Ronaldo

loathe Mourinho but Keane should be ashamed of himself there He's talking about Mourinho isn't he? Don't like Keane either but think he's spot on and a good pundit in general Yes, I was talking about Mourinho. Agree about Keane. The fact he has this drive to oppose the consensus makes him one of the better pundits by default.

On paper it's arguably the easiest fixture we have left give our home form. A win is much needed.

They're both fine as Championship backup but I'm not massively comfortable with either of them starting, especially alongside Lascelles.

We've actually won our last 4 games on Sky.

They've been very good tonight, Bristol. We might need another favour from them on the final day.

Entertaining for all the wrong reasons, though. He's a petty, petty little man whose teams play the worst brand of football you could imagine.

Fwiw I'd love him back here because he's blatantly got loads of talent and that's first and foremost what I want to see in the wide positions. I doubt he'd gel well with Rafa, though, so it's pointless thinking about it.

Nothing remotely dodgy, in other words.

This is a blow, like. I have zero faith in our defence when under pressure as it is. Clark's our best by a distance.

Such as what?

We didn't, to be fair.

Did Gazza ever outmuscle Sol Campbell and score like Pedro did against Spurs in '95?

We've been poor in about half our home fixtures this season, though. Hardly a one off.

Aye, no middle ground between two traditionally top-tier clubs transformed into title winners by billions in investment and Huddersfield 'lets stick it reight up thissen' Town.

Given that we're obviously so reliant on his pace out wide might it have been prudent to buy a winger with serious pace in the transfer window? We didn't need him, though.

They're an awful tinpot club managed by an awful prick in an awful city populated by mostly awful people. Don't need a mini-Stoke in the PL to go with the original.

If he's here in a year, Rafa won't be. I'm pretty certain of that.

I find it very difficult to imagine you've seen him play much this season. That is king-sized tripe. Physically he unfortunately just isn't the same player he was at West Ham. Not even close.

He snuck into the playoffs in '10 with 70 points, and 72 in '13. Absolutely not pissing anything.

Had lots of pace in the 4 positions out wide, mind.

His legs have just gone. It's a shame because I like him and I still want to see him starting more games than not but he's just never physically there for 90 minutes.

I'll be surprised if we have a better keeper than him here by that time.

It's only important because there's a chance we might not. As others have said we needed a couple of quality attacking players to help us break teams down and establish a foothold in the game at home. We inexcusably didn't get them and as a consequence promotion will go down to the last couple of fixtures.

None of which will happen Bimpy, let's be honest.

I didn't go to the game but the fact we surrendered 70% of the possession in the first half and (according to most) were persistently hitting long balls to Dwight Gayle suggests absolving Rafa of all blame is equally as stupid as the posts you're referring to.