Ashley17

Emmanuelson has been an asset in this game

Di Canio's odds tumbling all the time, obviously just people throwing money at the favourite. Surely they can't take a risk on him? Mark Hughes is a strange one, he had Fulham playing some decent stuff when he left, and he did well with Blackburn & Wales. QPR have probably soiled his reputation but he had a great record at SJP, which is annoying.

"Stay up and watch the football league show, you literally won't get this hour back. In fact, when it finishes, you'll lose another hour as the clock goes forward." Fuck that.

Mulumbu misses our game then, that's...something.

Fucking Dorrans (pen), it's 2009 all over again

A fry up, in human form.

A handful of games aside, last season we didn't play well and ground out wins with poor performances. This season we've played poorly and generally other sides have capitalised. Injuries are a small excuse (we had relatively few last season) but last season we started like a train and just kept going, the new players brought confidence and we gave ourselves a good platform. By contrast, this season we didn't really freshen up the squad in the summer and got ourselves in a tizz about playing Europa league. No momentum whatsoever and a lack of creativity made us very easy to stifle and we lost our way.

Wish he'd been sacked on the 31st

Silva, 2-0

Same thing happened last season, looked like we were going to get to half time at 0-0 then it all went tits and they got 2. Same thing will probably happen here.

Tevez, 1-0

Good lad linesman, get that flag up

Terry equalises

We'll be lucky to finish with 11 at this rate

Southampton 1 - 0 Chelsea FFS

Yet Sissoko, Cisse, Saylor, Mbiwa, Cabaye, Anita and Jonas aren't ? I'm not having that. Look at Marveaux's fitness record. It's better now than it has been but why risk him here when we're going to chasing the ball all afternoon? Sissoko has looked knackered is his last couple of games for us, why not rest him. As for Marv's injury record, how far do you go to protect him then. If he's fit he plays 100 times out of 100 ahead of Obertan. When we have a Quarter Final in 5 days, I think he's worth protecting. Sissoko runs and commits people, which will be useful on the counter. Marveaux is more of a "foot on the ball" type of player which won't be tremendously useful today as we'll rarely have enough men forward to make it count. Surely Sissoko is the one you want to rest more by the styles you just discribed (and i agree with). To be honest it's more to do with fooking Obertan playing than anything else. Lack of alternatvies I guess. Obviously isn't keen on putting Anita or Perch at full back which would allow Jonas to play on the wing.

Yet Sissoko, Cisse, Saylor, Mbiwa, Cabaye, Anita and Jonas aren't ? I'm not having that. Look at Marveaux's fitness record. It's better now than it has been but why risk him here when we're going to chasing the ball all afternoon? Sissoko has looked knackered is his last couple of games for us, why not rest him. As for Marv's injury record, how far do you go to protect him then. If he's fit he plays 100 times out of 100 ahead of Obertan. When we have a Quarter Final in 5 days, I think he's worth protecting. Sissoko runs and commits people, which will be useful on the counter. Marveaux is more of a "foot on the ball" type of player which won't be tremendously useful today as we'll rarely have enough men forward to make it count.

Yet Sissoko, Cisse, Saylor, Mbiwa, Cabaye, Anita and Jonas aren't ? I'm not having that. Look at Marveaux's fitness record. It's better now than it has been but why risk him here when we're going to chasing the ball all afternoon?

Marveaux being saved for Thursday I assume. Shola not on the bench either

Man City team v Newcastle: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Barry, Yaya Toure, Silva, Nasri, Tevez, Dzeko

Buttner just not fancy shooting when he had that chance?

The best thing he can do is play and get it over with. The longer he waits the worse it will be

In the space of about 3 minutes England, Ireland, Wales & Northern Ireland all conceded. Shit.

Montenegro vs Ukraine in June when we have no qualification fixture is looking quite imporant. Considering Ukraine still have to play San Marino twice, think I'd rather Montenegro won to keep us in the running for 2nd

We had Crouch then though, people see that lanky bastard and just hoof it.