LionOfGosforth

Kenedy is great.

Christ, we're useless. They finished 9th in the Bundesliga but we've no chance. As soon as we're in competition with anyone at all, we just give up. Can't compete with any bugger these days.

Bet ye loved Gervinho

Great performance, tactically spot on. Larsson the cunt was satisfyingly anonymous as well, always a bonus

Man, you're extra annoying, even for a newbie. I don't know which hole you crawled out of, but <b>please return to it!</b> So polite

Costa was injured no? He's immense Aye, after the 27th time he blasted past Vertonghen, I noticed he grimaced a bit

Why on earth didn’t Costa start? Better than Willian by a factor of 50

The way the little weasel defended that thug defender at Wigan who nearly killed Haidara was enough for me.

Witsel is shite, never see him do anything useful

Happy for Belgium, excellent team but really hate Martinez, he’ll get so much undeserved credit for this. He’s a snidey little failure who’s happened to stumble along just as Belgium have their best team in decades.

Frustrating, there's a player in there. Understand moving him on, he clearly didn't settle but that's a pathetic fee/RC in this market, barely gets you a half-decent championship player these days. Whole deal has been useless business all-round.

Good, daft Pique cunt

I wish Pique would fuck off with his annoying short passes and shit hair.

If I were a coach of any team, i'd kick the ever living shite out of any of my players for taking a short corner. They should be fucking outlawed.

Well I meant that weird time of day when nowt ever happens, you might hear an ice cream van in the distance but yeah, the afternoon

Jesus our transfer windows are like that weird time of day, after lunch, but before the kids come home from school.

Don't like them but have respect for them, and they deserved that, relentless. Sweden, however, want shooting with shit. Never ever seen a team use an extra man so poorly before, could't keep possession for more than 5 seconds and that full-back should be kicked aal ower for that foul.

Stupid prick right back

Until it is no longer a possibility, i'm going to hope for that. Rafa definitely seems to have mellowed a little over the years and since his Liverpool days

Benitez has to revisit this one, like. Seems very doubtful, think his mind is made up and that's a real pity, someone is going to get a very good goalscorer and god knows what we'll end up with. I think it's telling that with his recent record, if he played for another club, would we have a hope in hell of signing him? Nope.

Even though I don't rate him, I probably agree with you. Would genuinely love to know why people don’t rate him. Young forward, superb in the air, bangs in goals in every team he’s played for. What’s not to like? Maybe missing a bit of tactical discipline? In a young lad, surely that can be taught? Because we've rarely seen this kind of form/finishing from him in a black and white shirt, people seem to forget how poor he was for us in the Chamionship. That said, would definitely like to see him given another chance here, as let's face it, we'll not be spending £20m plus on a striker anytime soon. I honestly think that's because he's never been given enough consistent opportunities. Anecdotally, he only ever seemed to get 4-5 games before one poor performance or a daft booking landed him on the bench to not be seen for months. I think he only actually started something like 11 games in the Championship. I also think people seem to forget he was only 21 or something when he arrived but expected to solve all our forward problems in a useless Mclaren team. Hiding to nothing and he did more than ok. Seems to me, he's been given the shortest rope of any player in recent memory, by many fans and manager.

We should be sat watching this game, proud that one of our young players is making his mark at the world cup now and looking forward to him doing the same this coming season. Instead, we're contemplating how much we can get for him (that we won't fucking spend anyway) and wondering what bargain basement hopeless prick we'll "replace" him with. Mad.

Even though I don't rate him, I probably agree with you. Would genuinely love to know why people don’t rate him. Young forward, superb in the air, bangs in goals in every team he’s played for. What’s not to like? Maybe missing a bit of tactical discipline? In a young lad, surely that can be taught?

Aye but Gayle and Hoss-a-fuckin-loo work hard man