). West Ham were thankfully disorganized and crap. Hope it continues. I disagree about Liverpool who I still think will be very strong when Torres & Babel find their feet.

Joint 2nd at the moment on 66 pts. Won't stay that way seeing as I have to find a way to drop Martins, Rozenhal, Geremi & Barry.

Ferguson can take the blame for thinking he has a good enough to squad to leave Tevez, Anderson, Hargreaves etc. out of the squad all together.

I was just thinking the same thing. At least 4 minutes on the board, at least 6 to play.

Gameweek 2 is a real fucking pain if you have Villa, Newcastle, Blackburn players etc. in the team. Anyone know if Baines will be fit to play for Everton on Wednesday?

Thats overly harsh. Carr was outpaced by Anelka, which is hardly a crime. I'm not a huge Carr fan, but he had a solid game. He wont be the last player to lose a sprint race with someone as pacey as Anelka. It wasn't that he got outpaced by Anelka that I have a problem with, it was that he played so deep that he had to try and keep up with him, the rest of our defenders were playing such a high line yet for some reason Carr stayed deep instead of pushing up with the rest. he stood goal side of the player and got beat for pace. you make it sound like he was stood on the edge of our box as we took the corner It was still a very good finish from Anelka. If I had to blame anyone, it would be Geremi for slipping up and allowing McCaan the space to pick out Nolan. That was what put us in trouble to begin with. But still very well taken by Anelka.

I think the Sidwell thing was the fact it was mid-table, Europeless Newcastle vs Champions League, Premiership title hunting Chelsea And moving your family to the other end of the country for what would almost certainly have been less money. I don't blame him for the decision he made. In fact, I'm glad he made it. We ended up with better players.

Sorry to piss on your parade but that 91/76,771 is where the N-O league is placed amongst all the mini leagues. Total players: 1,055,790 I'm 27,438th at the moment. But Ronaldo is my captain, so I could move up a few!

Why would we we sign Heinze or Shorey after we've spent so much on Enrique? I wouldn't be opposed, but it doesn't seem likely.