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I just don't think he's agile enough to be a really good defensive full back. If he's only slightly out of position, he can't recover. He's better going forward, but this daft but persistent idea of playing him on the left robs him of a lot of his effectiveness. Defenders know him now, and can snuff him out. I think Haidara and Dummett are definitely better long-term prospects for that left side, and may have overtaken him already.

He looks a good all-round striker to me, but I'm a bit worried that he's out of favour at West Brom. I wonder what the catch is.

He Scottish? No chance then. Check him out on you know where. Looks like a real talent. Just been linked with Man U.

That's your take on it, and perhaps the take of a lot of people. However, is that the way the FA will see it - just a tasteless joke? And then the club will need to be seen to act. It's not a punishment I'm advocating, and it may not go that far. But we've seen two well established TV presenters lose their jobs for making a joke about a female assistant not knowing the offside rule. These situations have a momentum which aren't always easy to control. That's my point. Terry and Suarez have done far worse. I don't know about that. Try and imagine what would have happened if Terry or Suarez had posted those pictures. Unlike those two, Steven Taylor is not a major figure in the game, and so far there's not been much attention from the national media. That might change. If you don't know about that then I don't know what to say really. It is nothing to do with who is a 'major' figure, it is to do with those two saying things in a malicious context and Taylor saying something ignorant but very much in a matey/banter sort of way. I guarantee those who Taylor directed his tweet at did nothing but laugh and thought "what a dick!" where as Ferdinand/Evra were disgusted and chose to take it to the relevant authorities. Well that may be right, but the FA aren't going to laugh and say, 'What a dick!' Nor are the national media, if they really get hold of it. And I wouldn't be so sure that no-body in the club has taken offence. When I said, 'I don't know', it's really about the pointlessness of trying to compare different examples of bad behaviour.

That's your take on it, and perhaps the take of a lot of people. However, is that the way the FA will see it - just a tasteless joke? And then the club will need to be seen to act. It's not a punishment I'm advocating, and it may not go that far. But we've seen two well established TV presenters lose their jobs for making a joke about a female assistant not knowing the offside rule. These situations have a momentum which aren't always easy to control. That's my point. Terry and Suarez have done far worse. I don't know about that. Try and imagine what would have happened if Terry or Suarez had posted those pictures. Unlike those two, Steven Taylor is not a major figure in the game, and so far there's not been much attention from the national media. That might change.

That's your take on it, and perhaps the take of a lot of people. However, is that the way the FA will see it - just a tasteless joke? And then the club will need to be seen to act. It's not a punishment I'm advocating, and it may not go that far. But we've seen two well established TV presenters lose their jobs for making a joke about a female assistant not knowing the offside rule. These situations have a momentum which aren't always easy to control. That's my point.

Give over They're well aware he's a few sandwiches short of a picnic That's true, but the club is going to come under pressure to act in the days ahead. The club and its supporters can put it into the context of Taylor's well-known bone-headedness. Those on the outside won't be so charitable. And those pictures look really bad. Getting the boot is the worst case scenario, but you don't know how things might develop if the national media start to take a strong interest in this.

Even allowing for Taylor's reputation for being thick, I was quite shocked by those pictures. He has no defence and he's in big trouble now. Apart from the FA punishment, the club may feel they have to let him go.

Moderate in your opinions as always. Our national anthem may be unexciting, but it has a beginning, a middle and an end and flows fairly naturally in between. What? If you want a response, you need to expand on that. And a yellow card for selective quoting.

Voodoo? You sure that'll help?

Moderate in your opinions as always. Our national anthem may be unexciting, but it has a beginning, a middle and an end and flows fairly naturally in between. That Chilean one - like several others - just wanders all over the place and is too strident. Personally I wish we could nick the Welsh anthem. Honourable mention to the French too.

Clarence I never cease to marvel at how bad and shapeless some national anthems are. I mean, you'd have thought, after so many years, some musician in an entire country could come up with something better than that.

