Ronaldo

Be a vast improvement on the shitty approach we have now.

Why is every goal Real Madrid concede so defensively soft? Been the same for years.

Well clearly I mean the fact it was second division football, not the country. And I'd far rather we recruit players from that division than Ligue 1 or the Eredivise.

HAHAHAHAHA. What a terrible goal to concede.

LVG's just a poor man's Mourinho.

Considering where he came from? Unlike most of our shitty squad he came from a country that cultivates excellent footballing ability and a refined attacking approach at good tempo.

This. Even the commentator said it was all just for show. It was utterly embarrassing. Did one of the commentators not call him out for calling Perez "stupid", for taking a free kick too quickly? Or did I imagine that? It was Ryan Taylor wasn't it?

It's conflicting. In an ideal world we'd finish 17th by a single point. I think I said months ago, mind, but it's starting to look like a reality.

They're not playing today.

Spurs are an underwhelming side with the most overrated manager in the league. Don't fancy them at all.

Like going down would change anything. We don't know whether it would or not. We know staying up will mean a couple of singings in the summer, a new manager probably and most likely the end of any protests from the majority of fans until we're back in a relegation fight. And repeat.

He got injured and came back, though.

If he'd been brought in two months ago we'd be safe. He might have Parkinson's Disease but he's still got more coaching credentials than Carver. The players would instantly respect him. He played 400 fucking games for the best team in the world and was manager of the year 3 times.

People calling the Mackems lucky might do well to remember how many 1-0 wins we've undeservedly managed this season.

Doesn't help when our best known/respected 'fan' and former player defends him on MotD.

This is exactly it. You make your own luck.

Our first choice CB pairing was Coloccini and Williamson, or Coloccini and MYM. Either way, not nearly good enough. Anyway, I'm talking about the moment it became abundantly clear beyond any doubt what we were in for.

Problem with that being the fact we've kept 2 clean sheets (from 17) under Carver and in one of those fixtures (Villa) we'd have been 0-2 down early on but for extremely wasteful finishing.

Whether we did or didn't have a top 8 squad (we didn't), we looked certain to go down with 2 games left at HT during Wigan - Swansea. The club demonstrated in that summer window - and the following one - just how low ambitions and standards actually are. Finish 16th, job done. No need to invest.

Because we let it, in a nutshell. I, and plenty others, stopped going around April 2013, but the time everyone should've refrained was the subsequent summer when our attempt to remedy finishing 16th amounted to buying no players whatsoever. Should've been blatantly obvious then, to even the thickest of the thick, where we were headed.

The fact his career has amounted to nothing is karma for every shit quote I've had to read from him since 2004.

Darren Gough was still saying Owen should be starting for England when he'd gone over 3 years without starting and scoring in a Premier League game. He's a retard that used to play cricket.

Adrian Durham and Colin Murray are the only broadcasters who've talked sense about our situation with Ashley, Pardew and Carver.

Former team mates of John Carver tell Scholes he's a great coach?

As if anyone gets them two mixed up.