Doug

Every fan needs to read and understand this well presented piece of information. How could Shepherd have behaved in such a cavalier fashion with the finances of our club while criminally stealing so much for himself and cronies. Shame on him, he has a lot to answer for. Ashleys lack of football competence it would appear has at least stopped him from lining his own pockets up till now. God only knows what he wants because he sure as hell cannot be having any "fun" which is about the only thing he has ever communicated to us that I can remember of his intentions as owner.

Pardew will have noted his game changing contribution. He should start against Birmingham as Shola sadly does not seem fit again.

Defending Cambell? Are you insane? I am truly speechless.

Nile to score, definitely

Precisely, players not revolting and fans out in numbers backing the team will have totally wrecked their agenda.

If I was Tamas Kadar my written transfer request would be in before January if this sad old shadow of a once great player was given a place before me. I dont know what is more pathetic, the sight of him trying to defy the ravages of time or the delusion of the people who expect him to reproduce the athletism of his youth.

Liverpool were in the ascendancy on the hour mark and were going on to win the game. The introduction of Nile was the reason the game changed and instead of playing their composed football from the back, they went to pieces as Nile harried and chased down everything in the last third. Not a mention by the highly paid experts in the MOTD studio of course. Fitness, pace and power, there really is no substitute. Tamas Kadar for Sol Cambell next please.

Did you not see the West Brom game then?

The latest media spin is that there is a dressing room revolt. This of course is exactly what the press want us to react to. Reality: the players will be introduced to the new manager who will make his standard Churchillian type speech then the established players will be vying to catch his eye in training in order to keep their places or to get a breakthrough start in the case of fringe players. The media ratbags will be in their element not just to exagerate but to fabricate lies which will keep the negativity going and ensure failure. We are supposed to play our part by revolting along with all their bile. Most importantly, when it does all go wrong on the pitch, the media will shift emphasis with their shit stirring to blame us the fans as being impatient and expecting too much of the team. Do not trust them or anything that is reported, they have no interest in a smooth transition here.

Will our players knuckle down and try to shake us out of our negative mood with a committed performance or will they show last weeks Guthrie like commitment and literally fall over and sit on their arses watching the opposition walk over us while pretending to be hurt. (that 2nd goal was a disgrace) I fear the latter especially if we as a crowd do a Guthrie and give up too.

Cant get over the pathetic sight of him falling on his arse and waiting a full couple of minutes for a stretcher to come on and carry him off during the shameful second goal capitulation on Sunday. That gutless episode summed up the performance perfectly. Get up and show a bit of backbone you puff. I should have gone Xmas shopping like the Albion fans chanted at us.

How can epic booing as the manager and team come out do anything other than perk up the Liverpool team while killing our own players moral. Stand by for an epic drubbing.

This bloke is Irreplaceable. If his head goes down now it will be the club managements greatest folly in creating the negativity to cause it. Adverse fan reaction can possibly make it worse as the players freeze under the protest against a resurgent Liverpool this weekend, I am dreading it.

Liverpool coming back into form, we are going to lose, but protest will increase the margin as the players are unsettled by it. If only we could get behind the team for ninety minutes we may get something, I m sick of losing to these.

Utter rubbish. Nope. So... we shouldn't have sent such key figures? The Prince and the Prime Minister took away from the football feel. Just felt a bit "glitz and glam" with little substance. Do they really care much for football? Really? That Man City worker was the most captivating bit. Beckham made a lot of sense too I guess because he's had a great career all over the world really, and has a lot of pull. It won us the Olympics! Oh well. Who knows. Just seemd a bit much. It's clear FIFA's emphasis was moving towards giving it to places where they felt that the money would aid some sort of development and improvement of infrastructure etc. England should have found more of an angle such as this to play up. People always go on about how much grass roots football is struggling over here afterall. I don't know ... should have played that up more perhaps? It's unfortunate. ummm did you actually watch the presentation or not? half of england's bid was about this "football united" fund which would match fifa's investment in grassroots football around the world. it was the most focused on grassroots worldwide development out of all the bids. furthermore, the bid was actually headed by some manc guy no one had heard of who works in youth development in manchester. you think Qatar's glizty bid is about grassroots football? or russia with all their brand new stadiums. bollocks are they - both were more about headline grabbing and glamorous aspects than any low level football development. I watched the bid. Do you honestly believe The football powers in this country would give the scrapings off the bottom of their shoes to overseas football development. Open your eyes to the reality of English football. We have the most lopsided distribution of wealth in the sport it is possible to have. Anyone with experience of grass roots football will tell you that their only contact with officialdom is when they are being screwed for money by County FAs or councils, yet we are the wealthiest football nation going. It is all squirrelled away into the arse pockets of the elite and their cronies at the top of the games pyramid. Please dont believe the bullshit rhetoric given in a half hour presentation by people who probably wont even be there when they have to deliver, anyone can promise the world when it is 8 years off and there is no commitment or money up front. to answer your question yes i do think the English bid would gather the money to invest in global grassroots football as they promised. Touchingly naive, maybe they might have even filtered some down to our own grassroots as a practice run, We'll never know now.