I only saw the first half, but I thought Zaha played like a real prat. Very selfish and didn't use his brain. No wonder he's out of his depth at Man U. I'd rather stick with Sammy.

More Sports Direct advertising? Well possibly, but the debate seems to be whether swapping us for Rangers makes any business sense. It seems to me that being a CL club in Scotland doesn't give you either a bigger revenue stream or bigger exposure, compared to a mid-table Premiership club. Otherwise there'd be queues of people wanting to take over Rangers.

Rangers and Celtic have been competing in the Champions League for many years, and they still can't compete financially with clubs in the Premiership. That's why they're desperate to leave the Scottish League. What's going to change if Ashley takes over?

So with the Premier League income about to shoot up, he decides that now is a good time to sell, and buy a near bankrupt club in a league that attracts very little attention. Yeah, makes sense.

Mbiwa doesn't look like a full back to me. I'd agree with Dave, and shift Santon across and bring in Dummett. We've just had two successive shut-outs against Chelsea and Spurs, so I can't see the case for major changes. It's not as though Colo has been pulling up trees this season.

That's what you here from Arsenal fans that moan when they are finishing 4th, yet we build Arsenal up to be this extremely well run club? No, it's what you're hearing from me, a Newcastle fan. A team that just finished 2 places above relegation, not 4th. Well they say exactly the same and have criticised their manager/board for years because of it until Ozil arrived that is. Then they brought up old news at the weekend when RVP scored past them because they sold him to their biggest rivals and refused to match his wages and give him assurances they would spend money to win trophies. They say "exactly the same" do they? Show me. Just follow Piers Morgan on twitter and keep scrolling down and reading, he'll give you the idea of how they think. They have Ozil but it still doesn't stop them moaning then have Podolski/Giroud instead of Robin Van Persie. You couldn't have picked a worse person to represent a member of the human race, let alone an Arsenal fan. Don't be that stupid, Brett. You may as well say that Jimmy Nail represents all Newcastle fans. We're tarnished with the brush by the media all of the time, don't do the same thing to other sets of fans when you already know the amount of s*** that's talked about us. Or the 60,000 after the Villa game chanting 'Spend some f***ing money', that enough weight for how fed up they were? ....and they did and now they're a much better team that's top of the league. Exactly what is your point? Not sure about this. The turnaround in Arsenal's form came half way through last season, and they've just continued it on. The difference came when they found their best defence, and Giroud found his feet in the Premiership. Ozil's a good player for sure, but midfield was an area where they were already strong.

The problem is that if a player is 'exceptional', they're likely to have offers from more successful clubs, and we can only secure them by paying over the odds in wages to overcome their reluctance. That's the route to trouble (eg QPR)

I don't know... the big (ie CL) clubs weren't in for him before, and I'm not sure they're going to be in for him now. Possibly Arsenal, as cover for Giroud. I like him, and I hope we sign him, but his first touch is a bit hit and miss tbh.

It'll be an unchanged side.

In nets, usually. He looked slow. There's a lot of Brad Friedel to shift and at 40-something the engine doesn't operate quite as well.

Pele he isn't, but did he really offer 'absolutely nothing'? He held the ball up well a few times and brought others into play. He does offer something, even if you may legitimately feel that the package that others can bring would be better.

We had some good spells, but I never felt we were the 'better side' for any period. I'd agree that there's a problem with providing options for the man in possession. Increasingly as the game wore on, when a player gained a turnover, it felt like his team-mates were static, looking at him and wondering what he was going to do next, instead of making a run forward into space. Our counter attacks still look a bit laboured. We were up against a good side away from home, so perhaps it's harsh to criticise, but it can be very frustrating when we gain possession in a good area and the ball ends up going back to the keeper. However, although it wasn't pretty at times, we did look like a team and there's something to build on.

what the fuck is this? It might be a sarcastic comment on the mentality of some Spurs fans, I suppose. Otherwise, it's not the mentality of Champions to complain when the opposition don't roll over.