Chris_R

He can beat a man and has pace, every side needs players like that. I'd sign him, definitely.

Flushed. Excellent.

Even Colback can't fuck this up, can he?

Obviously you didn't see Rob Lee's 70-yard left footer Vs Brentford that was disallowed so we could have a free kick for offside?

Could someone have encroached the penalty area during the run-up? It's all I can think.

Well, that's what they spent about an hour discussing on 5-Live yesterday. Sexist by referring to her gender, threatening by saying to be careful next time she comes to the ground.

Hey, it's my birthday the day after! What are the chances? About 1 in 365, iirc.

My take on this is that it sounds worse than it is. I assume Moyes, like many managers, set an acceptable line of questioning before the interview. The interviewer then deviated from that against his wishes by asking about Short being there, which may have specifically been on the "Don't ask me that" list. Moyes then after the interview is over reprimands her. He's trying to be playful yet firm at the same time, and yes he fucks that up by coming across as sexist and threatening instead. It's a misjudgement, but it's not what some people are suggesting it is. The "Be careful next time you come here" is just him saying "Stick to the questions next time". He's in the wrong, yes, and managers perhaps shouldn't be this dictatorial in what questions they'll answer, but it's a storm in a teacup IMO.

s***, hopefully he doesn't get the full 90 and it's the last time we see him. We've said that every week for the last two years.

So his only faults are that he's too loyal to his players and he didn't sign enough left-backs. The man's impossible to parody because he jumps the shark himself every time he opens his rancid, lying mouth. Also, does loyalty to your players include fucking their wives? Just asking....

Yeah they're going to be spectacularly disappointed with some of those transfer fees. ?

No point flying a plane over that cesspit, half of them don't even know what one is and would likely just run away screaming.

Add in their old 30+ players their squad has (Larsson, Pienaar, O'Shea, Defoe and Lescott if they stay) who will be another year slower and shitter, and I can't see who is going to win them the title. They haven't got many players with great resale value, they'll be in a lot of trouble if they go down.

I'm not saying he's Messi or anything, just that he tries the important things rather than keeping it safe and simple. Every side needs that. Hell, FOOTBALL needs that. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn't, but if he does it in the correct areas of the pitch then that's fantastic and for me at least that's what I go to football matches to watch.

Flair players are hit and miss because they're trying things. When you try the difficult (and important) things, they don't always come off, but it's a risk you must take otherwise you're Jack Colback. I'll take the inevitable bad days with the good days, because we must. When it works, it unlocks teams. And it's the type of stuff we watch football for.

This is tragic stuff. No pace, no guile, no creativity. Just dreadful.

This, unfortunately. Then he'll be lauded in the press for how great he is and then he'll get the England job and be turboshit again.

If he goes to Rangers he could probably replicate his success here and finish 5th.

Whatever Shelvey's stats, they shouldn't be directly compared. Shelvey tries ambitious forward balls, Colback just tries to desperately get rid of the ball to whoever is nearest as if it's a grenade with the pin out. Still be interesting to see, but as a direct comparison it's meaningless.

Help, I have no idea how that'll line up.

Shouldn't the pocket square and cravat match ? Or at least be the same colour ? Christ , I've gone all Trinny and Susannah . When you're the king, you can do whatever you want.

Looks like an experiment in telling the fans "look, we tried 4-4-2 once against Birmingham and remember what happened? Is that what you want? You'll get 4-5-1 from now on and you'll fucking enjoy it."

Somewhere there's a plant working furiously hard to produce Oxygen that Jack Colback needs to go and apologise to.

Whilst a 6-0 thrashing would have been good, there's far more karma in it being 1-1 before they had a man being sent off turned the game against them. Suck on that.

Not 6'5" enough for Allardyce's liking.