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Southall was a brilliant keeper even when I watched him in his mid-late thirties. He was. Even better in the 80s when he was at his most agile

Southall was a brilliant keeper even when I watched him in his mid-late thirties. Yep wasnt he there when Everton were winning the league and looking better than Liverpool in the Mid 80s?- great side that was. Yep.

I remember his Football 77 or 78 sticker. You wouldn't want to share a sandwich with him.

Private Ryan for me like.

When a fan starts a chant loudly, expecting to be backed up and nobody does.

He was a fair keeper in his day as well.

What would Neville Southall know ? [/ Pards' sock cookers/]

Nar. He's from down south somewhere. His son was in the year above me at school. He also has a southern twang. Can remember him playing for Pompey possibly in the same side as Micky Quinn.

Going to try and partner him in a James Bond film with Yohan Cabaye.

Reminds me of a young Stan Cauliflower.

Whatever you do, don't mention the 'Dore. Quality.

Similar to how we used to hire manager, just go for the opposite of the last bloke. We can only hope we go back to that way for our next managerial appointment.

If you try to read it in it's true meaning, yes. In reality, no, he just isn't very good at using English. Maybe he did a Lou Macari?

Happy face claimed "When we were in the top half, before the awful pre Christmas run? If you won't accept top half standard then he's got no hope." Is it not acceptable that people should educate him? He seems a pretty well educated bloke, to be honest. I'm sure he's well aware of our results and performances from last season, but he may have seen them in a slightly less negative light. I don't know, he'll manage, I think. Top half is the target the club have set Pardew. http://www.statto.com/football/img/progress/ACBAOEALNn For 10 games he was doing what he'd been tasked with, in terms of results. Only losing to Chelsea and Man U. Then it went to shit for 13 games I thought we played canny shit football as we finished 5th. But in no hate filled anti-pardew mind could it ever be construed as worthy of the sack. Top half wasn't the target last season. Top 8 was.

All the time mate. The home tie ended up looking OK for the closing stages of the game after we scored but we were lucky not to have conceded before then, we let them have the ball to attack us at will for nearly 3/4 of the match. I never meantioned anything about the first game, I thought we looked great especially in the first half and were obviously unlucky not to have taken the lead a couple of times. I preferred that mentality much more than I did the one at home. An all out attacking mentality at home when you are two goals down, but have the advantage of an away goal doesn't make much sense though. Especially if the team opposing has the quality of Benfica. I agree with Pardew's approach, but due to our personnel and his failings elsewhere, we didn't have ability or intelligence to play well enough on the counter while completely shutting them out. Still, it did work for all intents, and the introduction of a half-fit, slightly fat Hatem did change things. I never said that we should have went all out attack? We're definitely the only side I've ever seen go into the 2nd leg of a cup tie with the intention of sitting on a 2 goal deficit for 70 minutes, though. Perfect description. The approach staggered me. What made it worse was they actually looked really vulnerable when we attacked and only scored when desperation left us bereft defensively at the end. Had we have been more positive earlier we could've progressed though that's hypothetical now.

I particularly remember the superb tactical acumen of Pardew when he selected Bigi on the right hand side of midfield.

nailed it - the league is beyond 70% of the teams in it before a ball is kicked, to not try in the cups is a piss take tbh We do try in the cups though. Last year we were bunkum again against Brighton, and went out against ManU, but to say we didn't try to win the Euro Cup is bullshit imho. That time when we put 20 minutes attacking effort in against Benfica instead of trying to win over the 90 was genuinely trying to win the Waffa was it ?

I don't think we put in a good performance until Bordeaux at home last season.

Beat these and we will get Brazil 1970 away next round.

Eyal Berkovic. Good on John Hartson. Steve Potts. West Ham legend. Who was chronically shite. Vinny Samways. Don't know why. Craig Hignett. Smarmy looking cunt. Gavin Maguire. Dirtiest cunt ever. See the tackle that finished Danny Thomas' career. Francis Benali. Played a million times but was fucking rubbish. Terry Hurlock. Dirty and shit. Steve Foster. Hairy faced prick who turned slower than milk. Was shit in the air. Could marginally beat a tortoise in a sprint but only if said tortoise had a leg missing and suffered with asthma. Despite this he played for England.

He looks like he's taken umbrage with something I've said. Remember Mackenzie's goal in the 81 Cup Final replay. Great strike almost forgotten because of the Villa goal.

Remember Edinburgh and Steve Sedgley racially abuse Roy Keane in the Gazza's knee Cup final. Talking of which I loathed Paul Stewart too.

Joe Parkinson and John Ebbrell at Everton. Part of Joe Royle's dogs of war midfield. In reality they were a pair of hoofers who kicked opponents.

Good one. I will add Jason McAteer to that who I hated long before he became a Mackem.

Both of them have got to cup finals with lesser teams. When did Kinnear get to a Cup Final as a manager?