Ashley17

and the way they played up here till a non-sending off. I'm giving him no credit at all for the way they played up here, as I assume it was he who told his players to waste time from the moment they went in front, made all the worse by the fact it was about the 3rd f***ing minute. Never had my piss boiling so much when they had the ball they played well and till the sending off we weren't in the game. Yes whilst that is true I can't stand all that shite they did, if it was the last 5 minutes fair enough but from the fourth minute it was getting on my tits

and the way they played up here till a non-sending off. I'm giving him no credit at all for the way they played up here, as I assume it was he who told his players to waste time from the moment they went in front, made all the worse by the fact it was about the 3rd fucking minute. Never had my piss boiling so much

Said he hoped he would be, not confirmed by any means.

Where's all this Owen injury come from? I assumed he was taken off becuase we were 2-0 down and down to 10 and needed to put a defender on. With the game being up, JFK chose to protect Owen for the Liverpool game. Are we just speculating or are there rumblings?

Maybe, but less than 48 hours after his previous game probably won't be that time

Are you new to Rafa Benitez?

I'd put Edgar at left back, not only because Zog is needed in midfield but also because Dirk Kuyt isn't your standard right winger, his main threat is being in the box on the far post. Edgar will cope far better with him in the air than Zog would.

I wonder if Phil Brown is seriously thinking about taking the mackem job now, might want to get out if he thinks the bubble is bursting

If it takes 5 minutes to get a player off on a stretcher, I'm fearing the worst. That's a complete guess though, could have been just been taking their time as a precaution of course, but I'm worried.

Please no Cacapa. Would also like to hope Butt is too wrecked at his age to play 2 games in 2 days but we're running out of players again. If Martins is back then that'll help, obviously.

How one game can ruin the optimism beginning to grow, lose 3 of the back 4 and by the look of things Viduka to injury aswell, for fuck sake. Fair play to Carroll for putting himself about a bit and Guthrie for actually giving a shit, everyone else was pretty poor. Hope Beye's injury isn't serious

Jesus wept Ramos may aswell press ahead in his attempts to get Zakora through the doors, then move on to bigger targets like James Beattie. Bet Barca are shitting themselves

7-1 Nah the 7-1 was after Christmas, and about 11 years ago. The 6-1 was an FA cup 3rd round replay when the 3rd round was (stupidly) moved to December

He has only signed, the transfer will go through 01/01/2008. What an awful 5 minutes for you

Has Dennis Wise left yet? No he hasn't, another great Setanta exclusive

Oh for fuck sake

Here's here until the end of the season at least then, and if nothing else he's still going to try and put himself in the shop window for the summer, so that's 5 months worth of decent performances. In theory.

Wigan won't have played for 2 weeks, so they'll be fresh but...maybe a little slow to begin with until they fidn their rhythm? Who knows.

I reckon Martins' injury will be one of those that hangs on for a while, and it doesn't help with us having lots of games in quick succession. Would be surprised to see him again this year tbh.

One of the main thing that annoys me is that we don't have fringe players playing in the reserves, then complain when they aren't match fit when we need them. Xisco has played about 5 games and been injured and Carroll is now on the bench ahead of him, presumably because of his goals at reserve level. Xisco is only young too and still needs games to develop, whether it be in the reserves or out on loan

I'd fucking love someone to make a Wii advert with Cheryl Tweedy playing Pro Ev on the Wii with Louise Redknapp "I love beating you!!!" Have that Harry. Just seen the goals on Sky. Duff celebrating with the fans, fucking glad Wullie doesn't sit in the Milburn stand.

49,999 happy faces. And Wullie.

DUFF IS PELE

The shorts are supposed to be silver but apparently that will clash with Arsenal's white. Riiiight

Campbell on for his 3rd appearance against us this season