Utter rubbish. Nope. So... we shouldn't have sent such key figures? The Prince and the Prime Minister took away from the football feel. Just felt a bit "glitz and glam" with little substance. Do they really care much for football? Really? That Man City worker was the most captivating bit. Beckham made a lot of sense too I guess because he's had a great career all over the world really, and has a lot of pull. It won us the Olympics! Oh well. Who knows. Just seemd a bit much. It's clear FIFA's emphasis was moving towards giving it to places where they felt that the money would aid some sort of development and improvement of infrastructure etc. England should have found more of an angle such as this to play up. People always go on about how much grass roots football is struggling over here afterall. I don't know ... should have played that up more perhaps? It's unfortunate. ummm did you actually watch the presentation or not? half of england's bid was about this "football united" fund which would match fifa's investment in grassroots football around the world. it was the most focused on grassroots worldwide development out of all the bids. furthermore, the bid was actually headed by some manc guy no one had heard of who works in youth development in manchester. you think Qatar's glizty bid is about grassroots football? or russia with all their brand new stadiums. bollocks are they - both were more about headline grabbing and glamorous aspects than any low level football development. I watched the bid. Do you honestly believe The football powers in this country would give the scrapings off the bottom of their shoes to overseas football development. Open your eyes to the reality of English football. We have the most lopsided distribution of wealth in the sport it is possible to have. Anyone with experience of grass roots football will tell you that their only contact with officialdom is when they are being screwed for money by County FAs or councils, yet we are the wealthiest football nation going. It is all squirrelled away into the arse pockets of the elite and their cronies at the top of the games pyramid. Please dont believe the bullshit rhetoric given in a half hour presentation by people who probably wont even be there when they have to deliver, anyone can promise the world when it is 8 years off and there is no commitment or money up front.

Multi Millionaire footballers, 67 million just to premier league agents last year, Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of us are bled dry in grass roots football The hypocracy of our bid, talking nonsense of helping billions of youngsters through the empty rhetoric of 'Football United' whatever that means. I could not think of anyone better to represent the paper thin facade of our game where everything is syphoned off to the top than a Royal prince, an old Etonian prime minister and the grotesqe ubercelebrity of brand Beckham. Shed no tears for any of them, they will continue to line their pockets, that should heal their pain at least.

For anyone going to the game, Get in 'The Vine' one of the best prematch watering holes you will get anywhere. Asians run a big open kitchen curry room at the back of the pub, warm yourself up with one and a pint before the game, Lush!

You can only imagine what he would be like in a side swarming around with movement giving him loads of options so that he didnt have to brilliantly shield and keep the ball for ages like he does while our tired lot shuffle themselves into posion to receive a pass off him. Of course he would look even more brilliant than he does now in a top 6 side.

I dont believe in this day and age there are any clubs left willing to pay more than 30k aweek for a player like S. Taylor. The money is just not there any more, we are not the only ones having to rein in the daft wages. If he leaves now It may be for other reasons than the money on offer. (hard to take in that 30K a week is not enough to get by on isnt it) I hope he signs though because he was just starting to look nicely up for it and dominant as a centre back before he got the shoulder injury.

Shame that, because he is crap now so his replacement can only strengthen them.

Not impossible if Chelsea play like this, Complacent and lazy today.

Chelsea making Sunderland look like Brazil. Bring back Butch, Carlo out!

2 minutes to blow it, I'll take the draw now

Should have startred with this line up. Lovenkrands is history