AyeDubbleYoo

Me too, although the caveat that the whole midfield is basically working because of Tiote. Without him we couldn't play Nolan as a CM, he would be overrun.

The Leon King. See what I did there? No mention of Best!

I thought Liverpool would hold onto Roy until the end of the season, but surely they can only let it get so bad.

Yeah, the good thing about Lovenkrands is that he makes the conventional nippy striker moves and runs. His goal was one that probably only he in our squad would have scored.

Fuck me, I read that as "Andy Carroll will leave". You gave me a heart attack there man!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Played it long just as often tonight as we have in the past with Carroll in the team tbh. You might be right, it always seems like we play it on the deck more when we're winning!

Also proves that he doesn't hate all black people.

Hope we keep playing it along the ground a bit more when he's back. Not a criticism of Carroll obviously.

He's miles better than Gareth Barry and probably as good as Carrick at the moment. He deserves a chance IMO, though I won't be gutted if he's free to concentrate on us.

Surely Hodgson must be getting a bit sick of it by now?

Everything I hoped he would do is coming true at the moment, he always had the potential to be a brilliant player for us.

Honestly don't care. Anything that means we aren't shitting it at the end of the season is a great result.

He's not that bad. Aye his miss was shocking, but he came into a non-game and only had scrappy opportunities to touch the ball. Sending him on loan is probably a good idea, but not in shame because he's a bad player, just because he needs games.

On current trends Perch will end up being the new Cafu.

Nice.

"Pards" officially calls him "Besty"... good enough for me.

Bit like the mackems game, I was a bit worried about this one and it was lovely when it unfolded into a win so early.

Wasn't just the goals tonight either, he played the target man well and showed some good touches all over.

I want a group sacking of Houllier, Hodgson, Ancelotti and Grant TBH.

that would be orgasmic. I would be hospitalised with laughter TBH.

Good to hear that.

That pass for The Best was mint! Also supplied a similar one for Ranger which should have been a sweet assist.

Lion Beast

Wound Ben Haim up a treat.