chicago_shearer

How long left?

Please please please please. 

Thinking about it, Boro and Fulham at home are both winnable. 6 points would save us I think, this is a big loss to not get 3 points, but this isn't the end.

 

If we can't beat Portsmouth, we're not going to beat Fulham.  We get nowt from this, it's not far off the end.

 

Say Hull fail to get anymore points, which as they're in free fall is possible. 4 points would get us level with better goal difference and save us. It's not likely, but I'm saying there is hope.

A noble effort to avert the historic melt down that will follow this result should it stay the same (or get worse).

Don't win and we don't play in this league next year.  Simple as.

Bottom line is we're going down cause we're s***. No excuses we simply are not good enough

Agreed.  I'm strangely calm about this, because there are no excuses left.  It's Pompey at home FFS.  If you can't do it then, you deserve what you get.

Really nice kit.  I just can't stop picturing it with the fizzy pop numbers on the back.  

When the heck are we gonna see any sort of previews for it? Normally we've seen nearly all of it by now (with those 'strip tease' things the club insist on doing).

 

I'm getting impatient.

 

It really isn't a priority right now.

I miss the seasons where mid table obscurity was secured and we could spend late April and early May worrying about the new strip.

It cannot be underestimated how much Butt negatively affects the whole team.

 

You just cannot have him in central midfield playing the way he does. He kills us defensively and going forward.

 

The likes of Nolan, Duff etc who are not that great in the first place are made to look a million times worse as he puts them all under pressure time and time again with his questionable play.

 

Taking Butt alone out of the team for Guthrie regardless of what formation we play will se us improve about 50% right off the bat.

 

Still he will remain even after today's performance.

 

You really have to wonder what it is all about when the guy continues to feature in the game every single week. It is criminal.

 

Butt wasn't the worst out there - by far it was Ryan Taylor and Nolan. By a country mile.

God damn I am so sick of people with their "he wasn't thaaaat bad".  Nicky Butt is fucking useless, put him down like a dog.  I hate him, I really do.

I usually don't like to think about what went wrong or what might have been, but this one keeps me awake at nights.

Only weeks after being given the job at Benfica, Mourinho's mentor, Sir Bobby Robson, offered him the assistant manager's role at Newcastle United. Such was Robson's desperation for Mourinho to join him he offered to step down after two years in charge and hand over the reins to Mourinho. Mourinho turned the offer down, saying he knew Robson would never step down at the club he loved.

What if he'd said yes?  Where would we be now?             

Souness instead of anyone else.

The single costliest decision in terms of this club.  There are many decisions after this point that made things worse, but Souness is where the downfall began.  It hasn't been said in a few years, but FUCK SOUNESS.  What a useless fucker he was.

Sanchez

Cannavaro

Moore

Maldini

Best

Beckham

Zidane

Platini

Sócrates

Vialli

Batistuta

Manager: Mourinho

I think we are well overdue a performance that reminds us that some of our players used to be established internationals that played at the highest levels of European football.  So hopefully our modern tradition of beating Spurs continues, and we thump the bastards 3-1. 

Agreed.  Between Dowie, Shearer, Houghton, Calderwood and possibly Kinnear watching on the tele, one of them must have noticed this time.  If Butt were foreign, he would have been shipped out years ago.

It's a poor result (if the roles had been reversed for example) but it doesn't feel like a poor result in the context of the match.  If lessons have been learned and confidences have been slightly raised, then it could end up being an immense goal from Mr. Carroll.  We will see.

Surely.....SURELY Nicky Butt cannot survive this.  Surely someone noticed this time. 

Better this than totally dead and buried.

Dont give up lads, still 45 mins left. If anyone can rile them up its shearer.......

Nah sorry, I've given up.  Going to go find some Cadbury chocolate eggs.

I hope Shearer's half-time talks are more inspiring than his punditry.

The best thing he could do is just follow the team in to the dressing room, close the door behind him and then beat Shola Ameobi to death with whatever blunt object happens to be on hand.  Don't bother talking.  Dowie can hold back anyone that tries to intervene. 

What is going through Shola's head during that set piece?  Does he just stop thinking, does he have a problem with depth perception, is he frightened of Faye?  How does that happen?

I can't believe this is happening. Holy s***.

Really?  Disappointing, yes.  But not that surprising.

Good marking Shola, top stuff.

The tackle was late, it could have been dangerous.  Stop fucking whining. 

Something thrown on the pitch there, at Taylor.  Dock the fuckers some points for that.

On day, someone should tell Ameobi that you can't use your hands.

So far this just feels like deja fucking vu.  Just waiting for it.

I wish these bastards were capable of demonstrating some urgency. 

shearer in black suit, black shirt and white tie 

No he isn't in a white tie and dressed like an 80s keyboard player.  He is in a black suit, white shirt, black tie.

Keep that West Brom/Pompey game a draw please.